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Want to be inventive at home or in the classroom? Try your hand at these fun activities!

 

 

 

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Create a Robotic Garden

Try your hand at inventing a robotic garden!

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Caviar Manicures and Inventive Dreams

Try your hand at an innovative kind of manicure. (Pun intended!)

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Build a Pasta Concept Car

Gather some friends or family members, a few rolls of tape, and whatever types of pasta you can find in the pantry and spontaneously engage in the invention process first-hand by building a prototype car!

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