Cricut Audio - Sarah

The Public Library has a Cricut Maker in Champagne color that can print, cut, and create with various materials. They also have an Explore Air 2 with an adapter and tools for children to create and customize their designs. The Cricut Maker costs over $200, but there is a bundle option with extra tools. They have different types of vinyl, including permanent vinyl with 40 colors, and they also mentioned printable vinyl and transferable paper. They have specific blades for different materials, like wood and leather. They have removable decal sheets, fine-point pens, and a fine-point blade for glitter, cardstock, and leather. The Cricut uses software called Design Space where they can find designs and create their own. It connects to a laptop or iPad. Children can use the Cricut to create, invent, and customize things that are valuable to them. Public Library Makerspace Cricut by Sarah. In front of you is a Cricut Maker Champagne color. This prints and cuts, it designs, it creates with fabric, cardstock, paper, vinyl, whatever you can put your hands on for mostly, and it creates and designs. This is an Explore Air 2. This is another one that Public Cricut Library has with an adapter and all the tools that come with it. We are focusing on children, and this allows to read or peel at their designs, and they can put it on things that are valuable to them and customize. Cricut Maker is about over $200. I got the bundle one that is an extra $100, and you can see that the other tools come with it, and then if you are more experienced, you can use the materials that you already have. We have the lyo vinyl, the one that you can use for a wooden one material, and fabric for a Cricut mat. The lyo vinyl permanent one has 40 different colors, and it's very sturdy, so it doesn't curl up. I learned that you can purchase printable vinyl ones, and we would need more transferable paper, which I'll explain later. For wooden ones, it has a specific blade, but I also believe that the blades that are already given could be used as well. Just want to be careful, just so we know which materials we're using for which blade, and I would like to look into more felt and fabric ones in the future. We have removable decal sheets that fit pretty colors, fine-point pens, and HQ fine-point blade. The thing about decal sheets is I would have to get more because there's only three per color. The fine-point ones, I learned that if you have washable, fine watercolor markers, you can also use as well. You just have to be careful when you insert it so that it prints. And the HQ fine-point blade that replaces is good for glitter, cardstock, leather, and I would like to learn more about using leather materials. I wanted to make some pretty coasters. This is a square one. I want to use circular ones in the future. This is a different kind of vinyl. It's permanent and has basically 22 colors and 9 housing blades, which the ceramic ones, like I mentioned before, but the permanent ones, it is waterproof and has 22 colors. I found that it has 10 transferable paper, but I think I need more in the future. And this nice housing blade is good for leather, and again, I need to do more research. So Cricut uses software called Design Space, and that's where they can find different kinds of designs, different beautiful fonts, and they can also create on it as well. You connect it with a laptop or an iPad, and it's kind of, like I said, the Cricut is kind of like a printer, but a more fun way using different materials and creating and putting it on and customizing other stuff. So I believe children can create, invent, and discover what they can make and make it their own that brings worth to them.