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Come and get your hands on real tools and woodworking materials! You’ll learn how to use a drill, needle, and thread to create your own personal stitched wood plaque.

This blend of science, technology, engineering, math, and art is just one example of the many innovative learning experiences offered at the Austin Children’s Museum.

Learn to make your own bars of soap using a glycerin base that you can easily melt and pour. This project can be completed in a matter of minutes. Participants choose the color, fragrance & toy for their soap, and pour it into a soap mold where it needs to set. After they have set they are ready to use! Each person will go home with a completed soap, instruction sheet and reusable soap mold for future soapy projects. This is an easy, fun & creative project that is great for kids!

You can find out more about Lisa and her amazing soaps and other products here.   Lisa is a blue ribbon prize winner from the main Maker Faire in San Mateo!

Hello, my name is Jamie McShan. I live in Dripping Springs and I have a full size fully remote R2-D2 from the movie Star Wars. I take him to different charity events such as visits to the children’s hospital as well as events such as the Star Wars in Concert were he did a photo shoot with Anthony Daniels (C3P0) and he has been on stage with Weird Al Yankovic twice. You can take a look at my website www.jamiemcshan.com to see some of the events he has been at.

Thank you so much for all of  your Maker  submissions!  The call for Makers is officially closed and we’re beyond psyched about the Maker line-up. Keep your eyes peeled for our Maker Bios posting soon!

And if you’re getting all ants-in-your-pants-y about Austin Mini Maker Faire,  visit the Eventbrite page and buy your tickets now before the prices go up on April 14th.

Want to get involved and help MAKE the faire? Sign up as a volunteer. We have plenty of fun opportunities for you to help!

Remember to SAVE THE DATE… see you at Pine Street Station on 5/12!

Can’t wait to have fun Making with all you great folks out there.

DONATE NOW to our Fundrazr campaign!  We are working night and day to bring Maker Faire back to Austin and we need your help very very much.  If everyone just pitches in what they can this will happen, and if they don’t we’ll all just have to go back to pining away.  We are needing funds IMMEDIATELY to pay for all the costs cropping up for putting on a big event like this.  We know you want to support it… let’s Make this a happening we can all feel proud to have played a part in creating!