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

This illuminating guidebook will help young tinkerers and makers find creative ways to use cardboard boxes, sheets, and tubes in easilyengineered projects, including awesome gadgets, toys, games, inventions, and sculptures.Cardboard is everywhere! For creative kids aged 9 to 14, its the perfect ecofriendly 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 windpowered tractor with cardboard gears are just some of the ingenious projects developed by Jonathan Adolph, author of the bestselling Mason Jar Science. Working with simple household tools, kids can follow the stepbystep photographic instructions to exercise their design smarts, expand their 3D thinking, and learn the basics of physics and engineering with activities that have reallife applications.