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Ever dreamed of doing maker projects at home but don't have a state of the art makerspace to make it happen? Don't worry, there are tons of awesome maker projects that you can do at home even if you don't have a full-blown makerspace.

If you're looking for a fun and educational STEM activity that you can do at home, look no further! Check out these 10 starter makerspace activities that you can easily do at home, even if you have limited materials! All of these projects can be done on a budget and at home.

Paper circuits are a great way to learn the basics of circuits and electricity. You can make one of these awesome projects using paper or cardboard, some conductive copper tape, a few LED's, and some batteries. This is a great maker project that can bring your artwork to life or they can bring a simple greeting card to the next level.

All you need for this project is some batteries a motor and any materials to make your boat! This project is simple but produces a super fun result.

This is a fun experiment to do at home that lets kids learn about circuits and electricity, and they get to play with play dough while they do it! Click the title for a fun experiment to do at home!

Recycling can actually be lots of fun if you repurpose your recyclables into a robot! You just need a small motor, some batteries, and whatever recycled materials you need for your robot and you're on your way!

Books can get worn out, but the pages can make for interesting materials for maker projects! If you don't have any books at home you want to part with you can always use an inexpensive thrifted book, or any colour of paper works too. Origami can be a simple and relaxing maker project to do, and there's a lot more STEM involved in the making of origami than you may think!

6. Hackeronics

This is something we LOVE to do with our students. All you need is an old or broken piece of technology that you will be parting with and some screwdrivers. You simply take apart the technology and explore all of the amazing things that are going on inside. It's extremely simple, but kids love to have a look at what makes all of their devices work! This project will definitely require adult supervision to ensure that only the broken technology is taken apart, and not your new tablet!

Makerspace activities don't need to be high tech or complicated! Building with LEGO™is an easy and versatile Makerspace activity to do together. Click on the title to try one of our favourite challenges at home!

8. Design Challenge

Give kids limited materials and give them a construction challenge and you'll be amazed at what they come up with! Any challenge can be lots of fun: build a strong structure, do an egg drop, create a catapult, or one of our favourites is designing a bridge. Use set amounts of materials to encourage creativity and problem solving as kids work to complete their challenge!

The built-in speakers on your phone aren't loud enough? That's ok! If you have two plastic cups and a paper towel roll you can DIY a set of phone speakers.

You can create your very own jungle at home! You can create your own self-sustaining rainforest out of a few recycled materials, you won't even have to water it. Making this project is a great opportunity to learn about the process of transpiration and how it works in real rainforests!

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Clockwise from top left: Through a Michigan Makers partnership, coordinated by Kristin Fontichiaro, an elementary student repurposes junk materials to make something new; building a cardboard ATM machine at the Stewart Middle Magnet School in Tampa, FL; a cardboard city at a Redwood City (CA) Library Foundation event.
Photos courtesy of (clockwise from top left): Michigan Makers of the University of Michigan School of Information; Diana Rendina; Robert Pronovost

High-tech projects involving 3-D printers, laser cutters, and fancy video equipment are usually an easy draw for students, but ideas that involve cardboard, straws, and T-shirts can also deliver a big burst of STEAM without breaking the bank. We asked librarians and other experts around the country to share the most popular low-cost making projects they've seen or done. Here are some to try this year.

Grab some straws

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Straws lend themselves to lightweight building and are surprisingly resilient Strawbees, which are stronger and more flexible than regular straws, are designed for inexpensive prototyping activities; a pack of 200 colorful Strawbees costs $10. "I have seen students build catapult projects, engineering projects, and weight-bearing projects," says Heather Moorefield-Lang, associate professor at the School of Library Information Science at the University of South Carolina. "Afterward, you just break them apart and start something new. They just keep giving." Strawbee connectors are available in a kit for $20; students can also scan and print more on a 3-D printer, suggests Moorefield-Lang. If your library is equipped with a die-cutter, you can create your own connectors from old plastic containers (#2 and #4 plastics work best).

