Calling all budding Inventors and Creators

As the Creation Station are working in collaboration with the Intellectual Property Office this week using Aardman Animation’s Shaun the Sheep in our creative workshops, we are calling all budding creators to take part in the national Cracking Ideas Design Challenge.

Shaun’s Cracking Ideas Design Challenge is a national programme calling “young innovators” across the UK to design a cracking contraption to transport Shaun and his friends back to the farm after they get stranded in the big city.

Your contraption could take the flock by road, rail, sea or air, using innovative materials, or ways to power your contraption. Shaun’s Cracking Ideas Design Challenge aims to teach children all about intellectual property, and the important role it plays in protecting designs, trade marks and inventions.

There are oodles of prizes to be won and for the under fives The Creation Station are providing a Creativity hamper worth £75. To enter simply upload your image to The Creation Station facebook page and use the hashtag #CrackingIdeasCreation 

Come along to one of our creative sessions being held across the country this week and take part with our Cracking Ideas activities.

>> Find your local Creation Station here.

Can’t come to a session this week? Do not fear, the competition is open until 24th July so you can enter by posting a picture on the Creation Station Facebook Page or print out your Cracking Ideas Design Challenge Competition Form and post to:

Shaun’s Cracking Ideas Design Challenge
Intellectual Property Office
FREEPOST CF4185
Newport, NP20 1ZZ

Don’t forget to use the hashtag #CrackingIdeasCreation when sharing your creations on social media.

>> Competition closes 24th July so get cracking!

Cracking Shaun the Sheep Creative Sessions

We are delighted to have teamed up with the Intellectual Property Office and the Aardman Animations – ‘Wallace and Gromit Cracking Ideas Challenge’, to run hands on ‘Shaun the Sheep’ themed creative sessions. These will take place across the country during the week commencing the 4^th May 2015.

The fun sessions will inspire children from aged 6 months – 11 years as they come up with their own inventions and explore their imagination whilst learning about the importance of protecting designs, trade marks and inventions. You and your child will create a own Shaun the Sheep character as well as designing and making a form of transport to help Shaun and his friends get back to the farm. Your contraption could take the flock by road, rail, sea or air, using innovative materials, or ways to power your contraption. The sessions will be jam packed with lots of creative activities plus fun themed ideas to take home and continue to inspire imaginations and nurture each child’s creativity.

All the children have the fantastic opportunity to enter their inventions into a national competition to win a selection of brilliant prizes. To enter simply upload an image of your creation to the The Creation Station Facebook Page with the hashtag #CrackingIdeasCreation. Children can enter the competition even if they haven’t being able to attend the workshops.

Come along and join the fun, places are limited for these fun hands on workshops so visit www.thecreationstation.co.uk for details of local venues and don’t miss out on your place.