D'aaawwwww

[Shiny]

Built a trebuchet. Unfortunately don't have the pictures or video of this trebuchet actually working. My friends and I put water balloons in it and then rolled it to the middle school. We had a massive water balloon fight with people who built trebuchets and catapults. This one person built a huge wooden trebuchet with his dad. It flew and hit the school. Seriously the best time in public school I've ever had.

I also built a Rube Goldberg like contraption with my dad for seventh grade science. He did most of the work I just came up with the concept and tested it as it was progressing. Come to think of it from 1st - 7th grade my dad did most of my projects. I was more of a term paper or essay person than a build this, or arts and crafts type of person. Didn't get into painting, charcoal, and pastel drawings until 8th grade.

With my mom, I don't recall her doing any projects especially not school related. She never actually finished high school (though did get her GED) because I think she went off to pursue her dreams of being a ballerina. Now she's in to like interior design or some tit. She did teach me how to garden.

[Shlup]

Uhm... My parents can be cool to hang out with, but I can't think of any projects we've done together. My grandparents are more of the crafty types. My grandpa helped me build a model mission in fourth grade (it's a thing all fourth graders in California do), and once we built a radio together. My grandma helps me with pretty much all of my sewing projects.

[Rantz]

Uhm... My parents can be cool to hang out with, but I can't think of any projects we've done together. My grandparents are more of the crafty types.

Pretty much this. My grandma taught me about the birds and the bees. Uh, in the literal sense.

[Jiro]

Was she much of a naturalist or did you guys have fun learning about stuff together?

[rubah]

My dad helped me fill in about 1/3 of the wood in this picture because I was out of weekend to finish the damn thing

we also created a connector to record songs from my mom's old hifi (phono, 8-track, cassette) onto my computer

and put this together



I mostly watched, but he tried making a gourd instrument one day

Another time, he had me wrapping wire for a scheme he cooked up to turn a flashlight with no bulb into a portable electromagnet.


he taught me to cut sheet glass when I discovered my nephew had trod on my scanner (with the lid down, luckily for him)


The first electronic thing dad helped me take apart was my nanopet when the battery died.
He wouldn't take responsibility for if I wasn't able to boot my computer afterwards, but dad did help me with getting those damn tiny screws to open my laptop, and a few times since then. Back when I used a desktop, we hauled the tower out to his shop to blast the fan with compressed air to clean it out.



My mom helped me break down a pair of jeans to create a masterpiece.


And helped me with random plant potting projects I'd undertake

Then there's the time all three of us rebuilt a house together! Involving such mini-projects as "split apart this old shelf to make cute taller narrower shelves"

[Rantz]

Was she much of a naturalist or did you guys have fun learning about stuff together?

The former.

[Jiro]

Don't give me that winky face I was actually curious in a totally innocent way!

[Rantz]

It was an innocent winky face!

[Quindiana Jones]

My dad and I did DIY a lot. I learned a lot about carpentry, masonry, plumbing, plastering, electric-ing and painting, among other things. He's also the one who got me into cycling, and we did a few tours together.

[Clo]

Oh yeah. When I was about 4-5 years old, my dad would sit my little brother and I on his shoulders on this giant armchair and we'd play Super Mario Bros. on Nintendo together! We'd all pass the controller around.

He got me into videogames.

[Tigmafuzz]

I learned a lot about carpentry, masonry, plumbing, plastering, electric-ing and painting, among other things.

You're lucky. I had to learn that all myself. What does/did your dad do for a living?

[Agent Proto]

The one thing I remember working together with my dad was building a computer from scratch. He got all the compartments needed, and asked me to help him put it together.

[Quindiana Jones]

I learned a lot about carpentry, masonry, plumbing, plastering, electric-ing and painting, among other things.

You're lucky. I had to learn that all myself. What does/did your dad do for a living?

He's a 50 year old man. He's done a lot of things haha. These are just skills that he's learned by virtue of being a Geordie in the late twentieth century, though. His dad was an engineer, so that probably had something to do with it, too.

[Shorty]

My dad taught my sisters and I to cook and bake when we were little. I think I'm a pretty good cook and I can bake phenomenally. I think if he hadn't let us help him make meals and cakes and desserts and stuff all the time, I wouldn't have an interest now in opening my own bakery/cafe someday.

In elementary school, I was a part of this 50 States Fair thing and we had to do a presentation and make a huge map out of whatever state we chose and set it on display. My dad and I stayed up all night baking cakes to mold into a ginormous mountainous cake map for my presentation. We stacked layers on top of eachother and shaved them to mold the mountains and stuff and and used different colored frosting for the different high and low points of the state and used candy and stuff for the keys on the map. And then all fifty kids came and ate it when the day was over.

Also writing. I wrote a lot of stories when I was younger and I would always take them to my dad and he'd critique me on them and help suggest things that I could change or different ways to take the plot.

I can't really remember doing a lot of projects with my mom. She sewed clothes a lot for us, so we'd have to be mannequins for her. That wasn't really fun, though.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Why have you never baked for me then, Sarah?