Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Christmas Ornament - Rubik's Cube

Each year we purchase a new ornament for each of our grandchildren.
We try to choose an ornament that represents that particular year, ie: a sport they participated in, a travel memory, etc. We don't display them on our tree, rather we pack them up, and plan to give them their box full of ornaments for their first Christmas trees in their own first homes/apartment/condo/yurk... who knows what homes will look like in 20 years?
So this year our oldest grandson, who is a teen now, became interested in algorithms. On many occasions, he tried to explain the use of algorithms in solving his Rubik's Cube, but he never got through to us! It was easy to choose his ornament for this year, since each time we saw him he had a Rubik's Cube in his hand.
We searched for a Rubik's Cube ornament without much success, so I turned to my Hammerman. And he did not disappoint!

He used 54 small wooden cubes, glued them together, spray painted the whole thing black and attached adhesive foam to each cube.
We consulted our grandson, about his preference on the design: Did he want the colors all the same on each side (a "solved" cube) or did he prefer an unsolved one? It could have, of course easily designed the other way. Or, all red and green cubes would be cute, too.

I like thinking of our grandson, in the years to come, displaying his Papa's handmade ornament on his own tree.



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