1. Calm Quest Maze

STEAM Category: Engineering. Art
EQ Category: Mindfulness

Description: Inspired by the Lazy 8 and other finger labyrinths, Calm Quest, Mindful Maze invites participants to guide a small creature through a maze using a magnet and metal binder clip. The activity encourages focus, patience, and present-moment awareness through mindful play.

Rainbow Paper Spinner

STEAM Category: Science, Engineering. Art
EQ Category: Emotional Literacy

Description: Conceptually inspired by foil transfer printmaking, participants explored calming colours and colour mixing through a rainbow foil transfer process before transforming their artwork into a spinning top.

Glow-Wing

STEAM Category: Engineering, Art
EQ Category: Self-Regulation

Description:Description: Inspired by flapping butterfly peg automata, Glow-Wing invites participants to create a light-responsive kinetic piece exploring motion, rhythm, and transformation through simple mechanical movement and luminous materials.

Flourish

STEAM Category: Science,Engineering, Art
EQ Category: Self-Regulation

Description: Flourish is a breath-activated art experience where participants decorate a biodegradable glove “garden” and use gentle breath to make paper flowers bloom, exploring calm breathing and self-regulation through creative play.

Just Bee (Mindful Bug)

STEAM Category: Art, Engineering
EQ Category: Mindfulness

Description:Just Bee is a simple mindful toy that uses a small crafted bug and fishing wire to create a gentle back-and-forth flying motion between hands, encouraging focus, calm, and present-moment awareness.

Thought Catcher

STEAM Category: Engineering. Art, Math
EQ Category: Emotional Expression, Self-Regulation

Description:Thought Catcher is a playful making activity where students learn pop up fold techniques to create a character to “feed” their worries to, helping externalize emotions, reduce stress, and support self-regulation through humour and creative expression.

Project(0r) Voice

STEAM Category: Technology, Engineering, Art
EQ Category: Self Awareness

Description:Project(or)Voice is a DIY light-based activity where participants build a simple push-button circuit using a cardboard cup, LED light, and coin cell battery to project hand-drawn designs on a taped lens, exploring light, image, and creative expression through interactive design.

Guess Watt Guidebook

STEAM Category: Technology, Science, Art
EQ Category: Mindfulness, Emotional Literacy

Description: Guess Watt Guidebook is a zine-style scavenger hunt where participants follow visual and written colour clues to explore light, pigment, and perception.

Snow Down: It’s Snow Mystery

STEAM Category: Science, Art, Math
EQ Category: Mindfulness

Description:Snow Down: It’s Snow Mystery invited participants into a playful, winter-themed investigation where visual clues guided them to notice fine details, and solve a seasonal “who done it.”