Tiny Tinkering Camp > Rising Kindergartner | Kids Out and About Charlotte

Tiny Tinkering Camp > Rising Kindergartner

Mini makers, unite! As they take things apart, put things together, build with LEGO bricks and design new creations, campers will explore the questions: What can I do with this? How does that work? And why did that happen?

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Themes Explored:
• The engineering design process: Asking questions, identifying problems, making plans, prototyping solutions, understanding data, iterating, drawing conclusions, sharing results, and working together
• Properties of materials, the capabilities of tools, and how and when to use them
• Fine motor skills and artmaking processes

Camp Activities Include:
• Using a wide variety of tools safely, intentionally, and creatively
• Building stable structures at different scales
|• Designing working inventions based on simple machines
• Learning how animals engineer solutions to challenges in the natural world
• Exploring process art using unconventional mixed media, fiber, and sculptural materials

Highlights:
• Finding simple machines at play in Discovery Place’s Cool Stuff exhibition
• Developing designs that fly through the Flutter Tubes and cascade down the Water Table
• Exploring architecture in the Project Build exhibition
• Learn about the tools of marine biologists and oceanographers in our travelling exhibition, OceanXPerienc


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Location:

168 W. 6th Street
Charlotte, NC, 28202
United States

Phone:

704.372.6261
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Dates: 
07/14/2025
08/18/2025
Time: 
9:00AM