Sustainable Making
📋 What it is
Sustainable making reduces waste — reusing and upcycling materials, and designing things to last and be repaired.
🗣️ Coach says
Great makers think about waste. Sustainable making means reusing scraps, upcycling old things into new, choosing materials that last, and designing so things can be fixed instead of thrown out. Make cool stuff AND care for the planet.
🧠 Memory hook
Reuse + upcycle + design to last & repair. Make AND care for the planet.
😂 Giggle
What did the prototype say to the final product?
"I was just a rough draft of you!"
😲 Whoa!
Some makers build amazing projects entirely from “trash” — old electronics, scrap wood and broken toys given a new life.
✅ Quick check: Name one way a maker can make their projects more sustainable.
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
e.g. reuse or upcycle scrap materials, choose long-lasting materials, or design the project so it can be repaired instead of thrown away. (Any valid way.)
Sustainability is an increasingly essential maker value.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Find one “trash” item and imagine one new useful thing you could upcycle it into.