10/09/2026
Possibly my favourite hour of the whole term. 💛
Once a term, the Mystery Makers table comes out. There’s no sample to recreate and no instructions telling them what their finished piece should look like. It’s just a challenge, a mountain of materials and an hour to figure it out.
This term’s challenge: make something related to an animal. 🐾
And every single time, something happens about halfway through the session. The room gets busy. The ideas get bigger. Problems get solved. Plans get changed. And they get so absorbed in making that when I call time after an hour, nobody is ready to stop.
Which is probably why Mystery Makers is a favourite with the kiddos too.
10/10 would recommend giving kids a pile of stuff and seeing what happens. 😂