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In this game, learners create flash cards with an image on one side (of an animal, for example) and the sound that animal makes on the other.

Use a Pico Cricket (micro-controller) to animate your art! You can program a Pico Cricket to make your art spin, light up, or make music.

Make a rattle-like musical instrument! Shake it, hit it, spin it any way you want to!

Learners can program a compass to draw a circle by itself using a Pico Cricket, some Legos, and lots of tape! Pico Cricket is required.

This activity is about the mural making process done about 9,000 years ago in Catalhoyuk, Turkey.

This is a simple activity for learners to create a traditional musical instrument. Pan Pipes have developed all over the world in different cultures, from South America to Greece and China.

Use geometry, a ruler, and a steady hand to create these amazing unfurling paper folds!

How many colors make black? Gather as many water soluble black markers as you can find.

From this How To slide show, you create an Audio Tape Bow that can play distorted audio sounds by running it across a tape head.

Make two firefly lanterns, then program them to blink to one another and change colors.

This activity requires a Pico Cricket (tiny computer).

This is a web page that helps informal educators brainstorm on how to use a Pico Cricket (tiny computer) in an informal activity.

Build a phonograph record player using a cactus needle, a record, LEGOs gear box, and a piece of paper! This activity uses a Pico Cricket to turn the motor.

In this activity, learners construct wands that play different notes depending on information from light sensors programmed via a PICO Cricket.

Break open that used musical toy and squish some Play-Doh over the circuit boards, and you will hear some weird and distorted sounds the manufacturer never intended!

In this activity, learners construct drawing machines using a cup, some markers, and a battery pack. The markers act as "legs" for the machine, making a drawing that records as it moves.

Build your own Mini Mini Golf Course and learn about hands-on building and design, basic circuitry, motion modules and more!

In this activity, learners construct drawing machines using a cup, some markers, and a cricket to control the movement. A programmed LEGO RCX or Cricket is required for this high-tech version.

In this activity, learners design miniature cars. Learners can create a telephone car, soccer car, merry-go-round car, or any other theme car they can imagine.

In this activity, learners create night lights using a plastic cup, programmable PICO Cricket, tri-color LED, and sensor.