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Pocketful of Ideas Inventor Challenge Card Deck

Item: 34029
$28.95
$24.95

Status: In Stock

Product Highlights
  • Open-ended prompts allow for multiple solutions and help children understand that creative problems can be approached in different ways
  • Activities support creativity, perseverance, imagination, and early engineering skills
  • Includes both Inventor Card Deck and Crazy Inventor Deck for a wide range of ages
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About This Product

Inspire creativity, design thinking, and hands-on problem-solving with the Pocketful of Ideas Card Deck. More than 100 open-ended challenges are divided into two engaging deck types. Inventor Deck offer simple open-ended building inspriration. Crazy Inventor Deck introduce imaginative stories with problems for children to solve. After selecting a card, children can develop an idea by drawing, building with Straws, or incorporating other available materials. Flexible activities encourage children to experiment, revise their designs, and discover multiple solutions. Supports 25 students or more, making it ideal for group settings. Frequently used in school classrooms, libraries, makerspaces, afterschool programs, and summer camps.

To Play, Students pick a card and respond by drawing or building physical prototypes using everyday classroom/household materials.

Ideal for STEM centers, makerspaces, classrooms, and collaborative projects, this portable card deck supports creativity, communication, critical thinking, and perseverance.

Features

  • Open-ended prompts allow for multiple solutions and help children understand that creative problems can be approached in different ways
  • Activities support creativity, perseverance, imagination, and early engineering skills
  • Includes both Inventor Card Deck and Crazy Inventor Deck for a wide range of ages
  • Hands-on design challenges encourage children to plan, test, revise, and improve their ideas
  • The portable card format makes it easy to introduce quick STEM challenges in classrooms, makerspaces, or after-school programs.