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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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Get Creative with Nanoscale Inventions

Invent your own thin film artwork ... no paint required! (Detailed instructions included!)

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Extract DNA at Home!

Detailed instructions included!

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Polishing Pennies

Clean up those old pennies with this home activity guide!

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Make a Polymer

Be inspired by the work of Kevlar© inventor Stephanie Kwolek with this How-To guide to making your own polymer!

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Make a Yo-Yo from Recycled Stuff

Learn how to make you're own Yo-Yo!

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Build a LEGO lightbulb

Detailed instructions included!

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Create Your Own Bubbles

Detailed instructions included!

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Create Your Own Indoor Kite

Create your own kite! Detailed instructions attached!

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Design Your Own Monument

Inspired by some of DC's majestic monuments!

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Create Your Own Cardboard Gramophone

The Gramophone is an early device created to reproduce sound recordings and was invented by a German-born American inventor named Emil Berliner. Learn how you can make your very own gramophone using objects from around your home with this great Spark!Lab activity!

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Inventing a Knitting Pattern

It is entirely possible to invent your own knitting pattern—and it’s easier than you think.

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Create a Robotic Garden

Try your hand at inventing a robotic garden!

hand with textured manicure
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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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