MAKING FOR KIDS! Literacy for your imagination David Walczyk, EdD
May 26, 2015
MAKING FOR KIDS!Literacy for your imagination
David Walczyk, EdD
MAKING isCreative Play
MAKING usesthe imagination
Start with some stuffand MAKE something from it.
Spend time together MAKING...
to foster artistic literacy.
Today...Blinkybugs.
Invented by...Ken Murphy.
Ready?
Our goal
Battery test
Text
1
Battery test
Text
2
Eyes
1 2
Eyes
3 4
Eyes
5
Antennae
1
Antennae
Text
2
1/4”
5/8”
7/8”
1 1/4”
Antennae
3 4
Antennae
5
bend between 5/8”and7/8”
Antennae
6
bend again at1/4”and
1 1/4”
Antennae
7
Antennae
8 9
Body
1 2use larger piece
Body
3 4tape to positive side
Body
5
Body
6
Body
7
Body
8
Legs
Cut into34”
pieces
1
Legs
2
Legs
3
Legs
4
Adjustments
Adjustmentsmight take a
bit...it’s part of the
fun (really)
If you can think it,you can probably MAKE it.
Thanks.
photos by : David Walczyk and Ken Murphy