A NORTH-East engineering company has been encouraging children to build bridge at home using items from home.

Cleveland Bridge UK is trying to encourage youngsters to be creative and share photos of their structures on social media.

The Darlington-based company has teamed up with civil engineering and rail contractors Griffiths to encourage kids to create bridges from items from around the home, from recycling materials such as cereal boxed and plastic bottles, to tins of food and Lego blocks.

The companies are also engaging with local schools who can support the challenge to provide a STEM-based activity while pupils are learning from home.

Managing director Chris Droogan said: “Parents will be looking for new things to add to their children’s home learning during this difficult time and we thought this would be a great STEM activity to help families get creative!

“We can’t wait to see the amazing bridges the children come up with and sharing pictures of their super structures on our social media pages. Hopefully it will also inspire some to become engineers and be the bridge builders of the future.”