Recent Activities
Make Art with Flowers
Spring brings lots of flowers all around us. Transform fresh flowers into art! Download – Make Art with Flowers
DIY Scratch Art
Scratch art is a fun way to make colorful designs! Download – DIY Scratch Art
Paper Islands
Give each person joining this challenge a sheet of paper, some tape, and a pair of scissors. Using these materials, build a paper island that can float in a bowl of water.
Make Your Own Flipbooks
Flipbooks are one of the simplest ways to create animation or pictures that move. This week, we are going to create a flipbook that teaches us about animation and the different phases of the moon.
Get Involved
Partnerships
Tinker Lab partners with local schools and community organizations to provide STEAM enrichment in a variety of in-school and afterschool residencies, outreach events, workshops, and family tinker festivals. Current partners include P.S.56 Lewis Latimer School, P.S.22Q, I.S.237Q, Queens Public Library, and the Child Center of New York Latimer Gardens, among others. Contact us to partner!
Birthdays
You can host a birthday at the Tinker Lab. Children can participate in the Hebocon activity.
Hebocon is a robot sumo-wrestling “competition.” It is a competition where robots–that have been built out of re-use materials –gather and somehow manage to engage in odd, funny battles.