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Mustache Straw Craft

Mustache Straw Craft

You can add a mustache to anything and it instantly becomes adorable! Get creative and make a mustache straw to enjoy your next cool drink in style. Slurrrpppp!

Pirate Hat Craft

Pirate Hat Craft

Get ready to sail the Seven Seas! Mia shows you how to fold newspaper into a pirate hat in this clip from Camp TV. Tape it in place and decorate it however you want!

Witch’s Cauldron Prints

Witch’s Cauldron Prints

Join Ciana the Witch as she brews potions to make beautiful cauldron prints in this clip from the Children’s Museum of the Arts. Combine water, dish soap, and food coloring in a bowl, blow some bubbles, and press them on a piece of paper. Try all sorts of color combinations to make the best pattern!

Magic Tube Optical Illusion

Magic Tube Optical Illusion

Join Mia in exploring the world of optical illusions and how they are a big component to many magic tricks. Using, light, patterns and color to trick the mind, you will be creating your own magic tube!

Create an Optical Toy: Thaumatrope

Create an Optical Toy: Thaumatrope

In this clip from the Metropolitan Museum, we will be making a thaumatrope. A thaumatrope is a popular 19th century toy that uses optics and speed to make images blend as one or appear as if they are moving.

Worry Doll Craft

Worry Doll Craft

It always helps to share your feelings with someone else. Zach shares how to make a worry doll from Guatemala to out of pipe cleaners and yarn. Make your new friend, then talk to it, and stick it under your pillow so it can make your worries disappear.

Laundry Basket Skee Ball

Laundry Basket Skee Ball

Why wait for the carnival to come to you when you can build your own carnival? Learn about Skee-Ball, a carnival game invented in the 1900s. Then, make your own Skee-Ball game out of cardboard and play it in your backyard!

Paper Basket Weaving Craft

Paper Basket Weaving Craft

Join Mia and make your own basket out of construction paper. Learn basic weaving and try the over-under technique to create baskets out of your favorite colors!

Scavenger Hunt Rainbows

Scavenger Hunt Rainbows

Ciana Malchione from the Children’s Museum of the Arts shows how to make a scavenger hunt rainbow out of cardboard, paint, nature, and recycled material. Learn color mixing and creative ways to add nature to your art, then hang up your beautiful new rainbow!

Unicorn Slime Craft

Unicorn Slime Craft

Real-life unicorns are hard to find, but Zach shows how to make the next best thing with unicorn slime. Combine water, shampoo, cornstarch, and food coloring for mushy fun!