Kids engineering projects

Step-by-step tutorials explaining how to do simple electrical engineering activities for kids. Make learning about simple circuits hands-on and fun.

3, 2, 1 Blast off the fun this summer with Bottle Rockets! This simple and fun summer STEM activity is a favourite of kids everywhere!

Students will love this STEM Challenge of making a balloon-powered car. Great STEM engineering projects for students.

If your kids love engineering, they will love this fun engineering challenge that combines engineering in two ways, structural engineering and demolition engineering. In orange wrecking ball engineering challenge, I challenged my kids to come up with a system where an orange could knock some plastic cups over without them throwing it or rolling it.

Engineering projects don't need to be difficult, and they can teach your kids a lot about how tackling different tasks. Here are 10 to try.

The anatomy of our hands is complex and intricate. To explore how our fingers on our hands are able to move, build a robot hand with your kid!

Build your own zoetrope and create your own animation. Hours of STEAM fun for kids who love art, engineering and science!

Engineering activities for kids that will get their brains and bodies moving! Grab a free engineering challenge printable for even more STEM fun.

Build a roller coaster for a ping pong ball out of straws, hot glue, and a cardboard box for a base. This STEM challenge for kids is awesome because the materials are so simple and inexpensive! The track is surprisingly sturdy, and kids will have a blast creating a path for their ball. I would […]

Try a fun STEM Engineering project. Build a bubble blower machine with your kids! They will love building it and playing with it!

30+ engineering STEM challenges with simple materials. Kids can tinker with bridges, catapults, boats, and more using recycled and inexpensive materials.

You and your kids will love putting together these simple helicopters and watching them fly! *Video below

These STEM Building Challenges for Kids are great for building skills in Math, Technology and Engineering, & they're super fun for all age groups!

Easy and fun simple machine projects! Learn about six simple machines, and how they make work easier. Plus, everyday examples.

STEM Ferris Wheel Project is an amazing engineering activity for upper elementary and middle school students. Teams create a dimensional turning two-sided- wheel that must be held aloft. Great Teamwork opportunity!

With this engineering game of building challenges for kids, you will learn about animals and the amazing houses they make, then build your own versions.

Need a creative way to demonstrate simple machines? These hands-on simple machine projects are perfect for your next lesson.

This experiment utilizes potential and kinetic energy to blast our plastic cup rocket off. By pressing down on the rocket, we are building potential energy that is converted into kinetic energy when we let go and let our rocket fly. "GO" for launch in 3, 2, 1... BLAST OFF!

How to make an indoor boomerang out of paper. What a fun boredom buster science and engineering project for kids when they are stuck inside!