Upcoming Events

Summer Camps for Kids

Spend your summer with the Schulz Museum exploring art, cartooning, animation, hands-on cooking and science, and ice skating, too! Enrolling NOW!

Kids Night at the Museum: Picnic Playdate!

This event is SOLD OUT. Drop kids off for after-hours fun, including pizza, games, crafts, cartooning, and a short Peanuts movie! Kids will have the Museum to themselves while celebrating summer with picnic-themed activities: make your own frisbee, shake up lemonade in a bag, and craft a squish watermelon bag. Recommended for kids ages 5-10. Advance registration required.

Acting for Peanuts (Grades 1-3)

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

Fantasy Creatures and Worlds (Grades 4-6)

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

Camp Woodstock (Grades 1-3)

Go on a camp adventure around the Museum and celebrate the smallest Peanuts character—Woodstock! Decorate a birdhouse and birdbath, make tie-dye t-shirts, and learn about things that fly with paper airplane races, kite making, and catapults.

Sketching the Wild (Grades 4-6)

Join professional artist Barbara Golden to learn how to draw bears, wolves, and lynx. Practice sketching and shading with pencil lines, outlining with black ink, and adding color to your art. Finish the week with an art show of your work!

Cartoon Safari* (Grades 1-3)

Draw amazing aardvarks, cute kangaroos, and fierce, furry, and feathered friends, along with their homes and habitats. Join professional cartoonist, maze-maker, and storyteller Joe Wos for a week of cartoon storytelling, guided drawing lessons, and hands-on fun! *No camp on Friday, July 4

Endangered Species Art* (Grades 4-6)

This camp is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Take a creative adventure that brings awareness to wildlife conservation! Join artist Barbara Golden to explore the beauty of at-risk animals through drawing, painting, and mixed-media projects. Create stunning artwork while learning about different species, their habitats, and how to protect them. Perfect for young artists who love animals and want to make a difference! *No camp on Friday, July 4

Peanuts and Kids Cook* (Grades 1-3)

Have a deliciously fun week cooking treats inspired by the Peanuts gang! Make Pig Pens in a blanket, Charlie brownies, and treats for Snoopy that you can eat too! *No camp on Friday, July 4

Landscapes and Seascapes* (Grades 6 and up)

This camp is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Explore the art of drawing, coloring, and painting landscapes and seascapes. Work with professional artist Barbara Golden to learn composition techniques and work with pencils, ink, colored pencils, and watercolors to create beautiful scenes from reference photos and your imagination. *No camp on Friday, July 4

Art Lab (Grades 1-3)

Get messy mixing art and science! Make scratch-and-sniff artwork, sculpt homemade clay, create masterpieces with marble diffusion, experiment with surprising chemical reactions, and learn the science behind animation.

Manga and Pokémon (Grades 4-6)

This camp is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Learn to draw your favorite manga and Pokémon characters, and tap into your imagination to make your own creations, too! Join professional artist Barbara Golden to practice sketching and shading with pencil lines, outlining with black ink, and adding color to your manga art.

LEGO Animation 2 (Grades 1-3)

This camp is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Build sets and characters with LEGOs, then create a short stop-motion movie using iPads. Work in groups to add special effects, dialogue, and music!

Manga and Anime (Grades 6 and up)

This camp is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Dive into the world of manga with professional 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.

Second Saturday Cartoonist: Janelle Blarg

Meet, watch, and talk to Janelle Blarg (aka Janelle Hessig), Bay Area writer, cartoonist, and multimedia humorist whose publication, Tales of Blarg, became a definitive East Bay punk fanzine. Blarg’s comics can be found in periodicals and anthologies published by Three Rivers Press, Silver Sprocket, KQED, Popula, Maximum RocknRoll, and Vice.

Kids Cook Mini (Grades TK-K)

This camp is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Have a deliciously fun week cooking up kid-friendly recipes and food-friendly crafts. Make pancake muffins, ice cream cone cupcakes, and healthy summer smoothies. Plus, see how many savory snacks you can skewer on a stick! *Children must be able to use the restroom independently.

Peanuts: Stories, Comics, and Fun! (Grades 1-3)

Explore the Museum’s newest exhibition, Paperback Peanuts, with an iPad scavenger hunt. Then, spend time in the galleries getting into storytelling, comic and book-making, and Peanuts-themed projects. Make Snoopy dog ears to wear, draw your own comic strip, and more.

