Make, Share, Faire

Build, Tweak/Hack, Share

• Balloon Powered Car

  • Balloon Cars

• Boombox DIY

• Build an Earthquake-proof Structure

• Can-Do Canoe

• Coffee Lid Windups

• Concrete for Kids

• Das Bottle - Soda Bottle Submarine

• Design a Super Dome

• Design Thinking (Invent.org)

  • Build Your Very Own Higgins Boat

  • Coffee Compost Gardening (fall activity requires dried leaves & grass clippings)

  • Ocean Clean-Up Device

  • Paper Football

  • Wildlife Engineering Design Challenge

• Dirty Water Project

• EnerJeeps

• Engineering Magic

• Feel The Heat

• Flip Me

• Flying Marshmallows - Build a Simple Catapult

  • Build a Catapult

• Foil Boat

• Harmless Holder

• Heavy Lifting

• Launch It!

• Leaning Tower of Pasta

• LED Throwies

• Lunar Lander

  • Roving On The Moon

• Marble Ramp or Marble Ramp - pegboard

• Marshmallow Design Challenge

• On Target!

• Paper Table

• Parachutes

  • Toy (plastic or stuffed) Drop Parachutes

  • Water Balloon Parachutes

• Pop Fly!

• Pop Up Books

• Scribble Bots

• Snack Attack - Food Packaging

• Sound Booth Construction

  • Portable Vocal Booth & Portable Booth 2 or DIY $23.00 Mini Sound Booth build in under an hour

• Straw-Rocket Aeronautics

• Watercraft

• 14 Catapults for Kids to Create and Experiment With

• Collections

  • DESIGN squad Nation Activities (Electricity, Force/Energy, Green, Health, Simple Machines, Sound/Music, Space/Transportation, Sports/Games, Structures, & Technology/Materials)

  • DIY

  • Howtoons.com

  • Siemens' Hands-On Science Activities (K-6)

  • TeachEngineering Activities (100's)

  • Time to Invent Club

    • Trophy Tower - Make a strong structure out of straws

    • Hit the Target - Explore levers by making a ball launcher

    • Green Loungers - Design and build chairs out of cardboard

    • Buzz Board - Learn about circuits by making a buzzer game

    • Rescue 911 - Invent a tool to rescue a ball from a tube

    • Pinball Party - Invent a pinball-like game

    • Newspaper Clothes - Design and make outfits from newspaper

    • Circuit Board - Invent a game to teach other kids about circuits

    • FUN-Raising Games - Invent carnival games, using some wacky equipment

  • Toys from Recycled Materials

  • Make: Projects

    • Make: Projects - Kids (easier and cheaper)

    • School's Out! Best Summer Ever Special Issue

  • Science of Music

    • DIY Electric Slide Guitar

    • DIY: Build Your Own Microphone!

    • Speaker From a Starbucks Cup

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  • Mini Weapons of Mass Distraction (we have Book 3)