At Maker Jawn, our primary MO is to make things. Obviously making things can be fun, but sometimes it includes steps that participants don’t like or understand. I’ve found that my students are extremely resistant to steps in the making process like sketching and prototyping. Being kids, and more specifically, kids who aren’t being taught much about creative thinking… Read more →
Yesterday Charity and I finished and submited her application for a Disney Friends for Change Grant. We had been working together over the past month to develop ideas for a small grant and ways to apply them through our Maker space in Kensington Library. After having an animal rights activist come speak at the library this summer, Charity… Read more →
Jason is a Maker extraordinaire at the KEN neighborhood library. He has been updating our tumblr blog since the summer so we invited him to write a blog post for the MakerJawn site. Here it is! On a chilly day in September 2012 a quiet, shy 16 year old boy reluctantly makes his way into the Kensington Library, he is unaware… Read more →
Have you ever thought about what educational resources you had available to you as a child? Aside from school, what else was there in your neighborhood that afforded you the ability to acquire knowledge? Maybe someone in a rural or rural-suburban area may have had plenty of time to run around outside and learn about the natural environment through self-directed… Read more →
Hey we made some awesome Valentines Gifs at the Maker Library Branches!
Sending out some love from the Makers, enjoy!
There’s a lot of reasons why weaving is a great maker activity, but my favorite is that it utilizes very inexpensive and/or reclaimed materials. All that’s needed is tape, yarn, cardboard, a ruler, and scissors to produce a very cool looking end product. The makers at Cecil B. Moore neighborhood library, like most kids, had already been making friendship bracelets… Read more →
