We have three great options for different ages! At Home Tinkering Together (Ages 5-8) Parents and children working actively together at home Receive your Tinkering Tool Kit and activities in advance to explore at your own pace Online video instructions on demand Optional live 1/2 hr morning call with up to 6 other families to share and...
Ages: 7+ Currently Closed to the Public $20 for first 2 hours, then $10/hour Take a Virtual Tinkering Class or MakerChat or Online Summer Break Camp! Or register for in person summer camp! Inquiries regarding private and group class: mail@rediscovercenter.org Tool Training is required for Tinkering Club drop-in. For ages 6 and under, check...
Ages 7+ Saturdays and Sundays 2:00-4:00 PM* Currently Closed to the public or by appointment (6 child minimum) Take a Virtual Tinkering Class or MakerChat or Online Summer Break Camp! Or register for in person summer camp! Still accepting materials donations. Please email picture of donations to mail@rediscovercenter.org and we will let you know when you...
All Ages In person programming currently cancelled. Looking for ideas? Check out our Youtube Channel and Pedagogy Resources Page. Still accepting materials donations. Please email picture of donations to mail@rediscovercenter.org and we will let you know when you can come by to drop off. Creatively reuse our collection of upcycled materials to make fantastical...
Ages 7+ $400 for first 8 participants, $25 for each additional participant 120 minutes Tinkering Parties guide participants through a design challenge, themed build, or open studio sculpture play using tools, lumber, and upcycled materials. This workshop provides tool training and workshop access up to a maximum of 15 participating children. The party starts...
Ages: 4+ $300 for first 10 participants, $10 for each additional participant 60-90 minutes reDiscover's Upcycled Art Party package provides creative reuse art activities for up to a maximum of 25 participating children. Upcycled Art Parties are great for ages 4+, with specialized activities for young children, older children, teens, or adults. Each participant,...
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: Hand Saw Jig Saw Power Drill/Driver Chop Saw Drill Press Band Saw Utility Knife Canary Cutter Electric Cardboard Cutter Manual...
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...
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...
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....