This Book Thinks You're an Inventor |

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.