deconstruction...

A few weeks before school started the boys and I sat down to do a "dangerous thing". We have a book that has "50 dangerous things (you should let your kids do)" and Oliver's been reading it all summer. I had a few appliances that were broken/ don't work anymore, so I figured we use them to do #34 : deconstruct an appliance.

The boys were super excited and we started right away on the vacuum. 

Once we got the vacuum apart and saw all its guts, we were excited to take the CD player apart. Unforunately we didn't have the right tool (a super long screwdriver) so we weren't able to take it apart. 

Then the boys used the pieces to tinker and build other things out of them. 

They can't wait till they're allowed to do more dangerous stuff.