Use design thinking to create a product that solves a real problem. Kids identify needs, brainstorm solutions, build prototypes, test with users, and iterate. The same process real designers and engineers use, scaled for kids and applied to problems they actually care about.
Ages 8–14 · Project guide · 3 skill levels
Your child finds something frustrating in your house and designs a product to fix it. Need-finding first, then brainstorming, then a prototype out of everyday materials, then a real user who tells them what is wrong with it. Then they do it again, better.
Pitching, pricing, failing, and trying again. These are the skills no school subject teaches but every adult life needs. One small business taught at home beats a hundred worksheets on "economics."
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Designed by a teacher with 15 years of classroom experience, now homeschooling her own kids.
