Tinker | Make | Play Engineers - Old vs New
Thursday & Saturdays | 14, 19 & 21 February 2026 | 11am - 3.30pm
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14 February 11.00am – 21 February 3.30pm 2026
This Tinker Make Play family workshop welcomes you to playfully explore differences and similarities between old and new stuff.
Drop in | Included with Admission to the Museum
At Coventry Transport Museum we are surrounded by old things and new technologies. This Tinker Make Play family workshop welcomes you to playfully explore differences and similarities between old and new stuff. Then become the next generation of inventors who awe us with their ideas.
TINKER away! With stuff, tools, your ideas and find out how things work, learn some tool skills and see where your curiosity will take you.
MAKE something! Anything! Use the huge variety of resources we offer. Get hands-on, creative and make your ideas (or our challenges) come true. Make something super big or really small and wow yourself and us too.
PLAY about! Push your imagination, raise your curiosity and simply play away. Whether you get into play mode during some maker challenges or in our play room, we love seeing families at play.
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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