Arts & Crafts

Get hands-on and channel your creativity into arts and crafts. You’ll learn to build your own magic props from scratch and plan an amazing show using sleight of hand, mesmerizing tricks, and professional performance techniques. Then it’s time to invent as you use engineering to make musical contraptions and manipulate simple paper into fantastic models.

Adventure Content

Making Magic

Flea Circus Coin Magic 45-60 min.

A coin disappears right before our audience’s eyes and re-appears in a spectator’s hand, flea circus style.

Mario the Maker Magician

Funny Flower 45-60 min

Make a paper flower magically wilt (or headbang!!) at your command!

Mario the Maker Magician

Balancing Tower of Awesomeness 45-60 min

Various elements from our show thus far will be carefully constructed into an impossibly balanced Tower of Awesomeness.

Mario the Maker Magician

Balloon Car Card Trick 30 min

Let’s make a homemade balloon-powered toy car! And then, let’s do magic with it!

Mario the Maker Magician

Invention Craft

Make Edible Paper in 3 Easy Steps 1-3 Hours

Whip up this edible paper and use it for secret messages, decorative foods, and more!

Kathy Ceceri

Geodesic Dome 2-3 Hours

Geodesic domes don't just look cool. Create this Geodesic Dome out of newspaper and observe its strength.

Kathy Ceceri

Tabletop Tetrahedron 1-2 hours

A tabletop tetrahedron is like a mini pyramid. To build it, you need to construct lots of smaller tetrahedrons and stack them like building blocks

Kathy Ceceri

Self-Folding Paper Models 2-3 hours

Use the following templates to make some simple self-folding models. Then get creative and design some of your own!

Kathy Ceceri

Origami Frog 1-3 Hours

Create an adorable light-up origami jumping frog with LED eyes!

Kathy Ceceri

Cobble Together a Low-Tech Music Box 1-3 Hours

Create a Low-Tech Music Box using household objects!

Kathy Ceceri

Musical Marble Run 2-3 hours

Create your own marble run and see how many different kinds of sounds you can create by letting marbles roll and drop through your marble run!

Kathy Ceceri

T-Shirt Yarn Knotted Headband 1-2 hours

Transform an old t-shrit into a classy knotted headband.

Kathy Ceceri

No Sew T-shirt Tote Bag up to 1 hour

Find out what makes t-shirts stretchy and strong, and see how to turn a retired wearable into a no-sew shopping tote.

Kathy Ceceri

Capillary Action Sun Prints up to 1 hour

Try making a Capillary Action Sun Print and see what kind of effects you can create!

Kathy Ceceri

Whip Up Some Juicy Edible Gelatin Dots 1-3 Hours

Make these little beads of gelatin in any flavor you like and add them to salads, ice cream, or in a glass of soda!

Kathy Ceceri

Homemade Peeps 2 hours

Make and customize your homemade marshmallow peeps in any way you like!

Kathy Ceceri

Build a Simple Camp Stove from a Tin Can 1-3 Hours

A can of cardboard and wax fuels this simple homemade outdoor stove.

Kathy Ceceri

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