Throw a no-sew costume party

Adult-size, secondhand T-shirts can turn into all sorts of togs with a pair of scissors. "Kids can wriggle through the neck holes of an adult shirt and, using the ribbing as a waistband, create a T-skirt," says Kristin Fontichiaro, clinical associate professor at the University of Michigan's School of Information. She suggests cutting off the hem of a second shirt to make belts or braiding the strips to use as a hairpiece. Turn T-shirts into knights' tabards by cutting a line straight down the shirt from the shoulder to the bottom, or create capes by cutting off the shirt front from the shoulder seams, leaving the ribbing intact. Discarded sleeves can become knit caps. Then kids can dress up in all these new garments to enact scenes from their favorite books. Fontichiaro recommends the activity for third graders on up; students need to be able to manipulate fabric scissors.

Robot on the March

To publicize a Cardboard Challenge event at the Benzonia (MI) Public Library, this cardboard robot and puppet "marched" in a local parade, with information about the challenge-open to kids and adults interested in inventing, building, and crafting with cardboard-on its back. The robot was created by Jimmy McLaren, who is married to library director Amanda McLaren.

Photo courtesy of Benzonia Public Library

Create a cardboard challenge

When then nine-year-old Caine Monroy built an arcade entirely of cardboard, he launched a movement and a website. Students can join this year's global challenge-or be more open-ended and design their projects. To start, you'll need to provide cardboard, glue guns or duct tape, paint or markers, and some cardboard-cutters. Robert Pronovost, a maker space consultant and founder of EmpowerMINT, dedicated to empowering students through making and innovation, likes to have students work with Makedo's kid-friendly saws, which are included in a toolkit ($12.95 each, make.do). Diana Rendina, media specialist at Tampa (FL) Preparatory School, also recommends a battery-operated cutter from Skil (about $40 on Amazon.com).

Pronovost gets kids' creative juices flowing by giving them stacks of cardboard, tape, butcher paper, and tools to build a cardboard city. Librarians can start by constructing one building, with or without student help, and have them work alone or in groups to add on. Spurring them on with questions leads to planning and innovation: Does this city need an airport? Would hotels be useful? What about a reservoir or city hall? The beauty of this project is that students of all ages, even preschoolers, can join in.

Heather Lister, a consultant for Mackin Educational Resources and a former teacher librarian, put a new spin on the cardboard challenge by giving her students the chance to create a plaything for her then two-year-old son. They asked him questions about his likes and dislikes and then crafted toys, including a marble run. The only parameter: every part of their creation had to be DIY. "What I really like about this project is that it not only focused on the invention and design process, but involved research and knowing your audience," Lister says. She also liked that kids were creating for someone other than themselves, fostering empathy, and suggests that students could design for one another or for kids in other classes.

Michigan Makers participants sort through recycled materials to create gifts.
Photos courtesy of Michigan Makers of the University of Michigan School of Information

Open up the junk box

Free building material is all around, if you just look: It's not too difficult to collect empty cereal or cracker boxes, toilet paper tubes, yogurt containers, broken toys, and more. Then add scissors, tape, glue, and a stapler to your stash. "Students can create the slowest marble maze or board games, prototype the next holiday must-have toy, or invent their own creations," says Fontichiaro. Best of all, preschoolers on up will be able to make something-and tap into their problem-solving and design skills.

Make squishy circuits

Play-Doh plus LED lights, a nine-volt battery, some wires (repurposed from old tech), and alligator clips can give kids the chance to fashion light-'em-up creations-including flags, animals, and motor circuits, among other projects. Pronovost suggests checking out SquishyCircuits.com for ideas, along with instructions for making your own conductive or insulating dough.

