Model making

[mumofone]

What's the proper name for making stuff out of household objects or rather packaging like toilet/kitchen roll insides and egg boxes? I can't think!! Is there a good website with ideas as to things that can be made with such objects?

[Simona]

What's the proper name for making stuff out of household objects or rather packaging like toilet/kitchen roll insides and egg boxes? I can't think!! Is there a good website with ideas as to things that can be made with such objects?

Providers refer to it as 'junk modelling'
I call it expressive arts and design!

[FussyElmo]

What's the proper name for making stuff out of household objects or rather packaging like toilet/kitchen roll insides and egg boxes? I can't think!! Is there a good website with ideas as to things that can be made with such objects?

Pinterest you need no other site but be warned its addictive :thumbsup:

[mumofone]

Providers refer to it as 'junk modelling' I call it expressive arts and design!

Lol thanks Simona, that's what I'll be doing too!! :-)

Junk modelling - that's the name I was after! :-) thank you :-)

[bunyip]

Isn't it called Blue Petering any longer? :huh:

[hectors house]

I call it "passing on the contents of my recycling box" :D

[natlou82]

I agree with fussy, you need Pinterest in your life lol. The Pinterest fails are really funny!

[Simona]

Lol thanks Simona, that's what I'll be doing too!! :-)

Junk modelling - that's the name I was after! :-) thank you :-)

Let the children's own imagination loose and free with anything you can collect...not just kitchen roll and boxes but lids, corks, shells...all sorts really.
I am not a user of Pinterest so not sure what is on offer there ...but the best resource is the children's creativity...let them experiment and do what they want!

good luck

[Mouse]

For junk modelling get the children to use masking tape. It's easy for them to rip, sticks to most things and can be removed if they want to rearrange their creations. It's much easier than glue and doesn't need to be left to dry. Can be painted and coloured over as well.

Pinterest is fab for ideas, but for real junk modelling just let children use their imaginations :thumbsup:

[TinyTinker]

thanks mouse off to the pound shop to buy shed loads of masking tape!

i think it's called when the recycling bin is full, we need to make crafts out of the contents to send home to families to off load our boxes, tubes and plastic bottles ;) - no joking, it's defo junk modelling. I have a lo who always makes cameras out of boxes and tubes etc.

[mumofone]

For junk modelling get the children to use masking tape. It's easy for them to rip, sticks to most things and can be removed if they want to rearrange their creations. It's much easier than glue and doesn't need to be left to dry. Can be painted and coloured over as well. Pinterest is fab for ideas, but for real junk modelling just let children use their imaginations :thumbsup:

Great idea! :-)

[FussyElmo]

Pinterest is for everything if you need inspiration. type it in and an idea if not 100s of ideas will come up.

But be warned its a bit like hotel California you can check out anytime you want but you can never leave :laughing::laughing::laughing:

[FloraDora]

Love Pinterest too.

As a parent I used to dread the junk model coming home - my lads created huge things with the biggest boxes they could find. I always think it's the process of junk modelling that is the best part with very young children, the joining and creating , than the final product, which most often gets abandoned as soon as its created.

[Mouse]

Love Pinterest too.

As a parent I used to dread the junk model coming home - my lads created huge things with the biggest boxes they could find. I always think it's the process of junk modelling that is the best part with very young children, the joining and creating , than the final product, which most often gets abandoned as soon as its created.

That's another reason why I use masking tape - the structures can be pulled apart and rebuilt over & over again, or just pulled apart and put back in the junk box :thumbsup: