Illuminate your imagination! Puppet Showplace Theater artists will demonstrate the many amazing ways you can bring classic stories and characters to life using light, shadow, and everyday materials. Visitors can drop in, make your own puppet character and bring it to life on stage!
Ages 5+ with an adult
Ever wonder how pop-up books are made? Do you like to color? How would you like to take your coloring project and make it pop off the page? Join us for a hands-on interactive workshop where we will color and create a charming pop-up project for you to take home. It might inspire you to transform your (or your child’s) written stories by adding the interactive magic of pop-ups. Sponsored and conducted by Denise Price, award-winning paper engineer, book artist, and author of Boston’s only pop-up book, The Freedom Trail Pop Up Book of Boston. Appropriate for all age levels, from kids to coloring connoisseurs.
Ages 7+
In fabulous graphic novel adventures like Lowriders to the Center of the Earth, Raúl Gonzalez (aka Raúl III) conjures up creative characters and takes them up into space and down to the underworld—all with just the power of his imagination and a few ballpoint pens. In this workshop, Raúl III will help kids find the stories they already have inside them, and guide them through the process of creating a character or scene that will get them started on their own wild storytelling ride.
Ages 8+
From crocodile-like Crystal Palace monsters to our modern birdlike pals, our idea of what dinosaurs looked like has changed a lot since we first dug them up. In this hands-on workshop, led by cartoonist and author of the new book Dinosaur Empire! Abby Howard, you'll learn all about the fossils that changed the face of dinosaurs, learn how paleontologists decide what these animals looked like using old bones, and draw your own interpretation of an ancient beast using a skeleton and your own imagination!
Ages 7–12
