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airehead
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 Posted: 12/17/03 - 20:00 Post subject: Calling ALL creative/non creative RRers for help...
We have a Christmas project:
build a model of DNA.
We can't use the prefab kit at craft stores. (I didn't even know they existed)
Can't use food items.
Makes 'em happy if we use recycled items.
Ideas? Help?
Thanks in advance to all who answer....
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Noley
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Posted: 12/17/03 - 20:22 Post subject:
Styrofoam balls
Straws
Toothpicks
Something along those lines?
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Noley
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Posted: 12/17/03 - 20:27 Post subject:
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Maddies Wench
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Posted: 12/17/03 - 20:47 Post subject:
Gumdrops and toothpicks...
marshmallows and toothpics
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TimRuns
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Posted: 12/17/03 - 20:57 Post subject:
Ideally you want at least 4 different colours for the 4 different bases of the nucleotides (thymine, cytosine, guanine, adenine). I was also thinking if you have a lego set at home. That may be useful.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 12/17/03 - 21:03 Post subject:
Sounds like a job for pipe cleaners, in multicolors like Tim suggested. Legos would be cool but it would be hard to get that double helix (or I never got that talented with my mad lego skillz anyway)
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purple hayes
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Posted: 12/17/03 - 21:18 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | Legos would be cool but it would be hard to get that double helix (or I never got that talented with my mad lego skillz anyway) |
You just never had enough time on your hands :: Mad Lego Skillz
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 12/17/03 - 21:37 Post subject:
Coat hanger wires and colored beads?
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crazyfrog
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Posted: 12/17/03 - 21:41 Post subject:
| Maddie's Wench wrote: | Gumdrops and toothpicks...
marshmallows and toothpics |
this is good..
or buy a big bag of dots candy (kind of like non sugar coated gumdrops) and use matching colored toothpicks...
or cut circles out of old soda cans for the bases......
dental floss for the bonds?....
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spongebob
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Posted: 12/17/03 - 22:18 Post subject:
Desitin might be useful.
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airehead
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Posted: 12/17/03 - 22:23 Post subject:
| Runner X wrote: | | Desitin might be useful. |
For when I get chapped at my son for waiting until the last moment??
Please keep the ideas coming!!
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 00:58 Post subject:
little kids in color coordinated jumpsuits.
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kobyj
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 08:07 Post subject:
| Maddie's Wench wrote: | Gumdrops and toothpicks...
marshmallows and toothpics |
psst. Can't use food. That was my first thought though.
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kobyj
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 08:20 Post subject:
Can't you find pop bottles in different colors?
Do you have dried out markers? Use the lids from those (or from pens).
To connect them together, use pieces of the spiral bound from an old notebook.
Ok. That's it for my ideas now. I'll keep thinking though.
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 12/18/03 - 10:05 Post subject:
tennis balls?
 I'm not much help.
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