1. GAME - Create a game on a topic with instructions, game pieces and board.

Test it on friends.
2. STRUCTURE - Make a 5 foot tall structure using 7 or more materials.
3. SCHOOL or TOWN VIDEO PROJECT - make a video on your school or town's
history or present
4. HOW-TO VIDEO PROJECT - create a how-to video to teach how to do
something you know how to do well
5. ANIMAL PROJECT - Write a 5 page report on an animal, a model and a poster
6. MAGIC CARDS - Make up Magic the Gathering cards - 20-30 professionally
done and teach someone to play who doesn't know how
7. INVENTION - Make and build an invention that improves something
8. MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - Create a new musical instrument and me up a song
using it.
9. ROBOT - Build a robot that helps around the house
10.BLUE PRINTS - Design blue prints and build a model for a future house or
other building.
11.PUPPETS - Make puppets and do a show for the class with them.
12.TOY - Design a new toy. Test it and write up the results.
13.SPORT - Design and new sport. Test it, write up the results.
14.COOKING - Make a new food recipe. Taste test it with a group of people Write
up results.
15.MAP - Draw a map of what you think the US will look like in 2250. Draw a
large scale map of the US in present and also present and future maps of
your state.
16.PLANET - Pretend you discovered a new planet and its inhabitants. Do a one
page news report about it, a model of the planet, model of the aliens, and/or
schematics of the planet in space and topographical map of the planet.
17.ORIGAMI - Make 20 very well done different origami figures and make a
directions poster for one of the more complex ones using photos or real life
models for each step.
18.COMPUTER - Create a computer game or program with directions and a
picture.

19.TV SHOW - Make your own TV show or short film.

20.PET TRAINING - Train a pet to do a new, interesting trick or set of tricks. Show
a before, during, and after video of the training process.
21.MUSIC VIDEO - Create a music video using another musician's music or your
own.
22.ORIGINAL SONGS - Write and record your own original songs (at least 2 or one
5 minutes or more.)
23.MUSICAL PARODIES - Write new lyrics to 3 or 4 well-known songs.
24.PLAY - Write a live play/skit and invite other students to perform in it. You
direct it and present it.
25.DRINK INVENTOR - Make up 8 or more of your own drink creations (nonalcoholic). Present the recipes in book form and on overhead sheets along
with samples and a create a graph of taste test results done with at least 20
people.
26.CHAPTER BOOK - Write a chapter book of 10 or more chapters.
27.MAGIC SHOW - Do a magic show using at least 5 tricks. (Costume required.)
Present to at least 3 classes.
28.D.A.R.E. - Make your own DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program
and videotape it.
29.POETRY - Write a book of 20+ poems you have written with pictures to go
with each.
30.AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Write an autobiography and include pictures. This must
have at least 10 major events.
31.BIOGRAPHY - Interview someone living and with their cooperation create a
biography of them with pictures.
32.TEACHER BIOGRAPHY BOOK - Do a mini biography book of all the teachers at
your school and type it up. Get every teacher's permission to use anything
they tell you. Put together a copy of the book or each teacher in it.
33.VIDEO COMMERCIAL - Make 3 different videotaped commercials for
something you design or think up.
34.ENDANGERED SPECIES MOVIE - Make a movie about endangered species in
general or one type of endangered or extinct animal.

35.TRANSPORTATION - Design a new form of transportation and build a model of

it.
36.SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS - Do something specific to improve the school. First
get permission from the principal and PTA if necessary. Examples: Plant a
flower garden, organize a group of students to do regular weekly trash pick
up from the grounds outside.
37.WALL MURAL - Come up with a plan of what picture you want to do and a
location and get permission from the principal before beginning anything
physical. Draw the outline on the wall (Use an overhead projector to project a
sketch or cartoon characters, etc.) and paint it. Make sure this project is
supervised.
38.TOOTHPICK STRUCTURE - Build a structure from toothpicks that can hold 10
lbs. or more. You may not use super-glue or wood glue to hold it together.
39.ELECTRIC GENERATOR - Build an electric generator and be able to describe
how it works.
40.SOLAR - Build a solar powered radio or anything else that runs by solar
energy.
41.FIRE PROTECTION - Design new types of fire protection - including better fire
resistant clothing, a new fire alarm, etc.
42.IMAGINARY ANIMAL REPORT - Create an imaginary animal and write a 5 page
report about it as if it was real. Make a model and poster of it. Do a
classification chart of it and a food chain chart of where it fits.
43.VEHICLE - Create a new vehicle or device to help the handicapped.
44.COMICS - Write a 10 page comic book or series of 10 or more cartoons from
scratch.
45.COMIC REWRITE - Draw or design a comic book to retell a novel or famous
short story.
46.COMMUNICATION - Make a new kind of or method of communication (e.g.,
telephone, sign language)
47.LANGUAGE - Create a new language and teach it to the class. If it is just a
written language, write a mini translation dictionary for it. If only oral, teach
at least 30 words and the alphabet. Or do some combination of both.
48.VACATION SPOT - Design a new vacation spot - maps, pamphlets, model.
49.POETRY MUSIC - Write a poem and put it to music.

