Upcoming Events

LEGO Animation 1 (Grades 1-3)

This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Build sets and characters with LEGOs to create a short LEGO stop-motion movie using iPads. Work in groups to add special effects, voices, and music! Instructor: Michael Marquez

Eco-Art Explosion (Grades 4-6)

Mix science and art and learn how to take care of the Earth through eco-friendly activities. Make a bumblebee bath, bug hotel, plantable paper, and a hanging garden. Experiment with sun, wind, and rain and create art with upcycled materials. Snoopy says, “Keep it clean, keep it green!”  Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims

Summer Science (Grades 1-3)

This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist.Delve into summer science by baking solar s’mores, building the ultimate bug catcher, and cooling down with a day of hands-on water exploration and play. Instructor: Elizabeth Smith

Digital Art and Photography (Grades 4-6)

Experiment with digital photography and photo mix-ups, mash-ups, and editing. Create computer animation, draw and design with iPad apps, and delve into the world of 3D digital sculpting. Instructor: Michael Marquez

Second Saturday Cartoonist: Melissa Pagluica

Meet, watch, and talk to Melissa Pagluica, illustrator and creator of the all-ages graphic novel Above the Clouds, which successfully raised over $43,000 on Kickstarter. She is currently working on a new webcomic called Monster Heart that can be read on her website, teacupbee.com.

Acting for Peanuts 1 (Grades 1-3)

This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Explore theater arts while bringing Peanuts characters and stories to life on the Schulz Museum’s stage! Learn stage terminology, dive into script reading and writing, play classic and new improv games, and wrap it up by acting in a mini-performance based on Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strips. Instructor: Annie Cooper

Tinkering Lab (Grades 4-6)

Make it move with simple machines and basic robotics. Build a simple brush bot, play with circuits, build bridges and buildings, and see what other clever creations you can make, including various crazy catapults. Instructor: Michael Marquez

Ready, Set, Dough! (Grades 1-3)

Mix and make playdough, bouncing balls, and super slime. Plus, learn the science of combining substances for some yummy and unexpected results, including applesauce oobleck, bread in a bag, and more. Instructor: Michael Marquez

Acting for Peanuts 2 (Grades 4-6)

Explore theater arts while bringing Peanuts characters and stories to life on the Schulz Museum’s stage! Learn stage terminology, dive into script reading and writing, play classic and new improv games, and wrap it up by acting in a mini-performance based on Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strips. Instructor: Annie Cooper

Schulz Summer Nights: Trivia

Ages 21 and over only! Check out the Schulz Museum after dark with trivia, prizes, and wine and beer tasting. Bring your trivia knowledge and come ready to enjoy Guayakí Yerba Mate, Moonlight Brewing Company beer and Mueller Winery’s 2021 “Russian River” Pinot Noir and Non-Vintage Mueller “Cousins Cuvée” Red Wine Blend, both from the Russian River Valley.

Outdoor Art and Adventure (Grades 1-3)

Get up, go, and create! Keep moving all week with outdoor games and art activities. Make a colored-salt labyrinth, mold a marble mosaic, paint with fly swatters and sticks, and enjoy other fun, hands-on, outdoor eco-crafts. Instructor: Angelica Blancas–Mims

Under the Sea Ocean Art (Grades 4-6)

Discover the colorful life in our oceans and learn how to draw, color, and paint sea animals, corals, and plants. Join artist Barbara Golden and learn sketching, outlining, and coloring with different media, including watercolors, colored pencils, and markers.

Take Flight (Grades 1-3)

Summer is the perfect time for flying kites, as long as they don’t get stuck in the Kite-Eating Tree! Take off with a variety of flight-inspired projects. Make and fly kites and airplanes, discover what it takes to launch a rocket, play with parachutes, and so much more!

Painting on Canvas (Grades 6 and up)

This camp is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Join artist Barbara Golden to create custom creations inspired by the world around us. Learn how to paint clouds, grass, flowers, animals, glass objects, water, and more while experimenting with different paints, brushes, and painting techniques. This camp is for painters at any level.

Teen Night at the Museum

Drop your older kids and pre-teens off at the Schulz Museum for after-hours fun! Teens will have the Museum to themselves for a pizza dinner, games, art, crafts, and cartooning. Recommended for ages 10–14 years old. Advance registration is required.

