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Category: 2020 MAKERSPACE

Macramé Madness in the Makerspace

October 19th, 2020
19th October, 2020

Last week and this week in the Makerspace the students have been madly creating their Macramé Pot Hangers. It is fantastic to see the students working together and helping each other learn new knots. They have a selection of colours to choose from and some of the girls have mixed two colours together to create something that is uniquely theirs.

Macramé is one of our most popular activities, and great to see such a vintage art becoming popular again.

Macramé is therapeutic in nature. Pulling and working of the cords helps to strengthen the hands and arms. It helps to loosen the joints. Some people find that macramé, an art of repetitive knots used to create designs is meditative bringing with it peace and calmness of mind.
https://rootzjewelry.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/crafting-for-mental-health-art-as-a-therapy-macrame-and-me/#:~:text=Macram%C3%A9%20is%20therapeutic%20in%20nature,peace%20and%20calmness%20of%20mind.

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Makerspace Creations Term 4 2020

September 8th, 2020
8th September, 2020

It is getting closer to the end of the term, and we have had some great activities in the Makerspace. Firstly, the term started off with the girls furiously painting and decorating A3 peices of paper for the “Wings Mural” that was put up during week 5. There was approximately 200 feathers created for the mural, and since it has been up a lot of fun for the students taking photos.

We went on to make crepe paper flowers and decorated a jar with decoupage to put them in.

The next activity was origami stars and then we had a spaghetti challenge.

Further into the Term we celebrated Father’s day by making dad a tie bookmark.

Now onto sewing week, with the students keen to learn the sewing machine. They are making scrunchies at the moment.

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Makerspace Activities Term 4 2020

September 7th, 2020
7th September 2020

Watch the presentation below to view the activities that are available in the Makerspace in term 4 2020. Looking forward to an exciting few weeks before the end of 2020.

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McAuley Makerspace Term 3 2020

July 16th, 2020
16th July, 2020

McAuley Makerspace is happy to be back up and running for Term 3 this year, after COVID19 restrictions have been lifted in schools across Queensland. The students are working on several activities during the first week, which includes french knitting, feather creation and building with lego.

The feather creation is something that we will keep you posted about. We aim to create a large set of wings and attach it to one of the large walls around the school as a photo mural. This will be a great photo opportunity for all the students in the second half of this term. Also something that can be used for the grade 12 students to capture memories of their final days of school.

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Makerspace Activities Term 3 2020

June 11th, 2020
All our middle school students are eagerly awaiting the McAuley Makerspace being reopened in Term 3. Seeing that this term has been affected with Learning@Home and only having 4 weeks of on campus learning with restrictions, we are expecting the Makerspace will be a popular space to be. Watch the presentation to see the activities that are organised for the term.

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Makerspace Activities Term 2 2020

March 10th, 2020
Check out the new Makerspace activities planned for Term 2

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