Thanks for joining us at Renegades. We’re looking forward to sharing these activities with your child. We’ll provide most of the materials to those who sign up by June 9th, which you will get when you pickup your student's work on June 11th. Your child will also need: Scissors, Markers, crayons, or color pencils, and a straight edge (ideally a ruler, especially for older kids). Alta Vista is covering the cost of the program. All you need to do is register!

Each day will be two projects, 9am-10am and 10:30am-11:30am. Here’s a little more about the projects we’ll be doing!

Periscopes. Kids will practice their spatial skills by building a semi-complex 3D shape from 2D and predict how images can be seen after being flipped by 2 mirrors, then aligning and anticipating how to find what is being viewed through several removed steps of orientation. And they won’t even know they are growing their spatial skill set! Our youngest Renegades get some great practice with scissor precision skills as well!

Cubic Block Puzzles. Kids make puzzles out of cubes, which means they get 6 puzzles in one. This puzzle set is simple yet excellent at training their visual spatial skills.

Clothespin Creature. Using found or everyday objects in unusual ways helps kids break down the barriers of getting stuck in a rut. By taking simple objects such as clothespins, pipe cleaners, and ribbon, and trying to imagine them in new ways, kids can start seeing objects beyond their intended uses. Looking at objects and seeing possibilities opens up the mind to creative thinking and new connections. Plus, these little creatures are adorable. Some kids might use the functions of objects, like the grasping power of clothespins, and some might just work off the shape. However they do it, kids always find amazing ways to repurpose the everyday.

Creature Habitat. Every creature needs to live somewhere. Where they live depends on that creature’s needs and abilities. By building a Creature Habitat, kids delve into Design Thinking, a solution-based approach to solving problems and organizing thoughts in a digestible way. Motivated by their clothespin creature, kids learn processes that help break a larger problem into actionable bits. These skills help kids feel less overwhelmed when faced with big problems. Kids also practice their spatial skills by building to scale, their representational skills through model making, and their creative thinking. Plus, they get a glimpse of biodiversity to boot!