Meliscellaneous

Build a Geodesic dome with your children out of newspaper.

Instructions here:

http://www.yesmag.bc.ca/projects/geodesic.html (scroll down)

My computer has been taken over by this software

and my four year old

The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine

also-

Lemelson-MIT Program

http://web.mit.edu/invent/invent-main.html

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