Yet another craft we made from a building tube set. This is a man playing basketball, and a basketball ring (on the left). Th only broblem with this playset is that a ball can’t fit through the basket.
Building straws are a popular and unusual type of building set. These sets include long, hollow flexible tubes that connect to each other at their ends. Since the tubes themselves have no special connecting devices, the set also includes special connecting parts. These parts are very small hard and rigid, and they have long pins that you can insert into the straws. The number and the positions of these pins can vary, so different connectors hold the straws’ ends at different angles. Because each tube is flexible, this simple principle allows you to assemble countless shapes and crafts from just one building set.
These sets are very unusual because they allow you to create any geometrical form you want and use the bent lines. The final craft will always be hollow, lightweight, and almost symbolic. However, you will still recognize these shapes, and they look more detailed and solid if they have more straws. Also, the straws are soft, so you can shorten them with a pair of common scissors if you need to. Sadly, there is no way to fix the straw after it was cut. Since the long straws bend more smoothly than the short straws connected in a row, the long ones are very valuable in these sets. So you have to be careful if you want to cut something.
Wonderful crafts! What the basketball playset your idea? I really liked the napkin!
Thank you! I made a man and a ball. First we played soccer, and then my son suggested basketball. I had to make a basket. I like Taikon because the assembled toys hold well, my son played with the toys we made for two days, and then took them apart. 🙂
Thank you. It’s a very interesting idea. So far my daughter has made a flowerbed with flowers herself.