Classroom
Activities

Use these failure activities to create a Failure Day in your classroom or spread them out over the school year.

Anthony's Exercises

Join 16-year-old inventor Anthony Hartman in these classroom activities that are doomed for failure! Anthony will explain each challenge and the equipment you need to try it yourself. Projects are listed from easiest to hardest.

Build & Float a Paper Boat

Build & Break a Bridge

Race a Mousetrap Car

Build and Send a Bottle Rocket

LetMeFail Resources

Below are additional resources and activities to help empower kids around Failure! These fun and purposeful activities encourage perseverance and creativity, and reveal the surprising lessons failure can teach us.

More Fun Exercises

From counting squares to creating a Rube Goldberg machine and designing a NASA space diaper, these hands-on activities offer hours of playful experimentation while fostering insight and resilience.

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