Learn science or get crafty with Darwin and Newts and their fun videos for kids. Lots of make and do ideas to enjoy with friends and family.

Sculpt your own dirt track in your backyard with a hump to practice getting big air.

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Newts - Sculpt Your Own Backyard Bike Track

Let’s have fun with balance! Learn how to make balancing stilts with tin cans.

Newts - Balancing Stilts

Let’s have fun guessing which food is which with a little taste test game!

Newts - Blindfold Taste Test Game

How to make a mirror garland for the garden

Newts - Mirror Garland

Learn how to make something fun to keep your tooth ready for the Tooth Fairy to pick up!

Newts - Make Your Own Tooth Keeper

Let’s make a special hangout hut for the bees in your garden!

Newts - Bee Attractor for the Garden

Learn how to make a bird bath for your backyard birds.

Newts - Make a Bird Bath

Learn how to make your own rip-roaring rollercoaster.

Newts - Make Your Own Mini Roller Coaster

Learn how to make your own Newt’s rough and ready board with glue and sand.

Newts - Newts Rough and Ready Board

Let’s get festive and make a mini Christmas tree!

Newts - Driftwood Christmas Tree

Let’s create star constellations to view in your bedroom!

Newts - Newts Constellation Carboard Catcher

Let’s blast off and make a rocketship for you to take off to space in!

Newts - Cardboard Rocketship

Let’s try and catch the sun Maui styles!

Newts - Maui and the Sun Craft

Learn how to dye white flowers and have your very own family flower show competition!

Newts - Dye White Flowers Via Stem

Snorkeling is so much fun! Pop your mask and snorkel on and see what you can see underwater!

Newts - Snorkeling

Light up the way for the insects in your garden with a cute mini lighthouse!

Newts - Lighthouse Make

Learn how to make your very own kiwi egg!

Newts - Kiwi Paper Mache Egg

Learn how to create a rubberband-powered boat!

Newts - Rubber Band Boat

Explore your own backyard and observe animals under rocks and in trees!

Newts - Animal Observing in Your Own Backyard

Have fun creating a 3D map of your home and garden!

Newts - Making a Map of Your Home and Garden

Let’s dip our fingers in ink to create fingerprint paint characters!

Newts - Finger Print Animals Artwork

Let’s make our very own underwater world for an undersea adventure!

Newts - Underwater Diorama

Newts - Growing Grass Heads

Learn how to make your own Gingerbread man!

Newts - Making A Darwin Gingerbread

Learn how to make a water slide in your own backyard!

Newts - Homemade Water Slide

Learn how to create your own stunt paper plane!

Newts - Stunt Paper Plane

Have a go at making homemade seaweed sushi!

Newts - Homemade Seaweed Sushi

Learn how to make your own toy crane from recycled materials!

Newts - Toy Crane

Have your own duck race by creating your own individual ducks to race in a stream!

Newts - Decorate a Rubber Duck

Learn how to make goalposts so you can play football in your backyard or local park too!

Newts - Homemade Football Goal

Let's use orange peels to make something creative and yummy for your backyard birds!

Newts - Orange Peel Bird Feeder

Newts - Eel Draft Stopper

Learn how to make a work of art from litter and stop trash from ending up in the stomachs of our awesome sea creatures.

Newts - Beach Clean Up Art

Get some sheep's wool and make a wooly cloud rainbow art!

Newts - Rainbow Cloud

You can help the bees in your area by making a bee-watering station for your garden!

Newts - Bee Watering Station

Learn how to make a mini zipline for your toys!

Newts - Toy Zipline

Learn how to make your own weather wheel to know when wind and rain are coming!

Newts - Weather Wheel

Learn how to make a timer for your family!

Newts - Sand Timer

Learn how to make a healthy edible turtle to share with your friends.

Newts - Turtle Fruit Salad

Learn how to make a delicious, edible igloo!

Newts - Edible Igloo

To brighten up your winter have a go at making these fun winter ice decorations to hang in your trees!

Newts - Ice Ornaments

We spotted a hungry bird and a daredevil snail from our maimai. Here is how you can make one and do your own bird spotting!

Newts - Mini Mai-Mai

Let’s make some noise with your very own rainmaker!

Newts - Rain Maker

Here’s a spooky Halloween spider trick you could make!

Newts - Spider Halloween Trick

Learn how to tie your own shoelaces with a bow knot!

Newts - Tie Your Own Shoelace

Our band is pretty cool. Here is how you can make your own guitar and start your own band!

