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Imaginary Friends from Recycled Materials

In Disney and Pixar’s hit animated feature Inside Out, Bing Bong is Riley’s special imaginary friend who is part cat, part elephant and part dolphin, with a body made of cotton candy. What is your imaginary friend made of? Join us in MAKESHOP as we create imaginary friends using recycled materials.   This program is […]

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Game Design

Have you ever wanted to invent your own game? Use your imagination and game logic to create a new pastime, then share it with other visitors.

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MAKESHOP: Recycled Scuplture

Join us in MAKESHOP as we reuse and repurpose household materials into sculptures of all shapes and sizes. Find inspiration in the shapes, patterns, textures, and colors of everyday objects, then try various attachment methods to build your own creation.

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MAKESHOP: Wind Tunnel

How does air make things move? Experiment with different materials and place your creations into a wind tunnel. Can you make things soar, tumble, fly or fall?

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MAKESHOP: Plastic Fusion

Explore how heat changes the properties of plastic! Join us in MAKESHOP as we use heat tools to fuse recycled plastic together. What textures and colors do you see? How can you make something new out of plastic scraps?

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MAKESHOP: Circuit Block Building

Join us this weekend in MAKESHOP to help us build Circuit Blocks. Take apart old electronic devices and use simple hand tools to transform them into museum exhibit components! We'll be working collaboratively throughout the weekend on different parts of the process.

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MAKESHOP: Cardboard Building

What’s special about the way cardboard can bend, move, fold, and provide support?  Make new discoveries about this everyday material as we build sculptures, structures, and more using all kinds of cardboard.