50.PEN PALS - Get a pen pal from a different country and exchange 5 letters with
them or get 5 pen pals from different states or countries and exchange 1
letter with each of them. (Modify amt if using emails.)
51.COOKBOOK - Write a cookbook. Demonstrate 5 or more of the recipes.
52.SPACE TRAVEL - Design ways to make space travel more safe and more fun.
53.FUN BOOK - Make a 30-50 page fun book with word searches, scramble
puzzles and crosswords.
54.SIGN LANGUAGE - Learn 50 or more signs and teach to a class or to several
friends.
55.OM BOOK - Make a book of spontaneous OM problems and test some of them
on an OM team. Set this up with their coach.
56.SURVEYS - Do several surveys in grades 1-5 or 6-8 and graphs of all the
results.
57.DANCE SHOW - Make up some dances and perform to several grades.
58.NEW SONG - Learn to play a new song on an instrument.
59.TEACH - Volunteer teach in a classroom of a younger grade. Offer to assist
one period a week for 5 weeks or to teach a lesson to a younger class.
60.KANJI - Learn to do Chinese or Japanese writing - make a collection of 10
samples.
61.CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - Make a children's magazine and have a class read it
and evaluate it.
62.INVENT A COUNTRY - Invent a a new country. Make It's flag and write a five
page report. Show where it fits on the globe.
63.MODEL FLAGS - Make cloth models of the flags of 10 or more countries.
Create a flag to represent you or your family.
64.RAIN FOREST MODEL - Design a model of rain forest include all 4 layers.
65.PERSUASION - Write 10 letters to companies that do something you find very
upsetting such as animal testing to persuade them to stop doing this thing.
66.BABYSITTING - Write a 15+ page babysitting manual. Take photos of the
children you are sitting to include in it.

67.KNITTING - Knit something like a blanket or child's sweater or doll clothing.

Demonstrate how to knit to the rest of the class. (you can do this with any
craft.)
68.PIANO - Write some piano music and perform it for a group.
69.PIE MAKING - Learn to make the perfect pie crust. Make a new kind of pie and
bring it to class with the recipe.
70.CIRCUIT BOARD GAME - Make a professional looking circuit board game with
at least 10 connections.
71.CIRCUIT MODELS - Make a model of each type of circuit using batteries and
min light bulbs. Write a report describing each one.
72.CRAYONS - Invent a new crayon color and contact several companies to ask
them to make it.
73.READING GOAL - Set a high reading goal and keep a record of how much you
read. Reach the goal and then do a poster summary report of each of your 5
favorite books or 5 book reviews (good or bad) of those read during the goal.
74.OCEAN STUDY - Learn about the ocean. Make an ocean food chain poster and
either a 5 page report or a wave machine AND a model of your favorite ocean
animals.
75.MARITIME ZOO - Pretend you can create a zoo of all different ocean animals
and decide which ones you would like in it. Include at least 30 with several
that hardly anyone knows about.
76.WEB SITE - Make your own website about anything you like. Include several
pictures. Include something uplifting and a part that teaches Something.
77.VOLLEYBALL NET - Make a volleyball net out of 6 pack rings from soda.
78.HOUSE MODEL - Design a futuristic house and make a model of it.
79.TRASH STRUCTURE - Design a 3-5 foot tall structure made from trash or other
discarded materials. It should hold together. Paint it. Write a story about the
character.
80.BALSA - Build a weight bearing balsa wood structure. Try to get it to hold
more than 50 lbs.
81.ENGINE - Make an engine that runs.
82.EDUCATIONAL BOOK - Write an educational book that is more than 15 pages
and has fun activities to teach about a topic you enjoy. (e.g., some fact pages
and some games - crosswords, etc. all about the same topic.)

