iOi · Materials area

Materials area

Children do not make anything here. They take materials from this table and build at the making tables around it.

What it is

A junk bank and craft materials. Found and donated junk on one side, craft materials on the other. It supplies the making tables, so it is stocked before they open, not with them.

It is the one table where running low stops other stations rather than this one.

Junk models can be taken home.

Theme

None of its own. It takes the theme of whichever table it is feeding.

Setup

Materials

On the table

light junk (e.g. bottles)
heavier junk (e.g. cardboard boxes)
straws
kebab sticks
bottle caps
pipe cleaners
feathers
lollipop sticks
elastic bands
ballooons (balloon powered cars)
string
scissors
glue sticks
masking tape
hand saws
cutting boards

Made in advance

example board
sorted junk

Setup

Set out the example board and the sorted junk, and stock the table before the making tables open.

Reset between children

Restock from the boxes as it empties.

Safety

Children	Hand saws, from age 5, with an adult supervising. Scissors and cutting boards too. Kebab sticks are the sharpest thing on this table. Hand them out rather than leaving them in an open tray. They stay at the table and are not carried around the room.
Adults	Supervising the hand saws.
First aid

Notes

Double wall cardboard will arrive in the donated junk. The chompsaw at the tool area cannot cut it at all, so sort it out of the stock before the tool area opens.