Life Academy Makes
Life Academy recently finished their first round of making projects as part of our collaboration. Chair Project This project gives students the opportunity to express themselves and create And now,...
View ArticleShaping, Cutting, Connecting for Kids
What do words like woodshop and woodwork bring to mind? For me, it’s always been the hand and power tools one uses that I think of most easily. For kids in some of my afterschool classes, that’s...
View ArticleSummer Making (Part 2) – Woodworking & Installations!
Summer making in the Creativity Lab was wildly successful. It lasted 5 weeks and taught more lessons than can be contained in one digestible blog post so here are a few bites-sized morsels: The impact...
View ArticleCutting Tools and Young Makers
Kids of pretty much any age can use tools. Determining which age groups can use what tools (with what kind of supervision) is the trick. When do you trust someone to use power tools? When do you trust...
View ArticleStamp Making, DIY Ink Pads, & Gift Wrap
In a perfect world I’d sit them all in two long rows, facing each other, scissors in hand, able to look up, across, or over for help and we would walk through cutting tightly curved lines. But what...
View ArticleCountdown to Maker Faire: 10 Days
Maker Faire prep is coming along. While the Creativity Lab staff is hard at work getting t-shirts ordered and schedules planned (and more—trust me, there’s quite a bit of work involved), students are...
View ArticleMaking at a Glance: Benches
Our 4th graders have been hard at work making benches, to close out the school year. Awesome work, guys! The post Making at a Glance: Benches appeared first on Creativity Lab – Making in...
View ArticleMaking at Lighthouse: Quarter 1
Quarter 1 just ended at Lighthouse. See what Ms. Dobras’ 7th and 8th grade making class have been up to! A Lighthouse student showing off her finished pillow. Lighthouse students testing out their...
View ArticleWoodworking with All Ages
One of the many variations of Lodestar compared to traditional schools is that our Elementary Making, Art, & Design teacher, Ms. Ortiz, instructs mixed age groups, with students from kindergarten...
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