# Design with scrap materials

> Canonical page: /en/design-with-scrap-materials

## Programme

  What is waste for one person can be the start of a design for another. Children explore materials and use their imagination to create something new from them.

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### Seeing things differently

      What shape, colour or possibility do you see in a used object?

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### Come up with ideas

      Children think of what they can make from the material.

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### Make and experiment

      They develop their idea into a work of art or something useful.

  The teacher chooses materials and tasks that suit the group.

## Skills children practise here

- Creative thinking
    
- Exploring materials
    
- Discovering reuse