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Only problem is ........what do you do when you have a 23 year old like this ?
Excellent
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
My trading feedback - I'm a good egg
3/30 and the vibrating ruler - Had so many telling off's in class for that - I loved it
Surprised the comb and a bit of paper to make a 'mouth organ' is not there
Recall in the school library once we found a new roll of sellotape (unused) - Think it said 25m so me and a few mates thought we'd better check it was correct and un-did the whole tape, bit by bit against a 6" ruler and then threw it all away
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Does anyone remember making a matchstick gun out of a bit of wood and two hair grips?
What about firing V shaped bits of paper across the classroom with an elastic band ("You could have somebody's eye out boy..!")
Making a drainpipe "sing" with some lighted newspaper...
Hours of fun with half an old tennis ball turned inside out to make it spring off the floor.
Matchstick diver out of burnt match and an old pop bottle filled with water.
Making a garden cane sling with a length of string with a knot in the end - send it for miles.
Musical drinking straws - flatten and cut the end into a V to create a reed.
Even cheaper - use a blade of grass between your hands.
Cheaper still - learn to wolf whistle and hoot like an owl.
"Soap box" carts made from old pram/pushchair wheels.
TBH I haven't even scratched the surface - and you try telling the young people of today...
The milk was epic when I was a kid, loved my little bottle daily at school.
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Forgot the blade of grass - might try it again
Either fire the laggy band on its own, from you finger, or as you say a paper V missile catapult style
I made it to the final one year and had to go to France.
They held it in the Dordogne......
"Taxi"
Making blow darts out of pins and a bit of knitting wool bound with cotton & fired out of Bic biro tubes. Would pierce a school blazer and stung like hell.
My matchstick gun used an old fashioned dolly clothes peg, a pop bottle rubber seal & a single hair grip.
Making catapults (catties or gatties) with 1/4" square elastic (laccy). Genuinely dangerous...
Putting 6" nails on the local railway line to flatten them, then making them into knives or spear tips (no, not for 'hood turf war stuff, just for chucking about).
Happy days