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Cardboard Superheroes Video Tutorial #3: R2D2!

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Don’t speak droid? Let us translate.

We could all use a helping “hand” these days. Who better to do so than R2D2? Tune-in for this week’s edition of Cardboard Superheroes and learn how to make the droid we’ve all been looking for.

• Watch the Introduction with Safety and Supplies Guidelines here
• Download the R2D2 Template here
• View the R2D2 Video Tutorial here

Post your finished works of art and tag @comicconmuseum and @cardboardsuperheroes for a chance to be featured on our social media!

Cardboard Superheroes is a non-profit that holds free workshops promoting the arts in response to funding cuts in schools. Cardboard Superheroes provides an alternative that is free and fun for kids.

THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2020

Cardboard Superheroes Video Tutorial #2: Thor's Hammer!

Ever wanted to know what it feels like to wield the power of Mjolnir? Now you can with this week’s installment of Mini Cardboard Superheroes! Connor and Bauer will walk us through how to make our very own Thor’s Hammer (lightning not included).

Join the ranks of Earth’s most worthy superheroes and download the Mjolnir materials today!

• Click here to watch the Introduction with Safety and Supplies Guidelines
• Click here to download the Thor’s Hammer Template PDF
• Click here to view the Thor's Hammer Video Tutorial

Post your finished works of art and tag @comicconmuseum and @cardboardsuperheroes for a chance to be featured on our social media!

Cardboard Superheroes is a non-profit that holds free workshops promoting the arts in response to funding cuts in schools. Cardboard Superheroes provides an alternative that is free and fun for kids.

THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2020

Cardboard Superheroes Video Tutorial #1: Wall-E!

You saw them at December Nights. You watched them during WonderCon@Home. And now, back by popular demand with all new “how-tos” are the Cardboard Superheroes! Each week throughout the summer, Connor and Bauer Lee (co-founders) will lead us through a video tutorial on how to make miniature models of some of our favorite pop culture icons using typical household items.

Updated each Thursday here on the Comic-Con Museum@Home page, fellow makers will find instructions for building that week’s superhero along with a free printable template and tutorial video.

Join us this week as we create our first mini-model... Wall-E!

• Click here to download the “Introduction with Safety and Supplies Guidelines” PDF
• Click here to download the Wall-E template
• Click here to watch the Intro and Safety Video
• Click here to watch the Wall-E Tutorial video

We encourage you to post your finished works of art and tag @comicconmuseum and @cardboardsuperheroes for a chance to be featured on our social media!

Cardboard Superheroes is a non-profit that holds free workshops promoting the arts in response to funding cuts in schools. Cardboard Superheroes provides an alternative that is free and fun for kids.

THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2020

Comic-Con Museum@Home Fun Book #6 Available Now!

The fun continues with round six of the Comic-Con Museum@Home Fun Book!  This week we are celebrating the 45th anniversary of Marvel superheroine Storm.  Plus, have a hoot as Katie Cook teaches you to draw an owl!  Check out all of this week’s puzzles, games, and tutorials, and of course the answers to last week’s puzzles.

Click here to download Museum@Home Fun Book #6!

FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2020

Comic-Con Museum@Home Celebrates Sherlock Holmes Day!

The game is afoot (at home)! In honor of Sherlock Holmes Day and creator Arthur Conan Doyle’s 161st birthday, Comic-Con Museum@Home is here to teach you about the science of Sherlock. Learn how to catch your nemesis Moriarty with fingerprints, and send secret messages to Dr. Watson with invisible ink, plus the world premiere of our new video series Pop Culture Science, created in conjunction with the Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park!

Pop Culture Science: Forensic Science

The Comic-Con Museum and the Fleet Science Center are excited to introduce Pop Culture Science. This new event series explores the science behind everything we love about pop culture, from films, TV shows, comics, books, toys, to fandom and more.

While we can’t host any live events right now, we still want to share the fun of pop culture and science, and all the nerdiness that comes with it.

Click here or on the above title to watch our first Pop Culture Science video on Forensic Science as we celebrate Sherlock Holmes Day. The Fleet Science Center’s Andrea Decker interviews local forensic scientists Roxanne and Toniann to explore where TV shows like CSI and Bones got it right and where Hollywood has taken some creative license. Find out what really goes on at a crime scene and in a crime lab and what it takes to find out “Whodunnit!”

In addition, we have two fun @Home activities for the detective in all of us, with special downloadable activity sheets

Learn to Dust for Fingerprints @Home!

Collect clues like a real detective! Each person has unique fingerprints that are different from everyone else’s … but many fingerprints have designs in common like swirls or loops. Download this PDF and test around your house and see if you can identify which fingerprints belong to who, and what they’ve been touching!

Make Your Own Invisible Ink @Home!

Find and make secret messages like a real detective! Detectives AND villains often leave clues that they don’t want anyone reading. Download this PDF and find out how, with simple household items, you, too, can make and read secret messages and codes written in invisible ink at home in five easy steps.

Also check out our special Sherlock Holmes-themed Museum@Home Fun Book #5. Click here to download! And scroll down to access our other four Comic-Con Museum@Home Fun Books!

Comic-Con Museum@Home Fun Book Number 4 Available Now!

WOW! Four weeks in a row! Here's out latest Museum@Home Fun Book, featuring puzzles, drawing prompts, special group-play bingo games, and more, including the answer key to last week's puzzle!

Click here to download Comic-Con Museum Fun Book Number 4!

THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020

Comic-Con Museum@Home Fun Book Number 2 Available Now!

Hey … how about another Fun Book? Here’s even more fun stuff to do, including new puzzles, coloring pages, how to draw a “happy-go-lucky” robot by Katie Cook, and more, plus the answers to last week’s puzzles. This week’s issue has 10 pages filled with brand new content, created exclusively by Comic-Con!

Click here to download Comic-Con Museum Fun Book Number 2!