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Weekly WOW!

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Michelle (11) & Julia (10) made a fun afternoon of creating cute critters from plastic easter eggs. They carefully covered them with masking tape and tiny items until they came to life.
Beep beep, they are on the move in a little egg carton car too!

Thinking of this project and how the girls thought to come up with these cute critters was a stream of creativity set free. Seeing what they created here reminds me of how benefitial having time to tinker is to a person’s ability to reason through any situation. For kids it’s likely education where they have to apply their critical thinking and judging by this project Michelle and Julia do well with that in school. Creative outlets build a better thinker and a better seer. That’s a gift for sure.

Critters
Michelle and Julia
11 & 10 yrs

Weekly WOW!

Monday, May 23, 2016

Ashlynne gave our old mannequin head a technological makeover that is so sci-fi chic.
She had a blast turning a hum drum head into an ultra modern gal using quite a random selection of wire bits, jewelry pieces, negatives, CDs and unraveled tape deck tape. This is the stuff of dreams and vision.Nice!

Technologic
Ashlynne
Young Adult

Weekly WOW!

Monday, May 16, 2016

Logan wanted to come to CREATE because he had an idea. He wanted to make a 3D Pac Man game that he could play with so with his mom’s help he followed his idea through and created this snappy set complete with a hub, energy buttons and elements. As he showed me the pieces I could see that what he had really created was a conduit for endless hours of play.

Weekly WOW!

Monday, May 9, 2016

Sydney made this family tree for her mom for Mothers Day with tiles denoting the many members on the tree.  Her project was ambitious in many ways beyond tracking family traces as it stands 3 feet tall on a thick styrofoam board. She painstakingly paper punched hundreds of tiny leaves to scatter about making it extra treelike. I know her mama must love this gift from the heart with a creative soul.

Family Tree
Sydney
13yrs

Weekly WOW!

Monday, May 2, 2016

Matias (6) made this Halloween preview all by himself. He started with a little black block and turned it into a bat, then he made a pumpkin with a trick-or-treat bag from an egg carton. He drew the backdrop and made the rest of the characters himself, all of them. He was so proud as he created each character, he went around the studio showing the other creators what he’d  made. He had impressed himself in his creative process. That right there is the real WOW.

Weekly WOW!

Monday, April 25, 2016

WOW! Elad (3.5) loves soccer so much so he and his mom collaborated on this field set up. Mom did the assembling, he chose the board to be a field, some corks to become the players and he spotted the strawberry basket to make the goals. They had fun exploring the bins and taking about what would be included. They were on a treasure hunt for soccer fun. Elad liked adding all final touches so his team would be ready to play! Play on Elad!

Soccer Field
Edad, 3.5 & Mom

Weekly WOW!

Monday, April 4, 2016

We love this modern birdhouse with it’s clean lines and simple twists. It was a collaboration by brother/sister architectural duo; Davis (7) and Madeline (9). With a little inginuity they cleverly created a birdhouse with a liftable roof and a homey nest inside to give today’s bird the best of all homeowner bird desires – a home that can change with their feathered families needs. Genius!

Bird Home
Davis & Madeline
7 & 9 yrs

Weekly WOW!

Monday, March 28, 2016

WOW! Spring has sprung for Kaitlin (8) and her made-from-scratch Easter basket. She took a plain cardboard box and turned into something totally new by removing parts of it and moving other parts around. She saw potential in something ordinary and brought it to life.
I think we have a future Engineer on our hands…

Weekly WOW!

Monday, March 14, 2016

Weekly WOW! Yes! A Teen-made cardboard collaboration that benefited play for younger kids at a high school event! Creativity always gives back!
It was awesome to start with a task to build a play zone for kids who would attend an event that is primarily geared towards teens and young adults.
To start the task, they broke into small friend groups to start building, then bridged their structures to each others groups, connecting not only the cardboard maze pieces to on one another but connecting to each other too. This was collaboration at it’s finest and the undertone to the building process for these young adults meant that they had to tap into their kid within to get into the zone and they did.
WOW!

Cardboard Play Zone
Agoura High School Student and Parent Volunteers

Weekly WOW

Monday, March 7, 2016

Eddie and his grandpa fashioned this retro Police car for his transportation project for M.AT.E.S.
There’s Nothing like spending time with people you love. It is easily one of the richest parts of life. School projects are a great excuse for time together. Though a task may seem daunting to add to one’s to-do list, there are great rewards to reap. Getting a project assigned is like getting an appointment card with an important person in your life. Eddie is a lucky boy, his grandpa was right by his side as they gathered, glued and painted their police car.
Now Eddie has a finished project and a memory of the time he and his grandpa built a police car at CReATE. That is so old school cool.

Police Car
Eddie
6yrs