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Junk Yard Choose and Use Tricks. Creative Inventions and Robotics www.build-it-yourself.com. Choose and Use Trick #1. Collect premium quality junk and sort it. Find light, colorful, playful materials from Grocery store. Hardware store. Parents’ office. Around the house.
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Junk Yard Choose and Use Tricks Creative Inventions and Robotics www.build-it-yourself.com
Choose and Use Trick #1 • Collect premium quality junk and sort it. • Find light, colorful, playful materials from • Grocery store. • Hardware store. • Parents’ office. • Around the house. • One person’s trash is • another person’s treasure. www.build-it-yourself.com
Choose and Use Trick #1 Collect premium quality junk and sort it. Colorful bottle caps Small tin cans Egg carton Straws Ribbons Toy parts Beads & jewelry Paper clips Colorful cloth One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Plastic spoons and forks Wire Pencils Colorful cardboard Hair pins Balls Wine corks Bells www.build-it-yourself.com
Choose and Use Trick #1 Collect premium quality junk and sort it. Decorate a junk box. www.build-it-yourself.com
Choose and Use Trick #1 Collect premium quality junk and sort it. Why is organizing materials important? Who will find the needed parts first? Builder #1 Builder #2 www.build-it-yourself.com
Choose and Use Trick #2 Conserve materials. What’s wrong with this picture? NOT!!! www.build-it-yourself.com
Choose and Use Trick #2 Conserve materials. Cut your pieces from the corner of a big sheet and leave rectangles for future needs. www.build-it-yourself.com
Choose and Use Trick #3 Use pliers not scissors to cut hard materials. Pipe Cleaners, Coffee Stirrer Sticks Wire, Paper Clips www.build-it-yourself.com
Choose and Use Trick #4 Little glue … Lots of pressure. Use a small ‘dab’ of hot glue and press pieces firmly with a stick. www.build-it-yourself.com
Choose and Use Trick #5 Build to modify or fix your designs. When gluing junk to LEGO mechanisms, glue to the smooth part of a small LEGO piece and snap that piece to the LEGO mechanism. These signs can be easily interchanged! www.build-it-yourself.com
Choose and Use Tricks #5 #1Collect premium quality junk and sort it. #2Conserve materials. #3Use pliers, not scissors to cut hard stuff. #4Little glue … Lots of pressure. #5Build to modify or fix your designs www.build-it-yourself.com