Main goal for the kits

outline of bird kit 

            All throughout the process of brainstorming ideas to planning everything out I realized some of the main objectives I want to get out of the kits. For the animal fur and bird kits I want to have kids who use them to be entertained as well as educated. I want them to use their creative side to think through the adaptations that animals have and think through questions like why do they live in a certain habitat? Finding the balance between fun, but educational can be quite tricky since an activity could be too fun and not have them think about certain aspects like their habitat, while on the other hand if it’s just boring facts they aren’t as engaged in learning but rather bored. That’s why it needs to be educational as well as interactive.

            Eventually I want the kits to match up to a season like spring would be pollinators and flowers. With the future kits, I would love to have them be educational as well as raise awareness about certain misconceptions or dangers happening. For example, most kids see bee’s or wasps and think dangerous since they have stingers, but the kits could teach about which are valuable or which are more on the dangerous side. As well as teach about how the bee population has dropped and the impacts would be disastrous if we didn’t have bee’s.