| Mon-Fri, Jul 13 - Jul 17 |
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Doll Fashion Studio
Design and create custom clothing for your Barbie or fashion dolls using a variety of fabrics, embellishments, and sewing techniques. Learn both hand and machine stitching to craft everything from trendy tops to chic accessories. Take home a runway-worthy collection of stylish, one-of-a-kind outfits and the confidence to continue designing your own fabulous fashion creations. -
Playful Printmaking
Get ready to explore the playful possibilities of printmaking. You’ll create awesome, one-of-a-kind works of art using all sorts of cool printmaking techniques. Stamp with potatoes, make prints with leaves, and even use squishy stuffed animals (don’t worry—the instructor will provide the plushies). You’ll also create multicolored, layered images with styrofoam and design your own mandala prints using foam and cardboard. -
T-Shirt Transformations
Create personalized tees you’ll love to wear. Learn basic sewing skills as you design and collage quilted patches using fabric scraps to make animals, flowers, funny faces, or anything you can imagine, then sew them onto a new tee. Give your old shirts new life by painting, drawing, and sewing on fabric patches to give them a fun, imaginative twist. -
Dazzling Diamond Art
Sparkle, shine, and create with diamond art. Turn colorful resin gems into dazzling designs on bookmarks, coasters, magnets, canvases, and more. Explore patterns and colors to craft glittery masterpieces to take home and show off. -
Embroidery Extravaganza
Learn a few embroidery stitches, including backstitch and split stitch, and discover how to use them to stitch your own creative designs. You can make custom patches to iron onto a tote bag or craft a one-of-a-kind piece of art to hang in your room. Develop a new skill that lets you add a personal touch to everyday items and express your creativity in a fun, unique way. Take home a needle, a hoop, and plenty of floss to continue stitching at home. -
Friendship Bracelets
Did you know that making friendship bracelets is a two-thousand-year-old tradition? We will knot and braid embroidery floss of all different colors into elaborate patterns such as candy stripe, crisscross, and chevron. Weave rubber bands into cool designs using your fingers or a rainbow loom and hook. Add in fun beads or charms to make your creations even more special. Go home with bracelets galore and plentiful supplies to make more. -
Map Masters
Mount Kilimanjaro, Zion National Park, Icelandic glaciers and volcanoes, and a high speed rail network in Japan—we’ll explore these places and more as we learn about using and making maps. Through hands-on investigation, detailed drawing, and 3D construction using a variety of materials, learn the language of cartographers as you map unique landscapes, major points of interest, and physical topography. Then put your skills to the test by following a “treasure map” that will lead to a prize hidden somewhere at SummerFun! -
Perler Bead Paradise
Spend the week making awesome Perler bead designs and crafts. You can make classic flat designs or get creative with 3D shapes. Carefully arrange your beads on a pegboard, and then we’ll melt them together to make permanent pieces of art. Make keychains, magnets, fun characters, cool designs to hang up, or whatever you can dream up—let your imagination fuse into creative masterpieces! -
Mini Mania
Create your own magical works of art—in miniature! Using a variety of techniques, design miniature 3D sculptures, drawings, and paintings. Whether you dream up a magical creature, or a secret garden, this open-studio class gives you the freedom to choose what you want to create using a huge selection of supplies. -
Screen Printing
Personalize your style with the art of screen printing. Learn how to create custom t-shirts, tote bags, and more. Try a variety of screen printing methods, including cutting stencils, creating DIY screens, and using photo emulsion. You can even bring your own apparel to transform into unique, wearable art. Best of all, you’ll gain the skills to continue making personalized creations at home. -
Peace, Love & Creativity
Far out! Make retro-style accessories and décor, design your own funky mood boards, and experiment with psychedelic patterns and textures straight out of the disco era. Tie-dye wearables, craft a lava lamp, make a mirror ball, try macramé, create a colorful flower power garland, and more—totally groovy, man! -
Classic Camp Crafts & Games
Spark your imagination with classic camp crafts like pony bead lizard lanyards, Shrinky Dink keychains, salt dough creations, colorful sun catchers, and beaded name bracelets. Experiment with fuse beads, rock painting, foam mosaics, gimp, and more. Move, play, and create with scavenger hunts, bingo, and drawing challenges. -
Amazing Abstract Painting
