I am supposed to be presenting right now
but we're having some technical
difficulties as is often the case so I
sincerely apologize for that we're
trying to get the video up and running
hello I'm seeing some people check in
good to meet you guys um so this is a
little bit crazy but we are going to get
that video on and we are gonna get some
maker camp t-shirts made today i 100%
promise we're gonna make this work
we're makers it's what we do right so I
thought I'd take a second to introduce
myself like I said my name is sandy
Roberts I live in rural New Jersey
Blair's town New Jersey and I've been
doing maker camp for Oh since the
beginning for a long time now and every
year I hosted all over our area hi oh hi
Mike everybody so I do make her camp
through our library I do it through our
local schools
I bring maker camp projects to local
pool I bring maker camp projects to our
farmers market I really really just
enjoy everything about maker camp and so
much so that I actually spoke about
maker camp three years ago at Maker
Faire in New York and was asked if I
want to share what I had learned about
maker camp and share some projects so I
was actually invited to write the big
book of maker camp projects with
mcgraw-hill so there's lots of good
ideas in there and what we're gonna work
on today is actually from the book some
different ideas for making maker camps
shirts hi Tara hi Todd hi Dallas very
nice I see people coming in from all
over I'm going to try not to assassinate
folks names so we are getting started
we're getting our video up I am sorry
this is just kind of a fill in the
blanks that we're doing right now while
we wait for the official stream to
actually begin let me show you what
we're working on today just so you can
kind of get an idea um we're gonna be
making sorry this is all kind of a
little bit haphazard but we're gonna be
making some t-shirts and see this one is
kind of my favorite that I've done
recently okay
this is our tie-dye with permanent
marker and this one's very very simple
just a simple stencil some permanent
markers and a little bit of alcohol
here's another version I did of that a
little more geometric little less a
little less bleeding there but still
really fun we're gonna do some shirts
with acrylic paint I hope you guys can
hear me I Oh
Benjamin are you are you asking about
making personal protective equipment or
are we talking about making masks for
our stencils that we're doing today
because I do have some easy ways to do
that um both actually I've been doing
both um and this is our acrylic t-shirt
oh how it did not bleed well that's
really about having your timing just
right oh I'm glad you guys can hear me
um so let's talk about what you need for
today's project we may as well get
started that set so you can get
everything together so you can kind of
follow along obviously you need a
t-shirt white is kind of your best
choice if you have one you can use the
front or back of a t-shirt it's not the
biggest in a big deal oh kovat mask okay
yes that would I recommend Benjamin go
to Prusa okay fruit PSICOM they have a
great section on printing kovat masks
and they can definitely help you out
anyway so you're gonna need a t-shirt
obviously if you have a darker colored
t-shirt or like a yellow t-shirt you can
still make this work it's just gonna be
about what colors you choose to put on
there so whatever t-shirt you have works
ideally it should be washed and ironed
but life is not ideal as we can tell
right
um so don't worry about it whatever
you've got on hand will absolutely work
um you are going to need something to
cut your stencil from now I will post in
a moment but if you go to the family
maker camp website maker camp calm under
the event page there is a PDF that you
can print out it looks like this it's
mr. Macky
we love mr. McGee I make mr. making
t-shirts every year I miss craft
magazine - Rebecca I actually have every
copy I like found them and have them
going so this is our stencil for today
couple of things you need to know about
stencils they're not like a normal
drawing we're gonna be cutting out these
dark areas you can see okay and leaving
behind these white areas that's what's
going to mask the paint so we want the
paint to go through the areas we cut out
and mask the paint from going through
the other areas which means we don't
want our eyeballs to like fall out when
we go and take apart our stencil right
so we have these little bridges okay
they're called bridges and they connect
to islands and what that means is when
we cut out these dark sections those
bridges are going to hold our stencil
together all as one piece okay so that
when we attach it we can make that work
thanks make and Highmark
and let's see that Ludvig welcome so you
can print out this PDF right on the copy
paper no big deal and you can use as
your stencils now there are of course
better materials to use if you have them
on hand we I usually like to print maybe
on something thicker like cardstock okay
a little thicker that way whatever you
put on top won't bleed through um I
would also recommend if you want to I
have some manila folders I have some
