We worked on building a balloon car today. Before we reached the center we had prepped a little on how to achieve this but we really had not found a solution on how to actually achieve making a balloon powered car. We decided that we would work on it with the children and took the material to the center. Initially we divided up the children into teams that would work on these cars and handed them the material. We also showed them a video of how it was made (the same video we had watched).  There was a lot of excitement to make a car and the children started off eagerly. In most groups there were one or two people, typically the older ones who would just do all the work with very little communication among the team members. It was very obvious that the learners had never worked in teams before and this led to extreme chaos amongst the learners.  The learners who felt left out wanted their own resources and when we didn’t have them at the ready would start to cry and begin to throw tantrums. Despite my mother trying to engage them with other activities the car was what had caught their attention and they would just not settle for anything else. Later on too when we were working in groups to help them figure it out these individual learners would ask us to help them too. While it was nice to see the excitement, we did not have the bandwidth to help given we ourselves were struggling to make it happen. The learners were in a lot of ways much better than us at making the car. They seemed to intuitively figure out some of the things we had spent time thinking through at home. Their sticking ability too was a lot better than ours. However, despite their and our best ability the balloon could not power the car. Though we had a functional car that could be pushed we could not get it to work on balloon power. I was really happy that most learners persisted and were quite eager to make it work. Many of them took it home too to try and see if they could figure it out at home.  As facilitators too we had a blast working on the cars. Despite the chaos, we had each taken up one team that we were helping and were in a sense competing against each other. However, being deeply engrossed in this meant that some of the facilitators were snappy and angry today. There’s a thin line here and I think we can do better. Regardless though it was nice to also be challenged and think through things with the children.