Color outside the lines as you turn bold shapes, vibrant colors, and playful patterns into expressive works of art. Experiment with brush techniques, textured layers, and unexpected color combinations while discovering how abstract art can communicate feelings and ideas without relying on realistic details. Use your imagination to develop a unique style and create one-of-a-kind pieces of art. -
Optical Illusion Art
Create mind-bending optical illusions using just pencil and paper. Learn how to trick the eye into seeing movement by overlapping lines and silhouettes, combining clashing vibrant colors, and varying pencil line gradation. Experiment with patterns, explore visual rhythm, and sharpen your drawing skills as you create images that leap off the page. -
Pencil Power: Color, Blend, Create
Explore bold colors, smooth shading, and cool techniques using colored pencils. Start by playing with color theory, then learn how to create shadows and highlights, blend colors like a pro, and practice strokes like cross-hatching to add texture and energy. Bring everything together to create fun images ranging from ice cream cones to comic-book heroes, and more. -
Squishmallow-Making Party
Design, cut, stuff, and sew your very own soft, squishy plush friend. Build your crafting skills and confidence while bringing your creative ideas to life and letting your imagination shine. Celebrate your adorable creation in a Squishmallow parade, then take home your cuddly new sidekick to snuggle. -
Crochet Crew
Discover a new hobby or expand your crochet skills with projects that are as fun as they are practical. We’ll start with the basics and move on to creating a variety of items perfect for back-to-school or everyday use. Projects include bookmarks, zipper pouches, pencil cases, scrunchies, bag charms, and laptop sleeves—offering plenty of ways to practice new techniques and make pieces you’ll love to use. -
The Puppet Project
Explore the art of puppetry as you design original characters and bring them to life through movement, voice, and storytelling. Experiment with a variety of styles, from finger and rod puppets to imaginative “junk” creations and expressive shadow silhouettes, while trying new ideas and refining your designs. Leave with a small collection of unique puppets and a deeper sense of how performance and craft work together. -
Leaf It to Art
Combine your love of nature and art as we turn the outdoors into a creative studio. We’ll venture outside to gather sticks, bark, rocks, and leaves, then use our creative magic to transform them into art. Make bark prints, leaf print collages, mosaics, zen rock gardens, and fairy houses, all inspired by the natural world around you. -
Crazy for Crafting
Explore a seemingly endless supply of fun materials in this “craft-tacular” week. We’ll use yarn, popsicle sticks, beads, and more to make a variety of projects, including fluffy pompoms, treasure boxes, beaded geckos, flip flop noteholders, and more. Expand your crafting skills with gimp as we experiment with different stitches to make things like bracelets, keychains, and lanyards. -
Shoebox Creations
Use your imagination to bring the settings of popular books to life. We will read a new story each day and create a detailed miniature scene in a shoebox inspired by your favorite part. Use a variety of mediums such as clay, paint, markers, and popsicle sticks as your building materials. You’ll also make up your own story and craft a shoebox scene depicting its setting. -
The Life of a Swiftie Crafter
Are you a Swiftie who loves art? Come craft creations straight out of your “wildest dreams.” We’ll draw, create silhouettes, and do awesome crafts inspired by Taylor’s music and style. Whether you’re crafting a “cardigan” or designing a “folklore”-themed masterpiece, come express yourself and make art as unique as a Swiftie playlist. “You belong with me” on this artistic adventure! -
Junk Journaling
Junk journaling is the art of creating a one-of-a-kind, handmade book using recycled and found materials. The term “junk” refers to everyday items—like postcards, old newspapers, fabric scraps, and stamps—that would normally be thrown away. You will craft collage-style journal entries inspired by a new prompt each session, using a mix of provided materials and any “junk” you bring from home. Capture your memories, ideas, and moments while creating a unique, meaningful, and sustainable keepsake. -
Fantastical Worlds & Creatures
Step into the magical realm of folklore and mythology. Invent and design your own fantastical worlds and the creatures that live there. Bring your wildest ideas to life by making beautiful artwork with drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking. This is a fun, open-studio class where you’ll choose what you want to create and which materials to use. It’s your imagination, your creations!
