Tagged: 1×2

How To Build Easy Flower Box Planters

This project was a blast! I think they turned out well. I built these for my mother as a mother’s day gift one summer during college, and she was thrilled to have a nice place to plant and care for flowers on her front porch, where she didn’t have to...

How To Build A Quick & Cheap Kayak Rack

We took some scrap pieces of wood and threw this rack together for my friend’s kayaks. It’s a little warped, but it works! We used an assortment of scrap 2×4, 1×2, 2×6, and 1/4 inch plywood pieces. First we measured the dimensions of each kayak to make sure we could...

SeeSaw – Instant Challenge Setup

Made for the SeeSaw Destination Imagination Instant challenge. The challenge here was to place weights on both side of the seesaw (near the ends) in order to balance it within an inch or two of the height of the other side. It proved to be challenging yet very doable for...

Ferris Wheels – Instant Challenge Setup

These are are by far the most difficult and time consuming builds I have tackled to date, but they have been well used, and look pretty impressive! They worked very well for the team training day we used them for for Destination Imagination in Louisiana, and they have been used at...

Multi-Purpose Cubes – Instant Challenge Setup

These have been used and reused so many times, I’ve lost count of how many years they’ve been used and how many times we’ve repurposed them for a new challenge. We have several cube setups we have used for training team managers, appraisers, and students over the past few years....