STUDENT WORK

Paper

Paper is a fantastic making material because it is familiar, is not hard to come by, and can be endlessly manipulated with or without tools or having specific paper craft skills.

A bird made out of a piece of crumpled white paper.

Another example of a 3D object that came as a result of the 1-sheet of paper activity, makers develop their understanding of what 3D objects are, figuring out through experimentation and conversation that 3D objects have length, width, and height.

Two playground slides constructed from folded paper. Each has a piece of colored construction paper as a base.

Two playground slide forms constructed from folded paper.

A miniature replica of a classroom. The walls are made out of cardboard, the tables are made out of a purple and a blue piece of paper. There are yellow and orange paper chairs, two paper projectors, three white boards, and two paper people at the front of the room.

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Makers took the Build a Paper Classroom activity from the World-building Curriculum, Activity 1, Part 2, to the next level!

Go inside this paper classroom (click play and you’ll see what we mean) and check out the attention paid to even the smallest entails of the room.

A tower with a square base made out of yellow, blue, orange and green foam blocks. Ripped blue and purple pieces of paper are attached along the sides.

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Kindergartners explored building with 3D shapes, adding paper to foam blocks.