Designing Things

A collection of free, safe and educational websites covering the topics of cams, designing things, gears, levers, linkages, making things, mechanisms and types of motion.

Design a new animal combine heads bodies and legs of a variety of animals to create own species

Design a Flag choose a background colour a shape and a picture

Design an Anti-Bullying Poster an activity in which learners create a scene with speech bubbles

Roller Coaster Builder design and make a roller coaster from six sections of track

Design a 'Pieced' Quilt by 'sewing' patterned squares together

Create faces from fruit and vegetables  by clicking on the options at the bottom

Shape Doodler Game click a shape and a colour and click on the grid where this is to go

Design a bug by selecting a body wings legs and a head from those available

Create an alien from different heads bodies arm legs

Design and build a car from the options provided

Design a 'Mr Veg Head' adding eyes nose mouth ears hat feet and see him dance throw eat

Design Your own Trainers deciding on colour logo pattern fasteners

Designing Jewellery from given options

Designing a Butterfly from given options

Designing a Flying Creature from given options

Designing a Robot from given options

Designing a Swimming Creature from given options

Designing a Desert Island scene from given options

Choose a room to decorate a living room kitchen dining room and bed room

Design Your Room using colour furniture furnishings

Design an invitation to a christening party wedding sports day Eisteddfod

Marble Drop design a course for the marble to drop through from a series of pipes

Design a Roman Mosaic drop individual tiles onto a lined grid

Design a Car and learn about what each of the parts contribute

Designing a Bridge and a buggy to travel a specific course set as the challenge

Design a Tudor Living Room choose floor wall coverings lighting furniture seating and tables

Design a Victorian Living Room choose floor wall coverings lighting furniture seating and tables

Design a Modern Living Room choose floor wall coverings lighting furniture seating and tables

Design a Knot Garden choose herbs and gravels

Design an Elizabethan Garden choose herbs and flowers

Design a Georgian Garden choose herbs plants and shrubs

Design a Victorian Garden choose perennials evergreens and flowers

Design an Edwardian Garden choose perennials and shrubs

Design a Modern Garden choose plants shrubs and flowers

Design a Car by choosing colour wheel design size spoiler and exhaust

Design a Woven Pattern

Design and Build a Virtual Waterwheel

Designing a Panda Habitat

Which buildings would be best to put into the spaces on the map

Design a Roller Coaster involving the science of force gravity and friction

Design a Roller Coaster considering height shape and exit of

4 IKEA downloads of room designs to create your own designs

Cubescape a creative tool which will hook you into hours of creative fun

Design a Plan View of a House which can be seen in 3D and have a 'virtual walkthrough'