Makeshop™

A creative space to play with ideas, explore materials, and tinker with tools.

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Monsters in MAKESHOP

Adam King is a really cool maker with a really cool hobby.  He experiments with special effects and creates amazing monster masks and puppets.  It was so much fun to see MAKESHOP full of creepy monsters a couple of Saturdays ago.  We weren’t sure if kids would get scared about it, but Adam is so inviting that almost everyone was…

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Disguises

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A couple of days ago a family came into the MAKESHOP and made some masks. They were so much fun to interact with.  They were a genuinely goofy group of people.  The two boys immediately knew that they were going to make “bank robber” masks.  The mother and daughter designed and built a very intricate mask.  During this entire time there…

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