Very true p_l but only if you're not that good an engineer 
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Just been roped into talking about engineering....
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Posted 11 months ago #
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Only on STW can a question on what to talk to 5 year olds about turn into a debate about Thatcher. Bravo boys, great work.
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Hot glue gun and a big bag of paper straws
Hot glue and five year olds? That'll be a fun lesson! I'm not sure even making paper aeroplanes will be easy with that kind of age.
Same for all the 'science challenge' ideas above - can you really do those with 5 year olds?
I'd be thinking towers of blocks kind of level with that lot.
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When I was at school we had to build a bridge out of paper, which ever team could support the most paper won. There were some really creative schemes using ridges folded in paper (to increase the neutral axis i presume). HOwever my team won ...we used single sheets of a4 strung out and reinforced with sellotape
We did exactly the same challenge. The flat sheets of paper was as strong as my design, but the team had put absolutely no thought or effort into it so they did not get the prize
My solution was tubular, but of course it ended up like a double-thickness flat paper...We were 7 years old, we didn't realise that the only way paper is strong is in tension. Which is why it's a pretty silly challenge to be fair.
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quality statement papa!!
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Get some straws and some Blutack, build bridges etc. Or get a foot pump, empty soft drink bottle and some 'fins' then make a water rocket.
Kids like blutack and water. Take a couple of bags of jelly snakes and they're on your side from the start.
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Show them this little Youtube video
If the link doesn't work search for "Train Loop the loop"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47p59c-euuU
makes me giggle when I watch it
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