Project BioEngineering Arts and Crafts

These are some of the proposed Project BioEngineering Arts and Crafts projects for the 2023 Summer Camps. Some projects are subject to change.
- Make foil, copper, and vinyl mazes
- a simple maze made out the camper’s name that lights up with a circuit and a small battery.
- Make a grass weaving tool
- A simple loom made of popsicle sticks and a simple weft and shuttle system for weaving fabric.
- Make a rabbit maze
- Using milk crates and hoops build a rabbit maze that will keep rabbits engaged and searching for a carrot.
- Make chicken washing soap
- Make soap in a bag made of woven pieces to better wash chickens and rabbits. Welding with thread.
- Make a LEGO mold
- Using a large lego mold, create plaster bricks that can be used to make a foundation. An alternate will be a sugar, salt, and fat mold with seeds to feed birds.
- Make a 3D printed pinecone bird feeder
- Using 3D printed pine cones, lotus cages, and magnolia seeds to create peanut butter and seed feeders.
- Make a chicken swing
- Make a simple swing from rope or rubber twine and a stick to allow chickens to swing.
- Make a chicken tractor
- Make a mini chicken tractor that can be pulled by a RC tank around the yard.
- Make a 3D Paper Mache treasure map
- Make a flat topographic map of Mezzacello and take turns hiding a treasure. Then create fun clues that can be integrated into the map.
- Make a sugar window charm
- Make an isomalt or sugar window charm with popsicle sticks, or pipecleaners that is rigid enough to stand on its own.
- Make glass bees
- Make a bee from glass stones, onion skins, twigs, and hot glue that will stand on its own.
- Make a woven bird house
- Make a bird house from a 3D printed base shape that is decorated with objects and pieces that birds can actually use to build a house.
- Make a biodynamic keychain
- Make a dynamic tensor shape with dowel rods, play dough, and rubber bands.
- Make a fingerprint art charm
- Make a clean finger print that can be projected to twice its size and retraced into a piece of art.
- Make seed bombs
- Make flour, water, and salt play dough embedded with wildflower seeds inside.
- Make Hoberman fences
- Make a dynamic expanding fence with popsicle sticks and brass brads that will stretch across a space and remain stable.
- Make a model seed
- Make a seed model from felt, foam, paper, and confetti.
- Make ultrasonic sand art
- Using an ultrasonic plate with a paper plate attached, add sand and attenuate the ultrasonic frequency to make a geometry. Then spray the sand into a locked position.