16 Weeks of Making
Learn to See → Make → Solve → Build Together. Every project is chosen because it teaches a real creative skill, adapted for Little (5–7) and Rising (8–10) Luminaries.
Phase 1Week 1
Observation drawing, blind contour, and memory drawing. Little Luminaries turn it into looking games; Rising Luminaries push into serious observation.
Phase 1Week 2
Collage, texture rubbings, and pattern exploration, children begin to notice surface as design language.
Phase 1Week 3
Cardboard construction, balance, and small environments. Children build three-dimensional worlds that hold together.
Phase 1Week 4
Flip books, storyboarding, and a simple stop-motion sequence. Ideas become time-based.
Phase 2Week 5
Block printing on paper and fabric. Rising Luminaries design a pod pattern; Little Luminaries stamp with pre-cut blocks.
Phase 2Week 6
Stitching, weaving, and wrapping. Children learn to join materials without glue and feel how fiber holds structure.
Phase 2Week 7
Hand-building a small useful vessel. Rising Luminaries decide form before touching clay; Little Luminaries feel their way in.
Phase 2Week 8
Design an object that solves a small everyday problem, applying techniques from Phase 2. A bridge into problem-solving.
Phase 3Week 9
Plant identification, texture and color, and useful natural materials. Observation becomes a survival skill.
Phase 3Week 10
Natural dyes and pigments. Rising Luminaries treat color like a lab; Little Luminaries paint with real earth and plants.
Phase 3Week 11
How do you carry water when your hands need to be free? Rising Luminaries design a full carrier; Little Luminaries learn three friendly knots.
Phase 3Week 12
Pods receive a creative problem and a limited materials kit. A team solution is prototyped, tested, and presented.
Phase 4Week 13
The pod receives a real brief: produce the Luminaries Exhibition. Wunder Mix taste-testing, blend decisions, and pod roles begin.
Phase 4Week 14
Wunder Mix production day: mixing, bagging, packaging, pricing, and building the story on the label.
Phase 4Week 15
The market runs. The pod sells Wunder Mix, reviews earnings, and decides collectively what the exhibition needs, signs, invitations, display, snacks.
Phase 4Week 16
Opening night. Pods finish install, host families, present their work, and close the season with the Crest ceremony.
Session Capstone
Phase 4 is a single continuous capstone. The pod learns to make Wunder Mix, sells it at the Luminaries Market, and collectively decides how the earnings help make the final exhibition happen.