Cardboard Box Engineering: Cool, Inventive Projects for Tinkerers, Makers & Future Scientists - Paperback

by Jonathan Adolph (Author)

This illuminating guidebook will help young tinkerers and makers find creative ways to use cardboard boxes, sheets, and tubes in easily-engineered projects, including awesome gadgets, toys, games, inventions, and sculptures.

Cardboard is everywhere! For creative kids aged 9 to 14, it's the perfect eco-friendly building material, and Cardboard Box Engineering is the perfect guide to get them started on inventive tinkering. A working kaleidoscope, a marble roller coaster, a robotic hand, and a wind-powered tractor with cardboard gears are just some of the ingenious projects developed by Jonathan Adolph, author of the best-selling Mason Jar Science. Working with simple household tools, kids can follow the step-by-step photographic instructions to exercise their design smarts, expand their 3-D thinking, and learn the basics of physics and engineering with activities that have real-life applications.

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Calling All Inventors!

Design, tinker, and build your own outside-the-box creations. Using the science of engineering, you can turn cardboard boxes, cartons, and tubes into games, airplanes, robots, and more.

Boost sound with a Cup Amplifier
Reach out with a robotic Extending Grabber
Use physics to run a Rolling Roller Coaster
Master game design with Tabletop Straw Soccer!