CREST SuperStar Kit Boxes for Engage community
The CREST SuperStar Kit Boxes are designed to provide you with maximum support to run CREST Awards activities with your pupils, by including all the essential equipment and instructions you need. This support page includes digital copies of your resources and demo videos to give you tips and advice on how to run the challenges.
Getting started
Receive
Receive your kit box in the post, delivered directly to your setting!
Open the box and read your welcome letter.
Ready...
Plan
Read the Organiser and Activity Cards provided in your kit box, and watch the demo videos below to see what is required for each challenge.
Plan when you will run the activities with your pupils.
Attend drop-in sessions to support your planning and delivery.
Set...
Run
Try to complete at least six of the activities in your kit box throughout the school year.
Perhaps you could encourage parents and carers to be part of the CREST activities?
Go!
Award
Reward pupils with their SuperStar certificates!
You may wish to organise an assembly or invite parents and carers (ordering more certificates in advance, if you need them).
Re-use your kit box next academic year, or pass it on to colleagues.
Reward & repeat
Receive
Receive your kit box in the post, delivered directly to your setting!
Open the box and read your welcome letter.
Ready...
Plan
Read the Organiser and Activity Cards provided in your kit box, and watch the demo videos below to see what is required for each challenge.
Plan when you will run the activities with your pupils.
Attend drop-in sessions to support your planning and delivery.
Set...
Run
Try to complete at least six of the activities in your kit box throughout the school year.
Perhaps you could encourage parents and carers to be part of the CREST activities?
Go!
Award
Reward pupils with their SuperStar certificates!
You may wish to organise an assembly or invite parents and carers (ordering more certificates in advance, if you need them).
Re-use your kit box next academic year, or pass it on to colleagues.
Reward & repeat
Demo videos
To prepare to run the CREST challenges with your pupils, watch the teacher demo videos for tips and guidance on setting up and delivering each of the activities in your kit box.
Crafty Rafts
Get children designing and making a raft that floats. They will conduct a fair test of designs and record and present their results.
Fantastic Fingerprints
Get children thinking about fingerprints. They will collect and compare fingerprints, and present their findings.
Investigating Ink
Get children thinking about how to identify different inks using chromatography. They will experiment with different types of ink pens and share their evidence-based conclusions.
Playground Games
Get children thinking about disabilities and creating games that are accessible and inclusive. They will learn about the effects of limited vision and design games that cater for the needs of different players.
Crafty Rafts
Get children designing and making a raft that floats. They will conduct a fair test of designs and record and present their results.
Fantastic Fingerprints
Get children thinking about fingerprints. They will collect and compare fingerprints, and present their findings.
Investigating Ink
Get children thinking about how to identify different inks using chromatography. They will experiment with different types of ink pens and share their evidence-based conclusions.
Playground Games
Get children thinking about disabilities and creating games that are accessible and inclusive. They will learn about the effects of limited vision and design games that cater for the needs of different players.
Super Spinners
Get children thinking about helicopter blades. They will experiment with paper spinners and share their ideas with the group.
Under Your Feet
Get children thinking about living things and the natural world around them. They will explore outdoors and present their findings in a creative and visual way.
Warm or Cold
Get children thinking about warm and cold-blooded creatures. They will carry out an investigation, compare warm and cold-blooded theories and design a dinosaur fact sheet.
Windy Ways
Get children thinking about wind patterns. They will use bubbles to investigate wind speed and direction, recording their results.
Super Spinners
Get children thinking about helicopter blades. They will experiment with paper spinners and share their ideas with the group.
Under Your Feet
Get children thinking about living things and the natural world around them. They will explore outdoors and present their findings in a creative and visual way.
Warm or Cold
Get children thinking about warm and cold-blooded creatures. They will carry out an investigation, compare warm and cold-blooded theories and design a dinosaur fact sheet.
Windy Ways
Get children thinking about wind patterns. They will use bubbles to investigate wind speed and direction, recording their results.
