When you defend a snow-fort, or "snow-trench" to be modern, you not only want to keep the enemy's attacking party at a distance by well-a' ed snowballs, but also to escape from being hit by their snowballs.
How to make a bobsled out of wood There are two ways of building a bob-sled. One way is to knock together a pair of coasters out of any sort…
Simple cardboard glider plan - The framework, or fuselage (A), connecting the planes, is a cardboard strip of the dimensions shown in Fig. 480, folded where indicated by dotted lines,…
Take a card one-and-one-half inches wide, and fold around it a piece of unruled note paper, so that the card can easily slide up and down; then paste this case…
A Bobsled of Simple Construction Using Ordinary Barrel Staves for the Runners
Learn how to make a Megaphone - Cardboard Megaphone - excerpt from the book "The Scientific American Boy" by A. Russell Bond
Our eyes are good enough for simple stargazing. But they tell us very little about what the stars are really like. To see the stars more clearly and find out…
Backyard fun for kids - Animated Giraffe - The Giraffe is one of the rarest of animals, and very few are to be found in captivity. So if you make…
Fun activities for kids outside - The Elephant is one of the oldest forms of animated animals, and is at the same time one of the most popular.
How to make Bow and Arrow - Authorities claim that the best materials from which to make bows are mulberry, sassafras, Southern cedar, black locust, black walnut, apple, and slippery…