cereal boxes and so what I'll often do
is take my paper stencil and just use
some stick glue and glue it on to
something a little thicker and a little
stronger so that you can keep that any
paint or whatever from bleeding through
and it makes it more of a reusable
stencil so that is one suggestion if you
are just using paper attach it to
something a little thicker and work from
there if you have on hand those dollar
store inexpensive flexible kitchen
cutting mats those can make great
stencils if you have a parent in the
house or if someone in the house that
likes to crafts they may have some of
this craft vinyl around
it makes great stencil material because
nothing gets through it
okay and if you have a digital cutter
like a cricket or a silhouette you can
cut your stencil with that in the
project library from maker camp under
the t-shirt project for today I actually
had the SVG file so you can download
that and cut it with your digital cutter
or your vinyl cutter quick and easy
stencils another thing that works really
well contact paper it's not just for
lining your cabinets like grandma used
to do this peel and stick is basically a
giant sticker
and if you attach your stencil to the
plastic part of this the shiny plastic
part right and then cut through you're
gonna peel off if I can do this I really
need to grow my fingernails out but I
garden too much and they get ruined
every time to do anyway you can peel off
the sticker back and networks too so
those are kind of what we're gonna use
for our t-shirt and our stencils the
rest of it is fairly easy for our
permanent markers any brand will do I
got mine at Dollar General or something
so whatever kind of permanent markers
that you happen to have around are gonna
work a little spray bottle I'm an old
hair spray bottle whatever and a little
isopropyl alcohol is what you need okay
and that's for our permanent marker
tie-dye that's this version here this
guy okay now for the acrylic paint
pretty much the same thing but obviously
you're gonna use paint not a washable
paint I like to use craft acrylics not
like nice artsy acrylics there those are
a little thicker and harder to work with
on this but we're also going to use a
mixture of vinegar glycerin and water to
thin out our paint and if we thin out
our paint that way it attaches better
and binds better to our fabric and it
stays a little more flexible and
comfortable to wear so you're gonna want
to grab that too so those are our basic
supplies today you do need a pair of
scissors for cutting your stencil or if
you have a craft knife that's going to
be a lot easier okay to cut your stencil
but if you are younger you're gonna want
to make sure that you have a pair of
gloves and some parents to help you out
so that you don't accidentally
cut yourself this is right now Jeffrey
me live it was a recorded live stream
because I live in a pretty rural area
and I don't always have good Wi-Fi so
we're just glad that we have internet
right now there will be a recorded video
coming up shortly and that has a little
more detail in it um so let's see any
questions about maker camp in general
I've been doing this for like eight or
nine years now I can answer any
questions I've had just about everything
go wrong that can go wrong I've had just
about every t-shirt fail you can imagine
- um some other t-shirt ideas where did
my t-shirt of ideas go ah here we go
so this one okay another idea that you
can do with your same stencil is if you
spray with a little bit of bleach and
water a 50/50 mix of bleach and water it
will actually remove the dye remove the
dye from your shirt and you'll get that
bleached out effect which is really fun
to do Tara these camps can be literally
everywhere anyone can start a camp if
you are passionate about getting a camp
started there's tons of support through
the maker camp website and other
affiliates through the group will
absolutely help you out there's a lot of
resources available and heck you can
just contact me anytime and I am happy
to help you get a maker camp started
usually schools libraries I have done
maker camps through churches pretty a
homeschool co-ops yeah so any anywhere
that you want to start one you can do it
I mean it's your opportunity to make a
maker camp all right let's see what am I
seeing here okay I'm just here and
checking in from Jillian um gosh I have
completely forgotten what I was talking
about sorry this is a little bit on the
fly right so right bleach shirt see it's
sitting in my lap totally forgot I was
talking about different colored dark
shirts will bleach differently and that
could be really fun and then you can go
in with permanent markers or paint
afterwards and add details the other
thing you can do with a bleach sure
is if you have those bleach pens made by
Clorox you can actually draw on the
shirt with the Clorox pen and it will
bleach out that area so you can like
freehand it I actually have an amazing
artist friend her company's called
enshrine designs and she does henna and
she has now taken that beautiful art
form and brought it on to things like
t-shirts using bleach pens and they're