Camp Freeze 1 (Grades 1-3)

This camp is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Keep cool this summer by growing crystals, making ice cream in a bag, mixing snow slime and snowball soap, and exploring other cool and creative projects. Plus, ice skate Monday through Thursday at Snoopy’s Home Ice! Instructor: Tami Tsark

Camp Freeze 4 (Grades 4-6)

Keep cool this summer by growing a crystal tree, making ice cream in a bag, and a sparkling winter luminary. Also, explore other cool and creative projects and ice skate Monday through Thursday at Snoopy’s Home Ice! Instructor: Michael Marquez

Outdoor Art and Adventure Mini (Grades Pre-K and K)

This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Get up, go, and create! Keep moving all week with outdoor games and art activities. Explore labyrinths and mosaics, paint with fly swatters and sticks, and enjoy other fun, hands-on, outdoor eco-crafts. Designed for ages 3-5. Children must be able to use the bathroom independently. Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims *No camp on Tuesday, July 4

Wizarding Ways and Magical Creatures (Grades 1-3)

This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Wave your magic wand and learn to make milk disappear, push coins through solid objects, and conjure candles to float. Spend a week mixing potions and bringing magical creatures to life by making unicorn and bird marionettes and other crafty creatures to take home. Instructor: Michael Marquez *No camp on Tuesday, July 4

Peanuts and Kids Cook (Grades 1-3)

Have a deliciously fun week cooking treats the Peanuts Gang loves to eat. Make pizza four ways, Charlie brownies, an edible bird’s nest for Woodstock, and see how many savory snacks you can skewer on a stick! *No camp on Tuesday, July 4

iPad Gaming and Coding (Grades 4-6)

Learn the basics of coding through hands-on coding projects and games. Design your own digital characters and backgrounds and learn how to add them to your own video game. Instructor: Michael Marquez *No camp on Tuesday, July 4

Second Saturday Cartoonist: Zareen Choudhury

Meet, watch, and talk to Zareen Choudhury, a Bangladeshi American cartoonist born and raised in the Bay Area. Her cartoons and comics have been published in The New Yorker, The Nib, San Francisco Examiner, and Awry Comics.

Dinosaur Doodles (Grades 1-3)

Draw dangerous dinosaurs, including terrible T-Rexes, bold Brontosauruses, and viscous Velociraptors. Join professional cartoonist, maze-maker, and storyteller Joe Wos for a week of storytelling, guided drawing lessons, and hands-on fun with more teeth!

Advanced LEGO Animation (Grades 4-6)

Build sets and characters with LEGOs to create a short LEGO stop-motion movie using iPads. Learn story structure and character development, and how to add lights, cameras, and green screen technology. No prior experience required. Instructor: Michael Marquez

Beagle Scouts Camp Out (Grades 1-3)

Go on a camp adventure with scavenger hunts and nature expeditions around the Museum grounds. Make a star-gazing telescope and a DIY flashlight, create an animal tracks guidebook, and end with roasted s’more on a stick! Instructor: Michael Marquez

Cartooning Myths and Monsters (Grades 4-6)

Take an adventure in cartooning with Greek myths, monsters, and lively drawing instruction from cartoonist, maze-maker, and storyteller Joe Wos. Learn to draw fantastical creatures like a mighty Minotaur and mystical Medusa. Mash them up with unicorns and Bigfoot, and mix and match monstrous features like twisty horns to create your own crazy cryptid characters!

Schulz Summer Nights: Sip and Sketch

Ages 21 and over only! Enjoy a night of serious and silly (and seriously silly) drawing challenges with MazeToons cartoonist Joe Wos and drinks from Guayakí Yerba Mate, HenHouse Brewing, and Rodney Strong Vineyards! Show off your skills and possibly win one of three prizes courtesy of Wacom (two Intuos Small tablets with Bluetooth, and the grand prize, a Wacom One creative pen display, a $400.00 value). No drawing skills are necessary to have fun and win prizes!

Pet Caricatures with Joe Wos

Bring your pet to the Museum and cartoonist Joe Wos will capture their funny, cute, cold-blooded, or catty personality! Dog, cat, bunny, bird, and other pet caricatures will be available for a suggested donation of $5.00 or more.

If I Drew the Zoo, A–Z

Join cartoonist Joe Wos, the fastest draw in the east, as he draws 26 animal drawings in under 26 minutes with suggestions from the audience! Can Wos break his own record? Find out as he draws a menagerie of animals, one for each letter of the alphabet, followed by a book signing.

