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Recently, I was in need of some grid paper. Not x-y graph paper, but paper with squares and dots on it. And I wanted 11×17 capability. There are many online where you can choose what grids/dots you want , then download and print. Here are a couple : https://print-graph-paper.com/ https://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ This second one has a… Read more »

Eastern Green Middle School 6th Graders are reading The Last Beekeeper I took my cardboard tools, assorted cardboard and craft materials (pipe cleaners, craft sticks, straws, coffee stirrers, buttons, pom poms, batteries & bulbs)) to them. Their task was to make something important from the book. They were new to the cardboard tools, so those… Read more »

Eastern Greene Schools had a community fun run on a Saturday at their track. I set up a variety of activities Of course there was paper circuits. I also had some necklace trinkets (fairies, gnomes, thunderbird) to make a necklace. PVC pipes for construction. But the most popular was string art. It was a chilly… Read more »

One of the projects we have been working on is “hands” The pre-school traced their hands and “signed” them. Our job was to cut it out of wood for an ornament. We took pictures, removed the background using RemoveBG, imported that file into Lightburn and traced it. Often we had to adjust the trace specs… Read more »

Some students at Owen Valley High School formed a group to raise money to help rebuild a bridge at McCormick’s Creek State Park. I had spoken with 1 student and the librarian about sublimation and they asked if they could borrow my equipment in order to sublimate some products to sell at the Christmas on… Read more »

I got a little behind in posting my travels, so the next few posts are out of chronological order. … I will get back in order in January.

I got in my sleigh and headed South to Crawford County. We landed at East Crawford Elementary, in a Fourth Grade classroom. We got to talk about electricity and find out what ideas or words or people they already knew. They hit upon how we use electricity for almost everything, how it is made (corrected… Read more »

6th grade Language Arts students at Eastern Greene Middle School had a research project about Christmas customs & traditions from a country not the United States. When I came in, it was to help them create something digitally with imagery that would tell about the customs/traditions that they found for their country. Many used tinkercad,… Read more »

I got to get a class at Linton Stockton Elementary started in their coding journey with the Root robot. We use them on the floor, though I have been told they will stick to a vertical whiteboard. We started off exploring the browser interface. Their task was to start the robot in the bottom left… Read more »

I spent the morning (12/14) at the Orleans Public Library for the Orleans Christmas on the Square pre-event. They had a small craft for kids to do and I had paper circuits with a Christmas theme. I used templates from Makerspaces.com (https://www.makerspaces.com/make-christmas-light-up-cards ) (these are nice because they print on the backside where to put… Read more »