83.HOT AIR BALLOONS - Make 5-8 mini hot air balloons and a directions poster
on how to make them. Write a fact sheet about real hot air balloons. Try to
come up with more than one way to make mini models of them.
84.SIGN LANGUAGE STORY - Learn to read a children's book in sign language and
present it to the class.
85.SIGN LANGUAGE SONG - Learn to sign a song and teach it to a group or teach
to a group of friends to present back to TAG.
86.ROBOT - Make a robot that does something such as a motion sensor, a
timekeeper or a typer robot.
87.KEYBOARD DESIGN - Make 3 different patterns of how to design a new
keyboard that would be easier to learn to type with.
88.ELECTRICITY - Make an electric project, something that requires electricity
and has a circuit that when complete does something interesting.
89.GAME SHOW - Make a game show - try it with several classes.
90.STORY WRITING - Write a 10 page TYPED creative story and share it with all
classes of two grades.
91.TRIVIA - Create a trivia game with a set of at least 50 cards and answers.
92.TOY - Invent a new toy. Draw up an advertising slogan and poster and live
commercial that explains it. Present it.
93.NEWSPAPER - Make a newspaper about our school and run at least 5 issues.
(This can be a team project.)
94.FUTURE SCHOOL MODEL - Make a model of a school of the future. Explain
how it is different from today's schools. Do an oral report and written
summary.
95.FAMOUS BUILDING MODEL - Make a model of any famous building - e.g., Eiffel
Tower, Leaning Tower of Pisa, World Trade Center, White House)
96.PHOTO EXPOSE' - Make a collection of photos all about one topic and
summary about what you studied. (40 studied - may be two related topics.)
97.TRAVELOGUE (REAL) - Make a journal of a trip you went on. Tell what you did
each day. Make sure you have a visual picture/postcard/newspaper to
accompany every day and especially every event. Write a 3 page summary
and recommendation of the neatest thing you did on vacation.

98.TRAVELOGUE (FANTASY) - Same as above, but with a trip you would LIKE To
Take to a real or imaginary place. You may find magazine pictures for your
visuals or draw them.
99.MERRY-GO-ROUND - Make a carousel model that works. To be more
interesting, use different types of animals than horses.
100.

WATER WHEEL - Make a mini working water wheel.

101.
SCIENCE - Find a really interesting science experiment. Practice it at
home. Bring in materials and demonstrate to TAG and/or to your homeroom.
Discuss with your teacher ahead of time and IF possible bring enough
materials so the whole class can do the experiment. Direct or assist the whole
class lesson.
102.
COLLECTION DATABASE - Get a collection or bring in one you already
have of something like rocks or stamps, etc. You must have at least 30 items
in your collection. Write a report or give a clear oral report using samples
from it as examples, then make a computer database (list) of every item in
the collection and a short description of each.
103.
WOODWORK - Build something out of wood. Maybe get permission
from the shop teacher and do during school time or after school. Explain how
it is made.
104.

WOODEN TOY - Make a wooden toy with a working moving part.

105.
DINOSAURS - Choose a type of dinosaur and create model of its bones
and another of the body. Write a report on it. Do a food chain poster using
other dinosaurs.
106.

CERAMICS - Make 3 or more fired clay or ceramic figures.

107.
SPARKLE JARS - Make a sparkle jar (the kind where you shake them and
it looks like snow) and a 5+ page story to go with it.
108.

TERRARIUM - Make a terrarium with live plants and fake animals.

109.
CANDLES - Make candles (wax, beeswax, oil, sand, ice) and teach how
to make them.
110.
FLOWER PRESSING - Do at least 5 different flower pressings and make
pictures from them.
111.

QUILLING - Do a large quilling picture or 3 smaller ones.

112.
QUILT - Make a quilt. You can get friends to make patches and then put
it together. Be able to teach how to make a quilt.

113.
WRITING UTENSIL - Make up a new type of writing utensil. It has to
work.
114.
SOAP SCULPTURES - Make 5 or more soap sculptures. Write a story
about these characters you've made.
115.

SOURCES OF LIGHT - Invent a new light source. It has to work.

116.
PET FUN BOX - Make a fun box for a pet like a guinea pig. Write a 3 pg
report about your pet.
117.
MARIONETTE - Make a marionette (sting) puppet and do a puppet show
with it.
118.
SHADOW PUPPET SHOW - Create a shadow box and several shadow
puppets and a little show to go along with it. Present to a class.
119.
it.

WEAVING - Make a small weaving loom and weave a scarf or picture on

120.
PHOTO STORY - Take pictures to create a story. Write the story using
the pictures.
121.
DRESS UP BIOGRAPHY - Study someone famous or historical. Write a
short biography of them. Dress up as this character and tell his/her story as if
you were them. Share with a group.
122.
STRING ART - Make a string art picture from a kit and then another
from your own design. Be able to show us in TAG how you make string art.
123.
SLIDE SHOW - Take slide pictures, write commentary and do a slide
show about conserving/saving the Earth. (This could be done with digital
pictures presented on a website, too.)
124.
CREATE A CONTEST - Create a contest for your class or your school.
Figure out rules, where to collect entries, who will judge and how, and prizes.
Get permission from teachers involved and principal.