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That’s always a difficult question I find; I guess it depends on the kid’s age, how familiar she/he is with the medium, what you observe in the moment… I like the idea of getting yourself involved in the activity, having your own space for creation, maybe modelling some approaches to it.
Anyway, cool project & reflection! 
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Aqui va el link compartido
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/652027460/
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Beatriz Cortés Cabrera
This is my project with title ‘Walk Around and Stay Focus’. I made this project using Scratch platform.
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/686556240/
At that time, I felt like to take a walk. But since it would be too boring, I decided to put some quiz a long the way after hearing my friend’s story about how his teacher told the class to make free project in elementary school. When most of the students chose to make art project like drawing, he chose to make a game.
The challenges I encountered when making this project is the limitation of block codes variation. If I had more time, I would like to add more quiz in the project.
Thank you for the reply! I have used projections in many ways, it creates an interesting immersive setting! From animations to pictures of themselves, their friends, their own paintings and drawings, or landscape photographs and videos…! Possibilities are endless 
This is the video I used for that setting: Randomly Moving Colorful Polka Dots Pattern of Flying Circle Shapes 4K VJ Loop Motion Background - YouTube
I am not the owner of the video!
Thank you for sending me the video link. This is mesmerizing!
Good morning. I love your scratch project. I vaguely remember that day in 1969. I do remember sitting around a black and white television watching the moon landing. Very fond and special memories. Thank you for sharing your project.
Love watching all the animated puppets you make!
I have seen people use toilet paper and paper towel tubes (the cardboard center of the roll) to make things with toddlers… a way to begin tinkering and making their own toys. I decided to try building a marble/ rock drop because my granddaughter, 16 months old, also loves collecting rocks.
First we saved several rolls. We then cutout a “u” shape at the opposite sides of each end of the tubes, then painted them. I used a spray enamel to coat both the inside and outside for the waterproofing advantage it would give. We chose bright colors… red, green, yellow, blue.
Painting turned out to be more challenging than I anticipated. The tubes are light weight cardboard. They are far more absorbent than I had anticipated, and I had to apply several thin layers to get a relatively even coat. The light weight of the tubes caused them to fall over easily in the light breeze that was blowing in our backyard. The wet paint got on other tubes, the table, my fingers… absolutely anything they touched before they were dry. I also had to do a lot of touch up that I didn’t expect.
Once dry, I attached little square patches of Velcro hooks to the sides of the tubes so my granddaughter could move the tubes around and play with different configurations. We attached them to a 3’ square piece of felt suspended vertically with long flat sticks at the top and bottom to suspend the fabric and weight it at the bottom.
Simple enough design. I didn’t have the felt attached to a solid backing. My thought was if I can have the felt somewhat loose and just have the weight at the bottom, it would be pretty easy to store when we’re not playing with it. It moved too much, however, and made it harder to apply the tubes. The Velcro- tubes tended to roll somewhat sideways, which affected the alignment of the “u” cutouts. It took several tries to get rocks to roll from the top, through the tubes, to the bottom.
My granddaughter caught on quickly, and she enjoyed the concept of dropping rocks and watching them fall. I got caught up in the execution of the process, and was flustered that the tubes were more flimsy than when I was younger. It was pretty easy for my granddaughter to squash the tubes, which made harder for the rocks to roll down. Certainly not a very durable toy as it is currently constructed, but the process was fun.
I would add a picture, but I’m not quite sure how to do that.
That is a great idea! Thank you for sharing your whole process, it is great to know the steps that didn’t go quite as expected, it brings us closer to your experience!
I will definitely think of something similar to create at our learning space!
Love this! Thank you. The box with fabric is a great idea! Have been taking my students out to the pollination garden our daycare has grown, while taking Gillian Judson’s 30 days Walking curriculum challenge. 31 degrees celcius today… hot. But still, so nice to be out and working on the space and sharing our observations. Delightful.
Please do cover your furniture and clothing you value with acrylic. We have a hefty table plastic tablecloth and smocks we use. Not all acrylics are created equally… a sponge may be a great way to apply paint if you’d like a cheaper alternative. I really enjoy allowing exploration and sharing ideas… be it a way to use a material or a tool. I will often have a set for me and a set for my student so I am leaving them space to do their own work and able to demonstrate on mine. So much fun to explore different ways,… I introduced toothbrush splatter (never used for teeth, always paint) and had a less than glorious moment when I snatched it from a child’s hand, squinting through a blue streak and announcing ‘you’re done with that for today….” Blush and grin.
Puppets rock! I so enjoy puppet play and had Maggie Winston lead me with kids. Freed up a lot of my uptighness… I still need some more freeing, but that sure felt good!
Thank you Shelly
You are so welcome! What a wonderful idea. I wonder if you had velcro on both sides and a transparent outer layer of that would stabilize your tubes but a sheet of plastic would be hazardous, and I think gauze or cheesecloth would not stand up to the velcro pull.
Part of this challenge for me was to see if I could build a toy by using recycled materials I had around the house. The toys and costumes I remember the most from my childhood are the ones I made, perhaps because I had something vested in the end outcome. I would love to share that creative, tinkering thought process with Alice.
Based on this week’s discussion, I imagined, built something out, reflected on it, but haven’t yet taken the next step of modifying it.
Ann
@Joanne thankyou so so much for the Work In Progress pictures… and just… Wow!!! mind-blown! 
do not think I would have thought of constructing with paper in this way before this! 
Time is always a trick. I have so many unfinished floating projects and sometimes it gets a little overwhelming! I was thinking one ribbon on the outside with the velcro would help to stabilize everything and leave visibility. Sometimes my impatience to ‘complete’ gets in the way of the time I need for my brain to meander through possibilities and arrive at a good one. It’s a lovely toy. I have peg boards on stands as inspired by the Exploratorium marble run activity and struggled with different ways to make the channels adjustable. Sherron suggested creating our own channels with file folder material and this has worked beautifully… doubled up gives strength and students can punch holes wherever they need to slide the chopsticks (my inexpensive dowels!) through.
