Imagine
Think of something you want to make. Your idea can be useful, silly or completely new.
Your cardboard workshop is ready
Big Ideas Start with a Box
Put on your Inventor apron, grab your tools and get ready to turn ordinary cardboard into something completely new.
First workshop job
Make Your Inventor Badge
Every inventor needs a workshop badge. Type your first name and watch it appear in kid handwriting.
Your Name
Start here, inventor
Welcome to the Workshop
Watch this quick message from Meghan before you open your tools and begin building.
Watch before you build
Your inventor plan
There Is More Than One Way to Invent
Look closely, build your idea and keep trying when something does not work the first time.
Build + Test
Put your idea together. Touch it, move it and see what happens when you test it.
Change + Try Again
If something does not work yet, change one part and try it another way. That is inventing.
Swipe to see each inventor step.
Inventors, report to the workshop
Your Play Lab Is Open!
Tap, build, spin, count, test and try again. Every idea belongs in an inventor’s workshop.
Five playful missions
Tap a Mission to Play
There is no wrong way to invent. Pick a mission, give it a try and keep going.
My Inventor Progress
0 of 5 missions
The Big Idea Mixer
Tap one button in every row. Your silly new invention will appear.
What will you invent?
What will it do?
Add a silly twist
Pick three parts to make an invention.
Build a Box Airplane
Look at one picture at a time. Build it your way and ask a grown-up for help.
Build 1
Find Your Airplane Box
Choose a box that is big enough for your pilot. What could become the front?
Build the Number
Tap the big button to add Scrus. Stop when your number matches the target.
Can you build this number?
3
You have 0 Scrus.
Spin-O-Matic
Spin, move and pretend. Grown-ups can play too.
Press the button to get a movement
Ready to spin?
Do the movement, then spin again.
The Inventor Challenge
Pick a challenge, make something and test it. You can always change it and try again.
Your challenge is...
Tap the button to pick a challenge.
Test your invention. What could you change?
Grab your inventor notepad
Draw It Before You Build It
Your drawing does not need to be perfect. Inventors use pictures, lines and shapes to remember their ideas.
Draw the biggest part.
Add buttons, wings, wheels or doors.
Circle the part you want to build first.
Workshop celebration
You Invented Something!
You imagined, built, tested and tried again. That is exactly what inventors do.
Grown-up helper:
Please help with scissors, cutting, hot glue and any other grown-up tools. Scrus and small parts should never be placed in a child’s mouth.
Inventor Spotlight
Show Us What You Invented!
Ask a grown-up to send us a picture of your creation. Your invention could be featured on our website and selected to receive a free T is for Tot kit.
Inventors Keep Trying
Your invention does not need to be perfect. We want to see the ideas, changes and creative choices that made it yours.
Inventor Spotlight
Selected inventions may appear on the T is for Tot website, and one inventor may be chosen to receive a free kit.
Enter Your Invention
This section is for grown-ups. Please complete the form and upload one clear picture of the invention.
Photo safety:
Please do not include a home address, last name or other identifying information in the photo.
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Your Invention Was Sent!
Thank you for sharing your big idea with T is for Tot. Keep building, testing, changing and trying again.
