Christmas Resource Boxes

Register Interest

It is never too early to think about Christmas! Register now your interest for our very popular Paper Engineering Christmas Boxes. We will send them so you receive them at the end of November.

Merry Christmas!

Paper Engineering:

Design your own Pop-up Card

How can we turn a lowly piece of paper into something dramatic, 3D, and exciting? We can use engineering design principles to create scenes hidden inside cards that are revealed as they are opened. Find out how to create your own pop up cards with our Paper Engineering resource box.

See our paper engineering pages below

Who can get a box?

WMG Outreach produce roughly 50 of each of our two resource boxes each year to send out to local schools and community groups. There is always more interest than we are able to satisfy so unfortunately we do need to prioritise who we send the boxes to.

To make sure that no one misses out, all of our resources are shared on the website for you to download and print for yourself.

We prioritise groups in the following ways:

• Schools that we have an existing relationship with through the University's Widening Participation team.
• Schools that have a higher than average (for the West Midlands) percentage of students in receipt of Free School Meals.
• Primary schools that feed into a Secondary school with whom we have an existing relationship (e.g. LBEEP or Experience Warwick).
• Community groups that are local to the University of Warwick.
• Community groups that are supported by University of Warwick staff.

Click on one of the boxes to find out more and register your interest.

Flatpack Materials:

Create a 3D object from flat materials and design a Festive scene

Most products you can buy from the shop are packaged in a way to make their transport more efficient. It means many of us have battled with a screwdriver to get a new bookshelf! Why do engineers flatpack things? How can we design things to fit neatly into a box? And more importantly - how can we turn flat sheets of material into exciting 3D shapes?

Find out how to turn pieces of paper into 3D objects with our Flatpack resources below.