My friend Kevin Honeycutt (https://www.honeycuttconsultinginc.org/   ; https://www.facebook.com/kevin.honeycutt  ; https://twitter.com/kevinhoneycutt ) is a lifelong educator that has been in the classroom and moved into PD & support & workshops & events for educators and students. He has much more information about this project than I do, as it was his baby. He had  a big… Read more »

The 4H held their annual Educator Leadership conference in Muncie. I attended to meet some more regional leaders, hoping to work with more than just Monroe & Crawford Counties. I did make a couple of more connections. I also did a workshop about “Creating with Cardboard”  They tried something new this year with an “after… Read more »

The Monroe County Fall Festival has an Education Day (morning into afternoon). It is held at 100 S Park St, Ellettsville, IN 47429. I did not get a chance to wander and see the other exhibitors, it was very busy – but I did see a firetruck. We had several hundred kids stop by and explore… Read more »

I went to Shakamak Elementary to build and launch some pop bottle rockets with the after school crowd. There were about 20 kids grades 4-6 for 45 minutes, then 20 k-3 for another 45 minutes. I saved a bunch of 1 liter bottles (Walmart water), had some cardboard and cardboard scissors. They had the choice… Read more »

I went to Owen Valley High School during their “Patriot Hour”, a chunk of time in the middle of the day when they get to choose where to go. Amy, the Librarian, hosts different things for kids. This time she wanted to do vinyl cutting with the Cricut (they have 1 Cricut Explore). I took… Read more »

Actually it wasnt, but that was my fault. I made a big mistake. Or 4. (a little knowledge is a dangerous thing) I was helping a school get their 70 watt laser setup. We engraved a couple of little trinkets. Then we did a test grid for scoring/cutting and one for engraving. We engraved and… Read more »

Deeply Ingrained   (FB) is a woodshop on wheels. They go to schools and libraries around Indianapolis to bring woodworking projects to kids. After working out of their home garage for a couple of years, they now have a permanent shop at 150 Van Dyke St in Southport (SE of Indy, outside of 465). On August… Read more »

Just because tried sublimating onto wood that we use for the laser cutter (birch plywood) 1st one came out pretty well yesterday, so tried more today today was at 395 F and 60 seconds, yesterday was less…not sure what though today’s temp/time burned the wood a little, but colors were deeper the difficult part of… Read more »

Did my first set of printable stickers. The stickers I bought were Koala Printable Clear Sticker Paper (ONLY for LASER Printer) 20 for $10 On our large printer/scanner/copier the paper setting was “thick 3″ because this paper is 230 gsm. The paper is placed in the bypass tray upside down. The usable dimensions of a… Read more »

I am exploring ideas about photobooth and DIY stickers. So it was finally time to look at Print & Cut with the Cricut (for stickers). It worked fine with both SVG & PNG If you just Print and Cut an image, it will cut out all the black lines. Which is represented by the black… Read more »