Michigan third graders take apart a toy guitar to see how it works (left);
multicolored squishy circuits.
Photos courtesy of Michigan Makers of the University of Michigan School of Information (left) and Robert Pronovost

Take apart obsolete tech

"Most schools have a closet somewhere that has a ton of old technology," says Lister, whose own school had desktop computers dating back decades. Kids can dismantle old computers and repurpose what they find inside. One of her students made an exhaust system from the fans found inside the computers. Lister repurposed the wires to serve as conductive material for other projects-and for making cool jewelry. Not all schools have tech closets; if that's the case, parents and community members are usually happy to donate. You'll probably get a number of obsolete objects, including camcorders and cassette players.

Build some bristle bots

Toothbrushes make great little robots, especially when you go to a dollar store and buy packs of battery-operated toothbrushes, says Lister. Snap the head off the toothbrush and find the vibration motor inside the motor. Then tape the vibration motor and battery on top of the bristles. Make sure the bristles are angled, Lister notes-if they aren't, you can angle them by placing a heavy book on the bristles overnight. Bots can run races or be used as drawing machines by attaching markers.

Get artistic with beads

Students can make amazing creations with heat-fusible plastic beads known as Perler beads, says Rendina. She buys them from Amazon, but cheap ones are also available at Walmart. Kids can use plain, clear pegboards (also at Amazon) to create their own designs or depict their favorite fictional characters, using free, downloadable templates online. After the students have finished their bead artworks, place parchment paper over the designs and iron the beads to fuse them together. Rendina ironed her students' creations and trained a few responsible eighth graders to help out.

Invest in Silhouette Portrait

This $99 digital cutting tool was originally designed for scrapbookers, but Fontichiaro also likes the fact that it doubles as a low-budget vinyl cutter that's easy for children and grown-ups to use. Students can cut shapes to decorate laptop lids or smartphone shields. Fontichiaro also suggests that kids cut stencils from self-adhesive paper (like Contact) and use them, along with fabric paint or etching cream, to create designs on T-shirts or glassware gifts. As for materials, glassware and T-shirts are often available for $1 or less at secondhand stores, she notes.

Pizza boxes transformed into green screens.
Photo courtesy of Heather Moorefield-Lang

Put pizza boxes to use

Pizza boxes can make excellent portable green screens, as Travis Nelson, library media consultant at Richland County School District One in Columbia, SC, demonstrated to Moorefield-Lang. Nelson starts by painting the interior (top and bottom) of the boxes green. Then he attaches little characters to green straws procured from Starbucks and uses the Green Screen by Do Ink app ($2.99, iTunes) to make videos of puppet shows and stories.

Looking for more ideas? Check out Make It @ Your Library, where projects can be filtered by cost, suggests Lister.

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Inspire students of all ages to enjoy STEM when you let them loose in a creative makerspace! These hands-on engineering activities use simple materials and encourage students to brainstorm, problem solve, and innovate.
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Community makerspaces are collaborative spaces where people of all ages can get hands-on with science and engineering. With an array of materials available, a visit to a local makerspace is an invitation to play with science and engineering and really see how things work.

You may have a makerspace in your school or at the library, or maybe you have an area of your classroom dedicated to maker activities students can explore or certain days of the week on which you turn the room into a makerspace. With a few materials and a surface to work on, garage or basement spaces can easily be recast as home makerspaces, too!

You don't have to have expensive materials to start up your own makerspace. With an assortment of craft supplies, electronics parts, and recycled materials, you can set up a makerspace full of inspiring STEM that kids can explore. Figuring out what will work with the materials available is part of the challenge and part of the fun!

Bookmark or pin these projects to add to your makerspace!

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Free Projects and Activities for Your Makerspace

Try one of these STEM projects for creative hands-on science and engineering with a DIY "maker" flair:

1. Make Cardboard Automata: Plan and build an automaton from cardboard and craft materials.

2. Build a Wind-Powered Car: Add a sail to a DIY toy car and experiment to see how changes to the sail make a difference in the car's stability and speed.

3. Build a Differential from K'Nex®: Use the K'Nex® toy building system to build a model differential.

4. Build A Wall Marble Run: Use cardboard tubes and other simple materials to build a wall marble run.

5. Make an Awesome Paper Lantern: Design and make a paper lantern that holds a battery-operated tealight candle or uses a night light circuit.

