Mini Maker Gifts

'Mum! Come and see the coffee-table I've made with my new tool-set!'

Girl on a giant pair of scissors.

"So, if you'll just bring me the 3-D printer, I can take it from there."

'I told you to not get Danny that Junior Carpenter set.'

boy plugging leak in a barrel with his finger

'Couldn't you just bring a bucket and spade like other children?'

'How do you like my two-tone car?'

'Do you want to tell them their department is being downsized again, or should I?'

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

Child using building blocks to get over a baby gate.

A baby playing on a grand piano

Exercising

'I don't like the sound of the engine.'

'Don't push your luck Simkins with that alleged glove stretcher!'

We're putting on a subtraction.

"If we play house, Timmy, we can't live with my parents because..."

'Sophie has discovered Gehry.'

'Your report card grades are poor. Maybe you should stop building model airplanes. The glue is getting to you.'

'He loves that Lego set we bought for his birthday.'

'I wish I hadn't coloured in all that bread, now.'

'It's more festive-looking!'

"It's a 'pencil' - It's like a pen, except that it's made of wood!"

His verbal skills are developing, but his motor skills are very advanced. (Originally published on 2009-02-01).

Child doing the washing up

"He lives in a block of flats"

"One day she'll be a wonderful architect."

"Wait, so his first whole sentence was 'I don't want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day'?!"

'Allow me. After all, I'm planning to be an electrician.'

'It's an '07 model. I JUST finished putting it together.'

Baby using model construction system to retrieve jam.

"Now we know who'll be taking care of us in our old age."

"A tornado? Uh, yeah...that's exactly what happened, Mom, a tornado did hit my room!"

"It must be still charging."

Petrol vs electric car

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