Category Archives: Material of the Week

Material of the Week 4/21- 4/27

Open Borders Stickers
Stickers are cool for covering surfaces, for making patterns and for making statements…

Material of the Week 4/7- 4/13

Good Habit Stickers!
An unfortunate misprint becomes a nifty material with infinite possibilities…

Material of the Week 3/31-4/6

Droppers!
These disposable plastic treasures reminds me of tiny jet packs or little fishes in a stream… lots of possibilities.

Material of the Week 3/24-3/30

These cardboard cut-outs can be laced together to create sculptures or structures-you choose.
Of course they can also be cut or glues or taped up too. What they become is entirely up to you.

Material of the Week 3/17-3/23

Styrofoam Trays!
This is a great material for building, it’s so lightweight. These trays also make a fun canvas for any vision you have. Best of all, styrofoam floats, making it great for interactive water creations!

Material of the Week 3/10-3/16

These fancy clear boxes come right on time for our seasonal Leprechaun Trap fun.
Let’s see what ends up inside…

Material of the Week 3/3-3/9

Switch Plates

We get these interesting plastic moldings from time to time. They present opportunities and challenges to those who use them, what more can you ask for imagination to bloom?

Material of the Week 2/24-3/2

Floppy Discs!
We have featured Floppy Discs before, a while back. They remind me how quickly things change.
In their day, these discs were small and concise modes for holding data. This week they can be a mode of creative expression though artful means… what will they become?

Material of the Week 2/17-2/23

Vintage Photo Pages
Remember the days of sticky paged photo albums? All of my childhood albums were comprised of these.
Now we have a batch to share, complete with sticky innards. They look unassuming but hold the key to much imaginative fun as we’ll see this week.