6. Flippy, the Dancing Robot: Build a simple dancing robot and use the engineering design process to improve it.

7. Build a Paper Roller Coaster: Build a paper roller coaster and try to add a loop.

8. 3D Print with Sand: No 3D Printer Required!: Use sand and glue to simulate one type of 3D printing.

9. DIY Mini Propeller Car: Make a small toy car with a simple circuit and a propeller.

10. Build a Robot Hand: Use craft materials to design and build a robotic hand.

11. Build a Mini Trebuchet: Use craft sticks, rubber bands, and other craft materials to make and explore the physics behind a miniature trebuchet.

12. DIY Light Up Unicorn Headband: Make a unicorn horn headband with a paper circuit that lights an LED at the tip.

13. Build a Rubber Band-Powered Car: Build a car with an axle made from straws and rubber bands that store potential energy when wound.

14. Build a Popsicle Stick Catapult: Make a small catapult from craft sticks and rubber bands.

15. Duplicate Your Drawings with a Machine: Make and experiment with a pantograph, a device that can be used to make a larger or smaller copy of a drawing.

16. Make a Paper Circuit: Learn how to make simple circuits from paper, copper tape (or aluminum foil), and a battery. (See Paper Circuits Science Projects for additional ways to explore.)

17. Make a Cotton Ball Launcher: Use a recycled cardboard tube to make a launcher that can launch lightweight materials.

18. The Impossible Arrow Illusion: 3D print and explore the "impossible arrow" illusion - the arrow's reflection in a mirror always points the other way!

19. Make Your Own Harmonica!: Explore how a harmonica creates sound waves by making a small one from wooden sticks, rubber bands, and a straw.

20. DIY Mini Drone: Make a basic mini drone. (Add additional parts to explore a series of questions related to drone flight.)

21. Build a Balloon Car: Use a balloon to power a homemade toy car.

22. Study Kinetic Energy with a Rube Goldberg Machine: Use assorted materials to create a set of chain reactions in a machine designed to perform a simple task.

23. Build a Cardboard Scissor Lift: Use craft materials to make a scissor lift and explore simple machines.

24. Junkbots: Robots from Recycled Materials: Design and build simple robots made from recycled and craft materials.

25. Build a Paper Speaker: Make a working speaker from paper and neodymium magnets.

26. Make a Night-Light: Build a working night-light with an intermediate circuit project and design the custom housing, too!

Makerspace Learning in Action

The following STEM videos demonstrate some of the highlighted activities:

Ready for More Makerspace Ideas?

See 16 Next-Level Makerspace STEM Projects for projects and activities to help scale your makerspace for students ready for additional challenge.

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"Young people who struggle with academic writing and have brilliant ideas... these young people are frightened by the paper and pen. They want to sing, dance, shout, use slang, challenge conventions. This is where Soundtrap comes in."

Tamar Brown
New York City DOE Teacher

"My goal is for my students to be people who can think on a deeper level. Project based learning, which Soundtrap greatly supports, takes them out of the 'give me the answers' mentality and forces them to think and create on their own."

Kelly Martin
New York City Teacher

"Soundtrap is a game changer for my students. It has helped them learn that music is a tool that can spark the imagination and bring people together. Once those doors are open the possibilities are endless."

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Music Teacher at PS 48

"Soundtrap allows my students to express themselves to me emotionally, socially and academically when it is often so hard for them to do so verbally."

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Middle School Speech Language Pathologist

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Soundtrap for Education - Make music and podcasts online

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Create a podcast or use the beat maker for music or math. Soundtrap is a safe online tool for teachers and schools. Start your free trial now!

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Blockly Games is a series of educational games that teach programming. It is designed for children who have not had prior experience with computer programming. By the end of these games, players are ready to use conventional text-based languages.

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Blockly Games is a series of educational games that teach programming. It is designed for children who have not had prior experience with computer programming. By the end of these games, players are ready to use conventional text-based languages.

