Little Inventors

Hey thanks so much for everything you are doing for JOY LAB Atlas Theatre Company CIC. Nothing better than seeing a class with faces full of concentration and smiles 😁

Well that's just wonderful to see SJBYear2 - thank you for taking part in our JOY LAB project 🥰

Thank you for taking part in JOY LAB guys! There's lot of creative cogs spinning fast behind those smiles for sure.

😍 Big love to Atlas Theatre Company CIC for your wonderful role in this project.

Our Wild Ideas challenge is has got kids all over Michigan jumping for joy! We can't wait to see how these ideas are going to be brought to life by our professional makers 🦒🦔🦥

Dominic recently appeared on BBC Newcastle Radio to chat about his life, inspiration and the road that led to our current JOY LAB challenge.

👉 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002tnyc
⏱️ Go to around 1 hour 19 minutes into the show to listen

Anna Foster - 17/04/2026 - BBC Sounds Stories, Music, Life, including The Rewind from 1pm to 2pm with Anna.

🤩 Introducing JOY LAB: Inventing for Happiness 🤩

What could you invent to brighten someone’s day?

To celebrate 10 years of Little Inventors, we’re inviting people of ALL AGES to dream up something playful, kind, or wonderfully unexpected - an invention designed to spark a moment of joy.

✨ 10 winning ideas will be brought to life and featured in special exhibitions. Yours could be one of them.

👀 Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xgY2vKma2w

👉 Find out more + download free resources at joylab.org.uk

Little Inventors JOY LAB: Inventing for Happiness Challenge 2026

Look at these Climate Action Heroes in action! 🌱💡

We loved running this workshop at Stanhope Primary School in South Shields - the ideas, the creativity, the enthusiasm… unreal.

Every child invented something to help tackle climate change, and we can’t wait to share their ideas on our website soon.

Future-shaping thinking starts here 💚

⭐ We had a fantastic time at Sunderland Art Festival at Sheepfolds Stables on Sunday alongside our fellow Tomorrow Projects' initiative, The Lost and Found Office & Oddities.

Huge thanks to Art Cafe for the invitation and to everybody at Atlas Theatre Company CIC for their wonderful and thoroughly professional one-day secondment to the Office!

Most of all, thank you to everybody who participated in our workshop and contributed their imagination to the Office's quest to solve their many mysteries.

This weekend you'll find us at the Sunderland Art Festival where we'll be bringing imagination, invention, and playful creativity back to our hometown!

Join us as we dream up big ideas for Sunderland’s brand new footbridge, the Keel Crossing. Using a giant cardboard model, young inventors will get the chance to shape a vision for the city’s future with craft, colour, and creativity.

The session will be led by our brilliant cardboard artist Lottie Smith, who transforms recyclable materials into playful works of art. Together, we’ll encourage wild and wonderful ideas that show just how inventive Sunderland can be.

You can also step into The Lost and Found Office of Oddities, a playful street theatre experience created in partnership with Atlas Theatre Company CIC

To find out more about what Little Inventors will be up to have read here https://www.littleinventors.org/events/little-inventors-at-sunderland-arts-festival/info

Sunderland, UK

All aboard little inventors!

Its your last chance to upload your amazing off the rails inventions and be selected as a winning inventor!

Upload Deadline - Friday 22nd August

Follow this link to upload your idea
https://sdr200.littleinventors.org/challenges/sdr200-next-stop-the-future/upload

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