Stationery Attack! Hand spun helicopter

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"Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are the preludes to serious ideas." Charles Eames Stationery Attack! This is a toy for the young and the young at heart! Use pencil power in more ways than one by designing!, doodling on! and flying! your Stationery Attack! Stationery Attack! is designed to encourage creativity, from designing and experimenting with rotor shapes and sizes to get the right thrust. And with by working with any found materials experimenting get the right strength to weight ratio. Remember to doodle on your rotor to truly personalise it. Material suggestions: Discarded cardboard Alumiumin cans PS foam or paper cups Scrap sheet plastic The sky is the limit! Parts: -Top Part -Bottom Part -Rotor Template How to use: 1. Pick a material (Max 3mm Thick) to make your rotor out of. 2. Use the Rotor template to draw onto the materials you picked, or design you own shape. 3. Cut out the rotor design. 4. Put the rotor cut out between the Top and Bottom parts, and squeeze together (interference fit parts). 5. Insert a regular hexagonal pencil into the Bottom part to use as a rotor shaft 6. Spin your Stationery Attack! between your hands to make it fly.