just really gorgeous so you can have a
lot of fun with that so just be careful
if you're gonna use bleach on a shirt
don't use straight bleach don't work in
sunlight you definitely want to work
outside because of the fumes but if you
let that bleach go too far in a warm hot
sunny situation it's gonna eat a hole in
your shirt to be completely honest and
that's gonna be maybe a little more
vintage than you might want so use a
50/50 solution I also like to keep a
blow-dryer on hand so if it's bleaching
too much or too fast I can just kind of
dry it and and redo it these you
definitely want to wash before you wear
okay be very careful with that and see
what other what other fun shirts do I
have oh this is probably my favorite
shirt of all time
this is the spin art shirt okay so if
you go on make magazine on the make
magazine site they have a process for
you turning one of your regular old
drills into a spin art machine and that
works pretty well
there's also Instructables for turning
an old box fan into a spin art giant
spin art this is probably the number one
thing I bring around the camp every year
it never gets old
I have kids that have done this every
year for nine years they will still come
to do spin art stupid robot fighting
League I want to know everything about
you guys alright welcome to the welcome
to the cast here so spin art right
you're gonna make your how to make the
stencil can you show it again sure thing
okay this is our stencil you're gonna
print it out from the PDF okay now you
usually want to try to mount this to
something like a manila folder or
cereal box to give it a little more
stiffness and a little more thickness
but you can use it just as it is if
you're using a regular paper stencil
you're just going to take your pair of
scissors and find a spot to start clip
in there and then just go around and
look at my amazing scissor skills here
my kindergarten teacher would be so
proud I was actually in like the special
scissors group I was not good at
scissors I was afraid of them
so um there we go so you're just gonna
cut out the black areas of the stencil
and be careful about these little
bridges those bridges are important to
hold your stencil together okay if you
have a craft knife and a mat it's much
easier to do with that and just cut away
the black that way um if you have a
digital cutter yes I love to use my
Silhouette Cameo that's my preferred
machine but some people have crickets
the new Cricut maker is out those things
with a SVG you can cut a ton of stencils
really fast
um and in fact if you're going to do
that where did my freezer paper go I
think I've lost it if you can get your
hands on freezer paper that stuff is the
best to make stencils out of it's cheap
its lightweight it cuts really easily
you can use scissors you can use a
digital cutter whatever you're right do
not run with scissors it's a bad idea um
and the beautiful thing about freezer
paper is when you put it on your fabric
and iron it lightly it sticks to the
fabric so it doesn't shift around and
move on you know paint can get under
your stencil because that's the biggest
concern you have when you're making a
stencils item is that your ink ores or
paint is gonna slide under it's gonna
bleed under your stencil and make and
not give you nice crisp edges okay so
you don't want that to happen and that's
that's kind of your toughest thing if
you don't have access to that simple
clear contact paper any kind of contact
paper works great so does Kraft vinyl or
the other thing and I don't my I can see
my spray adhesive way across the room
but if you have that spray adhesive that
stuff is great for spraying on the back
of your stencil stick it down onto your
shirt and it's gonna stay really
really well okay freezer paper
um it's there still use for freezer
paper unfortunately I am out of it and
I'll be honest I'm not gonna run to the
store for that I feel like that's not
essential right but freezer paper is the
best stenciling material when I do camps
and I've got dozens of shirts I'm gonna
be doing it once the night before I cut
up all on a silhouette we iron them on
everybody's good to go oh it is awesome
for airbrushing that is so true
we usually I'll do spray paint or or
like I was gonna I'll talk about in a
little bit making your own alcohol ink
spray paints and freezer paper works
amazing for that what I do with my
freezer paper if you're gonna cut it on
a digital cutter or you don't want like
really big sheets is I get my bread
knife and I'll measure the freezer paper
roll the whole roll to the width I want
which is usually about eight to nine
inches eight and half inches and I will
slice the freezer paper roll at that
length and then use a paper cutter to
slice in the other direction so I get
lots of nice little sheets and then it's
boom quick and easy easy to cut on your
cutter or to hand out to the kids go see
other fun thing with freezer paper you
hand it out to the kids on the paper
side they use markers draw their shape
teach them how to cut it out and just
iron it right on frisket film I haven't
used that Daniel I don't I don't know
what that is now I have to find out this
