Calling all homeschoolers, noschoolers, and curious kids! Come tinker, explore, and discover how things work in this relaxed, low-pressure, hands-on session. Take apart and experiment with electro-mechanical gadgets—from voice boxes and message makers to simple circuits, switches, motors, and more. Work at your own pace, follow your curiosity, and make it as hands-on as you like.No experience necessary—just a willingness to mess around. Both sessions are led by a mother-and-son tinkering team with a shared love of figuring out how things work. Tuesday’s session includes a one-hour break for kids to grab lunch or a snack, recharge, and hang out before getting back to tinkering. Suggested donation: $15 Both sessions are led by a mother-and-son tinkering team, so you know this is something the whole family can enjoy! Suggested donation: $15

No plans? No problem. Drop in, grab some cardboard, and see what happens. Build a robot, a castle, a creature, a contraption—or something we haven't thought of yet. Use our tools and materials, experiment, take things apart, start over, and make it your own. Maker and MakerPlus Members are free, others pay $15 No instructions. No finished product required. Just ideas, materials, and a space to make them happen.

Come learn how to expand your Cardboard Universe in a BIG way...well, big on a miniature scale. Take some of your first steps into the world of puppetry by making your own toy theater and paperboard puppets. Don't let the small scale fool you, though--these little theaters have been used for centuries not only as toys but also as a way theatre professionals would communicate their ideas for grand scale shows and operas before we had computers to make scale models. Plus, they have been used by puppet professionals to make all manner of miniature mayhem.

Join your fellow adventurers and enter The Corrugated Kingdom—our very own tabletop role-playing game! Create your own character, develop their skills and attributes, build the world they’ll explore, and even 3D-print your character using Hero Forge. Then it’s time to suit up, light the torches, and map the vast underground network of tunnels that runs throughout the kingdom!

This is our first year participating in the festival, and we’re making it special by inviting everyone to help create what just might become the festival’s most incredible miniature display! We can’t reveal the whole plan just yet, but we can tell you this: there will be lots of moving parts, plenty of surprises, and a whole lot of wonder.