Come relive your best summer camp maker memories at the craft barn! All weekend we will have freeplay crafts that anyone can enjoy as well as guided workshops for more adventurous campers. Challenge your fellow campers in one of our creative contests and you might even take home a one of-a-kind prize!
Even if you haven’t made a craft since summer camp as a kid, we’ll be happy to get you started!
Free Play
These activities are available all weekend, whenever the craft barn is open
- Friendship Bracelets
- Papercraft
- Yarncraft
- Rubber Band Bracelets
- Buttons
- Work on your Pinecar Derby entry
- Work on your Popsicle Bridge Contest entry
- Add to the MAGStock Scrapbook
Free Workstation
Craft barn provides directions for specific themed crafts
- Glowing Toilet Paper Eyes
- Hanging Spider Webs
- Spider Pom Pom Pals
Workshops
Check the schedule for these events!
In The Craft Tent:
- Tie-dye
- Now bigger and better than ever! We are doing 2 sessions—Thursday afternoon and Friday morning in the Craft Tent! Bring your own pre-washed 100% cotton, hemp, or rayon clothes to dye or buy white MAGStock shirts, handkerchiefs, and towels at the MAGStock Merch Stand in the Hub! (Each session will have its own supply of dye. WE WILL NOT RUN OUT THIS TIME. WE BOUGHT SIX TIMES THE AMOUNT OF DYE. IF WE RUN OUT THE DH WILL SACRIFICE HIMSELF TO THE TURTLE.)
- Two Screenprinting Workshops
- DIY screenprinting. Like a stencil but less cutting and more squeegee-ing. Make your own screenprint for patches, shirts, stickers, posters. Substrates not included. Add your design to the MAGStock flag. (Sequential if you want to make your own screen design. Can go to second workshop without doing the first)
- https://imgur.com/IXgPwd6
- https://ignite.hamiltoneastpl.org/using-embroidery-hoops-as-silkscreen-frames/
- Build a Ham Radio Antenna!
- Ham radio operators are some weird folks. Come by and build a real working Yagi antenna from PVC and chopped up tape measures! BYO radio, but you can also borrow one of ours for testing.
- https://www.instructables.com/The-Tape-Measure-Antenna/
- Guided Pennant Painting
- Campers will be guided as they paint their very own pennant flag that can be displayed at camp or at home. Stencils and inspiration will be provided. We will also weatherproof pennants.
- https://www.facebook.com/share/1Hh5TZKmgF/
- Yarn dolls
- Learn how to make little dolls out of yarn! A traditional craft from Appalachia to Ukraine, simple poppet dolls can be a sweet sign of spring, a great stash-buster, or a spooky way to work a hex*. Come and learn how to fashion your own little guy/gal/pal today!
- *Void where prohibited. MAGStock is not liable for any curses, hexes, or other occult shenanigans.
- https://www.pbsutah.org/blogs/pbs-kids-utah/how-to-make-yarn-dolls/
- Bookbinding
- Create your first book using the pamphlet stitch. Come create a junk book with us that you can use to take notes, store stickers, and keep peoples phone numbers. Bring your own scrap paper if you want a specific design.
- https://www.starpointestudio.com/simple-pamphlet-stitch-book-step-by-step/
- Mixed Media Mosaic! ($5 material fee)
- Back by popular demand, but with a twist! Design and create an 8″ x 8″ hangable piece of art in mixed media mosaic! We’ll be using a variety of materials to create textural mosaics, including glass, ceramic tile, glass gems, beads, shells, and more! While materials and design templates are provided, you are welcome to incorporate items from home, like broken ceramics, jewelry, beads, etc… almost anything non-porous will work!
- Spooky Polymer Clay Charms!
- Always wanted skull earrings, but didn’t know where to start? Sculpt your own spooky jewelry and charms using polymer clay! We’ll have all the materials and instructors that will help guide you in making your year-round Halloween fashion dreams come true! ** Please note: since charms need to be baked, participants must come back to the craft barn at a later time to pick up their charms and/or assemble their jewelry.
- https://www.fimodiy.com/20-polymer-clay-halloween-earrings-ideas/
In The Craft Barn
- Old Skool Friendship Bracelet Hangout and Workshop
- Hey, Gen X and Millennials, remember when friendship bracelets were made from string? Come hang out and relive the old days of embroidery floss bracelets. Relearn the skills you had in middle school or learn them for the first time!
- Handspinning Workshop ($5 material fee)
- Do you enjoy fiber arts like knitting, crochet, weaving, or other ways of working with yarn? Are you interested in learning one of the most ancient crafts of humankind? Come learn the basics of spinning wool into yarn using a drop spindle in this beginner-friendly workshop!
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- Intro to Weaving ($5 material fee)
- Do you enjoy fiber arts like knitting or crochet? Are you interested in learning one of the most ancient crafts of humankind? Learn the basics of weaving by making a bookmark, coaster, or tiny tapestry! You’ll learn the first steps of making fabric from yarn and receive a kit with your own little loom to take home. If you participated in the handspinning workshop, you can even use your own hand-spun yarn!
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