Summertime fun or $15 in PVC or Nurturing the young engineer

For one of our summertime activities G and I spent some time designing a new contraption (pictured below).

We visited the local hardware store where we purchased about $15 worth of PVC pipe, tubes, and elbows. For the rest of the afternoon G spent his time creating contraptions, routing water, and experimenting with “hmm, what happens when I plug this pipe?” or “if I can this valve, the water comes out… where?”

No Wii for us on this fine summer afternoon, we’re enjoying some quality young-engineer -development with PVC.

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