Spring 2025

Build It! Make It! Mini Battle Machines

From the Series Build It! Make It!

  • Interest Level: Grade 3 - Grade 4
  • Reading Level: Grade 3

Transform your kitchen table into a battle ground with working mini models of historic battle machines.

Make your own medieval battlements and towers, then prepare to defend your castle with mini-launchers and siege engines. Get ready to trick your friends with sneaky traps and triggers. You can make . . .

  • A spring-armed catapult
  • A medieval siege tower
  • A ninja throwing star
  • A marshmallow trigger . . . and much more!

All you need are some simple household items. Mini Battle Machines is packed with fun illustrations, clear step-by-step instructions, and helpful tips. What’s more, each project comes with bitesize facts explaining how the weapons and defenses were used through the ages. So what are you waiting for? Let battle commence!

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978-1-913440-96-1
On pre-order until 01/01/2025
$14.99
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Interest Level Grade 3 - Grade 4
Reading Level Grade 3
Genre Social Studies
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Active Nonfiction, Makerspace, Makerspace: Craft/Fashion
Copyright 2022
Publisher Hungry Tomato Ltd.
Imprint Beetle Books
Language English
Number of Pages 96
Publication Date 2025-01-01
Text Type Procedural
BISACS JNF015000, JNF051130, JNF001000
Dimensions 8.5 x 11
Features Activities, Index, Original artwork, and Step-by-step instructions

Author: Rob Ives

Rob Ives is a former math and science teacher and now a designer and paper engineer living in Cumbria, UK. He creates science- and project-based children’s books, including Paper Models that Rock! and Paper Automata. He specializes in character-based paper animations and all kinds of fun and fascinating science projects, and often visits schools to talk about design technology and demonstrate his models.