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MakerSpace Offerings in the Library
(We will look forward to getting back to our makerspaces when it is safe!)
Share ideas with Mrs. Freeze of MakerSpaces you would like to have in the library.
Always check back to see what new MakerSpaces are added to the library. Many lessons connect literature with makerspaces.
Most importantly, always ask yourself how is what you are doing helping you grow in the 4-Cs (Creativity, Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking) and have fun!!
(We will look forward to getting back to our makerspaces when it is safe!)
- Legos: The classic building toy. Challenge yourself to build something you’ve never built before!
- Brain Flakes: Building pieces that fit together in interesting ways.
- Magnaforms: Large, 3D magnetized shapes challenge you to create dynamic and colorful objects while learning about geometric shapes.
- Tech House featuring “Toy Take Apart”: Deconstruct some of your favorite old toys with real tools and see what makes them buzz, ding, or light up! Also see if you can construct a new “Franken-toy!”
- Origami: Learn the art of Chinese paper folding! Practice and patience are the keys to success with this ancient art form.
- Book Hedgehogs: Recycle old books into adorable animals! No tools needed, simply fold the pages in a unique way and see what begins to take shape! We have turned the hedgehogs into turkeys. Cutest things ever! Wonder what else we can make out of old books? We also make fairy houses.
- Thumbprint Art: Use your fingerprints and colorful ink pads to create a unique work of art! Turn your thumbprints into “fun-prints!”
- Art Supplies: Create with all kinds of materials and supplies.
- Wood Blocks: Building a fairy castle with furniture you built when you peek in the windows is a challenge even for the oldest of students. Try your hand building a bridge or animal.
- Strategy Board Games and Puzzles: Stretch your mind with a friend by playing one of the variety of games in the library or put together a puzzle. Try making the puzzle without looking at the box top picture! Students are playing chess and other games that really make them think! A number of games challenge the individual to solve strategic games...can you outsmart yourself? We have really challenged ourselves with the Pattern Play wood block puzzles. Several kids put these on their holiday wish list!
- OSMO: Interact with an iPad as you create a masterpiece, figure out words using pictures and clues, construct tangrams that just get harder and harder (Yikes!), pretend to be an Einstein as you try to out think the iPad, and put on your engineering hat as you code to solve problems with logic.
- Storytelling: So many ways you can tell a story! Explore this MakerSpace to write or tell stories using puppets, drawings, madlibs, constructing shape books, and so much more.
- Engineering Challenge: Can you construct a marble maze using only a paper plate, paper and some tape? Share your creation with a friend. How difficult can you make it? Use your knowledge of motion and balance to help you. The engineering challenges are always changing!
- Gears: Students love combining the gears in many ways, even in layers, that turn in amazing ways.
- Marble Maze: Marbles spin, roll, fall, twirl, and twist as they go through the mazes created by the students. Try constructing a marble maze on one of the peg boards!
- Scientific Wolf: The three little pigs were afraid to leave their houses with the big bad wolf lurking around so they devised a rope and pulley system to pass notes. Can you make a message system in the library using ropes and pulleys? Give it a try!
- PlusPlus building pieces are super challenging for all ages. We have them in two sizes. One shape - endless possibility!
- Kapla Blocks: As one of our most popular building makerspaces, students continue to find new ways to to build and create with these blocks. Students have figured out how to make soft marble mazes using these blocks.
- Peg Boards: Our rolling peg boards are used with golf tees to create art designs, with hooks to hang found musical instruments to play and create music, and who knows what will be thought of next!
Share ideas with Mrs. Freeze of MakerSpaces you would like to have in the library.
Always check back to see what new MakerSpaces are added to the library. Many lessons connect literature with makerspaces.
Most importantly, always ask yourself how is what you are doing helping you grow in the 4-Cs (Creativity, Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking) and have fun!!