Blockly Games is a Google project to encourage tomorrow's programmers. The games are designed to be self-paced and self-teaching. Feel free to use Blockly Games both inside and outside the classroom. All code is open source, see the developer's website for more info or to download zip files for offline use.

Developers, teachers and parents are welcome to give feedback as we continue to grow.

Google Privacy Policy - Google Terms of Service

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Blockly Games is a series of educational games that teach programming. It is designed for children who have not had prior experience with computer programming. By the end of these games, players are ready to use conventional text-based languages. Blockly Games is a Google project to encourage tomorrow's programmers.

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Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). Tux Paint is used in schools around the world as a computer literacy drawing activity. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

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Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). Tux Paint is used in schools around the world as a computer literacy drawing activity. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. (See the full list of features.)

(Adults enjoy using Tux Paint too; both for nostalgia, and as a break from more complicated professional art tools. Also, Tux Paint has become popular for generating "glitch art", thanks to its numerous special effect tools.)

October 9, 2023 - Our website's on a new server. Please report issues if you come across any!

July 21, 2023 - Tux Paint 0.9.31 and friends have been released and are available for Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, Red Hat Linux, Slackware Linux, various Linux distributions (via Flatpak), & Haiku. (Updated July 22, 2023.)

July 1, 2023 - We've posted a series of interviews with artists who use Tux Paint. Visit the Interviews page to read them!

For macOS, Windows, Linux and more!

The latest version of Tux Paint runs on a variety of platforms, including Windows (Vista and later), macOS (10.10 and later), Linux, Android, Haiku, and more. Older versions of Tux Paint have been released for a variety of other platforms, as well.

How Much Does It Cost?

Tux Paint is free of cost and free of advertisements. It is Open Source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is developed by volunteers around the world. We work on it as a labor of love, with the hopes that people will find it useful, and in turn share it with their own friends and family.

Because Tux Paint is free of cost and its use is not restricted in any way, a school can use it today, without waiting for procurement or a budget!

Download Tux Paint today, and enjoy!

Other Tux4Kids Software You Might Also Like:

Did you know? Tux Paint is not shareware, it's open source. So it's free, forever!

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Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). Tux Paint is used in schools around the world as a computer literacy drawing activity. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

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Digital story telling with powerful visual communication. Over 3000 lesson plans and activities that are cross circular.

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Free Storyboarding Software — Online Storyboard Creator

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Storyboard That: Easy online storyboard creation! Perfect for filmmakers, teachers, and students. Create storyboards and comics with Storyboard That today!

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Brickify is a website that allows you to put in the URL to any image on the web and it will output a "brickified" image (Lego like).

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Brickify - 3D-Printing + LEGO® = Faster Prototyping

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3D-Printing + LEGO® = Faster Prototyping

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Fast drawing for everyone. AutoDraw pairs machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help you draw stuff fast.

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The Pixilart Drawing Application is your ultimate pixel drawing tool. Make beautiful pixel art, create game sprites, GIF animations and even draw online together with others.

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Pixilart, free online pixel drawing tool - This drawing tool allows you to make pixel art, game sprites and animated GIFs online for free.

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‘Create your own Google logo’ is part of the ‘Create your own Google logo’: ‘Create your own Google logo’ lesson from CS First, one of the many Google initiatives focused on computer science education.

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Chibitronics blends circuit building and programming with arts and crafts. We make circuit stickers and other tools for educators, artists and crafters so everyone can create and design their own expressive electronics.

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Expressive Technology with Paper Circuits Chibitronics blends circuits and code with arts and crafts.

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Create electric circuits using playdough.

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Hands on Stem Learning

Learn about electric circuits by bringing your modeling dough creations to life! The possibilities are endless!

View Squishy Kits

INVENT. CREATE. EXPLORE.

Squishy Circuits uses conductive and insulating play dough to teach the basics of electrical circuits, a perfect blend of play and learning! Our play dough kits, projects, and recipes teach problem solving and engineering concepts and inspire creativity and independent thinking.

