A Better Mousetrap... Car

We followed up the 'mallow guns with a mousetrap car project from instructables.com. Joseph did all the drilling, screwing, string cutting and DVD holding. The mousemobile launched a total of 4 times before all the wheels fell off, the string snapped and, inexplicably, the trap's spring unsprung.

A Call to Arms!

Lena and Daddy built some marshmallow shooters out of PVC pipe pieces. She pretty quickly fired out how to load, aim and fire. Joseph decided to eat fistfuls of the ammo and organize his PVC pieces with his new toolbox.

I made the mistake of successfully shooting a marshmallow across the room into Joseph's mouth. The kids spent the next 10 minutes trying to shoot marshmallows Holden's mouth. Ahhh! No!

Christmas Morning