Tinkerlab: a hands-on guide for little inventors

Introduction

Prepare. Creating your tinkerlab ; Tools for tinkering ; Ten tinkerlab habits of mind

Experience. Design ; Build ; Concoct ; Discover.

Machine generated contents note: PREPARE

1. Creating Your Tinkerlab

Tips for Clearing Children's Clutter / Jillian Maxim

What Nursery Schools Can Teach Us about Creative Invitations: An Interview with Nancy Howe

2. Tools for Tinkering

3. Ten Tinkerlab Habits of Mind

EXPERIENCE

4. Design

Oh No, That's Not Creative! / Jessica Hoffmann Davis

Circle Games

Peel and Stick

Glue, Glue, Glue

Mark Outside the Box

Watercolor Exploration

Yes, You Can Paint on That!

Monoprints

Bubble Prints

Drawing Games

Draw What You See

Art Dice

Paint Experiments

Paste Paper

Ten Lessons the Arts Teach / Elliot Eisner

Marbleized Paper with Paint and Oil

Plexiglas Painting

Foam Plate Relief Prints

Collage Painting

Finding Your Five-Year-Old Self in the Art Museum by Margie Maynard

5. Build

The Value of Loose Parts: An Interview with Susan Harris MacKay

Gumdrop Structures

Hanging Structures

Straw Rockets.

Contents note continued: Marble Runs: Ramps and Gravity

Paper Houses

Scrap Building

Ropes and Pulleys

CD Spinner

Does It Float?

Pounding Nails

Take Things Apart

Drawing Machine

DIY Robot

DIY Kids: Building Tomorrow's Innovators through Hands-on Making / Grace Hawthorne

6. Concoct

Yes, and ... How to Improvise with Children: An Interview with Dan Klein

Potion Station

Goop

Marker Explosions

Make Your Own (Semiedible) Paint

Slime

Ice and Salt Exploration

Ice Cream in a Jar: An Edible Investigation

Frozen Carbon Dioxide

Yeast and Sugar Expansion

Naked Egg Experiment

Homemade Butter: An Edible Investigation

Lemon Invisible Ink

Glittery Egg Geodes

Natural Dyes

Kitchen Challenge: An Edible Investigation

Concoctions in a Michelin-Starred Kitchen: An Interview with Bruno Chemel

7. Discover

How to Set Up a Discovery Area: An Interview with Parul Chandra

Playdough Building

Cloud Dough.

Contents note continued: Pounding Flowers

Scavenger Hunts

DIY Light Box

Photograms

Ephemeral Installation

Shadow Investigations

DIY Lava Lamp

Mystery Bag

The Benefits of Basic Materials / Jennifer Winters.