iOi · Junk Modelling

What it is

The Activities and materials board calls it Free junk modelling. At English Martyrs it ran as one station with the Wind Tunnel, and the plan for that day describes what families made:

inventionsfuture vehiclesstructuresflying creations

Junk models can be taken home.

Materials

Items: light junk (e.g. bottles)heavier junk (e.g. cardboard boxes)strawskebab sticksbottle capspipe cleanersfeathersgoogly eyes (depending on theme)lollipop stickselastic bandsballooons (balloon powered cars)stringscissorsglue sticksmasking tapecraft knivescutting boardsdrillglue gunsglue gun sticks
Make: example boardsorted junk

Safety

Children
Adults	Craft knives.
First aid

Drill, glue guns and glue gun sticks are on this list and on the staffed tool area. They are the same objects.

Notes

A materials station, not an activity. Liber, 2 August: “I don't think Junk modelling is an activity but a materials station.” The making stations draw their junk from it.
Junk is collected, not ordered. An iOi call-out and a list of items sent to East London Mosque. It has a lead time an order does not.
Googly eyes wait on a theme. The board writes them as depending on theme, and no theme is set for the eight stations.
Two things are prepared. An example board and sorted junk, neither carrying a build time.
Ran paired before. At English Martyrs it shared a station with the Wind Tunnel, junk makes tested in the airflow.

Linked activities

Choose from Core activities

Not part of the activity record

Questions for you

1 · Is this a station children make at, or a table other stations draw materials from?

You raised it on 2 August and it is unresolved. It decides whether this record needs a method at all.

A making stationChildren sit and build here. It needs a method. A materials areaStock the other stations draw on. No method, and the list moves to the event. BothChildren build here and other stations take from it.

2 · Are the craft knives, the drill and the glue guns out at this table?

They are on this list and on the staffed tool area. The Safety rows are empty until it is settled which table holds them.

Tool area onlyTake them off this list. BothThis table has its own set, adult-supervised. NeitherScissors and glue sticks only at this table.

More feedback

Junk Modelling.

What it is

Method

Materials

Safety

Notes

Linked activities

Questions for you