Sneakiest Uses for Everyday Things: How to Make a Boomerang with a Business Card, Convert a Pencil into a Microphone, Make Animated Origami, Turn a TV ... Create Alternative Energy Science Projects

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* Beginning with a complete list of materials and continuing through easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions paired with helpful illustrations, most projects will be completed in just minutes using common items found around the house.

* Teachers, parents, scout leaders, and enterprising youngsters will use their ingenuity to turn ordinary, everyday objects into something extraordinary, like a pencil into a microphone, Walkman ear buds into an intercom, or a telephone cord into a motor. The book also includes bonus alternative-energy projects and a foreword by NPR's Science Friday host Ira Flatow.

Author's web site: http://wwwsneakyuses.com

What Customers Say About Sneakiest Uses for Everyday Things: How to Make a Boomerang with a Business Card, Convert a Pencil into a Microphone, Make Animated Origami, Turn a TV ... Create Alternative Energy Science Projects:

Simply put, this book is meant to put first graders to sleep. 4 ice cube trays, 12 Pringles containers, and an electric clock. I read MAKE magazine and I suppose I was looking for something along those lines when I ordered this book. How do you create a "sneaky" mini-boomerang out of cardboard. It was just a disappointment. Cut a "V" out of the cardboard and there you go. The projects are simple, impractical, and boring. That's not science.

Plainly uninformative. How do you create a robot. Based on the title, I ordered the book as a gift for a kid, but never gave it. Just because you put "sneaky" in front of a word, like oragami or jacket, does not make it so.

This review is for all three books in this series. The first note is they are clearly written for the 13 year old and under crowd. For them, it should stimulate the creative scientific gene in them, and open their imaginations to harmless scientific experimentation. So if there is a young burgeonoing, tinkering youngster in your life, these books could be the spark to spur them into some educational fun.

If you buy one you should buy them all. I bought all three of these books and have read them all. They are very interesting and a great idea for a rainy day. These are some of the most entertaining set of books I have ever read. I highly recommend them.

This was given as a Christmas present and it has brought a lot of laughs and some serious tinkering. Fun.

My husband got the first book a while back for himself, but wasn't disappointed when he found it was a better book for our kids, so I got this one just to top out my last order for free shipping. I'm glad I did.It's as good as the first one, with a lot of simple and non-intimidating projects for the beginning maker, and a lot of them are done with things you can find around the house easily, or ask your friends for.Like the first book, a lot of the projects have room for improvement, which I think is a great thing, it inspires people to think a little more, to mess around a bit, and see what they can come up with, and feel like they really did something themselves. My 13 yo daughter likes it a lot, and we've planned on trying some of the projects together.