Join award-winning cartoonist Gene Luen Yang, creator of American Born Chinese (now a Disney+ TV series), as he welcomes The Books of Clash. Yang will discuss his work, followed by a book signing and live Clash Royale tournament for prizes!
Assemble and decorate Snoopy’s doghouse out of gingerbread, complete with a marshmallow Snoopy on top!
Morning and afternoon camps are available in art, animation, cartooning, and more. Need full-day coverage? Kids enrolled in a morning and an afternoon camp will stay all day, including a supervised lunch at the Museum! (Please pack a lunch for your child if you choose this option.) Fee assistance is available.
Attention all little elves! Join us for a fun and festive workshop to make holiday gifts for your loved ones. Mix sweet sugar body scrubs, make and frame masterpieces, and decorate colorful coasters. Instructor: Museum staff
Activate your imagination and explore storytelling through comics. Learn to draw daring heroes and their super sidekicks and create comic strips, books, and simple animation. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Work in groups to build sets and characters with LEGOs. Add sound effects and titles, and practice editing to make short stop-motion movies. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Jump, run, hop, and limbo your way through a festive twist on the Winter Olympic games. Create and play snowperson bowling, enjoy a candy cane scavenger hunt, make reindeer chow, and craft a reindeer ornament to take home. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Journey to the arctic tundra and make a soft stuffed penguin, snowy owl, and paper polar bear. Also, test your penguin skills in a wobbly relay race. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Mix and make bread in a bag, applesauce oobleck, and homemade butter! Learn the science behind baking and experiment by making magic with some of the ingredients, too! Instructor: Michael Marquez
Work in groups to build sets and characters with LEGOs. Add sound effects and titles, and practice editing to make short stop-motion movies. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Get creative and crafty with a morning of winter wonderland art and activities, including snow globes, sensory snow dough, and painting with marshmallows! Instructor: Michael Marquez
Build sets and characters with LEGOs to create a short LEGO stop-motion movie using iPads. Also, learn how to add sound and use green screen technology. No prior experience required. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Join professional cartoonist Jen de Oliveira, author and illustrator of Reggie: Kid Penguin, in a fun, hands-on cartooning workshop! Learn how to design your own character using simple shapes, draw facial expressions, and tell a silly story in just four panels! Each artist will create their own four-panel comic strip.
Celebrate the New Year with an Up-Down Balloon Drop and Baby Balloon Drop (for ages 4 and under and their families) at Noon, and a second Balloon Drop at 3:00 pm! Plus, enjoy crafts and activities!
Get ready for a morning of team challenges and fun! Discover who can build the tallest tower, explore the Museum with an iPad scavenger hunt, and make your own arcade game to take home. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Practice your fine art skills and watercolor a winter landscape. Also, experiment with stamping, collage, and beading to make sparkling snowflakes and winter scenes. Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims
Mix, measure, and make seasonal snacks and sweet treats. Make reindeer rollups, snowmen on a stick, and mini bagel ornaments to eat. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Spend four afternoons building your toolbox of cartooning skills. Join professional cartoonist Justin Thompson, creator of the online comic Mythtickle, and learn how to draw emotional expression through a character’s face and body. Then, explore how emotions and characters interact on the page to create a comic story.
