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  • Theme 1: Fantasy

    Make: believe with the magic behind the movies, ending with a Maker Camp Film Fest.

  • Theme 2: Funkytown

    Make some instruments, then make some noise in the Maker Camp Battle of the Bands.

  • Theme 3: Farmstead

    Sustainable energy, food, architecture, and craft that bridge across centuries, all shared in the Maker Camp County Fair.

  • Theme 4: Fun & Games

    Roll out the fun with games you make yourself, then challenge your friends with a Maker Camp Carnival.

  • Theme 5: Flight

    Take off in this make-off of all things that zip and zoom above our heads, culminating in the Maker Camp Air Show.

  • Theme 6: Far-Out Future

    Step into the future with personal fab projects using new materials, and strut your shiny stuff in a Wearables Wonderland and Robot Runway

  • Camp video

    Explore

    Welcome to Fun & Games Week! Burke and Paloma play the Maker Camp game, and we Get Inspired with some excellent footage of DIY carnival games and neat automata.

  • Camp video

    Make

    Rebecca shows us the principles of making a Marble Run using cardboard tubes.

  • Camp video

    Share

    Where's Burke? Paloma causes unintentional trouble in the Maker Camp Cabin.

Our Fun & Games week kicks off today, and we’ll be exploring all kinds of ways of making things that make us say ha, ooh, aah. Today we make roller coasters for marbles. At the end of the week, you can challenge your friends with games you make yourself in the Maker Camp Carnival.