Recent Activities
LED Lights: Mother's Day Cards
What better way to say Happy Mother’s Day than through lights and thoughtful words?
Paper Bouquet
Flowers are a timeless and beloved gift, but by creating a bouquet yourself, you can add a special touch.
Storm in a Jar
This holiday, we will be encapsulating makeshift snowstorms in mason jars. This fun science experiment mixes household substances to create the illusion of stormy weather through chemical reactions!
Water Quality Testing
Let's become water quality detectives!
In this activity, we will explore and evaluate the quality of water in our environment.
Dancing Corn
Some of the best parts of autumn are the leaves, the pumpkins and the corn. This month, we’re putting a scientific twist on fall by sparking a chemical reaction with things in our kitchen. Follow along with an adult to add a little magic to the season.
Make Ice Cream at Home
It’s SUMMER! What better way to enjoy the hot sun while eating ice cream you created yourself? Did you know that behind the scenes of making ice cream you’re actually using Science? How cool is that!
Make a Robot Hand
Learn how to make a synthetic hand that you can control the fingers of out of common household materials. Download – Make a Robot Hand
Paper Tower Challenge
Using three pieces of 8.5×11 sheets of paper, scissors, and no glue, tape, or any other adhesive, try to make the tallest freestanding structure you can!
Paper Planes
Now that we're no longer in the classroom, this is the perfect time to practice our paper plane making skills. Here is a simple airplane you can make at home.
Egg-straordinary Experiments (Part 2)
Have you ever wondered why eggs have a shell and a transparent membrane? How could you remove the shell without breaking it or without boiling the egg? We can do that using some basic chemistry.
Egg-straordinary Experiments (Part 1)
Have you ever wondered why eggs have a shell and a transparent membrane? How could you remove the shell without breaking it or without boiling the egg? We can do that using some basic chemistry.
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Partnerships
Tinker Lab partners with local schools and community organizations to provide STEAM enrichment in a variety of in-school and afterschool residencies, outreach events, workshops, and family tinker festivals. Current partners include P.S.56 Lewis Latimer School, P.S.22Q, I.S.237Q, Queens Public Library, and the Child Center of New York Latimer Gardens, among others. Contact us to partner!
Birthdays
You can host a birthday at the Tinker Lab. Children can participate in the Hebocon activity.
Hebocon is a robot sumo-wrestling “competition.” It is a competition where robots–that have been built out of re-use materials –gather and somehow manage to engage in odd, funny battles.