Kids find robots fascinating. Creating a robot is a bit like creating your own toy; it lets children dream and use their imagination.

Creating a giant robot is best done as a team activity.

Here is what you need to make a giant robot :

• cardboard boxes
• cardboard tubes
• paint
• lots of recycled materials for decorating (bottle caps, corks, etc)

It’s better to work as a team to create a giant robot because one child alone may be overwhelmed by the size of this project.

Teamwork also has the advantage of teaching many things :

• sharing ideas and knowledge
• obeying rules
• respecting the others members of the team
• verbalizing your ideas clearly
• listening to the other team members
• sharing the work fairly.

In addition, working as a team stimulates everyone’s creativity.

The giant robot that you see here was created as part of a special project for Canada’s Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa.

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Encourage the kids to come up with their own interpretation of what a robot should look like. There is no wrong answer : all robots built by the children will be beautiful!