Welcome to our Virtual Makerspace Area!
Here you will find resources and challenges that you can do from home. Some of these activities will be similar to what we have in our actual makerspace area at school, and others will be completely different. These challenges will stretch and cover all different subjects in unique ways.
We would love to see what you create and explore while learning from home! Take pictures and tweet out your creations by tagging the Evans Library (@LibraryEvans)
DIY Cardboard Roll Construction Tools
paint or colored pencils (optional)
Check out step by step directions here!
Cardboard tubes – ours are paper towel rolls
Duct tape in a variety of colors
Check out step by step directions here!
Cardboard Laundry Basket Skee Ball game
Create a ramp that will make a Skee Ball game. Challenge your self to change up the ramp, making it different lengths and heights to determine what effect it will have on the game.
Check out step by step directions here!
Various household supplies (cardboard, straws, cotton balls, string, etc)
Glue (we found tacky glue and hot glue worked best)
You could also use a cardboard box or tray instead of a paper plate. Challenge yourself by placing traps in the maze or creating a secret code in the maze that can only be solved by completing the maze.
Check out step by step directions here!
Standard Drinking Straws (paper or plastic)
Jumbo-Sized Straws (smoothie straws—paper or plastic)
Yarn or String (various colors)
Challenge yourself by expanding this to create a whole robot arm. Could you create a robot foot?
Check out step by step directions here!
Cut out or tear geometric shapes of different colors and sizes.
Artistically place the shapes together to create different pictures.
When you have a design that you like, glue the paper down.
Want some inspiration? Check out this link here!
large piece of construction paper or canvas
On your large piece of paper or canvas, draw a spiral that fills the page.
Cut out several triangles from the colored paper.
Fold the bottom of the triangle up 1/4 of an inch
Glue the folded part of the triangle onto the spiral.
- Start the center of your spiral in the corner of the paper instead of the middle.
- Use only shades of blue and purple triangle pieces, or some other color scheme
- color or paint the paper or canvas before you draw on the spiral
Make a Musical Instrument!
Find step by step directions here!
paint or markers (optional, but fun!)
Find step by step directions here!
Find step by step directions here!
Find step by step directions here!
