MEGA BLOCKS

by dadw3rk in Teachers > Engineering

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MEGA BLOCKS

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If you're a parent ( and/or possibly a home-gym-er), you have probably acquired foam floor tiles at some point in your childproofing/ soundproofing/ protect my precious baby and/or hardwood floor days. We have surely floated the industry if you have not....

But upon transition to a cleaner space, we realized a) no one wants your dirty old floor mats and b) they're not recyclable! This made us very sad...but not defeated!

With a little bit of craft-geneering, we discovered you van turn 6 floor tiles into a GINORMOUS building block! And so... we did just that!

Supplies

Floor foam mat tiles (In multiples of 6)
That's it!

Sort Your Tiles

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Take your floor mat apart into individual tiles and sort them by color/ wear/ however you desire. Take note - if they were heavily used, u may want to organize them so the 'clean' backside will face out.

Put 6 Together in a Flat Cube Format

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Ever do origami? Then you may know of the folding cube! If not, don't worry... it's simple.
Place 4 tiles in a row, then 2 on the 'sides' of one of the inner tiles as shown.

Fold Up and Repeat

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Interlock the tiles in a 3 dimensional pattern, folding the 'walls' up first, then adding a top.

Enjoy!

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Once all tiles are interlocked, you should have a cube!

Protip- the boxes with letters don't hold any weight, but the thick solid tiles are pretty strong in building block form!