We’re delighted to announce our Workshops for this year’s Inventgenuity Festival. You can sign-up online now ($8.25 per workshop) for your child, aged 7 and up. Plus there are plenty of other cool things to do. See you next weekend.
Bobblebody Clones
Construct a spring-bodied self-portrait kinetic sculpture.
Fantastical Body Part Ink Prints Dream up Dragon snouts, Unicorn horns, Elf ears, Phoenix wings and make fantastical anatomical prints. Then we’ll join them all together to build one big crazy monster poster print.
Crawling Creature Bots
Invent new life forms that skitter and crawl on table and floor. Using wire wrapping tools, you’ll create a battery “clip” to turn your creatures on/off by with a coin cell battery.
LED Night Blooms
Turn plastic bags into colorful flowers that shine in the dark. Using photo-resistors and LEDs, you’ll make a glowing wearable button or badge for jacket or backpack.
Oldenburg Bacteria Sculptures
Using the techniques of artist Claes Oldenburg as a starting point, tranform tissue paper, glue and cardboard into your own version of one of living matter’s building blocks.
Electronic Moisture Sensors
Build a handy electronic device using acrylic, batteries and LEDs that measures conductivity in soil, dough or anywhere dryness is the enemy. Never again let a plant die or bite into a stale pastry!
Wooden Plantimals
The sawdust will fly as you design, cut-out and assemble a planter shaped like your favorite pet. Actual plant included!
GREAT FREE DROP-IN ACTIVITIES
This year’s Festival Project, the WIND FARM, is an inflatable garden installation of pneumatically-enhanced agriculture. Kids will design, cut and sew their own textile-based plants brought to life by a hand-cranked (and hand-built) impeller fan. Participation in the project is free as are demonstrations that will include Indie Arcade Games from DBA Arcade Cabinets, Paper Airplane Launching by Nerdy Derby, and Glue Gun Sculpture by Gerb’s Garage.
WHEN:11AM-5PM • Saturday, January 21 and Sunday, January 22, 2017 WHERE: PS 32/MS 442, Union Street (between Hoyt & Bond), Brooklyn • F/G to Carroll Street Free admission
Workshops for kids 7 years old and older
Bobblebody Clones
Dream up Dragon snouts, Unicorn horns, Elf ears, Phoenix wings and make fantastical anatomical prints. Then we’ll join them all together to build one big crazy monster poster print.
Crawling Creature Bots
LED Night Blooms
Oldenburg Bacteria Sculptures
Electronic Moisture Sensors
Wooden Plantimals