1st - 5th Grade Engineering Design Activities

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.

In this activity, students will create a stop motion animation by creating a clay figure and taking a series of digital photographs.

In this activity, students will think about the form and function of household objects as they compare and contrast kitchen serving spoons of various sizes and designs.