This activity book helps children to think like an inventor by introducing keyengineering concepts in a highly visual and entertaining way. Through fun activitiesand Harriet Russell’s playful illustrations, it encourages readers to engage with newideas and think about problems in a creative way.The book explores the six key aspects of engineering that are essential to anysuccessful inventor: problem-finding, designing, making and testing, improving yourinvention, building techniques and how to find new uses for existing objects. Each spreadcentres on an open-ended question that introduces a different way of approaching aninvention. Activities include making a bridge from toothpicks and mini marshmallows;inventing a way to lift this book without touching it; building a painting robot; designingyour own remote control; and harvesting electricity from a banana. At the end of thebook is a tinkering lab, which includes paper-based crafts and engineering activities.Table of ContentsGet started: discover your inventing style; hate something, change something; fill yourinventing toolbox; spin the wheel of invention; wreck your tech • Amazing Materials: huntaround your house; feed the birds; invent a new use for paper; sweeten some science;engineer your do • Transport and Machines: slide like a snail; ping your prince; pimp your ride;fly like a bird; turn this book into a machine • At home: eat your dinner; imagineer futuretech; be a child genius • AI and Robots: design a robot helper; code a bracelet; follow exactinstructions • Buildings: make a structure out of people; build a paper skyscraper; tinker withbridges • Helping People and Planet: get wind (to power a machine); save the planet; readwithout looking; fight off the plastic attack! • This book thinks it’s a tinkering space