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Play Dough Circuit Kits | Squishy Circuits

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Learn about electric circuits by bringing your modeling dough creations to life! The possibilities are endless! View Squishy Kits INVENT. CREATE. EXPLORE. Squishy Circuits uses conductive and insulating play dough to teach the basics of electrical circuits, a perfect blend of play and learning!

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Learn how to code and program robots in the classroom.

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At Wonder Workshop, our award-winning Dash robot and our suite of age-appropriate apps encourage hands-on play and learning to make creative problem-solving concrete and tangible. Our vision is to inspire kids of all ages by giving them tools to imagine and invent the future.

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K’NEX is a rod and connector building system that lets you build and use your imagination and creativity.

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discover your inner architect!

KNEX Architecture is a new line of Building Sets based on the world's greatest architectural designs. Think outside the blocks with K'NEX, a building system featuring rods and connectors that snap together with a satisfying "click" and can be configured into amazing, moving designs of all shapes and sizes. Each set comes with historical information about the landmark and detailed easy-to-follow, step-by-step building instructions. Building with K'NEX supports developmental growth and puts builders on a path towards a better understanding of STEM subjects. As they fit the pieces together, they're developing spatial awareness and honing their fine motor and dexterity skills.
For Ages 9+. Compatible with other K'NEX building sets.

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Creative Building Toys for Kids | K'NEX | Basic Fun!

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KNEX Architecture is a new line of Building Sets based on the world's greatest architectural designs. Think outside the blocks with K'NEX, a building system featuring rods and connectors that snap together with a satisfying "click" and can be configured into amazing, moving designs of all shapes and sizes.

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Ozobot is a one inch robot that you can either code using a computer or  it can use a photo sensor to detect patterns, lights, colors, and codes.

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Ozobot makes desk-friendly coding robots that come with infinite ways to create, learn, and share. Learn more about Ozobot for grades K-12.

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Create your own game in your web browser.

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Game Designers

Quickly & turn your ideas into functional games with the Flowlab game creator. Now you have a fast, flexible, collaborative way to quickly prototype and tweak new gameplay concepts. Rapid prototyping your games has never been faster. Export to Android, iOS, PC, & with one click!

Beginners

A game studio in your browser, with everything you need built in. Get started making games without programming, for free. the Flowlab game creator has the tools you need, all included and easy to learn. Everything is stored online, so sharing your games is simple. Publish and sell your games on the Apple, Google, Steam, &.io App Stores!

Classrooms

Great for teachers &. Flowlab is being used all over the world to teach game design &, along with crucial STEM skills. Flowlab runs in the cloud, so there is nothing to download or install.

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The easiest way to get started making games. Right from your browser, no coding required

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Quickly & turn your ideas into functional games with the Flowlab game creator. Now you have a fast, flexible, collaborative way to quickly prototype and tweak new gameplay concepts. Rapid prototyping your games has never been faster. Export to Android, iOS, PC, & with one click!

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2D and 3D Game-Making App | Free and Easy to Use | GDevelop

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GDevelop is an open-source, game making app that is free and easy to use. Find 2D and 3D game development tutorials, publish to Android, iOS, and more.

