Everyday Engineering Coloring and Activity Book for Kids Ages 6-10

This engineering coloring and activity book invites kids to explore the simple machines that help us every single day.

From seesaws and scissors to ramps and wheels, this engaging book highlights 20 real-life machines hiding in plain sight.

With fun illustrations to color, cool facts, STEM-friendly questions, and creative thinking challenges, every page of this engineering coloring and activity book turns everyday objects into awesome engineering lessons. And for a little extra magic, kids can unlock two Augmented Reality messages from Ava Wingfield herself.

What’s Inside

• Black-and-white cartoon illustrations of real machines to color
• STEM facts, engineering questions, and mechanical thinking challenges
• Creative prompts that spark curiosity and invention
• Critical thinking trivia to keep young minds engaged
• Themed word searches and a bonus engineering maze
• 20 real-life machines found hiding in everyday objects
• Two exclusive AR video messages from Ava Wingfield

Explore the Six Simple Machines

Levers: seesaws, crowbars, scissors, and wheelbarrows — discover how levers multiply your force to lift, cut, and move things with less effort.

Wheels & Axles: bicycles, doorknobs, rollerblades, and blenders — see how rotating pairs of parts make movement fast, smooth, and powerful.

Inclined Planes: ramps, stairs, and slides — learn how sloping surfaces let us move heavy things with less force over a longer distance.

Pulleys: flagpoles, cranes, and elevators — explore how pulleys redirect force to raise and lower heavy loads with ease.

Wedges: axes, pizza cutters, and can openers — discover how wedges concentrate force to split, cut, and separate materials.

Screws: jar lids, pencil sharpeners, wrenches, and zippers — see how screws convert rotational force into powerful linear motion.

Why Career Play Matters for Kids

Designed for ages 6-10, this engineering coloring and activity book builds engineering intuition, STEM vocabulary, and the kind of curious, problem-solving mindset that every future inventor needs, using objects kids see and use every single day.

Organizations like TryEngineering.org, an IEEE initiative, support this same idea: that early, hands-on exposure to simple machines builds lasting STEM confidence.

Your Engineering Adventure Journey

Open the workshop and meet the six simple machines. Find levers hiding in seesaws, scissors, and crowbars. Trace wheels and axles from bicycles to blenders.

Climb inclined planes on ramps, stairs, and slides. Hoist pulleys, spin screws, and drive wedges. Then scan the AR codes and celebrate with Ava Wingfield!

20 Everyday Machines Explored

Seesaws & crowbars, scissors & can openers, bicycles & rollerblades, flagpoles & cranes, jar lids & wrenches, axes & pizza cutters, ramps, stairs & slides, and pencil sharpeners & zippers are just some of the everyday machines this engineering coloring and activity book explores.

Perfect for Homeschool, Classroom, and Gifting

This engineering coloring and activity book connects science and engineering to real, familiar everyday objects, and builds STEM vocabulary, mechanical intuition, and creative thinking.

It’s perfect for classrooms, homeschool lessons, or on-the-go learning, combining hands-on creativity with rigorous STEM concepts. It also makes a smart, unique gift for young engineers and tinkerers-in-the-making.

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This engineering coloring and activity book is an instant digital download, ready to print at home.

Building Confidence One Page at a Time

This engineering coloring and activity book includes bonus AR experiences for extra wonder and engagement, with two special AR video messages from Ava Wingfield — one to welcome young engineers to the workshop, and one to celebrate their invention journey.

Where the page ends, the building begins — engineering that goes beyond the book, tinkering, thinking, and building one page at a time.