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Bitz, Bob and the children are building houses for their little pig toys. They have straws, lolly sticks and cubes, but which will be the strongest building material? Oink! Join in and make your own sand bricks at home - it's compacting fun!
Join us as we use string, straws and balloons to make our own balloon zip wires. It's a fun way for Bitz, Bob and the children to explore propulsion! Give it a go and fly pictures to your friends. Let's race!
How can you make things sound louder? Join Bitz, Bob and the children as they look at different ways to amplify sound, using tubes to make a music speaker louder and cardboard for mega megaphones. Let's rock!
We're finding out how engineers use the power of the wind. You can make your own paper windmills from card and straws at home. Pop your windmills on top of a homemade merry-go-round and watch them spin when you blow. It's wind power!
When Bitz, Bob and the children are engineering a ramp for their toy duck house they have to think about what the toy ducks need to make it safe. A little wild bird's needs are in their thoughts too, as they engineer brilliant bird feeders. Tweet!
Join us as we try to decorate lots of identical butterfly cakes for the teddy bears' picnic. Without a system in place, it's tricky. But with a little help from system engineering the children can decorate loads more delicious cakes!
With some folded paper, lolly sticks and tape the children are engineering paper fans to keep cool. But how do you power a paper fan hands-free? Join Bitz and Bob as they explore kinetic energy using a teddy bear swing to power their fan!
Strike! We're bowling today, and every time the children knock down a skittle they get a point. But how will they keep score? Join Bitz, Bob and the children as they engineer their own colourful scoring systems from clear jars and mini pompoms.
The children are bell-ringing, but how will they know which bells to ring to play a song? By colour coding musical sequences, everyone can play along. Join in at home by making colour coded xylophones from cardboard tubes. Practice makes perfect!
Problem solving to the rescue! Bitz, Bob and the children are working out how to use the things they have around them to rescue soft toys and treasure from the blanket island. They're also making extendable grabbers from lolly sticks and straws!
Bitz, Bob and the children are using magnets to test all sorts of things, from teddy bears to alarm clocks. Anything made with metal will stick to the magnet! You can explore magnetism at home by making your own secret stars magnet game to play.
What a hoot! Bitz, Bob and the children have an amazing owl badge that flaps its wings. But to make more flapping-wing badges, the children need to take one badge apart to find out how it works. Then they can copy what they find to make more badges!
Engineering challenges for children. We're weaving individual strands of ribbon together to make a strong toy-catcher net!
Making perfect presents for your friends can be tricky, but Bitz, Bob and the children are engineering great gifts with the help of mood boards. Mood boards are collections of pictures of the things you like, so your friends can see what you love!
Join Bitz, Bob and the children as they write simple code to help Pirate Pete cross the board and get to his treasure. Hoo yarrr! The code is also helping our 'robot' friend escape the big grid maze - by avoiding the crosses to get to the end.
Bitz, Bob and the children are building bridges from paper and card, and you can do it too! Join us as we make a bridge with cups and a paper towel and another bridge with card to hold toy frogs. It's the triangle-shape folds that make them super strong.
Join Bitz, Bob and the children as they make paper butterflies and paper kites with the same shapes and patterns on both sides. When something is the same on both sides it's symmetrical, and symmetry helps our home-made kites to fly sky high!
If you pay attention to little details, it's amazing what you can find! Join Bitz, Bob and the children for a game of grumpy kittens spot the difference. Will you be able to find where one of our mega wheels is broken? It's all in the details!
Bitz, Bob and Purl are in a race across the whole wide world to win the trophiest trophy ever, and they are joined by a new team member, Roly, a roller-skating baby dinosaur. To win they need to engineer a way to get off Faraway Island without a boat, stop their carriage sinking in Big Hot Sandy Desert, build a balloony floatoony flying machine, stop Gerhardt the goat eating a clue, ski down High Snowy Mountain and help Roly find her mother before crossing the finish line ahead of Team Bevel!
Did you know that flat card can be turned into standy-up boxes? Bitz, Bob and the children are making the perfect treasure chests, and their own robo-helmets, just like Bob's! With a few folds and some tape you're a 2D-to-3D engineer.
Join Bitz, Bob and the children as they test different materials to launch soft balls. Card, rulers and spoons are all put to the test to find the perfect 'padoinger'. You can make your own soft ball launcher from cardboard tubes and plastic spoons too!
Join Bitz & Bob as they look back on some of their favourite makes with the children.
