This 'Making Cardboard Things Move' pack was put together by artist/designer Vanya Lambrecht Ward as part of Kids’ Own ‘Reinventions’ online project which took place in May-June 2020. This document will give you some of the tools, techniques and encouragement, to try to make your own new toys from old things!
‘Reinventions’ is supported by the Community Foundation of Ireland, which seeks to cultivate an ethos of sustainability and creative reuse. Over four online toy-making sessions, 6 children worked with four different artists to develop a new toy/ invention of the artist’s imagining. Old materials will be repurposed to create something new. As a testing ground for the artist’s idea, the group worked individually but together to make their own version.
In-between sessions, the participants are encouraged to make their own inventions. Documentation of all the toys/objects created will be gathered by Kids’ Own and made available online for a wider audience as our “Library of Ideas”.
