Makeshop™

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

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Ready to Glow!

Every month we have a different theme, putting in activities that are new and different. December’s theme is GLOW. We’re preparing a whole lot of new activities like blacklight drawing and glowing putty, and keeping in some favorites like light painting and stop motion!  We might even have real glowing mushrooms (proven non-toxic non-poisonous.) There will also be GLOW activities…

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Light Painting Results

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We have finally gone beyond the prototyping stage of Light Painting.  Rebecca explained a lot about the process in this blog post.  I have had some more time to set up the workshop side of MAKESHOP to better facilitate light painting with our visitors.  The exploration of this technique is really fun.  I have had kids and adults of all…

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