Recently Annabel has been asking if I can help her put together an invention box. An invention box is a shoebox or plastic bin full of parts of broken toys, pen springs, magnets, paperclips and other ingredients for inventions.
She likes to make things. Her imagination is way bigger than her abilities at this point. Some of her invention ideas involve conveyor belts, like the one she had in mind yesterday that would "bring food to dogs, cats and people". Some of them are rube-goldberg like contraptions that do household tasks, like making her bed, and others involve airplanes that can actually fly.
The invention box is a real throwback for me, as I remember having one of my own back when I was Annabel's age. I remember a broken cassette player in particular that I rescued from the garbage to salvage the motor and battery pack.
I've long since upgraded to computer software as my invention box, but the urge is the same.
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