Tinker | Make | Play Engineers: Powerful Inventions Inspired by Earth Day

Thursday & Saturdays | 12, 17, 19, 24 & 26 April 2025 | 11am - 3.30pm Show all dates and times

Join our Tinker | Make | Play workshop space to explore this year’s Earth Day theme OUR POWER, OUR PLANET with us.

Drop In | Included with Admission

Join our Tinker | Make | Play workshop space to explore this year’s Earth Day theme OUR POWER, OUR PLANET with us. We invite you to question, wonder and discover our current lives (and transport) on Earth but also dream and create powerful inventions that could become our future. 

With electronics increasingly included in our everyday lives and transport, we use different ways to power these. 

TINKER with electronics to find out how they work, which materials they are made of, where they come from and how we are disposing of them.  

MAKE inventions that could help us and our planet in the future. 

PLAY about with different energy sources that could power up our electronics or take a break and simply play in our dedicated loose parts play space especially dedicated to our youngest engineers.

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Did you ever wonder what engineering is all about? At Coventry Transport Museum, we believe it all starts with curiosity, perseverance, and creativity. We believe, we have come up with the perfect formula for a workshop that will help develop those engineering skills. Here it goes:

Tinker (To tinker at Coventry Transport Museum means hands-on exploring what real stuff is made of and how it works. Find out what parts are hidden behind the covers and see what they do. We will provide the tools, the safety gear and the reference books.)

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Make (To make at Coventry Transport Museum means letting your imagination run wild. Whether your project needs hardware, cardboard, electronics, timber, needlework or paint, our workshop will be stocked with a random selection of stuff for you to work with.)

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Play (To play at Coventry Transport Museum means to embrace the nonsensical, the playful, the chaos, the unknown, the uncertainty, the process to make accidental learning happen. Play in an open-ended play environment that offers a choice of wonderfully weird, yet also engineering-related, playthings.)

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Tinker | Make | Play Engineers

 

You will need to bring:   

· At least one very supportive grown-up to be with you throughout this workshop. We know from experience that all mums, dads, uncles, aunties, older siblings, grandparents, carers are perfectly qualified for this role as no previous engineering experience is needed (they are indeed very useful and really, really good at handing you tools) 

We offer:  

· A safe and relaxed space.   

· Engineering Skills! You will use real tools to take apart or make things. So, you will build up your engineering skills no matter what.  

· Permission to destroy!  So you can fully explore some things, we let you break them AND you will not be told off*.   

· Fun! We are prepared to throw one or two surprise maker challenges at you just to keep you on your toes. 

· Expertise! Our amazing experts from the Learning Team will encourage you throughout. They are experts in playful engineering. That means they are curious, they persevere, are imaginative, love solving problems and teamwork. They will happily offer their expertise and support you when needed.  

*Please note we take no responsibility for the inspiration we evoke in your children to destroy and create their own inventions with your household gadgets.  

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