When I was a kid, I sadly was not showered with everything my heart desired. One object of desire for me was the GI Joe USS Flagg (now considered the greatest playset ever), which my parents somehow didn’t think was necessary to have. I really felt that my GI Joes needed the force projection that was an aircraft carrier, so I gathered the cardboard inserts from my dad’s laundered shirts several months and built my own of cardboard and wood. I subsequently used cardboard to build everything that my GI Joes needed. Now that I have kids, I love to use cardboard to make cool stuff for them. So today I’ll take a break from software and talk about building something else.

At the beginning of the year, my son’s PK teachers came to our house for their welcome interview and saw one of several cardboard space ships that I had made that was being housed in my living room due to having been made too wide to pass though doorways. Due, I suspect, to that, a few months later on I got a letter from my son’s class of 4 year-olds asking if I could come in and build something with them.

The PK class had just completed a unit on Leonardo Da Vinci’s flying machines, and I love space, so after some brainstorming for a good project, I thought that building a replica of the Apollo Program Lunar Module would be a cool and fun project to do with the class. Continue reading “The Eagle Has Landed!”