My third grader had a project at school where he had to invent something. Now obviously, that's a lot to ask a third grader to do, considering it wasn't just an invention idea they had to come up with, but they also had to make a list of materials they would need, and build a prototype. Unfortunately, this is one of those projects he had and put on the back-burner until he was almost out of time. Whether or not this has been done before, I don't know, but I think it was a good idea he had.
The idea is to have something to help you read when you're laying down. He likes to read when he goes to bed at night, but it gets to be a pain really quick holding both hands up to keep the book open. If you go to one hand, it becomes much more difficult to hold the book open. So, the idea was to make a tool that would solve this problem. Here are the materials we used.
An ordinary popsicle stick and a guitar thumb pick were the only parts needed.
After painting the popsicle stick in matching orange for a consistent appearance, he attached the thumb pick with our hot glue gun. Wa-la, project completed.
I think it's awesome that this is something that could really prove to be useful.
Whadya think? Did he do a good job, or take the easy way out?
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