Supporting webinars
The CREST team is keen to support and learn from educators using the CREST SuperStar Kit Box in their settings. Recordings of the drop-in support webinars hosted in the 2024/25 academic year are available below.
Welcome webinar
An introduction to SuperStar Kit Box and timeline; when to expect delivery and the deadline for completing the CREST challenges. A sneak peek at the equipment and activities that will be in the box!
Support webinar 1
Explore each of the eight activities included in the kit box in more detail, including the equipment provided and supporting materials. Consider how families and carers might get involved.
Support webinar 2
How is it going in the classroom? A chance to chat and share how your learners are engaging with the CREST challenges. Plus a deep dive into some of the activities and the accompanying demo videos.
Support webinar 3
A final opportunity to ask questions and share feedback with the CREST team and other Engage Network educators. A look at how you can reuse your kit box next academic year, including how to reprint resources and order more CREST certificates.
Welcome webinar
An introduction to SuperStar Kit Box and timeline; when to expect delivery and the deadline for completing the CREST challenges. A sneak peek at the equipment and activities that will be in the box!
Support webinar 1
Explore each of the eight activities included in the kit box in more detail, including the equipment provided and supporting materials. Consider how families and carers might get involved.
Support webinar 2
How is it going in the classroom? A chance to chat and share how your learners are engaging with the CREST challenges. Plus a deep dive into some of the activities and the accompanying demo videos.
Support webinar 3
A final opportunity to ask questions and share feedback with the CREST team and other Engage Network educators. A look at how you can reuse your kit box next academic year, including how to reprint resources and order more CREST certificates.
Printed resources in your CREST SuperStar Kit Box
Your CREST SuperStar Kit Box comes equipped with a class set of CREST Passports, Activity and Organiser Cards for each of the eight challenges, and a welcome letter.
Additional copies can be printed from the links in the sections below.
Additional CREST certificates can be ordered on the CREST platform, so you can use the box with another class or year group.
Your SuperStar resources
- This activity is designed to get children designing and making a raft that floats. Can they conduct a fair test to see which raft design can hold the most weight?#SuperStar#Investigate#Engineering#Floating
- This activity is designed to get children thinking about fingerprints. Can they find the best way to collect fingerprints, then compare different fingerprints and identify patterns?#SuperStar#Investigate#Crime#Forensics
- This activity is designed to get children thinking about how to identify different inks using chromatography. Can they use what they have found out to solve a mystery?#SuperStar#Investigate#Chromatography#Crime
- This activity is designed to get children thinking about disabilities and creating games that are accessible and inclusive.#SuperStar#Disabilities#Inclusion#Games
- This activity is designed to get children thinking about helicopter blades and air resistance as they investigate how different blade sizes change the way a paper spinner falls.#SuperStar#Investigate#Engineering#Helicopters
- This activity is designed to get children thinking about living things and the natural world around them. After exploring and observing outdoors, they can present their findings in a creative and visual way.#SuperStar#Investigate#Nature#Outside
- This activity is designed to get children thinking about warm and cold-blooded creatures. Children investigate the difference size makes to how quickly things cool down and use their findings to explore whether they t...#SuperStar#Investigate#Dinosaurs#Temperature
- This activity is designed to get children thinking about wind patterns. They will use bubbles to investigate wind speed and direction, recording their results.#SuperStar#Investigate#Wind#Bubbles
- Children can track their progress as they complete CREST challenges by using a SuperStar passport. Once they have completed at least six activities they can be awarded a CREST SuperStar certificate to recognise their...#SuperStar#Passport#Investigate#Discover
Order more CREST certificates
Additional CREST certificates can be ordered on the CREST application platform, so you can use the box with another class or year group.
Evaluation of CREST SuperStar Kit Box
We hope that you and your pupils will be the first of many to benefit from free CREST Kit Boxes.
