Growing with Whole Foods

Another great write-up in the Whole Foods Market blog about our work:

Join us to Build Your Own Recycle-Saurus! March 29th and March 30th at Film Biz Recycling in Brooklyn!

ADVANCE TICKETS CAN

BE PURCHASED ONLINE

HERE. 

FACEBOOK EVENTS

PAGE HERE.

Join ScrapKins This Sat 3/2 at Kids Food Festival NYC

Like Food? Need to get those kids out of the house? Come to the Kids Food Festival this Saturday, March 2nd 2013 in Bryant Park, NYC!

Join ScrapKins on Saturday, 3/2 from 10am -5pm. We'll be signing books and making a special recycled art project with you!

SPECIAL: On Saturday at 3:30 pm, ScrapKins creative director, Brian Yanish will be giving a demonstration on the main stage:

"Trash to Treasure: 3 Amazing Recycled Art Projects In Minutes"
Get some tips on making art with simple materials at home and learn the history of the ScrapKins characters.

A Year for Travel

Hello ScrapKins friends! 

We hope that you have had a great start to the new year and are keeping warm
out there! We have been working hard this month to really lock down our goals for 2013, and while
there are always many, many new ideas coming to the surface, we realized that the most exciting,
riveting, and just plain fun parts of 2012 were our time spent with kids and their mentors, whoever you
may be (parent, teacher, role model, all of the above). Just look at our Gallery for a taste of what
we’ve seen and who we’ve interacted with! In light of this reflection, we have decided to crank up the
engine and go full throttle ahead to hang out with you all at more events and festivals. We will continue
to be around the local area at places like Hip Tot Music Fest on February 10 and schools around
the New York area, but we will also broaden our range. Go to a film festival in California? Sure! A family-
oriented arts festival abroad? Bring it on! And it will only get bigger and better from there!
We will be continuing to teach young people how to turn their scraps and junk into beautiful, creative
art projects and toys with our 12 signature projects highlighted in the Build-It Book, and
just might introduce some new projects at the events as well – the creativity is only going to grow! Keep
in touch to see more updates from our 2013 adventures!

- The ScrapKins Gang

PS Do you want us to come to your school or event? We’d love to talk to you! Just click on that
“Contact” tab on the top of the page, contact us through any of our social media or e-mail
mediums, and we will get back to you promptly!

2013 Full Speed Ahead!

With 2013 upon us, we're setting our sites on the biggest year yet for ScrapKins. You'll see more "DIY Project Making Videos" on YouTube, a brand new charitable partner that lets us give back, the launch of our first Interactive Storybook (think Pirates!), more travel to countries around the world all with the mission to teach more kids the power of creating art with what they have. Thank you for inspiring us, supporting us by buying our book, and allowing us to entertain and educate.
  Have a magical 2013!
- Itcher, Wrecks, Swooper, Chomper, Digger & Stacker.

Back and ready for more!

It has now been over a week since we have gotten back from Doha  and we have recovered (mostly) from jetlag, though we are still suffering from withdrawal. Needless to say, this was an amazing experience. But the best part of this trip is the knowledge that we have officially gone global. So while Doha will remain in our hearts as the first international trip ScrapKins has taken, it will be the first of many in the coming years. This has invigorated our senses and we are excited to explore even more events! Makerfaire NYC (another link) was amazing in Queens, the Bay Area Makerfaire took us across the country to California, and Qatar was unbelievably successful, so we would like to combine this local, national, and international experience by attending and presenting at more places around the city, state, country, and world! What’s next, you ask? While there are many plans brewing in the Scrap City pot, we are pumped for a busy weekend, attending the Brooklyn Waldorf School’s Winter Fair this Saturday, and the Hiptot Music Fest on Sunday! We’ll check back with updates and pictures, and if you want, you can hop on down to the fairs yourself!

Constantly re-inventing,

Itcher, Digger, and The Gang

Heading to the Middle East

Halloween Art Project! "The Bat Hat"

Got a paper plate, a pair of scissors and markers? You got a Bat Hat! In time for the Halloween season, here's a simple and hilarious way to have your kids running around with a bat on their head.
Find our downloadable instructions on the Whole Kids Foundation website.

Seventh Generation and ScapKins

We couldn't be happier to help Seventh Generation celebrate their 1,000,000 Fan on Facebook! How do we do that? By building a "Box Monster" out of their tissue boxes and paper towel cores.