Questions? Email makerspace@numulosgatos.org

Keep your kids reading this summer!  Crafty Readers is a new series of two-day reading clubs that is sure to appeal to book lovers and reluctant readers ages 8-11. Crafty readers will discuss a chosen chapter book and engage in book-related activities including making crafts and snacks, and engage with the book in a variety of fun ways. Readers will also keep a writing journal for discussion points, reflective writing, or artistic interpretation of reading that they can show off during book club. This will be a real page turner of a camp! Be sure to reserve a place before we're all booked up!

  • Each Crafty Reader session is held over two consecutive Fridays. 
  • Snacks will be provided for all participants, please include any food restrictions in the registration form. 
  • Participants must buy or borrow their own copy of the book. 
  • Participants must pick up their reading journal at NUMU (during regular museum hours) the week before camp in order to be able to discuss the book for the first meeting.
  • Parents/guardians must bring registration receipt on the first day of camp. 
  • Parents/guardians are responsible for signing campers in and out with a Camp NU staff member, and completing an emergency contact form on the first day of camp.

Upcoming Crafty Readers Sessions:

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Crafty Readers: Thorfinn the Nicest Viking Book 1
Jul 13

Crafty Readers: Thorfinn the Nicest Viking
(Thorfinn and the Awful Invasion)


July 13 & 20 | 10am-12pm

Ages: 7-10
Location: New Museum Los Gatos, 106 E. Main St, Los Gatos
Fee: $85 ($65 advance price, if booked at least 3 weeks prior to camp)
If you have questions, please email makerspace@numulosgatos.org

Thorfinn comes from a long line of ferocious, rampaging Vikings... But Thorfinn is a peace-loving, tea-drinking, jam-making thoroughly nice Viking. The first book introduces Thorfinn and explains how he got his Viking name (Thorfinn the Very-Very-Nice-Indeed).

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Crafty Readers: Thorfinn the Nicest Viking Book 1
Jul 20

Crafty Readers: Thorfinn the Nicest Viking
(Thorfinn and the Awful Invasion)


July 13 & 20 | 10am-12pm

Ages: 7-10
Location: New Museum Los Gatos, 106 E. Main St, Los Gatos
Fee: $85 ($65 advance price, if booked at least 3 weeks prior to camp)
If you have questions, please email makerspace@numulosgatos.org

Thorfinn comes from a long line of ferocious, rampaging Vikings... But Thorfinn is a peace-loving, tea-drinking, jam-making thoroughly nice Viking. The first book introduces Thorfinn and explains how he got his Viking name (Thorfinn the Very-Very-Nice-Indeed).

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Crafty Readers: The Haunted Library
Jul 27

Crafty Readers: The Haunted Library (Book One)


July 27 & August 3 | 10am-12pm

Ages: 7-10
Location: New Museum Los Gatos, 106 E. Main St, Los Gatos
Fee: $85 ($65 advance price, if booked at least 3 weeks prior to camp)
If you have questions, please email makerspace@numulosgatos.org


When ghost boy Kaz’s haunt is torn down and he is separated from his ghost family, he meets a real girl named Claire, who lives above the town library with her parents and her grandmother. Claire has a special ability to see ghosts when other humans cannot and she and Kaz quickly form a friendship. The two join forces to solve the mystery of the ghost that’s haunting the library. Could it be one of Kaz’s lost family members?

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Crafty Readers: The Haunted Library
Aug 3

Crafty Readers: The Haunted Library (Book One)


July 27 & August 3 | 10am-12pm

Ages: 7-10
Location: New Museum Los Gatos, 106 E. Main St, Los Gatos
Fee: $85 ($65 advance price, if booked at least 3 weeks prior to camp)
If you have questions, please email makerspace@numulosgatos.org

When ghost boy Kaz’s haunt is torn down and he is separated from his ghost family, he meets a real girl named Claire, who lives above the town library with her parents and her grandmother. Claire has a special ability to see ghosts when other humans cannot and she and Kaz quickly form a friendship. The two join forces to solve the mystery of the ghost that’s haunting the library. Could it be one of Kaz’s lost family members?

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Crafty Readers: The Great Cake Mystery
Aug 10

Crafty Readers: The Great Cake Mystery


August 10 & 17 | 10am-12pm

Ages: 8-11
Location: New Museum Los Gatos, 106 E. Main St, Los Gatos
Fee: $85 ($65 advance price, if booked at least 3 weeks prior to camp)
If you have questions, please email makerspace@numulosgatos.org


Have you ever said to yourself, Wouldn’t it be nice to be a detective? This is the story of an African girl who says just that. Her name is Precious. When a piece of cake goes missing from her classroom, a traditionally built young boy is tagged as the culprit. Precious, however, is not convinced. She sets out to find the real thief. Along the way she learns that your first guess isn’t always right. She also learns how to be a detective.

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Crafty Readers: The Great Cake Mystery
Aug 17

Crafty Readers: The Great Cake Mystery


August 10 & 17 | 10am-12pm

Ages: 8-11
Location: New Museum Los Gatos, 106 E. Main St, Los Gatos
Fee: $85 ($65 advance price, if booked at least 3 weeks prior to camp)
If you have questions, please email makerspace@numulosgatos.org

Have you ever said to yourself, Wouldn’t it be nice to be a detective? This is the story of an African girl who says just that. Her name is Precious. When a piece of cake goes missing from her classroom, a traditionally built young boy is tagged as the culprit. Precious, however, is not convinced. She sets out to find the real thief. Along the way she learns that your first guess isn’t always right. She also learns how to be a detective.

Click Here to Register