Embark on a frosty adventure of creativity by playing with ice boats, making a frozen sensory bag, beading sparkling snowflakes and icicles, and enjoying other wintry cool projects! Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims
Build sets and characters with LEGOs to create a short LEGO stop-motion movie using iPads. Also, learn how to add sound and use green screen technology. No prior experience required. Instructor: Michael Marquez
While the weather outside is frightful, have fun with hot chocolate dip and a movie in the Museum theater. Also, make a winter-weather bird feeder for Woodstock and decorate a graham cracker candy house. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Work in groups to build sets and characters with LEGOs. Add sound effects and titles, and practice editing to make short stop-motion movies. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Learn watercolor techniques and explore value and color mixing to paint a pointillist landscape, abstract salt paintings, and more. Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims
Have fun in the coolest camp yet! Paint with ice, make mini ice wreaths, and sweet snow snacks that you can eat! Instructor: Michael Marquez
It’s starting to look a lot like winter! Build a marshmallow snowperson, make penguin poppers, and create symmetrical snowflakes. Also, search for Snoopy all over the Schulz Museum. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Experiment with shape, color, and different media to make masterpieces. Create Kandinsky-inspired circle art, rainbow geometry paintings, and more. Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims
Discover the science of snow with an afternoon of fun winter-themed science activities! Make fizzy ice, popping snow, and super sparkling snow slime! Instructor: Michael Marquez
Award-winning actor (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) and New York Times bestselling author Bob Odenkirk and illustrator Erin Odenkirk will discuss and sign their new book Zilot and Other Important Rhymes. Tickets Required.
Meet, watch, and talk to Yasmeen Abedifard, an Iranian-American cartoonist, illustrator, and animator based in the Bay Area. Abedifard received the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic in 2023.
Join Bay Area cartoonists, including Rina Ayuyang, Briana Loewinsohn, Thien Pham, Jason Shiga, and Julia Wertz, to celebrate their new books with live comic readings followed by a book signing.
Drop kids off for after-hours fun, including a pizza dinner, games, crafts, and cartooning. Recommended for ages 5-10.
Enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1–5 and their caregivers. Held on the last Monday of each month.
This event is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Brownies are invited to sleep over at the Charles M. Schulz Museum! Troops will complete all five steps of the Letterboxer badge and receive their badge at the event. Design a stamp and letterbox. Then search the Museum for clues left by other Troops while experiencing the Schulz Museum after dark! Pizza dinner and continental breakfast are included.
Meet, watch, and talk to animator and illustrator Amber Rankin, whose work includes animated ads for mobile games and 2D character animation on the short films Let’s Eat and Amped.
Drop kids off for after-hours fun, including a pizza dinner, games, crafts, and cartooning. Recommended for ages 5-10.
Prepare for the Museum’s upcoming exhibition Cowabunga, Peanuts! with hands-on activities about the ocean, water, waves, and more. Make an ocean in a bottle, explore the differences between salt and fresh water, and dive deep into environmental science. Also, ice skate at Snoopy’s Home Ice from 12:30 pm–2:00 pm. Registration required.
Adults are invited to have fun learning to draw with professional cartoonist Justin Thompson while enjoying adult beverages, too!
Enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1–5 and their caregivers. Held on the last Monday of each month.
Explore over 50 family-friendly activities, including the science of animation at the Schulz Museum table, for FREE at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds.
Meet, watch, and talk to illustrator Raul Higuera-Cortez, whose work includes the road-trip mystery San Expidito, Paranoir, and others.
Learn cartooning, animation, art, and ice skating! Visit schulzmuseum.org for a schedule closer to the date, or call (707) 284-1272.
Drop off older kids (ages 10-13) for after-hours fun, including a pizza dinner, games, crafts, and cool activities just for older kids and teens. Advance registration required.
Enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1–5 and their caregivers. Held on the last Monday of each month.
Bring the whole family for hands-on fun, and keep your eyes open for a glimpse of the Easter Beagle! Children get in FREE with two donated food items to the Redwood Empire Food Bank.
Adults are invited to transform a flat Peanuts image into a layered paper shadow box scene like the ones in the Museum’s Peek-a-boo Box exhibit while enjoying local wine and beer.
Meet, watch, and talk to Breena Nuñez, whose comics appear in The New Yorker and in the anthologies Tales From La Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology, Drawing Power (Eisner Award Winner, 2020) and Be Gay, Do Comics! (Ignatz Award Winner, 2020).
Drop kids off for after-hours fun, including a pizza dinner, games, crafts, and cartooning. Recommended for ages 5-10.
Enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. Held on the last Monday of each month.
Join Jeff Clark, one of the most renowned and respected big wave surfers, as he shares his experiences pioneering some of the world’s largest waves at Mavericks, California.
