In our last blog, we shared the fun our students experience when building with the Imagination Playground materials. One thing that we soon discovered, though, was that we needed to design a consistent, organized manner in which to store the materials when putting them away. Trying to fit all the pieces on the shelves so that they would fit comfortably, and would be protected from rain, wind, etc., was challenging.
Enter the Grade 5 Design Team:
The girls worked together to brainstorm and design a delightful arrangement of the unusual pieces!
First, they measured and inventoried
the pieces, made sketches of their
ideas, and then set out to bring their
sketches to life by duplicating the
design on the shelves with the actual
playground pieces.
Then came the next challenge: how to clearly indicate where each piece fit on or under the shelves, making it easy enough for even the preschool students to manage putting things away easily ....
Using photos of some of our youngest
students posing with examples of each of the playground materials, the girls created signs to place on the shelf walls to indicate the location of each piece. Big shout out to the students in PKRuiz and to Constanza in JKErb, for being our photo models! The girls also learned how to use a laminating machine and a staple gun, as they prepared each sign for display in the playground.
