Making 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.

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

Making a Coil Pot a video demonstration of how to make this kind of pot

Zelda's Zany Zoo complete project building an animal habitat (links with Science)

A short animation showing the process of glassblowing

Put the photographs into the correct order to make a glass blowing storyboard

Build a Phone an activity to build a phone from the various parts available

Build a bike that is safe

Build a Fountain click the 5 buttons and follow the spoken instructions

Build a Playground click the 5 buttons and follow the spoken instructions

Fix a Road  learners click the 5 buttons and follow the spoken instructions

Where do you live? write a description of the varying types of building materials used

Free Build create your own design by dragging lego bricks onto the grid

Plan Build recreate the design by dragging bricks into the shadow shape

Speed Build recreate the design against the clock

Parts Puzzle an activity putting objects back together

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

Paper aeroplane templates to print out hours of creative design

Shadow Casting scene creating using the technique of hands and light source

Create your own mosaic

Choose your bread and fillings to make a sandwich

15 interactive design and make puzzles that have no instructions

An index of things to make with instructions and step by step photographs

Build custom robots by following instructions and complete the challenges

Paper Aeroplanes designs to make some have video clips showing construction

Pocket Mod templates with folding style A4 piece of paper to become note card

Paper Aeroplanes templates to print out and make videos show the process

Build a City click on links at bottom to access building items these become animated once in position