MISD and Little Inventors are looking for your wildest invention ideas - ideas inspired by animals or made to help them!
From the tiniest ant to the biggest blue whale, animals are incredible inventors themselves! They build, fly, swim, dig and adapt in ways that humans can learn from.
Every creature has its own special superpower - like how geckos stick to walls, bees build perfect hexagons, or birds navigate thousands of miles on migration.
When humans create inventions inspired by the amazing abilities of animals, it’s called biomimicry. But even though animals have incredible superpowers, they don’t always have all the answers - sometimes they need a little help solving problems, just like we do!
Your challenge is to invent something inspired by, or designed to help, an animal.
Maybe it’s shoes that help you climb like a lizard, a raincoat that sheds water like a duck’s feathers or a tunnel that helps frogs cross roads safely!
You can find everything you need and upload your ideas at misd.littleinventors.org. The most imaginative inventions will be brought to life by expert makers.
So get ready to explore, observe, and invent - because the animal kingdom has A LOT to teach us!
Brought to you by Little Inventors and the Macomb Intermediate School District, in partnership with the MiSTEM Network.
How to enter!
You can submit more than one invention idea.
Submit invention ideas through our upload page after .
- Draw your inventionon the Little Inventors worksheet
- Scan or photograph the *whole* sheetas straight on as possible
- Upload it in JPEG, PNG or GIF format (choose a file)
Each invention idea will comprise of an image of a clear drawing, the name, age and location of the inventor, the name of the invention and a description, and a contact email address.
Examples of scanned images
