Makerspace

Perhaps you have heard the term makerspace from your children, or friends' children, or in educational news. Perhaps you wonder what it is and how it can help your child. Let me answer a couple of questions about makerspaces for you.

From the button below you can read as Jennifer Cooper explains a makerspace, she has this to say from her Edutopia article, "Makerspaces provide hands-on, creative ways to encourage students to design, experiment, build and invent as they deeply engage in science, engineering and tinkering. A makerspace is not solely a science lab, woodshop, computer lab or art room, but it may contain elements found in all of these familiar spaces." To this I will add, it is not even necessarily a physical place but a mindset of seeing one item and thinking about how it can be used for something else, or wondering how that items works, how it can be made better, etc.

Makerspaces open student's minds up to endless possibilities, creativity, problem find and solution creating.

This is where you come in...

We are looking for the following items to get our makerspace up and running:

  • cardboard
  • cardboard cutting scissors
  • paper plates
  • marbles
  • clean containers like tissue boxes, egg cartons, oatmeal tubs, 2 liter bottles
  • tissue paper
  • soil
  • seeds
  • plastic, see through cups
  • yarn
  • paper, all sorts of colors, types ( think scraping, origami, etc)
  • beady eyes
  • tacky glue
  • Mod Podge
  • corks
  • aluminum foil rolls
  • anything else you think would fit in the maker mindset
  • Scotch tape
  • Elmer's glue
  • Sharpie markers in a wide variety of colors