Inventors school trip
Visit The Discovery Factory with your class!
After watching an exciting feature film, you build your own inventions with guidance, right inside the world of the film! You stay together as a group and get one or more dedicated adventure guides from The Discovery Factory. There are several adventures to choose from:
De Uitvinders make music
Recommended for: year group 1, 2
Duration: 2.25 hours
Watch the film and enjoy the following workshops:
- Hammer together a mini guitar
- Programme a xylophone machine
- Build a tube instrument
- Dance with the Dancing Wire
- Musical marble run
Core objectives: 42, 44, 45. New core objectives: 29 B,C, 35A.
Magic with technology
Recommended for: year group 1 or 2
Duration: 2.5 hours
Watch the film and learn the following “magic tricks” in a carousel format
- Light Castle
- Make a kaleidoscope
- Gear puzzle
- Fly a little kite
- Bernoulli’s air tubes
Core objectives: 42, 44. New core objectives: 29 B,C, 35A.
De Uitvinders and the animal gang
Recommended for: year group 3 or 4
Duration: 2.5 hours
Watch the film and choose 2 of the following workshops:
- Make animal masks with the vacuum forming machine
- Programme a robot
- Build dens (outdoors)
- Water gang: build a water run together (outdoors)
Core objectives: 42, 44, 45. New core objectives: 29 B,C, 35A.
De Uitvinders in Africa
Recommended for: year group 4 or 5
Duration: 3 hours maximum
Watch the film and choose 2 of the following workshops:
- Fretsaw a balancing toy – 60min
- Green screen workshop – 60min
- Build dens (outdoors) – 45min
- Water gang: build a water run together (outdoors) – 45min
- Come up with inventions (counts as 2 workshops) – 120min
Core objectives: 44, 45, (55). New core objectives: 29 B,C, 35A.
De Uitvinders and the grown-up mystery
Recommended for: year group 5 or 6
Duration: 3 hours
Watch the film and choose 2 of the following workshops:
- Solder a door alarm
- Green screen workshop
- Els’ Rally Race: hammer together little race cars
- Come up with inventions (counts as 2 workshops)
Core objectives: 44, 45, (55). New core objectives: 29 B,C, 35A.
De Uitvinders van Droomstad
Recommended for: year group 6, 7, 8
Duration: 3 hours
Watch the film and get to work building your own Dream City!
You will use several workshops:
- paper punching
- woodworking
- scrap
- soldering lights
Core objectives: 44, 45, (55). New core objectives: 29 B,C, 35A.
De Uitvinders and the hidden eye
Recommended for: year group 7 or 8
Duration: (maximum) 3 hours and a quarter
Watch the film and choose 2 of the following workshops:
- Make a ship with the vacuum former – 60min
- Make a ship with a 3D pen – 60min
- Green screen – 60min
- Water gang: pump water to the island – 45min
- Soldering and coding (counts as 2 workshops) -120min
- Come up with inventions (counts as 2 workshops) – 120min
Core objectives: 42, 44, 45, (55). New core objectives: 29 B,C, 35A.
De Uitvinders and the sun wheel
Recommended for: year group 7 or 8
Duration: 3.5 hours
(or 2.75 hours if you watch the film at school)
Watch the film and choose 2 of the following workshops:
- Make a windmill with a 3D pen
- Fretsaw car
- Green screen workshop
- Build big circus wagons (outdoors)
- Come up with inventions (counts as 2 workshops)
Core objectives: 42, 44, 45, (55). New core objectives: 29 B,C, 35A.
Costs (2026)
- €25 start-up fee per group/visit
- + €9.50 per pupil (€5.50 base rate + two workshops at €2 each)
(For fewer than 15 pupils, 15 pupils are charged) - optional: €1.50 per pupil for drinks/snacks
Your school receives an invoice by email after your visit, so the organisers do not need to pay in advance.
Additional information
Supervisors (at least 1 per 15 children) join a school trip for free. We expect them to play an active role, so it is even more fun for the pupils! Free coffee, tea and water are available for supervisors.
On a school trip it is not possible to run different inventor adventures for different (age) groups at the same time.
Optionally, before or after your visit you can run the free Uitvinders lesson programme at school (but even without that programme the trip is a fantastic and educational experience).
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