new material and put it to good use
thank you I appreciate that um I feel
like I want to do more airbrushing with
kids when I was at Maker Faire Rochester
this year they had a whole airbrushing
studio that came out we're teaching kids
to use the airbrush and it was just so
cool they had to line the whole day and
I of course didn't get over there
because I was making robots or whatever
but wow I really want to try some
airbrushing so if you've got some links
please share them so I can check those
out later um where was I
right so spin art this is pretty simple
so you take the blades off of a box fan
okay you just cut them off I used a
little rotary cutter and you take a
obviously you can take the front screen
off the box fan all of this with parent
supervision please um hi Bridget or did
I say that right
I'll have to check that out Daniel um so
you take the bar untaught of the box
you take the blades off the box fan and
then you'd get like a nice big piece of
cardboard and I just used the cardboard
from the box that the Box fan came in
and you screw that on to the hub from
the blades in the center instant spin
art machine okay
now you can attach I just tack paper and
stuff right on to the card board you can
tack a shirt with your stencil right
onto the cardboard and then I just let
the kids squirt acrylic paints right on
to the shirt as its spinning it is
ludicrous and so much fun okay and they
get these amazing explosions of shirts
out of them and we had such a good time
doing those I brought that to the pool
we must have done I don't know 50 or 60
in like an hour I don't even know how we
got that many done but it was so much
fun
so spin art everything and spin out your
t-shirts let's see what else do we have
oh here's one of my early maker camp
shirts this is back in the day back in
the day maker camp affiliates used to
get the affiliate box and it would have
all kinds of really cool stuff that's
how I got my first Raspberry Pi and my
first makey makey and my first Arduino
all those things came in you know the
affiliate box and they used to hand out
t-shirts they used to send t-shirts and
so my first year of maker camp we were
gonna this is a funny story actually
first year maker camp I love screen
printing it was the first way I ever
made a t-shirt as a kid and at camp
which is why I make camp t-shirts every
year and so I was gonna share this
experience with my maker he's you know I
had never screen printed like I've never
done the emotion all of it myself I
practiced I made a mess of my bathroom I
was ready to go
we made our design and I got busy
helping a kid with a lego project and I
overexposed the emotion on the screen
yeah it didn't work out well it was a
total fail all that planning all that
money whatever we cannot use our screen
it was an epic fail so instead I just
threw out a bunch of permanent markers
and crazy paints and you know Google
eyes and fabric glue and I let the kids
go to town
on the standard make shirts and
everybody got and they were so creative
they colored in mr. Macky they signed
each other's shirts on the back and I
became a tradition now for my maker
camps we always sign our shirts on the
back um I
oh okay sounds like the video is coming
up yes okay publish to the 4:45 okay so
we'll give it a couple more minutes
anyway so we ended up having a really
good time and it wasn't for a couple of
years later that I read again and make
magazine about using vinyl stencils on
your screens for screen printing well
that worked out great I made a nice
vinyl stencil we did a nice big screen
and of course to jazz it up a bit I
found these great powders by a company
called solar colored dust and they
change color with body heat okay so we
did like a whole a whole um like retro
1980s theme that year and so we did
shirts that changed with your body heat
and it was really fun to have color
changing shirts and that's what I do now
for maker fairs all over the place we do
color changing note cards of mr. makey
which is a really fun project to do in
the dusts are non-toxic they're
inexpensive you can mix them into any
media so you can really go wild with it
you can use glow-in-the-dark too so in
fact for the our acrylic paint you could
just dar it ahead and use any kind of
paint you have if you have
glow-in-the-dark paint and you want to
glow in the dark mr. Mickey that'd be
awesome let's see what other ideas to
have my my bag of ideas I don't know
where they go one more for those of you
with digital cutters sorry where to go
my shirts are running away aha um heat
transfer vinyl super-huge um heat
transfer vinyl is pretty easy to do
especially if I have a digital cutter
but you can cut this by hand and you
just iron it right onto the shirt so we
did metallics last year so everybody had
a really metallic mr. Mickey and then
again Google eyes and I think this one
has
the dark paint around it on the edges so
that it glows at night so that's really
easy and stupid robot fighting League
even if you don't have fabric paint what
you're gonna do is you're gonna mix a
tablespoon of vinegar a tablespoon of
vegetable glycerin or you can maybe use
