On the last Monday of the month, enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. This month, build a rainbow from your own pot of gold, craft a pair of leprechaun-catching binoculars, and paint the perfect shamrock to take home!
This event is SOLD OUT. Join award-winning authors Ann Patchett (Tom Lake, The Dutch House) and Kate DiCamillo (Because of Winn-Dixie) in conversation about what the Peanuts comic strip means to them and how it’s influenced their work, writing careers, and lives. Followed by a book signing. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
Join Bay Area cartoonists for this special event celebrating the work of Paige Braddock, creative director emeritus at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, and the Eisner-nominated creator of the graphic novel series Jane’s World, and children’s book series Stinky Cecil and Peanut, Butter, and Crackers. At 2:00 pm, Braddock will talk about her work, followed by a book signing. Also, meet local cartoonists working in the field today.
Drop your kids off for after-hours fun at the Schulz Museum, including pizza, games, crafts, and cartooning. Advance registration required.
On the last Monday of the month, enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. This month, build a storm cloud, make a firefly suncatcher, and create a paper bag kite to fly in the wind.
Girl Scout Cadettes will earn their Comic Artist badge in this special hands-on workshop. Cadettes will learn how to develop stories and characters and create a four-panel comic strip from beginning to end while completing all five steps of the Comic Artist badge. Registration required.
Girl Scout Juniors will earn their Entertainment Technology badge by completing technology challenges and creating short movies. Participants will experiment with sound effects, green screen, video game development and more in support of the Entertainment Technology badge. Registration required.
Join Caitlin McGurk for a journey through the life and art of cartoonist Barbara Shermund, one of the first women cartoonists to work for The New Yorker, as detailed in McGurk’s new book, Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund. Books will be available for purchase and signing after the talk.
On the last Monday of the month, enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. This month, create your own book, decorate a Peanuts bookmark, make Joe-Cool glasses, and more!
Spend your summer with the Schulz Museum exploring art, cartooning, animation, hands-on cooking and science, and ice skating, too! Enrolling NOW!
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 fun outdoor eco-crafts. *Children must be able to use the restroom independently.
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!
Blast off into a week of space exploration! Learn about planets, constellations, and comets. Create a nebula in a jar, paint the planets, launch rockets, and learn about Snoopy’s connection to NASA. *Children must be able to use the restroom independently.
Explore the science of summer with sun-powered experiments, build the ultimate bug catcher, and cool off with hands-on water play. Bake solar s’mores, create chemical reactions, and blow rainbow bubbles.
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 by making kites and dragonflies! *Children must be able to use the restroom independently.
Get up, go, and create! Keep moving all week with outdoor games and art activities. Mold a marble mosaic, create leaf prints, make a nature bookmark, paint with fly swatters and sticks, and enjoy other fun outdoor eco-crafts.
Blast off into a week of space exploration! Learn about planets, constellations, and comets. Create a nebula in a jar, design light-up constellations, build and test a space lander, launch water rockets, and learn about Snoopy’s connection to NASA.
Build sets and characters with LEGOs to create a short stop-motion movie using iPads. Learn story structure, character development, and how to add lights, cameras, and green screen technology. No prior experience required.
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
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.
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.
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!
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
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
On the last Monday of the month, enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. This month, craft your own jellyfish friend, create a watermelon fan to stay cool, and build an ocean in a bag!
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Keep cool this summer by making ice cream, mixing snow slime and snowball soap, and exploring other cool and creative projects. Plus, ice skate Monday through Thursday at Snoopy’s Home Ice!
Chill out this summer with cool and creative projects! Make ice cream in a bag, grow a crystal tree, and create a sparkling luminary. Also, ice skate Monday through Thursday at Snoopy’s Home Ice!
Keep cool this summer by making ice cream, mixing snow slime and snowball soap, and exploring other cool and creative projects. Plus, ice skate Monday through Thursday at Snoopy’s Home Ice!
Chill out this summer with cool and creative projects! Make ice cream in a bag, grow a crystal tree, and create a sparkling luminary. Also, ice skate Monday through Thursday at Snoopy’s Home Ice!
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.
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 Monday through Thursday at Snoopy’s Home Ice!
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.
