Kids design and build a wheeled contraption. You hand over the tools.

Kids design and build a wheeled contraption. You hand over the tools.

The Test Dummies

The Test Dummies

Strengthen the Mind
Strengthen the Mind
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Letting kids run their own builds teaches risk calibration and real engineering.

Letting kids run their own builds teaches risk calibration and real engineering.

WHY IT MATTERS

High (wild)

High (wild)

CHALLENGE LEVEL
CHALLENGE LEVEL

Parent-Kid Story

Parent-Kid Story

ACTIVITY SOURCE
ACTIVITY SOURCE

240

240

TIME in MINUTES
TIME in MINUTES

Scrap wood, old wheels, shovels, helmets, basic tools

Scrap wood, old wheels, shovels, helmets, basic tools

GEAR NEEDED
GEAR NEEDED

Outdoor

Outdoor

LOCATION
LOCATION

Summer

Summer

SEASON
SEASON

AGES

2-6: hold the bolts. 7-12: lead the build. 13-17: bigger stakes, bigger ramps.

Strengthen the Mind

Parent plants the idea

7-12, 13-17

2-67-1213-17

ENGAGEMENT LEVEL FOR PARENTS

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60 seconds. One provocation. One antidote. Done.