Make.Do Cardboard Construction Challenge! (All Ages)

 

Save your boxes, paper towel rolls, leftover ribbon & wrapping paper and bring them and your whole family to the library to create a fantastical creature or other construction! with our new Make.Do tools!

Display for browsing as kids enter: books on boxes and making things out of boxes, cartons, etc.

Read: What Do You Do With a Idea? by Kobi Yamada  and What To Do With a Box? by Jane Yolen

(Optional) Show: Caine’s Arcade Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U

Kids create with cardboard, Make.Do saws & screwdrivers & scrus, plus assorted other cardboard (paper towel tubes, starbucks coffee holders etc.)  Also had available brass paper fasteners (so kids could replace scrus with these to take home), tape, staplers, hole punches, scissors, markers.

More ideas: https://sites.google.com/a/kmsd.edu/kmelementarymakerspace/cardboard-challenge

Learning to use the Make.Do Tools……………….

Pencil  & Rocket                                                         Train & Doghouse

                                                             Cooperative Construction 

                                                                            

Why should kids have all the fun!             Rocket ship

                      movie theater                                       “Miss Carol”

                                  2 Family Affair --  Rocket & Clubhouse

12.16 BWL