Paper Tube Engineering

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PAPER TUBE ENGINEERING

you will need: 1. newspaper or any paper will do 2. scissors 3. a pencil 4. a glue stick or sellotape 5. a ruler

cut out a piece of newspaper 20cm long and 13cm wide.

make connectors to join your tubes together.

roll the paper tightly around the pencil.

to do this cut out a 6cm square piece of paper.

fix the loose edge with glue or sellotape.

roll the paper up really tightly, with no gap in the middle.

repeat process, you will need 12 paper tubes to make a cube.

bend it in half.

make more if you want to build bigger.

make a lot of connectors.

what shapes can you build? can you build a tower or a bridge? or something else?


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