It’s summer, and we’ve just finished this year’s round of library work. In 2018-19, we completed a Digital Literacy Center project and an expansion of the Creativity in a Box work. These were both grant-funded projects for which we wrote
This month we conducted another maker day at Animas Public Schools with about 60 grade K-5 students. In the morning, grade K-2 students made marshmallow structures, created “unbirthday” cards, and participated in digital photo challenges. The marshmallow activity involved building
How would you design a Rube Goldberg-style contraption with the goal of ringing a bell at the end with these materials (plus a lot of cardboard)? We’ll see what kids come up with at this Thursday’s Kids Maker Day! It’s
As a part of a project with our local libraries and schools here, I have been working on a series of “Creativity in a Box” maker-type kits and workshops. The first two kits, Windowsill Garden/Microgreens and Paper Crafts, have been
These students were amazing!
This week, I conducted a Maker Day at a local school as a part of our library creativity project. We worked with 30 grade K-2 students in the morning and another 30 grade 3-5 students in the afternoon. In the
Our first local game jam was yesterday, and it was a great success. This was a part of Heritage Days for Kids, something we’ve been doing for the last five years. Our local kids events have some interesting challenges, not the
I’m in the midst of writing a grant for a new project that I’m really excited about. It’s for a local, cross-generational maker project based at our library. Here’s a brief description: Let’s Make: Creativity in a Box! The goal
This year’s Kids Maker Day (part of our local Heritage Days) is now behind us and was a big success as always. Our theme was flight. We had kids from ages 2 to 80 participate. (A couple adults said that
It’s that time of year again, the confluence of CLMOOC with my planning for our annual kids maker day. (Our maker day is all-ages — we’ve had 2 year olds to adults — and has no technology involved.) This year’s