Maker{Home} Learning
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Children can make lots of things at home using a range of everyday and scrap materials. Here are some fun activities that parents and carers can do with their children, which foster creativity and enhance their learning.
Learn what happens to raisins when you put them in a fizzy drink.
Use recycling household materials to design and make a cardboard guitar.
Make a structure using dry spaghetti pasta and strings.
Make a tall structure with clothes pegs, lolly sticks or paper straws. How high can you go?
Find a problem at home and design a solution for it like an inventor would!
Make a paper structure that keeps an egg safe from a 2m high fall.
Build a board with pins to practice making geometrical shapes and words using rubber bands or string.
Create and organise a scavenger hunt to learn about the difference between electrical and electronic devices.
Design and create a kite with old carrier bags or bin liners.
Learn more about time by making a pendulum clock with basic household materials.
Use recycling household materials to design and make a bot.
Make a boat that can float on water and safely hold a stash of coins.
Make a scale and have fun weighing things around your home to see what is lighter or heavier.
Build a marble run and challenge yourself to keep the marble going for 1 min before it hits the bottom.
Make a free standing tower with only 6 newspaper pages!.
An idea on how to build a scale-size wall out of mud bricks.
Use a balloon to power a car made of drinking straws and other simple materials.
Ideas for making simple wind-powered rafts, which can be used for a race in your bathtub!
Use basic household materials to make a pipe system that water the plants in your garden.
Make a small bot that holds on thin stilts!.
Can you make a xylophone using just glass and water?.
Can you build a rocket and launch it into the sky?.
Make a paper chain with a sequential message to learn about digital blockchains.
Design and make a chain reaction machine out of things laying around the house.
Can you build a tower out of newspaper that can hold a book steady in an earthquake?
Get hands on with a hammer and pins to make your own pin and string art!
Design and make your own mars habitat out of things from your recycling bin.
Make your own toilet paper tube tower .
Give animated figures the impression of movement to learn a cinematic technique.
Find out if things are alkali or acidic with the help of a red cabbage.
Make dinosaur fossils and uncover them like an archaeologist!
Make your own sports equipment and let's play!
Can you make a tower out of marshmallows and pasta?
Can you harness the power of the sun to cook you up a tasty snack?
Create a life size chalk drawing of your body and organs!