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New Booster Kits to Augment Makey Makey

New Booster Kits to Augment Makey Makey

I’m so excited our team has worked on creating new booster kits to augment the Makey Makey innovation experience! You’ll have to check back often as we will have more coming out! I’m really stoked to share these new kits and the projects we’ve written to accompany these kits that will boost student innovation with Makey Makey! Craft + Code I love this Craft + Code kit because it really focuses…

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Resources for teaching Makey Makey At-Home, Hybrid Models, or Remote Learning

Resources for teaching Makey Makey At-Home, Hybrid Models, or Remote Learning

It’s been awhile since I last updated the blog, but I’ve made a ton of new resources for Makey Makey!

First up, let’s talk safety. Here is a whole post about sanitizing Makey Makey kits and sending them home for kids who are learning from home.

How to Clean Makey Makey Webinars for Professional Development

I also…

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Making PPE at Home

Making PPE at Home

6 weeks ago, we started our trip into self isolation to protect the immunocompromised in my family. The last month has been quite an adjustment. I saw a lot of maker friends making PPE, and I was just too exhausted from working and home schooling to even attempt something extra.  Aaron and I wanted to help, but we just didn’t have the energy to figure out the complexity of materials etc, on top…

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New Instructables Projects and Classes! Here is some new content I've been posting on Instructables! "Is It Conductive?" Makey Makey Experiment…

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#AtHome STEAM learning for kids at home!

Have a Makey Makey at home?

  Ready to start inventing from home? I’ve been working really hard at creating a course that kids can take on their own while they are at home! The first Five lessons are live, but I am still making new classes to help you start inventing with everyday objects you have at home!

With Makey Makey, you can plug and play right out of the box, make a banana piano, or…

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Collaborative Makey Makey Sensory Maze I've just published a guide for teachers and students who want to make a collaborative Makey Makey sensory maze! Check out the full guide on Instructables!

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Book Character Costume with Vinyl Cutter

Book Character Costume with Vinyl Cutter

Hey readers!

I’ve got a new vinyl cutter and I’m using it for everything! I just made my daughter this glow in the dark skeleton costume based on a Halloween book she loves called Pug and Pig Trick or Treat.

If you are interested in seeing how to use a vinyl cutter to make a quick costume, here is a link to my Instructables!

Find bones in Adobe Stock

Import SVG

Cut and Iron!

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New Guides Published on Instructables!

New Guides Published on Instructables!

I’ve just published some new guides on Instructables!

One is for my Makerspace Pegboard Organization.

And the other is based on a webinar I led this week with Becky Stern and Tom Heck on adding your own Instructables guides to our new Makey Makey community hub!

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New Guide Posted: Mashing up Toy Hacking with Microcontrollers This new guide is based on my work with Wanda Green and the Tom Green Library System in San Angelo, Tx. You can read more about the workshop here. Full guide for leading your own workshop or class is available on Instructables!

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New Instructables: Light up Poetry Guide

New Instructables: Light up Poetry Guide

  Head on over to Instructables to see my teacher’s guide for creating light up poetry with the Chibitronics Chibi Chip and Make Code!

https://twitter.com/gravescolleen/status/1170143446553829376?s=20

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Maker Projects on Instructables

Check out my Maker Projects on Instructables!

Over the years I’ve published a lot of maker projects on this blog, but they tend to get buried between posts! So I’m adapting and updating them and hosting them on Instructables!

Here are the most recent guides I’ve published:

Writing and Windtubes

Take Apart and Rebuild Toys

Handmade Stamps and Eric Carle’s Mixed Up Chameleon

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Sewing Circuit Primer with Makey Makey

Sewing Circuit Primer with Makey Makey

Are you interested in learning about beginner sewing circuits? Wanna transfer that knowledge to your Makey Makey?

https://twitter.com/gravescolleen/status/1118996219337027584

Check out my latest Instructables: Conductive Jelly Donuts: A Sewing Circuits Primer

https://twitter.com/gravescolleen/status/1112806806575828993

  With this guideyou can teach your students to sew a simple circuit, sew a…

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3 Ways to Makey Makey a Floor Piano

3 Ways to Makey Makey a Floor Piano

Oh my goodness! I can’t believe I forgot to share this guide!

I made this for my job over at Makey Makey and it’s a fun way to start thinking about how you are completing a circuit when creating a Makey Makey piano. So move that bunch of bananas, get out your HVAC tape, and let’s make some oversized pianos.

  Head to the Labz Guide

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Invent to Learn Webinar with Sylvia Martinez

Invent to Learn Webinar with Sylvia Martinez

Last week I was able to host a Makey Makey webinar with Sylvia Martinez, one of the authors of Invent to Learn. We chatted about starting a makerspace, tools you’d need/want, and more! Head on over to the Makey Makey blog to watch and see the resources mentioned!

Watch the Webinar

  P.s. If interested in the Desert Island poster or the Think Make Improv robot, you can now download them for free at

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Makey Makey Valentine Paper Circuit! Head on over to Labz to grab these free Valentine's template I just created.  It's a quick paper circuit for making an LED light up AND testing conductive materials! The Labz guide is free and syncs with Google Classroom.

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Making and Literacy Guide for Doll-E 1.0

Making and Literacy Guide for Doll-E 1.0

When I started at JoyLabz in July, Doll- E 1.0 by Shanda McCloskey was still a fairly new release.

https://twitter.com/makeymakey/status/1018972668488572928

This adorable picture book, is about a tech savvy young girl named Charlotte who is given a doll by her parents and she’s unsure at first about what to do with it.

Throughout the book, we see Makey Makey references. In one scene, the dog is…

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Project: Makey Makey Digital Exit Ticket

Project: Makey Makey Digital Exit Ticket

Last month I was challenged on Twitter to create a Makey Makey version of this informal bathroom rating system, but as a digital exit ticket for teachers.

https://twitter.com/luckybydesign/status/1033878499394760704

I created two systems, one for teachers as an exit ticket and one for librarian’s as a data tracker.

Teacher version:

https://twitter.com/gravescolleen/status/1035562423623839744

Libr…