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An earlier design revisited... these new versions do not use plastic straws. The video features a fire alarm test!

How to make a simple reed instrument using art straws.

How to make pan pipes from drinking straws.

How to make a fold and cut out card model of T.rex. the design uses a 'V fold' to shape the dinosaur's neck and head. Other examples are also displayed.

Fold up and cut out card dinosaurs. In this video I show how I make simple cut out and fold-up card dinosaurs from a template I've deigned using Corel Draw. The template used in this video is available free from my website at www.slstc.southwarklea.org.uk

I make my stick insect cages myself from correx plastic sheet, clear film and square section strip wood. The correx and wood are available from my supply service at www.slstc.southwarklea.org.uk (UK customers only)

Here are the five species of stick insect (phasmid) I'm currently keeping here at Ivydale Primary School.

How to make cut out and fold up card animals.

How to make a simple moving snowman toy using levers and linkages connected together by paper fasteners. Two free .pdf templates are available via my website at www.slstc.southwarklea.org.uk.

How to Make a Counting Stick (Primary Maths teaching aid)

How to make a tipper truck using a pair of plastic syringes (a simple pneumatic system) to operate the tipper. The small syringe is placed close to the hinge to achieve a large movement of the hopper. Just realised I didn't tell you the sizes of the syringes.... The small one in the truck is a 5ml syringe and the large one is a 20ml syringe. Both syringes and the tubing are available from my su...

How to make a Lever-Operated Toy. This toy may well date back to Victorian times. My version uses strips of correx and paper fasteners.

How to make an elastic band-powered paddleboat. This mk2 version has a better paddle.

How to make a very simple elastic band-powered paddleboat using correx.

Pulleys

Gears

Electric Correx Racers

Animated Santa

Argo

Catapult mk2

Plastic straw puppets

Pirate Ship

Plastic Straw Rocket

T Rex moving toy

How to make a LED torch

Wooden chassis Balloon Racers

Book stand

Origami Penguin

Electric Colour Spinner