Build Newspaper Structures
Build a pyramid or geodesic dome using newspaper!
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1 Choose My Schedule
2 Is This Activity For Me?
3 More About my Activity
Learn how to turn newspapers into strong dowels suitable for building various structures! Pyramids and geodesic domes are a good starting place, but we know you’ll come up with new and exciting ideas we haven’t thought of yet. You'll be an architect in no time!
4 What Materials Do I Need?
lots of newspaper (full sized newspaper is the best), scotch tape, round toothpicks (not flat), ruler, felt pen, scissors, patience
5 I learn useful skills too?
- Communicating
- Creative thinking
- Critical & reflective thinking
6 My Guide!
Hello, I'm Glenn. I have had a lifelong interest in science, technology, nature, math, building things, & much more. Perhaps what makes me unique is that when I dress as a mad scientist, my friends tell me it's not a costume. Hope to see you in my classes. Until then I need to work in my secret lab on my d̶e̶a̶t̶h̶ ̶r̶a̶y̶ hamster maze.
I regret to admit that I have eaten a brain sandwich...