Friday, October 3, 2014

The Big Build 2014

On September 20th, Patrick took the kids on the Metro to the National Building Museum in Washington, DC for The Big Build 2014.  The Big Build is an annual event where kids can build just about anything in any medium, using real tools of the trade.  Old hand-powered drills, saws, planes, plus pipe-fitting, home repairs, etc.

First, the kids learned about landscape architecture by drawing their dream parks.  Then they all got to spackle a wall...



Then they all busted out the wrenches and became certified pipe fitters.


Will cut some PVC pipe that later became a bank.


Then it was outside to see the heavy machinery.  Will is gaga about flatbeds right now so we checked that out right away.  He also sat in the driver's seat of this Mack (maybe his favorite thing ever), plus the street-sweeper and garbage truck.  Then he sat with a police officer in the front of his DC police car and got to play with the microphone.  Right before this video starts, Will picked up the microphone and said to the passerby "pull over in the name of the law!"