by Noella Noelophile®
Remember, back in school, how much fun it was to make Christmas gifts?
Those painted clothespin letter-holders, yarn-covered cardboard picture frames and juice-can pencil holders we proudly decorated and presented on Christmas morning?
International Printing Museum, in Carson, remembers. This Saturday, December 11th, they’re hosting “Holiday Krafts Day for Kids”!
Except–you don’t have to literally be a kid, to participate. We “tall kids” are welcome, too. You get to settle in for a December day of crafting and learning new skills.
And the Museum has an extra, after-December-25th Christmas present for us “bigger kids”! But we’ll get to that.
For “Holiday Krafts Day”, they’re hosting a family-friendly day of crafting. Attendees get to make ornaments, wrapping paper, tags and other exciting Christmas- or holiday-themed fun items. The event runs from 10 am to 4 pm, but you may well want to show up around 10:00 that morning and plan on spending the day.
So, what are some of the new skills you’ll be able to learn, and put to use, to make something fun? Paper marbling, papermaking, screenprinting, origami, bookbinding and calligraphy, are listed among the various media the Museum’s onsite artisans will be demonstrating. You may also get to silkscreen some T-shirts!
Tours of the facility will be offered. Nonprofit International Printing Museum houses one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive collections of antique printing machinery and graphic arts equipment. And that means you’ll get to observe these antique presses in action!
Here’s the link for more information about “Holiday Krafts Day for Kids”, happening from 10 am to 4 pm, this Saturday, December 11th.
Now–the additional present.
If you’ve ever envied Charles Dickens his ability to self-publish A Christmas Carol as a beautiful, cloth-bound first edition–you may soon be able to do the same with your literary masterpiece. Minus the headaches that Dickens had!
In early 2022, the International Printing Museum plans to open their new Book Arts Institute teaching lab! Book binding, paper arts, and printing will be among the classes they offer, according to a recent email from the Museum.
I’ll keep you posted on their schedule as soon as it becomes available.