Magical Creatures
In "Magical Creature," students embark on a creative journey to design and build homes for the Phantasians, a magical community impacted by climate change.
This project fosters empathy, inclusivity, and sustainability, encouraging students to thoughtfully meet diverse needs through imaginative design and problem-solving with recycled materials.
Good for:
All Ages
Student Examples
“My fair is very shy so I added in two defense features. Number one: camouflage. My fairy will probably live in the wilderness. So I made the entire house green from door to escape hatch. Number two: Payback. I made egg cannons so if anyone attacked the house and it wasn’t destroyed my fairy could fire eggs! And I also made a telescope to make sure she knows when someone or something is coming. I also made a green stool. Also I made a window for her to enter and it is very small because my fairy is only the size of a beetle which is very small. And I made another window that she can enter through since she is the size of the beetle. So four entrances, or maybe three. She also has a huge garden enough to make a fairy-sized trampoline and a fairy-sized bouncy house.”
Fielding, 7
“So my house is mostly made out of bricks. It has a small tree in the front and a pile of logs next to it and it has a rooftop garden this house was made for a gardener fairy.”
Ogden, 8
“I made it so that it would be very comfortable and also very functional and I gave her food in the pantry and a fun place to play on the porch. I made a bathroom so that she could go to the bathroom. There is no sink I’m going to put it by a pool when I get home so that she can wash her hands there. There is food in here there is a milk jog and I made some cereal with sleeves. There are two windows and you can open one of them and the other one has curtains and there are holes but there are no ladders or stairs because she can just fly out.”