Challenges and collections
Put your inventing skills to the test with a Little Inventors challenge!
Nearly a fifth of the food we buy ends up in the bin! And lots of that is food that is perfectly edible, but still we throw it away because we prepare too much or we're not sure about how fresh it is.
We challenge you to become a food hero: can you invent something to help reduce the food you throw away at home?
Scientists all agree that we have to change how we live so we can take better care of our world and keep it amazing. And this is where YOU come in…
Can you think up invention ideas to generate energy, save energy or use energy better?
We wrote a book! The Little Inventors Handbook encourages budding inventors to think big and have fun with their imaginations - and then share their brilliant invention ideas with us!
FREE Victorian Little Inventors resource pack
Explore the Victorian spirit of invention with this 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 Victorian Little Inventors teacher’s resource pack.
We are extending the Little Inventors Space Challenge until 21st December, with a special request for all children in Canada. As astronaut David Saint-Jacques prepares to leave on his six months mission, can you think of invention ideas that will make the ISS feel like home?
