Come relive your best summer camp maker memories at the craft barn! All weekend we will have freeplay crafts that anyone can enjou 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
- Work on your Pinecar Derby entry
- Work on your Popsicle Bridge Contest entry
- Work on your Egg Drop Contest entry
- Add to the MAGStock Scrapbook
Free Workstation
Craft barn provides directions for specific themed crafts
- Leather pouches
- Cardboard lantern fly
- Blooming hairclip
Workshops
Check the schedule for these events!
In The Craft Tent:
- Tie-dye
- Paper Quilling
- Learn to make delicate designs using rolled thin strips of paper. Pikmin patterns will be available or make your own designs.
- Egg Drop Ship Making
- After getting pretty shook-up crashing landing your spaceship here, a re-design is definitely in order. Come build and test out your new spaceship design in MAGstock’s first ever egg-drop competition! We will have a variety of materials for you to build a cozy craft to protect your egg-stronaut then drop them in our state of the art testing zone to see who’s designs will be successful and who’s will break-up on impact..
- https://www.sciencebuddies.org/stem-activities/egg-drop
- https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/egg-drop/
- Shrinky Dinks
- Draw your favorite character on plastic and watch it shrink into a tiny charm to put on a friendship bracelet, phone, or keys!
- Pokémon Card Meet, Trade, and Decorate!
- Come by to meet up and share your Pokémon or other TCG collections, do a little trading if you like, and decorate a toploader sleeve for displaying your fave card! Many materials will be provided, but feel free to bring along stickers if you have some that you want to use! It is not mandatory to bring actual cards nor trade your cards to just participate in the craft portion of the activity!
- Sketchbook Swap
- All skill levels are welcome! This is about sharing creativity and connecting with fellow artists! Feel free to bring reference sheets and prompts if you have any original character designs! We have spare paper and pencils if you don’t have a sketchbook!
- https://imgur.com/a/HwH5Cjx
- https://imgur.com/a/b085mOx
- Open Terrarium Planters ($5 material fee)
- Make your own mini living terrarium just using an open container, a succulent, potting materials, and fun decorative elements! Please note: this is an open terrarium and is more planter-like since we will be using succulents, NOT tropical plants! We will have some jars and planters available, but please feel free to bring your own container with *at least* a 3″ in diameter opening and 4″ or more deep, glass or glazed ceramics are preferred. Think mason jar! $5 donation per succulent.
- Getting Started with Cross Stitch
- Learn to cross stitch! Make a cute cross stitch project of a video game character or our very own MAGStock Fruitmin. No experience needed, all levels welcome.
- Hand Built Clay Critter Pots ($5 material fee)
- Learn to make an animal themed clay pot by hand! We’ll use pinch pot, coil building and/or sculpting techniques to make a pot all your own. Make a dog! Make a cat! Make a rat! Make a possum! Don’t want a critter pot with ears and a tail? Make whatever you want, I don’t care! (J/K I care deeply that you have a fun and artistically fulfilling time). We will use air dry clay with the option to paint your piece or even knead paint into your clay. Come make and meet your new cute friend!
- https://www.etsy.com/listing/735623160/cat-mini-planters-handmade-clay-planters?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_-home_and_living&utm_custom1=_k_CjwKCAjw5NvPBhAoEiwA_2egfr7pgUVmlQBJ4CbmAnnXlpA82NgDHpuQfce1GmAd-5F4n4Cs8DbCQhoCNvAQAvD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_21500569335_164907277123_707558291654_aud-2320558161823:pla-303628061699_c__735623160_142200552&utm_custom2=21500569335
In The Craft Barn
- Power Tool Safety
- Learn how to safely operate the scroll saw, belt/disk sander, and drill press. Attendance is REQUIRED to operate the machines yourself during the Craft Barn Contest Power Hours.
- Craft Barn Contest Power Hour
- Come work on your submissions for either the pinecar derby or Bridge building contest with your friends and opponents! The scroll saw, disk/belt sander, and drill press will be available to help speed up the construction process. ATTENDEES WHO DID NOT ATTEND THE POWER TOOL SAFETY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE THE MACHINES THEMSELVES. A MAGFest Staff member will work the machines based on your guidance.