Health & Fitness
Join The Club: DIY Clubs Start Up at the Sea Base and Aquatics Center
DIY (Do It Yourself) is an acronym that is so universal that it needs no explanation... does it? New DIY Clubs for girls and boys 4th grade and up!
It's not Christmas, but it's that level of excitement - The start of something new. And it revolves around Making Things. Doing It Yourself. Myself.
I'm so thrilled to announce to you the start of an exciting new Maker club at the Long Beach Sea Base (5875 Appian Way). The DIY Club. The club starts this Summer with an array of programs brought to you by an array of community members. It will continue in the fall with an array of Halloween themed activities. Followed by an array of Christmas themed activities.
See the images uploaded to this post for the flyer. Boys and Girls 4th grade and up are invited to join the club.
DIY is touted by many, including me, as an incredible path to learning. It's great to watch the process on TV, to read about it in a book or to inspect someone's art or invention as a learning tool. These are all important. There is no better way than DIY to impress -whatever- upon your brain.
The book that is the internet, however reliable or unreliable, is there if you need it.
And the thing that you do... make... comes from inside you. Ideas popping (or climbing) out of your brain. Is this the place from which the term popcorn brain hails?
My kind of place.
You might wonder why doing things myself is so important to me. I do things myself that have been done by others for centuries. Cleaning the sweat and dirt and other unmentionables off of a sheep's fleece. Learning how to bring the wool fibers into alignment with the drum carder. Spinning with a drop spindle. It's been done before.
It's the best way to learn. Sure, it takes longer, and civilization does not advance when I learn to clean the muck and ick off of fleece. But my learning experience is not about advancing civilization. It's about me.
And who knows? With all the little bits of learning that I (we) acquire, perhaps someday I (me, you) can put them together into something new. Something that someone hasn't yet done.
Call it art or call it invention... it'll be fun. I'll (we'll) each be vested, because I (we) have (figuratively) sweated over it.
I'll (We'll) have experienced the power of Do It Yourself. Myself. Ourselves.
Join the Club. Open to Youth 4th Grade and Up.