About this episode

Sparky Flarkbottom faces a challenge in her workshop when a swarm of Flash-Mites disrupts her work on the Lava Toaster.

Send us Fan Mail "When the wind of change blows, some build walls while others build windmills." Sparky Flarkbottom’s workshop sounds like a dragon chewing on a bag of spanners! She is hard at work grinding iron for her latest masterpiece, the Lava Toaster. But all that grinding fills the air with a thick cloud of shiny, silver metal dust. Suddenly, a swarm of tiny, round beetles called Flash-Mites flies through the window. These little bugs have a very special, very annoying talent: whenever...

Topics covered

• creativity
• problem-solving
• insects
• imagination
• workshop

Keywords

• Flash-Mites
• Sparky Flarkbottom
• Lava Toaster
• workshop
• insects
• creativity
• problem-solving

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Lava Toaster

Books & works: The Flash-Mites

Places: workshop, window

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