Straw Towers
Paper Planes
One Sheet Paper Towers
Five sheet paper towers (with or without adhesives)
Five sheet paper towers that support a ping pong ball
Straw Rockets
Skimmers
Straw Horns
Stomp Rockets
Paper Helicopters
Float-a-Boat
Keva Cantilevers
Cardboard boomerangs
Rubber Band Rockets
Polystyrene Planes
Parachutes
Straw Cantilevers
Downhill Racers
Fan Cars
Belt-drive Cars
Straw Bridges (either span width or weight bearing for set width)
Elevator – crank to raise paper cup from floor to table
Sail boats
Sail cars (provide fan? Or straws to blow or inflated balloon)
Climbing guy
Balloon rocket (get a balloon to self-propel across the room)
Marble raceway (if you provide mailing tubes cut in half)
Balloons on a string
Index card towers (no adhesives)
Shopping carts
Balance guy – figure to stand on one leg
Make a hat
Book bag (using 1 edition of a newspaper) – to carry max # books
Model house (using cereal box cardboard)
Move a quart of water using 1 sheet paper (bucket, pipe,…)
One sheet paper to make a desk top pencil holder – max # pencils
What’s outside the classroom window – without looking make a list of everything you can see
Build a bird’s nest – must be able to go outside to collect fallen twigs, leaves
Clock (pendulum) to measure 30 seconds accurately
Push ‘n Go – without opening, draw the mechanism and support ideas with data
Pull-back car