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October 2020
Glowing Disembodied Hand (with Programmable Options!)
Make a CPX Glowing Disembodied Hand with Kathy Ceceri (and MakeCode)! No 3D printer? No problem! Make a life-like disembodied hand with nothing but masking tape, then light it up with an inexpensive string of LEDs. You can even make it programmable with a BBC Micro:bit or Adafruit Circuit Playground Express and free, online MakeCode! Materials: masking tape card stock or other heavy paper disposable straw, tongue depressor, or stiff paper rolled up into a straw-shaped tube string of "fairy…
Find out more »Build a Dramatic Headpiece with Make Fashion Edu
Build a Dramatic Headpiece with Paper and Cardboard In this session, Carrie Leung and Twila Busby, MakeFashion Edu creators, will get you started on your exploration of paper and cardboard as a material to create dramatic and expressive headpieces. A headpiece can add to your existing costume or it can be the centerpiece of a visual expression. Either way, the head is a great canvas for a costume. First let’s think about: What’s important to you? What inspires you? What…
Find out more »Add Touch Activation to Any Wearable
Add Touch Activation to Any Wearable We are going to show you how to build a “MOSFET” touch circuit, where we create a circuit of light that is turned on and off using the low conductivity of your body. Just touch two points, and it turns on or off! We will show you how to add these touch activation pads to a wearable. MOSFETs are important because they are the first step in controlling lights and motors with sensors and…
Find out more »Make Decorative Día De Los Muertos Calavera with Sandy Roberts
Make: Decorative Día De Los Muertos Calavera with Sandy Roberts! Learn the history, chemistry, and craft behind making sugar skulls --Calaveras -- a traditional part of the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead. Then we'll learn to make our own and decorate them. As an extra bonus, we'll make a light-up sugar skull card! Watch and make LIVE on the Family Maker Camp FB page or on the Make: Kids Youtube channel. Materials list: table sugar powdered sugar…
Find out more »The Mario Show
Mario the Maker Magician is back with The Mario Show! The Mario Show returns for two special Halloween shows for Maker Camp! Tune in LIVE for new interactive elements, Halloween crafts, giveaways, new “What If Kids Ruled the World” segments, and of course… spooky dance parties!!! Don't miss this special Halloween edition of What if Kids Ruled the World and Mario's Make of the week. #TheMarioShow #MakerCamp #WIKRTW #MakeTogether Watch and comment LIVE on the Family Maker Camp Facebook page…
Find out more »Make Fashion Easy Photoshoot Hacks
Easy Photoshoot Hacks You’ve learned some techniques and tools to craft your headpiece and light it up from James, Carrie, and Twila. Or you have a build you just completed. So now what? Just set it aside, make way for the next thing? Of course not! This is your moment, the big reveal: It’s your time to show off your awesome creation! Sharing is a really important step in the maker process: perhaps the MOST important step. WATCH LIVE on…
Find out more »Clay Creature Creations with Dave English
Clay Creature Creations with Dave English! Join professional puppeteer, storyteller, and clay creature wizard, Dave English, for an interactive original one of a kind adventure! Students will need to have some modeling clay on hand as Dave, an experienced performer and artist educator guides them through the process of creating sensational characters who go on exciting and surprising adventures that spring straight from the imaginations of the students. Want to join but don't have clay? You can send Dave Clay…
Find out more »Robot Haunted House with Code Joy Edu
Make a Robot Haunted House with Code Joy! Elby is nervous about riding through the Haunted House at the Little Bot Amusement Park. Perhaps he’d feel a bit more at ease if we turned up the Haunted House lights and took a closer look at the mechanisms that control the attraction. With your help, CodeJoy will reprogram the ghosts and goblins, then take a ride through the Haunted House as a class. Is it really so scary? CodeJoy participants will…
Find out more »Make Fashion Edu – Make Live
Make Fashion Edu Office Hours & Make Live Showcase your piece, share your process, or come with questions and get support from the MakeFashion Edu team Join us in our “Office Hours” and let's work together online and live. Showcase your piece, share your process, or come with questions and get support from the MakeFashion Edu team (and each other)! You can see the series here: https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PLos91ixZOUedMHSycO_ClQbUtD7BFNEWc <!-- Sign up here to participate live or simply watch live on the…
Find out more »The Mario Show
Mario the Maker Magician is back with The Mario Show! The Mario Show returns for two special Halloween shows for Maker Camp! Tune in LIVE for new interactive elements, Halloween crafts, giveaways, new “What If Kids Ruled the World” segments, and of course… spooky dance parties!!! Don't miss this special Halloween edition of What if Kids Ruled the World and Mario's Make of the week. #TheMarioShow #MakerCamp #WIKRTW Watch and comment LIVE on the Family Maker Camp Facebook page or…
Find out more »MoonMakers Pumpkins & Skulls
MoonMakers Halloween Special 👻 "Pumpkins and Skulls" En este especial de Halloween 👻 y Dia de Muertos 💀 de Maker Camp, Crearemos una ilusión óptica, donde una calabaza y una calavera, te seguiran con la mirada, esto es espeluznante ✂️ In this Halloween 👻 and Dia de Muertos 💀 special from Maker Camp, we will create an optical illusion, where a pumpkin and a skull will follow you with their eyes, this is spooky ✂️ Watch and comment LIVE on…
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