SCAMPER!

The middle school students started the school year completing a variety of challenges and activities to develop creativity, collaboration, and community, 3 of our core values. One activity asked them to use the SCAMPER method for creativity development. This stands for Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, and Rearrange.  Students were given a common household item and asked to come up with another use for it (egg beater, ice tray, juicer, utensil holder were just some of the items they started with).  Students came up with a new use and then presented an infomercial on their new product. 

New products included:

A drone landing pad that also doubles as a cell phone speaker, a card holder, and more (made out of an ice cube tray)!

A new game called Robot Crashers (made with a scrub brush)!

A potato masher turned into a variety of things!

The Super Jeffrey (Jacked, Entertaining, Furiously Fun, Radioactive, Energetic Yowza, of course) that was a sling shot made from an egg beater!

A 4 legged bowl (with a face) made from a strainer!

A hot dog cooker (made from an ice cube tray and LOTS of push pins)!

Crater Plater 2000 (made from a small plastic vase)!

Tumblerz, a new game made from a juicer!

A variety of items including a bubble blower and a spring loaded car (made out of an egg beater)!

And MUCH, MUCH MORE!  Infomercials even included lines about calling in the next 30 seconds for your free gift or trial.  

They were all very creative!