Digital Art and Coding (Grades 4-6)

This camp is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Experiment with digital photography and photo mix-ups, mash-ups, and editing. Create computer animation, draw and design with iPad apps, and explore the world of 3D digital sculpting and video game coding.

Build It! (Grades 1-3)

Put your engineering and design skills to work by building tall towers and long bridges. Create a classroom cardboard city and design some edible structures, too!

Live Comic Reading: You and Me on Repeat

Celebrate cartoonist Mary Shyne’s debut graphic novel, You and Me on Repeat, with a comic reading and book signing by Mary Shyne, Donna Almendrala (Becoming a Dog Person), and Sam Sattin (Buzzing, Unico).

LEGO Animation 3 (Grades 1-3)

Build sets and characters with LEGOs, then create a short stop-motion movie using iPads. Work in groups to add special effects, dialogue, and music!

Under the Sea Marine Art (Grades 4-6)

Learn to draw, color, and paint sea animals, corals, and plants with professional artist Barbara Golden. Discover the colorful life of oceans while practicing sketching, outlining, and coloring with different media, including watercolors, colored pencils, and markers.

Animal Adventures (Grades 1-3)

Take a creative adventure that brings awareness to wildlife conservation. Make your own animal avatar and explore the beauty of our animal world through drawing, painting, molding with clay, and collage.

Painting on Canvas (Grades 6 and up)

This camp is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Tap into your surroundings to create custom creations with professional artist Barbara Golden. Learn how to paint clouds, grass, flowers, animals, glass objects, water, and more while experimenting with different paints, brushes, and painting techniques. Open to painters at any level.

Museum Mondays for Little Ones: Stars and Stripes

On the last Monday of the month (except December), enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. This Monday, explode with hands-on fun by painting fireworks on paper, crafting spectacular and sparkly stars, and decorating red, white, and blue headbands.

Happy Anniversary, Schulz Museum!

Celebrate the Museum’s 23rd anniversary with activities, live storytelling performances, and special guests. Learn to draw with cartoonist and master maze maker Joe Wos, sketch with artist Eric Martin, and more!

Summer Science Mini (Grades TK-K)

Explore all things summer—the night sky, water play, the science of bugs, and more. Make art using the sun, sculpt a river for sailboats, create mini volcanoes, and mix super sand slime! *Children must be able to use the restroom independently.

Game On! (with ice skating) (Grades 1-3)

Get ready for a week of fun, challenges, and sports inspired by Charles Schulz! Explore backyard bowling, learn frisbee golf, make your own arcade game to take home, play tag with a twist, and ice skate every day (except Tuesday) at Snoopy’s Home Ice!

Camp Cool Mini (Grades TK-K)

Enjoy the coolest camp ever! Create crystal snowflakes, make hot chocolate erupt, excavate ice eggs, and take a behind-the-scenes peek at Snoopy’s Home Ice. *Children must be able to use the restroom independently.

Museum Mondays for Little Ones: Summer Loving

On the last Monday of the month (except December), enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. This Monday, celebrate summer by planting seeds, making a butterfly buddy, and building a mini bird bath. Maybe Woodstock will take a dip!

Museum Mondays for Little Ones: Fall Fun

On the last Monday of the month, enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. This month, stamp with apples, color a craft-stick puzzle to take home, and paint paper-plate garden mushrooms!

Celebrating 75 Years of Peanuts!

Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip with hands-on fun, Snoopy hugs, and more! Meet Snoopy, learn to draw the Peanuts characters with cartoonist Robert Pope, and enjoy a free mini chocolate chip cookie (Snoopy’s favorite) from COOKIE…take a bite! (while supplies last). Also, hear about the new book Snoopy, the Story of My Life: The Myth, the Legend, the Beagle! with author Andrew Farago.

Museum Mondays for Little Ones: Trick or Treat!

On the last Monday of the month, enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. This month, bring your little ones in costume and trick-or-treat all over the Schulz Museum! Watch It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown on the big screen, and craft your own sincere pumpkin patch using upcycled materials, and other hands-on crafts. Trick-or-treating begins at 11:00 am.

Museum Mondays for Little Ones: Happy Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown

On the last Monday of the month, enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. This month, give thanks and enjoy hands-on fall-themed crafts. Fingerpaint an autumn tree, make sweet-smelling pumpkin slime, and cut and paste a mosaic turkey.

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