Summer Science Mini (Grades Pre-K and K)

This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Explore the night sky, water play, the science of bugs, and all things summer. Launch water rockets, make art using the sun, sculpt a river to sailboats, create mini volcanoes, and mix super sand slime! Designed for ages 3-5. Children must be able to use the bathroom independently. Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims

LEGO Animation 2 (Grades 1-3)

This camp is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Build sets and characters with LEGOs to create a short LEGO stop-motion movie using iPads. Work in groups to add special effects, voices, and music! Enrollment in LEGO Animation 1 is not required. Instructor: Michael Marquez

Art Lab (Grades 1-3)

Get messy mixing art and science. Make scratch-and-sniff paints, sculpt homemade clay, and create masterpieces with fizzing ice cubes and some surprising chemical reactions! Also, learn the science behind animation and make marble diffusion art. Instructor: Tami Tsark

Peanuts, Pizza, Pasta—Let’s Cook! (Grades 4-6)

Make the Peanuts Gang’s favorite foods, including pizza several different ways and Snoopy’s puppy chow. From savory to sweet, learn to make a variety of delicious meals and treats to enjoy all week! Instructor: Michael Marquez

Camp Freeze 2 (Grades 1-3)

This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Keep cool this summer by growing crystals, making ice cream in a bag, mixing snow slime and snowball soap, and exploring other cool and creative projects. Plus, ice skate Monday through Thursday at Snoopy’s Home Ice! Instuctor: Tami Tsark

Camp Freeze 5 (Grades 4-6)

Keep cool this summer by growing a crystal tree, making ice cream in a bag, and a sparkling winter luminary. Also, explore other cool and creative projects and ice skate Monday through Thursday at Snoopy’s Home Ice! Instructor: Elizabeth Smith

Cartoonists in Conversation: BUZZING

Join cartoonists Rye Hickman, Maia Kobabe, Amber Padilla, Thien Pham, Samuel Sattin, and Mary Shyne to celebrate their new works with a live reading and book signing, including Pham's Family Style: Memories from an American from Vietnam and Sattin and Hickman's Buzzing.

Let’s Get Drawing! (Grades 4-6)

Join professional visiting YA graphic novelist Laura Lee Gulledge (Page by Paige, The Dark Matter of Mona Starr) and learn to draw and create your own short stories, comics, and ‘zines through collaborative comic creation, ARTnering as a group, and drawing games. Also, experiment with art-creating tools like Laura Lee’s favorite blue cartooning pencils.

Manga and Anime (Grades 6 and up)

Dive into the world of manga with artist Barbara Golden. Learn how to draw your favorite manga and anime characters, including eyes, hair, and bodies, as well as Chibi, Shoho, and Ghibli characters using pencils, ink, markers, and watercolor.

Blast Off! (Grades 1-3)

Blast off into a week of space exploration! Learn about planets, constellations, and comets through hands-on activities—create a nebula in a jar, design light-up constellations, build and test a space lander, and launch water rockets!

Manga and Pokémon (Grades 4-6)

Learn to draw your favorite manga and Pokémon characters, and tap into your imagination to make your own creations, too! Join artist Barbara Golden to practice sketching and shading with pencil lines, outlining with black ink, and adding color to your manga art.

3-2-1! Snoopy & the Schulz Museum in Orbit

Join NASA astronaut Mike Massimino to hear about his experiences in space with Snoopy and to celebrate the Museum’s 21st anniversary. Plus, hear from other special guests about Snoopy’s continued role with NASA and the Artemis space missions to the Moon and beyond!

Drawing from Nature (Grades 4-6)

Draw animals, plants, and colorful scenes from nature with artist Barbara Golden. Take a visual journey through wild landscapes and have fun and apply techniques like sketching, shading, and coloring to draw bobcats, butterflies, and Bodega Bay seascapes.

Camp Freeze 3 (Grades 1-3)

Keep cool this summer by growing crystals, making ice cream in a bag, mixing snow slime and snowball soap, and exploring other cool and creative projects. Plus, ice skate Monday through Thursday at Snoopy’s Home Ice! Instructor: Michael Marquez

Fantasy Creatures and Worlds (Grades 4-6)

Create a world full of fantasy creatures like dragons, phoenixes, centaurs, and fantastic fairies with artist Barbara Golden. Learn basic drawing skills and coloring, blending, and shading to create your world with markers and watercolors.