A makerspace educator offers 100 inventive, open-ended tinkering projects and prompts to inspire kids aged 8 to 12 to play and explore scientific principles, using wood, hardware, electronics, plastic pipes, bendy wire, and other supplies from the hardware store and home workshop.
A makerspace educator offers 100 inventive, open-ended tinkering projects and prompts to inspire kids aged 8 to 12 to play and explore scientific principles, using wood, hardware, electronics, plastic pipes, bendy wire, and other supplies from the hardware store and home workshop.
Ryan Jenkins is the co-founder of Wonderful Idea Co., a design studio that creates resources to support STEAM education and the development of 21st century skills. He’s a leader in the field of making and tinkering education and partners with children’s museums, schools, universities, professional organizations, companies, and funders. He’s a former tinkerer and educator at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and developed summer curriculum for kids at the Tinkering School that blended large scale construction with learner-centric investigations of electronics, robotics, and programming. He has written for Make Magazine and is a regular contributor to the Tinkering Studio Blog at the Exploratorium. He lives in California.
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Welcome to Tinkering! 1 Get Ready to Tinker Start Exploring Tinkering Supplies Make a Tinkering Station Snip & Cut Attach the Parts Bend, Cut & Strip Wire Drill & Saw Wood Connect Circuits 2 Constructions Clothespins Build-It Kit Wood Scraps Scrappy Stacks Screws Flexible Forts Bearing Balls & Marbles Chair Marble Run 3 Balance Washers Weighted Wobblers Stainless Steel Wire Wire Mobiles String & Rope Sky Trams 4 Mechanisms Cardboard Cardboard Crank Sliders Dowels Making Waves Brass Paper Fasteners Linkage Party 5 Light and Shadow Googly Eyes Shadow Scenes Mirrors Cool Kaleidoscopes Bubble Wrap Bubble Wrap Suncatchers 6 Electrical Circuits Motors Art Robots Aluminum Foil Surprising Switches Confetti Drop LEDs Glow City 7 Wind & Water Plastic Bags Inflatable Friends Recycled Cups Wild Windmills Cork & Foam Float a Boat Plastic Tubes Water Factory Index
