Tower Building

Build a tower or towers 

Download our Science Oxford Challenge Tower building instruction sheet to get you started.

This is a great opportunity to be as creative as you like! Your tower can be made from any materials and built in whatever way you prefer. We’ve put together some tips and things to think about below to help you complete your building project successfully.

Skills: resilience, spatial awareness, gross and fine motor skills, designing to a specification, testing, evaluation, improving a design, creativity, patience, links to real world science, verbal and social skills, engineering skills, teamwork.

Age group: KS1, KS2, all ages welcome to join in!

What you will need: materials to build your tower, a toilet roll for testing and bunting

Challenges: Build a tower or towers to hang bunting, and/or build the tallest tower which can support the weight of a toilet roll

Share your challenge with us…

Show us what you came up with on Facebook, Instagram or X and tag: @scienceoxford #scienceoxfordchallenge #scienceathome or email [email protected].