Making Repairs
Making Repairs
![Teens and UW Students in Making Repairs session](https://www.teenbubbler.org/sites/www.teenbubbler.org/files/images/wysiwyg/LIS399-820%20Making%20Repairs.jpg)
Bubbler Artist-in-Residence Bird Ross guided participants through sewing and problem-solving projects that focused on the concept of making repairs.
In their first session, Bubbler Teens and University of Wisconsin-Madison students partnered up to make sewing kits.
![Hands creating sewing kit](https://www.teenbubbler.org/sites/www.teenbubbler.org/files/images/wysiwyg/IMG_4322.jpg)
![Hands holding finished sewing kit](https://www.teenbubbler.org/sites/www.teenbubbler.org/files/images/wysiwyg/IMG_4321.jpg)
Bubbler Teens also learned to operate Bird’s sewing machine. Using recycled fabric, participants designed, stuffed, and stitched their own pillows.
Bird also encouraged participants to think about repurposing and problem-solving. During one session, Bubbler Teens were given survival scenarios such as living on a desert island or escaping from a volcano. Each teen worked with a partner using miscellaneous supplies to build tools to help them survive.
![Survival tool created by Bubbler Teens](https://www.teenbubbler.org/sites/www.teenbubbler.org/files/images/wysiwyg/2015.25.19.a.jpg)