LBJ & LASA Library Newsletter
May 2020 vol. 1
The Maker Issue
Out of the Box things to make
Make a paper horse that can walk.
Create interesting and beautiful shadows by finding things around your house to shine a flashlight on. Post photos to The Tinkering Studio.
Build a cranky contraption that moves when you turn the wire handle. I'll share with you next week the one I hope to make!
Recreate a work of art using people and objects around your house. Post your picture to The Getty Museum.
Scavenge items around your house and create a "power mask" filled with symbols that make you feel strong. You can wear the mask before starting something difficult.
Create an "intention stick/wand" using found objects like a stick from a walk in nature and add beads, feathers, string to it. As you create, draw on positive experiences and think happy thoughts. Later you can draw on this positive energy by holding the stick.
Think of something about yourself that you beat yourself up about, perhaps a character trait you wish you could develop. Create a "permission slip" for yourself to use this trait and to feel good about it. Turn this permission slip into something beautiful.
Want to get started coding? Try these sites: arcade.makecode.com, Girls Who Code home activities, Hour of Code activities, or try different activities at code.org.
Maker Culture Podcasts
Here are a few crafty podcasts that you can listen to on Spotify, Soundcloud, Stitcher or Apple Podcasts:
Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project includes not only maker space topics but also fun stuff from Adam Savage's time on MythBusters.
The Crafting System podcast, where "fandom and crafting collide", features talk about all sorts of unrelated things like pens, bullet journaling, video games, books, music, sports etc.
This podcast is more about how a variety of people have developed their craft: musicianship, arts, writing, designing, making, etc. Check out CRAFT*ish with Vickie Howell.
Mother's Day is May 10th
Easy Paper Flower:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XncMfhbLBI
More Difficult Paper Flower:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Origami-Flower-Video-Turorial/
Kusudama Flower:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=6elb2EO_ZO0
Flowers from Mars (using toilet paper or paper towel rolls):
https://www.instructables.com/id/Flowers-from-Mars-1st-Grade-Tinkering-Week-1/
Check out these crafty ebooks! Available on the MackinVIA app on your phone/tablet or through the MackinVIA tile in the AISD Portal
The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life by Pam Grout
The Chicks with Sticks Guide to Crochet: Learn to Crochet with More Than 30 Cool, Easy Patterns by Nancy Queen
The Chicks with Sticks Guide to Knitting: Learn to Knit with More Than 30 Cool, Easy Patterns by Nancy Queen
Creepy Cute Crochet: Zombies, Ninjas, Robots and More! by Christen Haden
Generation T: 100 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt by Megan Nicolay
How to Make Books by Esther K. Smith
Trash Origami: 25 Exciting Paper Models You Can Make with Recycled Trash by Michael G. LaFosse
Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti by Mandy Moore
Zoom Book Club
All students, staff, and even parents and siblings welcome!
ZOOM meeting ID 997 9628 5052
password 2cFUJp
Project LIT Audiobook Club
FREE DOWNLOADS MAY 7-May 13:
Secret Soldiers by Paul Janeczko
Picture Us In the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert
Join the conversation about this week's books at FlipGrid using the codes projectlitmonday and projectlit57bus or following these links.
ZOOM and Twitter discussions will be announced here and on Twitter if you follow @ProjectLITcomm and @audiobookSYNC
FREE DOWNLOADS May 14-MAY 20
Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Stalking the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
You'll be using the SORA app to listen to these books and until June 30 ALL their ebooks and audiobooks are FREE.
Hack Your Snack
12 Smores Recipes (don't watch while hungry)
Snack Hacks for nearly everything you can think of eating
Want to know about the forefront of cooking technology? Check out Adam Savage's Tested website.
Make a basic sugar cookie dough but then get creative cutting and decorating any way you want. Or make a basic gingerbread dough or this dough, but instead of cutting out pieces for a house, get creative: make a car, rocket ship, tree, various animals!
once you can leave your house....
Austin Creative Reuse is a great little place to find odds and ends that can be turned into all sorts of craft objects. They take donated items, compile them and sell them CHEAP.
The Austin Tinkering School offers kid and adult classes in all sorts of things like metal smithing and woodworking.
CRAFT is a beautiful open workshop space where you pay by the hour to use their materials and tools.
Co.Lab Projects is an organization that offers free maker events and exhibitions.
ATX Hackerspace is on the pricier side but they have tons of high tech tools to use.
Makezine.com has a great website with lots of ideas to keep you making.
Elizabeth Switek, your Librarian
Email: elizabeth.switek@austinisd.org
Website: https://aisdblend.instructure.com/courses/228102
Phone: (512) 910-5026
Twitter: @LBJ_LASAlibrary