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How to Make a K'NEX Dinosaur

K'NEX brand construction toys use a combination of color-coded plastic rods and connectors to form a variety of shapes and structures. Each connector is equivalent to one or more eighths of a circle with connections at 45-degree intervals and a hole in the center. While there are limitless dinosaur designs you can build with K'NEX, a good beginner project is the "Brontosaurus II" in the directions that come with the the Dinosaurs 20 Model Building Set. The Dinosaurs set uses the colors associated with the smaller "MICRO" connectors, not the larger standard connectors.

Things You'll Need

K'NEX Dinosaurs 20 Model Building Set

Instructions

- 1
  Build a head out of light gray connectors and green rods, using a yellow connector to create a right angle at the snout and another yellow connector to attach the bottom of the head to the neck.
- 2
  Create a neck out of long rods, then build a triangle at the base of the neck, and attach it to a black connector to connect it to the body.
- 3
  Attach a red rod sticking straight down from the black connector and a white rod pointing up and left. From the white rod, form the dinosaur's back with a light gray connector, blue rod, light gray connector, light gray rod into the upper right of a black connector.
- 4
  Build the dinosaur's legs and belly starting with the red rod using the following sequence of pieces: red rod, yellow connector, green rod, yellow connector, white rod, orange connector, green rod, light-gray connector, green rod, purple connector, yellow rod, purple connector, green rod, light-gray connector, green rod, orange connector, light-gray rod, yellow connector, green rod, yellow connector, red rod into the bottom of a black connector. The back and legs/belly should end in the same black connector.
- 5
  Create a small triangle attached to the left side of the black connector, then build a tail out of four red rods and two light-gray connectors, with each connector pointing a rod to the left and one to the lower right. Connect the left end of the tail with an orange connector, green rod and light-gray connector, and attach the right end to the black connector that forms one end of the body.

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