The students are free to make whatever inspires them, but I usually provide a prompt of some sort to get ideas flowing. Last week, many of the kids focused on making things for the cage of our class pet, Rosie Roborovski, Dwarf Robo hamster.
This week, after learning about what life was like in the colonies and looking at Colonial-era items in the Colonial Williamsburg Museum online, some of us made Colonial-era toys like whirligigs and stick-and-cup-ball catchers. Many Pioneers also went with their own ideas, and at the end of the session we had everything from toys to a Penguin and a cardboard friend named "Mr. Gulp," who drank air through a straw attached at the top of a cardboard tube, and ate through a mouth created at the bottom that moved up and down with a bellows-type action. (Mr. Gulp also got a custom designed house, bed, and blanket - lucky guy!)
Here's a home-made "Jacob's Ladder."
The early stages of creation of "Mr. Gulp."
These whirligigs take serious concentration.
Even Ms. Jackie got in on the action!
He caught it the very first time!
Hey, wait, how do you get it to spin again?
The cutest penguin ever. A periscope perhaps?
And one more fancy house for Rosie Roborovski!
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