Holiday time, when we gather around the fire with friends and family, and maybe exchange a gift or two. This year might look different for a lot of people around the world. It really got me thinking about what my holidays were like as a child. The toys definitely weren't super technical like they are today! I wanted to share a little bit of these analogue holiday memories with you, and I came up with a make-shift pinball machine. Did you have a toy like this growing up?

MATERIALS:
- Cardboard
- Wooden clothespin
- Wooden popsicle stick
- Coloured paper
- Plastic or rubber ball
- Boxcutter
- Hot glue gun
- Marker
- Glue

INSTRUCTIONS:
(1) Take a large piece of cardboard, and cut it according to the picture.
(2) Using the hot glue gun, glue the smaller cut piece to the largest piece, like you're building a gingerbread house.
(3) Glue the popsicle stick onto the top of the clothespin. Then, glue the opposite side on the clothespin to the bottom of our cardboard shape, placing it in the corner.
(4) Taking additional thin strips of cardboard, glue them to the interior of the large cardboard shape according to the video. You should have a think "alleyway" and three U-shapes.
(5) Cut triangle shapes and rectangles out of the colourful paper, labelling the rectangles as 20, 15, 10, and then "Pinball". Glue the sign at the top, the points in the 'U’-shapes, and the triangles pointing up in the alleyway.
(6) Tilt your pinball machine. When you put down the popsicle stick and release it, it flings the ball up the alleyway and into the points area!