Don't buy a wallet. Keep your money...in a wallet you make! This is also an excellent introductory project for working with duct tape from which you can spin off and start creating more complex projects.
This is one of the 48 projects for our Instructables: Made In Your Mind (IMIYM) exhibition at the Children’s Museum of Houston showing from May 26, 2012 - November 4, 2012. Produced in partnership with Instructables, IMIYM is an exhibit where families work together to build different fun, toy-like projects that help construct knowledge and skills related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics while instilling a “do-it-yourself” attitude in kids so they feel empowered to explore, tinker, and try to make things themselves. To learn more, check out the article here.
While this particular set of instructions in an original created by our staff, there are a LOT of other examples of duct tape wallets on Instructables like the Quality Duct Tape Wallet by dan (among many, many others). Often, the materials and process for building our projects are designed for use with a large number of visitors (we see over 800,000 annually) and the need to ensure safety in a mostly non-facilitated environment. So, yes, many of these projects have room for improvement in both materials and methodology, which is PRECISELY what we want to encourage the kids to do. So please do share your ideas for improvement and modifications!
This is one of the 48 projects for our Instructables: Made In Your Mind (IMIYM) exhibition at the Children’s Museum of Houston showing from May 26, 2012 - November 4, 2012. Produced in partnership with Instructables, IMIYM is an exhibit where families work together to build different fun, toy-like projects that help construct knowledge and skills related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics while instilling a “do-it-yourself” attitude in kids so they feel empowered to explore, tinker, and try to make things themselves. To learn more, check out the article here.
While this particular set of instructions in an original created by our staff, there are a LOT of other examples of duct tape wallets on Instructables like the Quality Duct Tape Wallet by dan (among many, many others). Often, the materials and process for building our projects are designed for use with a large number of visitors (we see over 800,000 annually) and the need to ensure safety in a mostly non-facilitated environment. So, yes, many of these projects have room for improvement in both materials and methodology, which is PRECISELY what we want to encourage the kids to do. So please do share your ideas for improvement and modifications!
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We are selective in our materials for cost, ease of use, and safety due to our high traffic (800,000 visitors annually). So, for our purposes, this design worked best. But you may have other ideas - please share!
1 - Roll of duct tape (We purchased ours in bulk from Tapebrothers.com, but they only sell them in solid colors. You can get all sorts of great patterns at Target, Walmart, K-mart, etc. as well as craft stores and hardware stores.)
Scissors (optional if you are good at tearing - fair warning - you will likely need to clean them if you use them to cut a lot of duct tape)
Ruler (optional but recommended at least to start)
1 - Roll of duct tape (We purchased ours in bulk from Tapebrothers.com, but they only sell them in solid colors. You can get all sorts of great patterns at Target, Walmart, K-mart, etc. as well as craft stores and hardware stores.)
Scissors (optional if you are good at tearing - fair warning - you will likely need to clean them if you use them to cut a lot of duct tape)
Ruler (optional but recommended at least to start)
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The ID holder is a great, but we just couldn't do it in the exhibit (too much instruction/time at that point), but we do encourage them to try to do it themselves.