Projects

Projects to make at the table.

Things a child makes with their hands from what you have at home: the steps on the screen, the making on the table. Each project says what you need, the steps for each grade and the test it must pass. Planning needs a family account.

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How projects work

  • Gather

    Find the things on the list. Each one says whose it is, and what to use when you do not have it.

  • Make

    One step at a time, with a painting of the step. A step that is too hard is skipped, and the finish says so.

  • Show

    Your child picks one true line about what they made.

  • What I learned

    A question for their grade, answered by tapping a few words. It saves after every step, so a project can take more than one sitting.

A child draws the bean they sprouted in a jar on the windowsill: the last step of A bean in a jar.

Every project

  • A bean in a jar: A bean your child grew, and their drawing of its root. (Pre-K to Grade 1–2)
  • A bird feeder: A bird feeder your child made, hanging level, and a week of birds counted. (Kindergarten to Grade 3–4)
  • Bread in a bag: A small loaf your child measured, mixed and watched rise. (Grade 3–4 to Grade 7–8)
  • A cardboard arcade game: An arcade game your child built from a box, that the family played. (Grade 3–4 to Grade 7–8)
  • A cardboard dinosaur: A cardboard stegosaurus that stands on its own. (Kindergarten to Grade 5–6)
  • A cardboard house: A box house for a real toy, built to pass a test. (Grade 1–2 to Grade 7–8)
  • A cup telephone: A cup telephone your child made and tested, and the counts that show which string carries a whisper best. (Grade 1–2 to Grade 5–6)
  • The dough table: Prints your child pressed in play dough, and at K a print they read like a clue. (Pre-K to Kindergarten)
  • Our family recipe card: A family recipe written down by your child, that someone else made from the card. (Grade 1–2 to Grade 7–8)
  • Boats that hold the most: A foil boat your child improved by testing, and the numbers to show it. (Kindergarten to Grade 5–6)
  • Fruit faces: A smiling face your child made from fruit, and then ate. (Pre-K to Grade 1–2)
  • Keep the ice: A test your child ran on real ice, and a record of which wrap kept it longest. (Grade 1–2 to Grade 7–8)
  • Kindness cards for the street: Three cards your child made for real people nearby, and gave with you. (Grade 1–2 to Grade 5–6)
  • Leaf rubbings and pressed flowers: Crayon rubbings of three leaves and two pressed flowers, made by your child. (Pre-K to Grade 3–4)
  • What a magnet can pull: Your child finds out for themselves what a magnet pulls, how far its pull reaches, and how it makes a needle point roughly north and south. (Grade 1–2 to Grade 5–6)
  • A marble run: A marble run your child built and fixed until the marble lands in the cup. (Grade 1–2 to Grade 7–8)
  • Origami: a boat, a frog, a crane: A paper model your child folded that works: a boat that stands, a frog that jumps, a crane that flaps. (Grade 1–2 to Grade 7–8)
  • A paper bridge that holds a book: A paper bridge your child made that holds a book, and the test that proves which shape is strongest. (Grades 5–6 and 7–8)
  • Paper weaving: A woven paper mat with a pattern your child chose and kept going. (Kindergarten to Grade 1–2)
  • A parachute that lands softly: A parachute your child made that lands a peg softly, and the drops that show why. (Grade 1–2 to Grade 5–6)
  • A periscope from two cartons: A periscope your child built that sees over the sofa, and the light's path to explain it. (Grades 3–4 and 5–6)
  • Potato and leaf prints: A row of potato and leaf prints that repeats, made by your child. (Pre-K to Grade 1–2)
  • A rain gauge and a week of weather: A rain gauge your child made, and a week of rain measured. (Grades 3–4 and 5–6)
  • Ripples in a tray: A tray of water, a bottle cap and a measured answer to whether the water travels with a ripple. (Grade 3–4 to Grade 7–8)
  • Shadow puppets: A shadow puppet your child made, and a shadow they can make twice as big on purpose. (Grade 1–2 to Grade 5–6)
  • A shaker and a rubber-band guitar: Two instruments your child made, and a high note and a low one they found by ear. (Pre-K to Grade 3–4)
  • A sock puppet and a two-minute show: A sock puppet your child made, and a show they put on for you. (Pre-K to Grade 3–4)
  • A soil sponge: Three soils tested side by side by your child, and an answer to which holds the most water. (Grades 3–4 and 5–6)
  • A sundial: A sundial your child made that tells the time the next day. (Grade 3–4 to Grade 7–8)
  • Torn paper picture: A torn paper picture your child made with their fingers, and can tell you about. (Pre-K to Kindergarten)
  • Our week of rubbish: A week of your household's rubbish, sorted and counted by your child, and one change proposed with the numbers. (Grades 5–6 and 7–8)
  • What the colours do: A new colour your child made by mixing two, and can tell you how. (Pre-K to Kindergarten)

Projects by grade