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mouser:
I thought we might start a thread about gifts for kids that like to make things (focusing on inexpensive ones mostly).

Here's a cheap one I saw that I think would be fun for a kid, i know i would have enjoyed making contraptions to mix flavors:
DIY Drinking Strawz
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/9470/


And here's one for cat lovers:
Make Your Own Cat Toys: Saving The Planet One Cat Toy At A Time (Paperback Book)
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Cat-Toys/dp/1440462461

mouser:
Not that cheap, but something I use every day (gift from my father):
Seltzer Maker
See this thread here with other gadgets as well: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=5598.0

mouser:
Paper airplane making books -- any boy (and many girls -- why dont girls like paper airplanes as much as boys??) would love to have one of these as a gift:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=paper+airplanes&x=0&y=0

app103:
why dont girls like paper airplanes as much as boys??
-mouser (December 08, 2009, 07:20 PM)
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When I was a kid, we had a paper airplane competition in school and everyone was required to participate, regardless of gender, regardless of interest.

We all made our planes and then went outside to the field and the one that went the farthest, won.

The winner was a girl.  ;)


I made a lot of paper airplanes when I was a kid. For me the fun wasn't the folding or even the flying. It was the decorating.

My planes were a work of art!  I would spend the bulk of my plane making time on the details, drawing windows on them with passenger heads. Inside the center fold, if you opened it up you would see the seats and little scenes of things going on inside (including an occasional hijacking scene)  ;D

mouser:
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
that's great.. i dont think it ever occured to me to draw on the planes..

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