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Get ready for a veritable feast of innovative thinking. Please find below, a list of 130 innovative projects that can stretch anyone's thinking. Some may be completed in 5 mins. Others might take days. The focus for these thinking projects? Innovation, creativity and outright wonder.
Thinking Provocations

Do insects have holidays? Create a typical tourist resort for the following insects, and then design a publicity brochure for each proposal:

  • cockroaches
  • ants
  • mosquitoes

Give 4 disadvantages of an umbrella. Now work out an improvement for each of these disadvantages.

On a small and highly advanced planet called Aria in the Andromeda star system, the mini-Arians do not go to a place called school.

They are on holidays all of the time.

How do you think they learn all that they need to know?

Describe the futuristic learning system that you think they might be using, and illustrate it if possible.

In the far future, human beings will live to a much older age than now. The average age may even extend beyond 150 years, which means that most people will have many more birthdays than is presently the case.

By the time that someone turns 150, they will have received lots of different presents throughout their lives. See if you can brainstorm at least five 150th birthday gifts that could not possibly be a ‘repeat’ from an earlier birthday.

Your school has very little space for running around, and the only available area for your sports day is on the side of a steep hill.

Design at least six different events that would take advantage of this sloping ground.

Because Glyzotians from the starsystem Zorax live for tens of thousands of years, they only celebrate their birthdays every one hundred years. The chief Glyzotian will soon be having its birthday, and invitations have been extended to creatures from throughout the Universe.

Draw up plans for this huge party, and include details on:

  • the venue
  • the entertainment
  • the costumes
  • the food
  • descriptions of some of the presents.