Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Makerspace Ideas

I have been looking into different ideas that are different from the normal items brought to libraries for makerspaces. The common items tend to cost a lot of money or are too common in children's lives. I would like to find creative things that students haven't had the chance or ability to play with.

Some ideas I have come up with are:

Duct Tape
Book Pages
Zippers
Coins
Clothing
Post Its
Old Computer Keyboards
Plastic Bags
Compact Disks
Straws
Wrapping Paper
Quilling Tools
Beads for Binary writing
Balloons
Pumpkins in Halloween
Christmas Ornaments
Sponges
Soda Tabs
Paper Circuts
Pipe Cleaners
Escape Puzzles (Unlock the Box)
Toilet Paper Rolls
Que Tips
Bottle Lids
Seeds
Feathers
Plastic Bags
Deck of Cards
Green Screen
Camera

Many of these items can be found in your home and will be used by children in different ways than they were intended. I really thought the sticky note picture would be really cool especially if a student created a design and then it got approved each week or month and then they were able to put the image up on the window. The using plastic bags to make yarn is very interesting because then you could knit items out of plastic bags. I have always been interested in completing a quilling project but have never known how to do that so that activity would be interesting to experiment with.
Some items would be useful to have available at different points in the year such as at holidays.

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