Join NUMU this March to commemorate Irish-American Heritage Month through the cultural art of Celtic knots. The diversity of Celtic knots throughout woven, rock-carved, painted, and printed works is a timeless and ongoing practice. Visitors will be able to use pipe cleaners to make three types of Celtic knots: the triquesta, heart, and dara knots.

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Travel back to the 1960s and design your own paper doll with fashions inspired by NUMU’s exhibition I Know A Place. Using cut pattern paper and colored pencils, mix and match outfits in this drop-in activity located in the MakerSpace.

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Inspired by book and fiber artist Jody Alexander, you are invited to drop into the makerspace and create your own accordion book. You will learn how to fold and glue pages to create twelve spaces, one for each month of the year.

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Visit NUMU in December to create your own beaded tassel ornament. Explore using yarn, beads, and color to create your own tassel design inspired by the holiday season. Hang it on a tree, attach it to a wrapped present, or share as a handmade gift.

Join NUMU this November for DIY drawstring pouches! Plan and cut the fabric. Then, learn how to create a running stitch to turn it into a sachet. This nifty craft brings together stitchery and utility.

Make paper nichos and tissue paper marigolds for le Día de Los Muertos!

Celebrate this spooky season this October with NUMU by making popsicle spiderwebs and yarn-wrapped mummies!

Join NUMU this September as we bid a final farewell to summer with these crafting favorites, the beaded gecko and lanyard keychain! Make a stylish beaded gecko or a box-stitch lanyard charm, great for both fashion and function. These charms can be used to stylize your backpack or differentiate your keys.

Join NUMU this July to make Popsicle Stick Frames! Create and decorate a popsicle stick frame to display your summer memories or your own artwork!

Join NUMU this July to make a paper mosaic with construction paper! Step into our MakerSpace and snip, clip, and glue various colors and styles of paper to make a mosaic and explore shattering scenes or melding colors.

Need a last-minute gift for Mother’s Day? We got you covered! Join us at NUMU this Mother’s Day weekend to make tissue paper flowers for mom in our MakerSpace! Choose from a variety of colored tissue paper to create a unique, handmade gift for the mother-figure in your life. No matter what you decide, it’ll make an unforgettable impression.

Need a last-minute gift for Mother’s Day? We got you covered! Join us at NUMU this Mother’s Day weekend to make tissue paper flowers for mom in our MakerSpace! Choose from a variety of colored tissue paper to create a unique, handmade gift for the mother-figure in your life. No matter what you decide, it’ll make an unforgettable impression.

Make a special card for a special someone! Use stamps and scrapbook paper to design a custom card that shows you care! Materials for this activity will be available in our Makerspace during regular hours.

Do you love the frames of artist Holly Lane’s Not Enough Time to Love the World? Make your own mini frame

Get into the holiday spirit at NUMU’s MakerSpace! Join us for a fun-filled session of festive creativity as we create charming, one-of-a-kind ornaments and keychains using wooden beads, perfect for decorating your tree or gifting to someone special.

“Something wicked this way comes” to NUMU this Halloween season! Celebrate with us by making spooky origami. Through the art of origami, paper changes into new shapes, familiar and frightening! You can make a bat, a cat, or a pumpkin!

Visit our MakerSpace during museum open hours, Thurs-Sun, August 22-25, to create your own tessellation pattern and the boundaries it forms! Artists of all levels are welcome to join. Materials will be provided, free with admission.

Art always starts somewhere, a line, a shape, a figure, or landscape. Starting Point Sketches in NUMU’s MakerSpace will have visitors creating new drawings from simple shapes, over and over again! Choose a paper with a shape, sketch over it on parchment paper, and see what a difference it makes.

We invite visitors back into our MakerSpace to learn the art method of frottage in leaf rubbings. Through this activity, you will explore nature’s textures and patterns using crayons and paper. Artists use this technique to add natural, visual texture to their works.

We invite visitors back into our MakerSpace to learn the art method of frottage in leaf rubbings. Through this activity, you will explore nature’s textures and patterns using crayons and paper. Artists use this technique to add natural, visual texture to their works.

Dates: Monday June 21- Friday June 25
Times: 1-3pm PST
Cost: $160 + $ materials fee due on the first day of class
Ages: 8-12
Location: New Museum Los Gatos, Outside

Dates: Monday June 14- Friday June 18
Times: 1-3pm PST
Cost: $160 + $ materials fee due on the first day of class
Ages: 8-12
Location: New Museum Los Gatos, Outside

Dates: Monday June 7- Friday June 11
Times: 1-3pm PST
Cost: $160 + $ materials fee due on the first day of class
Ages: 8-12
Location: New Museum Los Gatos, Outside

Dates: Monday July 27 - Friday July 31
Times: 9:45-11:45am
Cost: $160 + $15 materials fee due on the first day of class
Age: 7-12

Dates: Monday July 20 - Friday July 24
Times: 9:45-11:45am
Cost: $160 + $15 materials fee due on the first day of class
Ages: 7-12
Location: New Museum Los Gatos