The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find themselves engaged in a new world of possibilities.

The culture of making is more about a mindset than a lifestyle. Makers have a curiosity for the built world around them. Understanding where things come from, how they are made, the potential of their function now and beyond, and what it takes to make something not only provides a context to appreciate the object at hand but is essential to imagining infinite possibilities for the future.

The arts vividly illustrate the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

A creative invitation is a combination of materials and context that intrigue children with a suggestion of play.