Workshop I gave for kids and parents on the benefits and process of Making!

1. MAKING FOR KIDS!
Literacy for your imagination
David Walczyk, EdD

2. MAKING is
Creative Play

3. MAKING uses
the imagination

4. Start with some stuff
and MAKE something from it.

5. Spend time together MAKING...

6. to foster artistic literacy.

7. Today...
Blinkybugs.

8. Invented by...
Ken Murphy.

9. Ready?

10. Our goal

11. Battery test
Text
1

12. Battery test
Text
2

13. Eyes
1 2

14. Eyes
3 4

15. Eyes
5

16. Antennae
1

17. Antennae
Text
2
1/4”
5/8”
7/8”
1 1/4”

18. Antennae
3 4

19. Antennae
5
bend between
5/8”
and
7/8”

20. Antennae
6
bend again at
1/4”
and
1 1/4”

21. Antennae
7

22. Antennae
8 9

23. Body
1 2use larger piece

24. Body
3 4tape to positive side

25. Body
5

26. Body
6

27. Body
7

28. Body
8

29. Legs
Cut into
3
4”
pieces
1

30. Legs
2

31. Legs
3

32. Legs
4

33. Adjustments
Adjustments
might take a
bit...
it’s part of the
fun (really)

34. If you can think it,
you can probably MAKE it.
Thanks.
photos by : David Walczyk and Ken Murphy