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It turns out colored cardboard food boxes make pretty cool yo-yo’s.  Not quite as elegant as the ones above, but so very fun.

Here’s what you’ll need:

- One brightly colored box at the end of its shelf life in your freezer or pantry (We used an Eggo box, but an Amy’s Organics or Annies’s Bunny Grahams box or similar should work just as well.)
- One corndog stick or similar
- One piece of embroidery floss about 3 feet long
- Hot glue gun and glue (for use by an adult or with adult supervision only)

Here’s how:

1.)  Cut the stick to approximately one inch in length.
2.)  Cut eight circles from the box – 4 two inches in diameter, 4 one and one half inches in diameter.
3.)  Place two of the smaller circles between two of the larger circles and center them.  Glue together.  Then punch a hole large enough for the stick through the center of the circles.  Repeat with the remaining circles.
4)  Tie a loop large enough for one finger in one end of the embroidery floss.  Then tie the other end around the stick, just loosely enough that it can spin.
5)  Place one set of circles over each end of the stick, pushing stick just through so that the circles do not hinder the movement of the string.
6.)  Glue ends of stick to circles.
7.)  Allow glue to set.
8.)  Play.

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