Tinker | Make | Play Engineers: Challenge Yourself

Wednesday & Saturdays | 25 & 29 October & 1 November 2025 | 11am - 3.30pm Show all dates and times

Join our October Half-term Tinker Make Play family workshops for a few hours of explorative learning – and fun – with family, friends and engineering challenges.

Drop In | Included with Admission

Join our October Half-term Tinker Make Play family workshops for a few hours of explorative learning – and fun – with family, friends and engineering challenges.

TINKER away! With stuff, tools, your ideas and find out how things work, learn some tool skills and see where your curiosity will take you.  

MAKE something! Anything! Use the huge variety of resources we offer. Get hands-on, creative and make your ideas (or our challenges) come true. Make something super big or really small and wow yourself and us too.

PLAY about! Push your imagination, raise your curiosity and simply play away. Whether you get into play mode during some maker challenges or in our play room, we love seeing families at play.

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Did you ever wonder what engineering is all about? At Coventry Transport Museum, we believe it all starts with curiosity, perseverance, and creativity. We believe, we have come up with the perfect formula for a workshop that will help develop those engineering skills. Here it goes:

Tinker (To tinker at Coventry Transport Museum means hands-on exploring what real stuff is made of and how it works. Find out what parts are hidden behind the covers and see what they do. We will provide the tools, the safety gear and the reference books.)
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Make (To make at Coventry Transport Museum means letting your imagination run wild. Whether your project needs hardware, cardboard, electronics, timber, needlework or paint, our workshop will be stocked with a random selection of stuff for you to work with.)
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Play (To play at Coventry Transport Museum means to embrace the nonsensical, the playful, the chaos, the unknown, the uncertainty, the process to make accidental learning happen. Play in an open-ended play environment that offers a choice of wonderfully weird, yet also engineering-related, playthings.)
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Tinker | Make | Play Engineers

 

You will need to bring:   

· At least one very supportive grown-up to be with you throughout this workshop. We know from experience that all mums, dads, uncles, aunties, older siblings, grandparents, carers are perfectly qualified for this role as no previous engineering experience is needed (they are indeed very useful and really, really good at handing you tools) 

We offer:  

· A safe and relaxed space.   

· Engineering Skills! You will use real tools to take apart or make things. So, you will build up your engineering skills no matter what.  

· Permission to destroy!  So you can fully explore some things, we let you break them AND you will not be told off*.   

· Fun! We are prepared to throw one or two surprise maker challenges at you just to keep you on your toes. 

· Expertise! Our amazing experts from the Learning Team will encourage you throughout. They are experts in playful engineering. That means they are curious, they persevere, are imaginative, love solving problems and teamwork. They will happily offer their expertise and support you when needed.  

*Please note we take no responsibility for the inspiration we evoke in your children to destroy and create their own inventions with your household gadgets. 

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Quiet Times:

Join our Tinker | Make | Play workshop space with us in a calm environment during our newly introduced QUIET TIME.

Families will start their day with a short walk from the front entrance through a quiet museum to a calm workshop space where unique resources encourage engineering skills, problem-solving, imagination and of course, quality family fun.

Please book your Quiet Time slot by completing our booking form and email to ctm.info@cvlife.co.uk

BOOKING FORM

We offer this space to three families at one time.
Should the spaces be filled by the time you complete and send your booking form, we will place you on a waiting list for the day you have requested. In the case of a cancellation, we will inform you immediately.

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