These resources are aimed at helping children learn through making in home, school, and community settings. The Tool Use Onesheets are part of our official documentation for Tinkering Programs at reDiscover. Tool Use Onesheets: Tool Use Onesheets: Canary Cutter Hot Glue Gun Pliers/Snips Screw Driver Hand Saw Jig Saw Power Drill/Driver Chop Saw Drill Press...
Make amazing things at Cardboard Camp! Learn how to use Tinkering Tools and build projects big and small out of cardboard and extension materials like skewers, mylar, and Makedo. Each day includes skills-building activities, project prompts like costuming, vehicles, models, and mechanisms, and open build time to make projects as wild as your imagination. Facilitated...
Ages 8+, teens and adults welcome Sundays 10:00 AM-1:00 PM $30 Registration required Prerequisite: successful completion of Tool Training Workshop or full week Tinkering Camp within the past 12 months, or permission of the Facilitator. Up to three hours of shop time with all the tools and materials at reDiscover! You will have the...
Ages 7+ Sundays 10:00-12:00 PM* Pre-registration Required Welcome to the workshop! Get trained on our safety-oriented Tinkering Mindset. Learn how to properly use safety equipment like eye, dust, and hearing protection. Learn the safe operation of clamps, hand drills, hand saws, jig saw, and chop saw. No one with open toed shoes, loose hair, or...
Saturday and Sunday, by reservation only 10:00 AM, 11:30 AM, 1:30 PM, or 3:00 PM. Weekend Family Crafting will be closed on 12/24/22, 12/25/22, 12/31/22, and 01/01/23 $45/family for up to 2 adults and 3 children 75 minutes of crafty fun All tools and materials included Book a reDiscover's Family Crafting reservation and have a...
Ages: 4+ $350 for first 10 participants, $12 for each additional participant At this time, we are not holding birthday parties for those under 7 years old. Thank you for your understanding. Please fill out a booking request form or contact us at 310-393-3636 to determine the right program for your group. reDiscover's Upcycled Art Party...
reDiscover Center has been serving the California Homeschooling Community since 2016, and is an approved vendor for several Charter Schools. Student Enrichment Funds may be used for all of our programs including Tinkering Club, Tool Training, Crafting Corner, Tinkering School LA classes and camps plus custom workshops. Please call 310-393-3636 for more details, or email...
by Barb Noren, Lead Tinkering Facilitator, reDiscover Center There are a few different modes of building that I’ve observed: tinkering, prototyping, and making. These modes are flexible and overlapping, but have different intentions, benefits, and challenges. Tinkering is experimentation; often open-ended, without an end goal. You may reach one, but pure tinkering doesn’t have explicit...
by Barb Noren, Lead Tinkering Facilitator, reDiscover Center Young minds have a distinct advantage: their minds are flexible in a way that adult minds aren’t. They have great capacity for imagining wild combinations, they’re open to learning new things (it is their full-time job, after all), and they are capable of extremely inventive solutions. With...
Stuck trying to come up with tinkering ideas? Use the lists below as a tinkering prompt generator! Take a word from the first list (Modes of Tinkering) and pair it with a word from the second list (Topics for Tinkering) to start you on your way! Examples: Origami + Underwater = an aquarium full of...