Challenges
Put your inventing skills to the test with a Little Inventors challenge!
The Little Inventors Handbook encourages budding inventors to think big and have fun with their imaginations. We want you to share your brilliant invention ideas with us!
For its 6th edition, children all over the world were invited to invent their version of the future!
Along with the Nerve Centre, we linked with four local schools to hold creation workshops, this resulted in over 200 fantastic ideas. The theme was 'save' which could be applied to so many things, such as how to save time, how to save the environment, and so much more! Eight inventions were made real by a team of makers.
Can you think of a time when you put food in the bin and you could have avoided it? We teamed up with Ocado and asked you to create brilliant inventions to solve that problem!
We explored the Victorian spirit of invention with a workshop resource pack as part of our partnership with the V&A, using the inventions of the past to inspire the Little Inventors of the future. Download our free Victorian Little Inventors teacher’s resource pack here!
Can you imagine life in the North in 2030? What will be the inventions that change how we live? What do you think are the inventions that will transform our future? We invited children all across the North to take the Little Inventors North 2030 challenge and think of all the challenges and opportunities that the future brings.
We teamed up to present a rather ingenious new Little Miss: Little Miss Inventor! She challenged children to think of an invention that would help the ever so clumsy Mr Bump.
As astronaut David Saint-Jacques prepared to leave on his six months mission, we asked the children of Canada to think up invention ideas that would make the ISS feel like home!
