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Chairs and Tables

Stage: 1 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

I made a chair from interlocking cubes. It looked a bit like this:

chair from multilink


Can you make a chair too? It need not be the same as mine.

Now can you make a table to go with your chair?

When you have done that you could try making chairs for the Three Bears: a big chair, a middle-sized one and small one.

Please send us photos of your chairs and tables if you can.

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