ABSTRACT
The idea of making things in primary classrooms predates the emergence of a National Curriculum that has been introduced in many countries worldwide including England and Wales. The term 'technological actions' can be understood through five key characteristics: Making, Manipulating, Modifying, Mending and Modelling. The two characteristic factors of space-filling and connectivity impact on the creative learning responses of children. Construction kits are available in most primary schools; they have become part of the essential fabric of the early years classroom and beyond. In an educational context, kits enable children to rapidly create artefacts to change and control their world for their own purposes. Signalling with twisting and turning hand gestures and the waving of arms may accompany speaking as children attempt to communicate height, size and motion. Children's drawings may be seen as a replication of the acts of the adult designer who commits ideas to paper prior to final construction of an artefact.
