Knex Guest Builder: Elijah

I received these pictures from some friends who saw my post about hosting guest builders! So, here is our first guest builder: Elijah. I always enjoy seeing the different creations he makes on Facebook. He seems to enjoy building by himself as well as with his grandpa! 

Elijah and his recent build: a knex gun.

These types of guns work with the use of a rubber band! You just slip the rod into the barrel (the white part) and pull the orange and black trigger out of the way. The rubber band acts as a spring, propelling the red rod through the barrel.

Some more of Elijah's creations.

Rubber bands are one of my favorite supplements for knex builds, and Elijah has found them quite useful as well!

While he loves building catapults, he does enjoy making all kinds of builds. These are some vehicles that he made.

Thanks so much for sharing your creations with us, Elijah! You're proof that even from a young age, you can enjoying building with K'nex. I look forward to seeing what you create in the coming months and years!

Knex Photo Frames

This build is easy enough for pretty much any age! You can make these with your kids, and then they can pick out some of their favorite photos to put up in their bedroom or playroom! Knex photo frames are fairly easily customizable to whichever size you need. I found that Wal-Mart's photos are weird sizes (the middle two frames). I am thinking a collage frame would be pretty cool made out of k'nex as well, but I am trying to figure out what exactly that should look like. So, I may get around to doing that a little later on. Without further ado, here is today's knex creation:

Four frames I made using random old pictures I found.

5x7

Back of the 5x7

Weird Wal-Mart size

Back of weird Wal-Mart size

Wallet size

Back of wallet size

Wal-Mart wallet size

Back of Wal-Mart wallet size

 If you've got ideas for new, creative, interesting, or ingenious builds, just let me know! Also, I am looking for builders to guest on my blog! So, if you've got something ingenious or useful you'd like to share (no matter your age!), just send me a tweet/message/e-mail/comment!