corn syrup it's a little stickier but
and a tablespoon of water and mix that
with your regular old acrylic paint that
you have um hopefully on hand and that
will make it a fabric paint so it's
really easy to do okay and if you don't
have the glycerin a little bit of
vinegar will help basically um find the
cotton of the t-shirt and the shiny
making is my face is my daughter's she
will not give this shirt up you're gonna
have to make your own Kathy sorry but I
can definitely help you out with that
but the vinegar in the in your homemade
fabric paint medium will kind of unwind
the cotton a little bit and make the
paint actually be able to bond with it
better and the glycerin just lets the
paint take a little longer to set so you
can get a thinner coat so you don't get
kind of the the inflexibility that you
might get with acrylics otherwise if you
don't have those things just thin out
your paint a little bit with water and
go for it it'll be fine um okay let's
see we've got a couple more minutes
before we go to our prepared video where
I don't sound like you know a crazy
person um let's see what other fun
things have we done with t-shirts oh
this one's a good one this one is
perfect for Earth Day you have to
forgive me I'm literally digging in a
bag of dozens of treat of shirts aha
this this is the dirt shirt okay
the dirt shirt so this was born from a
trip to Maker Faire um I think you're
pretty smart too stupid robots despite
your name so the nice thing about dirt
shirt I saw this at Maker Faire in New
York and they had a process from India
where they were using different dirts
from around the world to dye silk
scarves and I thought that was so really
cool so I had to figure out how to do it
myself right and it's surprisingly easy
it's actually a process that's been done
for
thousands of years in Africa in India
and Japan and I knew that there were so
many ways to make sure I'm coming up
with more so all you do is you get dirt
you want something that's got a good bit
of iron in it something that's pretty
red so this is one of those ones where
if you have like clay soil that does
nothing wants to grow in you've got the
best dirt for dirt shirts so you mix
that with some water it does help I did
some practicing it can help to mix it
with a little vinegar with a little soy
milk to help bond to the shirt it also
helps to wash this in like soda ash or
you know what do they call it washing
powder beforehand just again loosen up
those fibers but you just basically make
a paste out of your dirt and some water
or some soy milk and some vinegar and
you put your stencil on and then you
apply a really thick coat to the shirt
and let it sit overnight okay you want
to let it really really bond to that
shirt and when you take it off the next
day and rinse it out you will have your
I like to have the kids bring dirt from
their own yards so they can compare and
see like whose dirt made the different
colors because the chemistry of that
soil will make a huge difference and
then you've got a great stem opportunity
right you can teach them like how to
test soil chemically you can teach them
about different textures of soil teach
them about the difference between clay
and sand and and all these different
things so you've got like this great
jumping-off point um the other thing you
can do is mixing different spices with
this we had a lot of fun testing mixing
in paprika or mixing in curry powder or
to rank all kinds of things that we
could imagine clove um ground clove
mixing that into here to see what
different colors we got so we might do
the head with some dirt with paprika and
some with curry and then see what kind
of color shifts we got and that was a
lot of fun to do another soil chemistry
is my thing I took a whole class in grad
school I because I like dirt another fun
thing you can do while you've got the
spices out anyway is if you've never
made egg tempera with kids and talked
about Leonardo da Vinci
some of the amazing artists from the
Renaissance that's a great opportunity
to do it basically you mix egg yolk and
you mix different spices and you create
your own paints and I always make stains
on purpose or at least that's what I say
so you mix up the the egg yolk and you
mix up the different spices and then you
give them a little canvas and you have
them paint with it and they get so much
out of that just the idea that you can
make your own paint from nature you know
totally on your own and from your
kitchen cabinet and they they painted
some just amazing things I wish I had
examples of them on hand I don't have
any with me right now but um so that's
the dirt shirt that one's a really fun
shirt as well this year I'm working with
rhinestones just because why not so I'm
trying to figure that out and I'm
working with some shirts to light up so
I will keep you guys posted when I get
some light up shirts figured out
obviously there's a lot of ways to do
sewn circuits so my goal is to teach
kids how to do some sewn circuits this
year and make their shirts actually
light up gosh what else can I talk about
before we actually run the video any
questions from you about maker camp or
