{"id":29,"date":"2011-02-22T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/02\/22\/free-sample-build-tune-and-throw-cardboard-boomerangs\/"},"modified":"2016-03-28T11:57:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:57:42","slug":"free-sample-build-tune-and-throw-cardboard-boomerangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/02\/free-sample-build-tune-and-throw-cardboard-boomerangs\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE SAMPLE: Build, tune, and throw cardboard boomerangs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Learn to make, tune, throw, and catch two different cardboard boomerangs in this FREE SAMPLE<\/small><\/i> from Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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PROJECT 18: Cardboard Boomerangs<\/h3>\n

Generations of American children wrongly grow to believe that building and throwing boomerangs is very difficult. This flies in the face of reason: Using less-than-ideal materials, human beings have been building, throwing, and catching returning boomerangs for more than 11,600 years. . . . They are, in fact, among humanity\u2019s longest-standing ways of showing off. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Boomerangs are absurdly easy to make; the real trick is in tuning and throwing them (all of which I cover in detail in this free sample). With the aid of the Print-n-Snip Templates (link below; includes two new tri-blade designs!) this is a great all-ages project: I’ve had a blast running boomerang workshops with teens and adults at sci-fi conventions, middle-aged family guys drinking beer, and dozens of elementary schoolers on the verge of Snow Day Insanity.<\/p>\n