Valentine's Day Delivery Inventions and Boxes

Too often Valentine's Day gets passed up with older students...well not ours.  We introduced our project/idea right at the beginning of January, with very little directions or suggested ideas.  We asked our students to create a Valentine's Day box to place on top of our cabinets (space is limited in our classroom).  With a box on top of our cabinets, we estimated that one would have to reach approximately 8 feet up to deliver a Valentine's Day card.  Students were not allowed to stand on chairs or counters to deliver their cards.  They were instructed to create "something" that would reach high up and drop a card in.  The following video shows you just how creative our students got with this.

**Currently the video is not showing, but the YouTube link is: http://goo.gl/RTN5r**

The above video proves that Valentine's Day can be both fun (for older students) and engaging.  This project is just an introduction piece to our upcoming invention unit where students will invent something from recycled materials used to solve a common problem around their houses or lives.  This project proves that while one project might look very similar to another, construction and planning make a big difference in success.  

Of the created inventions, most worked like a charm.  We wish you could have been here to listen to all the hooting and hollering (not even sarcastic) when a delivery mechanism worked!

Good times.