about maker camp t-shirts I'm happy to
answer any questions you guys have oh I
know one more idea that I did want to
share is every year we do some kind of
cosplay because I love costumes and who
doesn't want to feel like a superhero
right so this shirt the bleached shirt I
actually did on the back of the t-shirt
what you can do is if you cut right
along the seam okay on the outside
towards the sleeve cut the sleeve off
leaving that seam there to hold it all
together and then cut along the seam at
the shoulder and go along the collar
leaving where am i along the collar here
okay that collar
oh the shirt goes away the sleeves are
gone you're just left with this in the
collar and it becomes a cape okay
so that's really fun to do you can do
the back of the shirt and go crazy
so my info is available on the family
maker camp site under the event and also
under the t-shirt project in our project
library
okay you can find me on twitter as
kaleidoscopes ID you can find me on
Facebook for my business kaleidoscope
enrichment um sleeve stencils what do
you oh you mean like like putting them
on the sleeve yeah it's really just
about getting out your tape measure and
figuring out the right size now if you
want to actually do something to wrap
around honestly it's a lot easier to
just do it in pieces and do multiple
stencils so yeah making capes out of
your t-shirts is another great fun thing
to do and really easy for kids that
maybe don't want a cape it's very easy
to transform again cutting your sleeves
off and then if you cut up from the
bottom strips and tie them in square
knots and then just take out the the you
cut out more of the collar you can make
a nice little tote bag and upcycle tote
bag and they can have their mr. makey on
there and OH
initial washing instructions so if
you're using any kind of a dye based
material or if using the soil shirt you
are going you can iron a stencil if
you're using freezer paper so for like
the permanent marker for the dirt shirts
you're gonna want to heat it either iron
it or throw it in the wash and the dryer
dryer on high for a good 20 minutes to
set those dyes to really set the stain
basically is what you're doing for
things like acrylic or screen printing
though you want to give that time to
cure and I'm not mess with it for a
couple of days even a week and let it
just sit before you wash it because you
really want that chemical curing process
to happen so bonds to the shirt itself
alright are we ready to switch over is
that what we're doing I don't know you
guys tell me when when you're going to
the otherwise I'll just keep talking all
day that's a big problem I never shut up
it's a what kinds of things do I do a
maker camp Wow
I like to pick a theme have I done
multiple colors many times you can do
multiple colors use masking tape to mask
out the exit you don't want to put that
one color in take
off the masking tape and add the color
so a maker camp we do everything from
robotics computer programming green
screen animation stop-motion animation
all kinds of fun techy stuff 3d printing
but we also try to bring in just the fun
of summer so we'll make up games we'll
make up obstacle courses because that
gets your brain thinking about problems
and solutions I love to take Rockets
outside we do marshmallows launchers and
we'll be doing a PVC workshop a little
later this month where you can make a
marshmallow launcher and make a rock a
stomp rocket so all that kinds of all
that kinds of stuff and of course lots
of traditional crafting I like to try
and bring in a lot of nature because I
feel like that's an important part of
camp
so we'll do scavenger hunts we'll grow
things we've grown hydroponics we've
done seed tapes and we've done smashed
flowers which is a fun one if you've
never done it a little bit of watercolor
paper some mallets you haven't gone a
scavenger hunt for different colors of
flowers put them in between the
watercolor paper smash the heck out of
them there you go you know we like to do
a lot of food crafts with permission
from parents making sure you're aware of
allergies I will be posting later on
today my secret-spy marshmallows which
allow you to actually send secret
messages on your marshmallows that's
really fun to do um so yeah make your
campus a little bit of everything
ah thanks and what I always tell people
when they're trying to plan a maker camp
is like your passion and what you love
to make lead your choices for maker camp
let that be your starting point um thank
you to maker camp thanks for this
opportunity this has been a lot of fun
and I hope you guys enjoy the video that
is a little more sane and a little more
organized okay I did see it alright I'm
getting text messages
okay I think we have switched am I am i
turning off alright I am gonna leave and
let our light our video come on if you
have any questions I'm still here and I
will be answering any questions PM me
okay contact me by email reach out to me
on Twitter I'm here to help and I want
to see as many maker camps
happening this year as possible okay get
out there and do it
alright I'm heading out enjoy the video
thank you everybody for stopping by