Lab Life: Happiness and Silliness (Lambeth Community Programme)

You’re invited to…Lab Life: Happiness and Silliness (Lambeth Community Programme)

At the Imagination Lab we will be exploring happiness and silliness though a range of fun activities! We forget how important it is to have fun, laugh and be silly. You will have the chance to explore, test and make with Jack-in the-box machines, play with code to make a fruit orchestra, make your own tricks and experimental toys AND we’re being joined by the Bureau of Silly Ideas, who will be bringing some silly inventions with them (like a remote control dustbin!) and playing with pranks.

What can you expect at Lab Life: Happiness and Silliness (Lambeth Community Programme)

Activities:

Bot-In-The-Box/ Jack-in-the-Box

• Creating mechanisms which pop up
• Making prank machines (like puppets with motors or light up toys)

(To take these toys home, you’ll need to make a £3.00 contribution for motors and battery packs. If you leave them at the Lab – there’s no cost!)

Fruit Animals and Makey Makeys

• Making fruit into animals, as silly as possible! How about an apple frog a banana duck or a cauliflower sheep? You can use code to add relevant or irrelevant animal sounds via Makey Makey
• Choose  conductive objects to connect to Makey Makeys and code them to make sound (like a wheelbarrow!)

Experimental toys

• Using feathers to make a tickle device
• Using putty/ play-dough, balloons and flour to make a whoopee cushion
• Using rice, balloons and flour to make a stress ball

Bureau of Silly Ideas

• Have a go with some radio controlled street furniture
• Learn to make secret squirters (water pistols you can hide squirt passers by with)
• Booby trap umbrellas so that they drop water on people from the inside
• Learn the power of disguise
• Booby trap breakfast cereals (don’t worry, it’s safe!)

When is Lab Life: Happiness and Silliness

Half day sessions are taking place on either Saturday 23 or Sunday 24 June. There are two sessions per day, either 10:00am – 12:30pm or 1.30-4pm.

Who is Lab Life: Happiness and Silliness for and how much does it cost?

These sessions are for Lambeth residents only and are suitable for children aged 5-12 years old and their parents/ carers. Tickets for this event are free for Lambeth residents and you can register in advance using the form below.