{"id":5838,"date":"2023-08-01T13:31:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=5838"},"modified":"2024-03-10T13:36:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T20:36:47","slug":"invention-ideas-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=5838","title":{"rendered":"Invention Ideas for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Science_GettyImages-874565238_crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5839 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Science_GettyImages-874565238_crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Science_GettyImages-874565238_crop.jpg 599w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Science_GettyImages-874565238_crop-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Science_GettyImages-874565238_crop-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a>Invention Ideas for Kids<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Celebrate\u00a0 this month\u2013<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/kids.lovetoknow.com\/wiki\/Invention_Ideas_for_Kids\"><em>challenge the children to come up with unique and useful inventions<\/em><\/a><em>!<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open up your recycled supply\u00a0area and provide materials such as- pieces of wood, used CD\u2019s, milk containers, straws, tape, pipe cleaners, paper clips, yarn, string, paper, glue, poster paint, markers, crayons, elastic, fabric scraps, construction paper, pom-poms, rubber bands and safety pins.<\/li>\n<li>Children can work individually or in\u00a0small groups; Give them plenty of time to brainstorm ideas.\u00a0Challenge children to come up with unique,\u00a0 creative, and\u00a0useful\u00a0items.<\/li>\n<li>The kids may need more than one day to complete their projects; however, when complete- share the inventions with the group.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>What is it?<\/li>\n<li>What does it do?<\/li>\n<li>What materials are used to make it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>SHARE IT\u2026This is an activity that takes time and thought. Honor the children\u2019s work by inviting parents and visitors to view the display. A written description of each \u201cinvention\u201d would also be a good idea.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This would be a nice \u201csharing with families time\u201d; it could be held\u00a0through-out the program afternoon or as social time after the program ends. Add punch and cookies and have a social event\u2026<\/p>\n<p>If awards are given out, be sure that each child or group receives one\u2013the most unique, smallest, largest, useful, fun, amusing, original, helpful, practical, handy, amusing, entertaining, most materials used, least materials used, colorful, heaviest, lightest, etc. (Look up synonyms for descriptive words)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAPER BAG INVENTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Put identical items in paper bags. Challenge the children to see what unique creations they can come up with. Items to include could be things such as: pipe cleaners, old cds, string, tape, paper clips, rubber band, etc. Children can work on there \u2018creation\u2019 individually or in pairs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kidsinventstuff.com\/\">Kids Invent Stuff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invention Ideas for Kids Celebrate\u00a0 this month\u2013challenge the children to come up with unique and useful inventions! Open up your recycled supply\u00a0area and provide materials such as- pieces of wood, used CD\u2019s, milk containers, straws, tape, pipe cleaners, paper clips, yarn, string, paper, glue, poster paint, markers, crayons, elastic, fabric scraps, construction paper, pom-poms, rubber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5846,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions\/5846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}