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Junk-Bots!

 Meet the Junk-Bots!  My 6 year old son loves to collect "treasures" Also know as junk.  Street trash...hardware, bottlecaps, metal things... It all ends up in the house in his little pockets.  I decided we needed to give them a purpose!  So we created darling little blocky robots! The perfect combo of garbage and friendship!  I cut 3 inch blocks of wood from a piece in the scrap pile. We also got all the treasures in one place. I collected a few other bits and pieces from the craft supply... things like binder clips, safety pins, zipper heads...and other metal things.  After deciding which pieces to use...which took a long time and lots of creativity!  Then we hot glued or screwed the pieces right on the blocks! After playing with them religiously everyday for a couple months... we've had to re-glue some pieces. I'd recommend just using E6000 from the start!  He was super proud of his creations. I love it wh...