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total spanners... party decor

There is a branch of engineering known as packing engineering that deals with everything involved in packaging from design to end product.

You are going to need to hone your packaging engineering skills to make a success of your engineering party... you will need to set the scene with suitable decor and party invites and follow this through with your selection of party games / activities and party food and (if you're feeling generous!) finish it all o ff with a topical party bag.

inventor's shed

Make your room into an inventors shed! We have invented some downloadable images that should help, but feel free to add touches of your own... a few tools perhaps (up high out of harms way) if you have old machine stuff to take apart then use the various bits, again out of harms way.

Downloads:
Print out these A4 sheets and stick together to make the perfect inventors shelf full of gubbins! Or print out a big empty shelf and fill your own! Print out more of the middle ones to make an even longer version...

caught in the machine

We have also thought of a machine theme for you to print and cut out and arrange how you like. You could combine with the plain/filled shed shelves above of course. We've included some paper chain patterns to make and drape!

Downloads:
Print out these PDF files of machine parts and paper chains to make your own massive machine (approx 1Mb each)

aerodrome!

Or perhaps an aeronautical theme? Make a wind sock out of light wafty material and position near a draft or an open window. Find pictures of the undersides of aeroplanes and cut out and stick (using something that won't pull the paint off) to your ceiling.

Balloons, rockets and streamers also appropriate! Party invite would be in the shape of an aeroplane... "please jet along to my engineering party on..."

keep them in suspension

If you have a civil Engineering theme to your party, then how about making a fake suspension bridge to your front door, or along a hall way?

You'll need some thick wool, or dark string. Have a look at his rather great picture of Clifton Suspension bridge. The floor/path is the bridge, make thick curved main cables from trees/plants/poles or bamboo sticks near the garden gate and the sides of the front door (or the walls at either end of the corridor or hallway).

Then if you have extra energy, hang string down to the floor at even intervals along the curve, either attach to the floor or path - or attach a weight to the string at the floor end.

You could use a picture of Tower Bridge for your invite.


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