Cardboard challenge

A cardboard challenge event is an easy, low-tech, low-cost way to encourage the maker spirit in your school building! Here is the story of how our cardboard challenge event at Sandburg Middle School.

Full-Sized Cardboard Skeeball Machine: I wanted to make a skeeball machine, but I did not have the resources or tools to make a wood one. I still wanted a full-sized skeeball machine, and I wanted to make it look presentable. So, I decided to make it out of cardboard. This is full-sized,…

I've been on a blog hiatus (reading them as well as posting; I miss you guys!) due to an extended vacation to my home on the West Coast of Canada followed by a summer of single-parenting due to the fact my husband comes home only to sleep these days, he's so busy with work and school. Neither am I sewing, which pains me greatly. (I did manage to successfully alter my best friend's wedding dress on a borrowed machine back at home though!) The one creative thing I have managed time for these…

A guide with resources for facilitating a cardboard challenge in your classroom.

target golf what a great indoor activity for kids!

Here's a STEM challenge that kids will love! Challenge kids to design and build their own working carnival games out of cardboard boxes.

A cardboard challenge event is an easy, low-tech, low-cost way to encourage the maker spirit in your school building! Here is the story of how our cardboard challenge event at Sandburg Middle School.

The 2015 Cardboard Challenge | Every year, we participate in the Global Cardboard Challenge in our makerspace as a part of our afterschool Makers Club. Here, I talk about some of our projects as well as some best practices I've come up with. | RenovatedLearning.com

Cardboard Play Dome: I wanted to make a small play house for the kids, but I didn't want to spend money. Aside from a $3 pack of hot glue sticks, everything I used here is stuff I already had. I searched online for geodesic domes so I wouldn't have to do all the …

Our 2016 cardboard challenge did not disappoint. My afterschool Makers Club students came up with amazing, innovative projects.