Giant Aquarium

Start with the tank: a twenty foot ring of cardboard with a blue-tinted plastic ceiling.  Paint the inside like an undersea landscape.  Create puppets of fish, squids, whales, sharks and urchins to populate the aquarium.  Make diving gear to explore. Last, but not least, attach an observation room with windows to look in the tank;…

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Designs for the Concrete Wave: Skateboards

Design, shape and glue up your own deck.  Attach trucks and wheels.  Create stencils for spray-on graphics.  Slap a little grip tape.  Skate the afternoons away.  You can soup up a basic street design or create a longboard.  Only standard street-style trucks and wheels supplied.    

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Lairs and Dwellings: Faeries

Nymphs of the Seeley Court or goblins of the Unseeley, what do the tales tell about where these beings live?  Will they come if  ‘houses’ are made for them?  Visit parks and woodland spots to find places objects to craft their dwellings.  Twig tipis?  Leaf lairs? Bark bungalows?  Hollowed-log halls?  Do urban faeries adapt to…

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The Playhouse

Starting with the simple magic of refrigerator boxes we cut, twist and shape them into our own playhouses.  Adding new rooms, houses and buildings each day a town unfolds with a thousand possibilities for creative play.  Fold it all up and take it home when the week is over.

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Paper Fretted Orchestra

Make soprano, bass or baritone guitars to complete your own community “Paper Fretted Orchestra.” Yes paper, and yes playable. We use actual luthier’s plans adapted to cardboard construction.

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Planetariums and other Inhabitable Polyhedrons

In this class we explore how to construct large-scale polyhedrons using cardboard, then design structures to play in. A group project will be to construct a small but usable planetarium to host projections of the night sky.

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Paper Boats

Discuss basic principles of buoyancy and create life-sized boats of cardboard and wax to paddle or row.

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Castle (extended residency)

A weeklong program with multiple activities and possibilities for extended creative play; several groups design and build a castle focusing on the use of the spaces inside.

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