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Makerspaces, sometimes also referred to as hackerspaces, hackspaces, and fablabs are creative, DIY spaces where people can gather to create, invent, and learn. In libraries, they often have 3D printers, software, electronics, craft and hardware supplies and tools, and more.
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3D Printing - A 3D printer is a common piece of equipment in makerspaces, but getting kids' original designs on it can be tricky. Effective use of the 3D printer as a learning tool allows kids to make their own designs to print, rather than just finding files from other designers to use. For young kids, many CAD (Computer Assisted Design) programs are too complex or sophisticated, but below are some apps that will make 3D design simple enough for kids as young as 7 or 8. And others can now turn student drawn work into a printable file as well.
- Blokify is a 3D modeling app that allows kids to create using cubes. It is very accessible to even younger students, so kids can create and print toys to play with. The creations are comprised only of cubes, making it very similar visually to Minecraft.
Production/Presentation Part of the design process that we focus on in a makerspace is sharing your work with others. Presentation and Production apps allow students to explain their learning, narrate pictures of their work, or share their final products through digital portfolios or slideshows. This is also so helpful when a student is using equipment in the makerspace that needs to be returned (Legos, for example). These apps allow them to document their work before they have to take it back apart. Coding There is a push to have all students learning how to code. As a result, developers are coming out with some very user-friendly coding apps for students of all ages. Once students understand the basics of coding, they are able to program much of the equipment found in makerspaces - MaKey MaKeys, Arduinos, Spheros, Lego WeDo motors, and more.
Wendy Harrop is the Learning Resource Teacher at Summit Elementary Shcool ,in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. She teaches Library/Technology classes in the library and the Makerspace for students from K through 4th grade. She also helps integrate technology throughout the building and is the gifted coordinator for Summit School. Wendy is in her 21st year of teaching. When she's not teaching, or making/exploring new technology, she loves traveling, cooking, reading, being outdoors, and playing with my her two sons.

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Get Stop Motion Studio, the world's easiest app to get you into stop motion moviemaking today!

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As seen on Apple's TV commercial "Life on iPad."

"Stop-motion animation is a great way to bring toys and other objects to life - and learn the basics of filmmaking."
The New York Times

"Stop Motion Studio makes it easy to create your own stop-motion movies."
The Washington Post

"All you need is an iPhone or iPad, a tripod, the right software, and a bit of creativity."
PCMag

"Stop Motion Studio Brings Out the LEGO Moviemaking Geek in All of Us."
Technewsworld

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With it's easy to use interface Stop Motion Studio lets you create beautiful movies like Wallace and Gromit or those groovy Lego shorts on YouTube.

It's simple to use, deceptively powerful and insanely fun to play with.

Stop Motion Studio is a powerful, full-featured movie editor with a whole host of features:
* A simplistic, easy-to-use interface
* Overlay mode showing the differences between frames
* Animation guides to position animated objects more easily
* Copy, paste, cut, and insert frames at any position
* Interactive timeline so you never get lost, even if you have hundreds of frames

Create beautiful movies:
* Choose from a whole lot of unique titles, credits, and text cards or create your very own with the built-in editor
* Give your movie the perfect look with different video filters
* Enhance your movie with different foregrounds, backgrounds, aspect ratios, and fade effects
* Create a soundtrack using built-in music, sound effects, songs from your music library, or your narration
* Rotoscoping: Import video clips and create stunning animations by drawing over it.
* Green Screen: Change the background of your scene to make the figures you capture fly or appear anywhere you can imagine.
* Connect a keyboard and use simple shortcuts to edit movies quickly

Capture like a pro:
* Capture with an adjustable time interval feature
* Full camera control with automatic or manual white balance, focus and exposure, ISO and shutter speed
* Use a second device as a remote camera
* Use your Apple Watch as a remote shutter release
* Use with your Wifi-enabled DSLR camera**

Powerful, built-in layer-based image editor:
* Add text and speech bubbles or create titles
* Add facial expressions to LEGO® figures
* Touch up and enhance images, sketch, and paint
* Wipe away unwanted objects with the eraser tool
* Merge frames to simulate fast movement

Share with friends and family:
* Save to your photo library or share to YouTube in 4K or 1080p
* Save as iMessage sticker or animated GIF
* Save all images for further processing
* Easily transfer projects between devices using AirDrop, Dropbox or iCloud
* Start creating on your mobile device and continue right where you left off on your Mac

Learn to animate:
* Watch the included tutorial videos
* Read the comprehensive manual
* Use the animation tips and tricks provided

* Some features require in-app purchases. All features are already included in the Pro version.
** Visit our support page for a list of supported cameras:
https://helpdesk.cateater.com/help/en-us/3/7

Version 11.2

In this release, we added six amazing LEGO® video tutorials created by Benjamin Ely from Rioforce Animations. If you want to create your very own brickfilm be sure to check it out.