Newts - Homemade Guitar

Here is how you can turn a box into your own ambulance costume!

Newts - Ambulance Costume

Heni’s new chickens are adorable. Here's how to make a cute cuddly pet chicken for yourself.

Newts - Felt Chicken

Pupurangi had a lovely photo album of her grandma's adventures. Here is how to make a mini album of your own.

Newts - Origami Photo Album

Learn how to make your own beach umbrella!

Newts - Beach Umbrella Sprinkler

Create a puzzle then time yourself to put it together as fast as you can!

Newts - Make Your Own Puzzle

When you are next at the beach collect up some feathers and make a mask!

Newts - Feather Mask

We had so much fun in the Kiwifruit Valley Cross Country Race. Now you can make a course for your friends or your pet!

Newts - Agility Course

Let’s make a mini trampoline for mini objects!

Newts - Mini Trampoline

Let’s see how good you are at balancing on your own beam!

Newts - Balance Beam

Here is a fun surprise garden you could make that pops up once a year!

Newts - Surprise Bulb Circle

We discovered an amazing geothermal area with bubbling mud. Today let’s make some fun mud pies!

Newts - Mud Pies

Learn how to make your own rescue rope ladder

Newts - Rope Ladder

Learn how to make a bell for your cat's collar!

Newts - Cat Collar

Newts - Worm Farm

We celebrated the 500th birthday of the very special and old Kauri tree. Today we are making our own edible one!

Newts - Edible Trees

Learn how you can weigh things with homemade scales!

Newts - Homemade Scales

Penguins are amazing and very piwari! Let’s make some mini edible penguins to enjoy!

Newts - Penguin Snacks

Matariki is a special time of the year in New Zealand when nine important stars shine brightly in the winter sky. Make your own special star!

Newts - Harakeke Whetū - Flax Stars

Let’s create a mini version of speed, jump and land with toilet rolls!

Darwin - Mini Jump

Darwin - Balance Experiment

Learn how to make maracas and create some noise!

Darwin - Maracas

Let's have a bit of fun making a light maze with building blocks!

Darwin - Light Maze

Learn how to create a game to test your friends' knowledge of who is an omnivore, herbivore or carnivore!

Darwin - Carnivore, Omnivore, Herbivore Experiment

Darwin - Pollen Experiment

Darwin - Evaporation Experiment

Darwin - Gravity Experiment

It’s not quite friction—it's trick-tion! Learn how to make Darwin's magic bottle!

Darwin - Friction Experiment

Darwin - Salt Dough Decorations

Let's make some moon craters out of dough!

Darwin - Crater Dough

Darwin - Solar System

Learn how to make a sundial and see the correct time!

Darwin - Sundial

Darwin - Vegetable Animal

Darwin - Rock Pools

Let’s make a beach-themed sensory tray!

Darwin - Sensory Bins

Let’s make a sun oven to toast marshmallows!

Darwin - Smore Solar Oven

Let’s have some fun making a canon powered by an elastic band!

Darwin - Stored Energy Experiment

Let’s grow some crystals that look a little like stalactites and stalagmites!

Darwin - Grow Stalactites or Mites

Darwin - Helium Hot Air Balloon Make

Let's play detectives in this fingerprint mission!

Darwin - Fingerprint Dusting

Darwin - Human Submarine

Learn how to make a scarecrow to keep the birds away from your garden!

Darwin - Building A Scarecrow

Learn how to make bread to impress your family and friends!

Darwin - Making Bread

Learn how to make a pool that will send water in many directions!

Darwin - Pool Noodle Water Wall

Create an awesome paper plane and have a competition with your family!

Darwin - Long-Distance Paper Plane

You can bring the ocean into your home by making waves in a bottle.

Darwin - Making Waves In A Bottle

Getting something balanced perfectly can be a challenge but a lot of fun! Experiment with your own balancing toy at home.

Darwin - Balancing Experiment

Use your science skills to create your very own whirlpool in a bottle!

Darwin - Whirlpool In a Bottle

Learn how to level your own sandpit with your friends!

Darwin - Sandpit Level

Learn how to power a battery with an orange!

Darwin - Orange Battery

Learn how to make rockets ready for blast off with the power of water!

Darwin - Hydro Zoom Rocket

Let's keep our beaches and waterways clean from rubbish!

Darwin - Beach Clean Up Scavenger Hunt

Learn how to create static electricity with wool!

Darwin - Static Electricity Experiment

Learn how bees transfer pollen between flowers with this fun experiment!