NC Tinkering School Camp

Tinkering School NC will be in the same small-group format for ages 9-12: Building large-scale, collaborative open-ended projects using real tools! Spots fill fast.

NEW 2025: “Forest Tinkering Camp,” where your age 9-12 camper will learn new skills and how to make fun, useful, cool things in our shady forest based out of our new shelter in the woods by the creek. The focus is more on individual projects and skills, such as:

Flint-knapping to make arrowheads
Building and testing water filters (we don't actually drink it)
Making and testing fishing nets
Making rope
Whittling with a pocket knife
Becoming proficient at fire starting from scratch, (i.e. no matches or llghters)
Building a survival shelter
Cooking over a campfire
Picture this week as living in an “old-time pioneering village”

30% of spots reserved for girls until March 1,
​then boys on waiting list are notified of any open spots