This release contains several improvements to the paint module of the app. An outline brush is now shown during drawing and erasing. New keyboard shortcuts for a faster workflow and a new onion-skin controller for a better overview of your animation while drawing. There is also a new two finger double tap feature to zoom in and out during drawing.

* We added 30 new backgrounds for you to use.
* A level animation guide to create hyper-lapse animations
* We added multilingual subtitles to all video tutorials

This release also contains several bug fixes and minor updates.

Thank you for using Stop Motion Studio. We are working hard to make the app even better. We welcome your feedback at support@cateater.com.

Amazing app, just one little problem...

I have been using this app for a couple of years and it is a great app, it is free and comparing its function to other Stop Motion applications it is wonderful, it is 5th on the list for Best Stop Motion Technology and it has proven that! But I have recently come across a problem... I can't get the pictures to come out clearly. I know exactly how to do that, I alter the focus, but when I look at the image before I take it, it is perfect, then as soon as I click the button to take the picture the image gets blurry, I even tried using my phone and take a Remote Picture, but it never comes out in focus. I tried changing everything I could, but no matter what I did it was always blurry. It only gots into focus if I stayed a couple of seconds on the frame and when I played the movie the frames ALL got blurry again. I do not know if the focus problem is just a bug, but I hope they get it fixed soon, so I, and anyone else who may be experiencing this problem, can continue to enjoy this app... other than this recent problem this app has been incredible and very easy to use, and I would highly recommend it to any Stop Motion beginners, intermediates, or professionals!

Great app, but I am unable to find a solution.

I want to start off by saying that this app is amazing and I use it as an alternative to many of the other stop motion editing softwares as it is much easier. I have used this app for about 8 months and have spent countless hours animating. I have bought all of the add ons to get the full experience and make my stop motions as best as I can. That said recently I have encountered a problem that is not only irritating but unnecessarily difficult. Recently the merge option has been greyed out, although his might not seem like such a big problem it is really irritating. I am currently working on an ant man and the wasp LEGO trailer stop motion, and a character known as the ghost has powers that require a merge of different slides, the shrinking and growing effects also require the same method but I can't for the life of me figure out how to fix this. I have attempted to contact the developers through the website, but I got an error display and couldn't move further. If this is only a simple bug that can be fixed or a patch that has been ridiculously over complicated than I need to know. I have spent about an hour researching if others have encountered the same problem or are having trouble but I can't find anything, if anyone has any solutions or the developers themselves see this then please help. This is something that I know has worked in the past so there is no reason it shouldn't now.

I absolutely love this app but it has a few problems

Ok so I have finally found an app that lets me create animations without too much trouble. It's very intuitive and has many great features. But as every other app it has it's problems. One of the ones I've had the most issues with is that when I have it set to manual it will still auto correct brightness whenever I put my hand in front of the camera, not sure if it's my phone's fault or the app's but it is a problem because it creates a lot of light flicker. Another is that whenever I have it zoomed in and I go to look at the pictures I have already taken it resets the zoom. This makes it very difficult to animate dialogue.

I have a few more nitpickey complaints. Mostly just that I can't set the ISO to anything below 100 (I know that expensive cameras don't go below it either.) I often find that my sets are way to bright. And one final complaint, there isn't a slider for white balance. I just feel restricted because it has a set of presets. I also have a suggestion: a feather option for erasing/painting would be awesome. It would create smoother transitions from the previous frame to the next. And also if there is a way please allow us to change the aperture as well.

Overall this is by far my favorite stop motion app and I only want to see it improve. Hope you found this useful.

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Compatibility

iPhone

Requires iOS 12.0 or later.

iPad

Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.

iPod touch

Requires iOS 12.0 or later.

Languages

English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish

In-App Purchases

All Features Forever $4.99

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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