Sharing your feedback will help the British Science Association tailor the product and support to best suit educators and young people most likely to be underrepresented in STEM, as well as gather evidence of the boxes’ benefits, with a view to providing more to other schools in the future. That's why, as a condition of receiving a free kit box, we ask that you and your students complete a questionnaire about the CREST experience.
Please complete the evaluation by 11 July 2025.
CREST SuperStar Kit Box FAQs
We recommend you complete at least six activities with your pupils in order to be able to award their certificates.
We recommend you complete at least six of the activities in your box within the academic year, this way children will complete their CREST Awards and receive their certificates. You can however re-use the box for as long as you like.
The kit box contains enough certificates for 30 children. If you would like to use your kit box with more children or re-use it, you can order more certificates on the CREST platform.
Yes, the kit boxes are designed to be re-usable. To re-use your box, you may need to replace some consumables and you can order more certificates on the CREST application platform.
The kit boxes are designed to help you support and engage young people most likely to be underrepresented in science/STEM, for this reason we recommend using the boxes with an entire class rather than in a STEM club.
We recommend you complete at least six activities with your pupils in order to be able to award their certificates.
We recommend you complete at least six of the activities in your box within the academic year, this way children will complete their CREST Awards and receive their certificates. You can however re-use the box for as long as you like.
The kit box contains enough certificates for 30 children. If you would like to use your kit box with more children or re-use it, you can order more certificates on the CREST platform.
Yes, the kit boxes are designed to be re-usable. To re-use your box, you may need to replace some consumables and you can order more certificates on the CREST application platform.
The kit boxes are designed to help you support and engage young people most likely to be underrepresented in science/STEM, for this reason we recommend using the boxes with an entire class rather than in a STEM club.
Involving families and carers
Share
Share photos of the children taking part in the activities in your newsletter, or on a photo sharing platform if you use one.
Share information about the kit boxes at parent coffee mornings.
Pass the activities on to outreach teams who might like to share them with families where children are currently unable to access/attend school.
Hands on help
Invite parents and carers into your setting to support running the projects, or to see the projects in action.
Send some of the activities or follow-on tasks home for families to try together.
Celebrate
Share
Share photos of the children taking part in the activities in your newsletter, or on a photo sharing platform if you use one.
Share information about the kit boxes at parent coffee mornings.
Pass the activities on to outreach teams who might like to share them with families where children are currently unable to access/attend school.
Hands on help
Invite parents and carers into your setting to support running the projects, or to see the projects in action.
Send some of the activities or follow-on tasks home for families to try together.
Celebrate
Invite parents and carers to a special celebration assembly or ceremony to watch the children receive their CREST certificates.
Taking CREST further
More SuperStar resources
Our main SuperStar collection is suitable for children aged 7-11, or those working at this level, and has lots more fun, practical STEM projects to explore.
Additional support
Why not invite a STEM Ambassador to help deliver activities! STEM Ambassadors are volunteers who want to help inspire the next generation of young scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians.
CREST Discovery
The CREST Discovery Award is sometimes known as “CREST in a day”. Students typically aged 10-14 work in small teams to complete the project over five hours. It’s a great transition activity for students preparing for secondary school and popular for off-timetable fun!
Browse the Discovery resources for everything you need to run these one-day challenges.
More SuperStar resources
Our main SuperStar collection is suitable for children aged 7-11, or those working at this level, and has lots more fun, practical STEM projects to explore.
Additional support
Why not invite a STEM Ambassador to help deliver activities! STEM Ambassadors are volunteers who want to help inspire the next generation of young scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians.
CREST Discovery
The CREST Discovery Award is sometimes known as “CREST in a day”. Students typically aged 10-14 work in small teams to complete the project over five hours. It’s a great transition activity for students preparing for secondary school and popular for off-timetable fun!
Browse the Discovery resources for everything you need to run these one-day challenges.
Supporters of the Engage Teacher Network
We thank our generous funders The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Horners' Education Charity, NCR Foundation, and Mewburn Ellis for making it possible to provide free kit boxes to schools in challenging circumstances.
