Sent in by Morna D.
My oldest son, H., has become enamored by this book of Leonardo DaVinici's inventions. He pours over it and tries to figure out how each thing is made and how it works. H. is now spending his extra time doing elaborate illustrations of his own inventions. I was wondering if anyone had some ideas on a list of odds and ends that I could give him to start making some of his ideas? I am thinking things we might have at hand or very cheap stuff from the hardware store.
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I would suggest getting a box or bin to hold various found objects, we have found lot of good things by picking up screws, springs, hinges, knobs, corks etc. off the street or curb (especially on trash day), wooden dowels, old coat hangers, popsicle/craft sticks (both with and without holes in them) , chop sticks, old medicine cups, washers, hinges, screws, those litte paper brads, straws, pipe cleaners, buttons etc. ..
ReplyDeleteThrift stores are another great resource often find bags of the things listed above at a resonable price or find things that can be bought cheap and caniblized for parts. Another suggestion would be to have someone give him a gift card to a hardware store and take him in to the bins of springs, washers, dowels, pvc joints and pipe bits etc. and let him pick things he thinks will fit his ideas/imagination. he and Paul had fun doing this at the local mom and pop hardware last year and it was also a math/economics lesson as he had to tailor his desires to the money in the gift envelope.