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Future Inventors

This activity is part of the upcoming Life Skills Initiative - stay tuned for more information!

This activity will allow you to innovate solutions for problems you usually face or see in the world, as well as the ones you want to avoid in the future.

Key Competencies
  • Critical thinking
  • Problem-solving
Materials Needed
  • Wallpaper - 1 per participant
  • Paper - 1 per participant 
  • Tape - 5 inches per participant
  • Pens
  • Scissors
  • Crafting sticks - 2 per participant
  • Strings - 1m per participant
  • Glue
  • Rubber bands - 1 per participant
  • Crafting wheels - 2 per participant
  • Pipe cleaners - 2 per participant
Activity Description

To start, you need to identify one problem, question, or challenge in the world you would like to invent a solution for. You should try to identify the reason the problem exists and where an invention would make the biggest difference. 

You are free to invent and innovate a prototype using the provided materials. The prototype is free to be as fantastic and unrealistic as it needs to be to solve the problem. It does, however, have to have clear thought behind it. It can't be a magic wand solving all the world's problems, but an underwater vacuum for cleaning the oceans could be a creative invention, for example.

Using the provided materials you are free to create as you see fit and add features or functions that make the invention better or even more stylish. Once you finish the activity, consider these questions and discuss them with your team:

  • Why did you choose to address the problem you chose?
  • Do you think your invention is possible in the future?
  • If you were to do this activity again, which new problem would you choose to tackle?
Get Ready for the Activity

The inventions don’t have to be realistic or feasible to create in the real world. They could all be driven by imagination, as long as clear thought and problem-solving skills are present in their construction. 

This activity might have a high material use. If possible, it should be minimized by regularly collecting materials or helping participants find materials already which were already opened or recycled.

Time needed

43 minutes

Challenges

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Time needed

43 minutes

Challenges