Great resource for grade school and middle school teachers. It includes numerous projects that can be done with children that are based on Leonardo da Vinci inventions.

My Bad. I didn't read carefully. This book is for juveniles. Age 9+. So in it's defense, I would have loved this as a father son goof off book. I would have loved this just to read as a kid. However. I was looking for like a backyard ballista or some such. Maybe a glider. Not a pinhole camera and arts n crafts for (Very young) boy scouts.

In my research for my next book [ Lexi and Leonardo and the Deadly Secret ], I encountered this book, Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself. This is a book that any creative, middle-grade teacher could use to inspire students. What child wouldn't want to make a camera, a monster mask, their own tempera paints, a perspectograph, or invisible ink! There are also other projects that are more challenging. The experience shows what an original thinking scientist Leo was.

Read for summer reading. Bad

This book was very well written, and explained the life and accomplishments of Leonardo DaVinci in a clear and easy to understand way. It had a lot of simple experiments that were similar to those that Da Vinci performed. It was more of a 5th or 6th grade level and had very basic information.

Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself by Maxine Anderson introduces readers to Leonardo da Vinci through hands-on projects that explore his ideas. Most of Leonardo's inventions remained as sketches in notebooks, but this book shows how to build them using common household supplies. It has many various types of print that really draws the reader's attention to the different topics.
Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself by Maxine Anderson includes a glossary that explains words such as "chiaroscuro", and "icosahedron", which were terms that I did not know.


Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself by Maxine Anderson includes an index that will help you to find inventions quickly. The one that I would like to make for my children is "Make your own monster shield". I believe my four year old would set out looking for monsters with that.