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Meet Maz: An 8-Year-Old DIY Member and Entrepreneur
Maz is a prolific illustrator. He spends his time on DIY posting drawings of zany monsters he dreams up which he calls, “Mazters.” Over the past couple of years, he has started a small shop out of his garage called “Mazter’s Emporium Art Shop” where he sells his illustrations to his friends, neighbors, and people who come across his shop unexpectedly.
“I sell my “Mazter’s” trading cards, comics, chapter books, music videos, paper toys, plush, games that I make and art. All of these things have my own characters in them. I draw all the time – I probably have drawn 2,000 characters. If you look at my school math book, wherever there is an equation there is also a drawing of one of my characters.”
When asked what he hopes to do with the shop in the future, he says, “I am starting to have in-store events like ‘how to draw’ some of my characters. And also I’m starting to create interactive activities where people pay to do missions around our yard which looks like a forest. In the missions they use my art and signs to figure out clues to solve the missions. I also want to have my own store someday not in my garage, and to sell my art there. And also to sell my art in other people’s stores.”
Maz’s proudest moment was when he sold his first piece of monster art. This upcoming May, he’s excited about getting more of his community involved by hosting a “Free Comic Book Day” where he is debuting a special comic and “some kind of free giveaway of one of my characters or monsters. Maybe a free custom drawing right on the spot.”
Keep up to date with Maz’s illustrations on DIY!
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DIY now offers year-round online courses in dozens of subjects for your kids to access from a mobile device anytime, anywhere.
Courses are designed to fit every family’s schedule and every kid’s pace. Memberships cost as little as $12.
If you’re already a DIY Camps subscriber, look out for another email explaining your new, cheaper plan.
We look forward to learning with your family!
Chalon Bridges
Director of Learning
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Member Spotlight:Emma Shoe
Emma Shoe is a 14-year old from Australia. She is one of 400,000 kids at DIY who try their hand at challenges each day and then share their work with our worldwide community. She has recently taken to transforming cardboard and fabric into magical creations.
“This is a creature I made based on the structure of a small cardboard box. To attach the layers of felt to it, I stuck stockings to the exterior,that way, I could fill them with stuffing to give it more shape. Then, I stitched on the layers of fur, eyes and horns (made from stockings). On the inside I have tried to replicate the human internal organ system from felt.”
The Adventure Time Animation Contest
Win the chance to get your animation shown on Cartoon Network! This contest is for folks 17 and under.
This is the most exciting contest in the history of DIY! We’ve teamed up with Cartoon Network to bring you the official Adventure Time Animation Contest. The winning animation will be played on Cartoon Network during an Adventure Time special event on November 20th! Pretty cool, right?
To Enter:
-Create an EXACT :20 second animation (no more or less!) starring your favorite Adventure Time characters – and bonus points for featuring the star of the finale, Marceline the Vampire Queen!
-Post your animation on DIY.org with the hashtag #AnimationTime in the title of the project so that we can see it!
-Use any animation technique you like to tell your story—stop-motion, claymation, 2D or 3D computer animation, anything!
The deadline to enter is November 15th at 11:59 PM PDT. Don’t forget to include #AnimationTime in the title of your project! You can enter up to 3 different animations.
The winning entry will be announced on DIY.org at 12 PM PDT on Tuesday, November 17th. Good luck!
Now that we are officially into spring, meaning parents are beginning to look for stand-out summer activities for their kids. We thought we’d step in and give you some ideas on how to stay inspired during time off from school.
Springtime is when kids can explore new activities that will allow them to be both stimulated but also able to relax. Summer at DIY.org is going to be fun-filled and loaded with new challenges.
Here are some DIY challenges to keep an eye on during your school break:
1. Let’s kickstart with an easy one: collecting recycled materials. This is an environmentally-conscious challenge that will help children become more aware of the waste produced by all of us in our everyday lives.
2. You can arrange an indoor garden. (Spoiler alert: You’ll get your hands dirty.) As you may know, the presence of plants in our living space makes us happier and more productive!
3. We welcome you to take awalk in the woods. The key to this challenge is to pay attention to everything you see, hear, smell and even taste. Take us with you on a video journey and narrate all the senses that are stimulated by the world around you.
4.This challenge is quite literally in the sun! Simply take interesting photographs with a shadow as a subject – could be your shadow or others’.
5.A tipi is a cone-shaped shelter that historically uses animal skins and wooden poles, but modern tipis can be made with tarps, canvas, or bedsheets. Let’s build one!
6.How about building a solar cooker this summer? It’s a lot easier (read: fun) than it sounds. All you need isa large enough cardboard box and aluminum foil.
We started DIY in 2012 with a mission to enable any kid, anywhere to learn any skill. It’s amazing to see how thousands of DIYer kids have benefited already – picking up something as basic as drawing a straight line to something as complex as creating electricity out of potatoes.
This constant drive to teach and learn something new has become our DNA – this is the core of DIY. However, of late, we realized that there is so much more that we can do to push the very frontiers of DIY. For starters, we want more and more kids to become a part of this awesome community and make the most of this platform. And we don’t want parents to think twice about spending on their child’s development.
To make this happen, we’ve substantially brought down our monthly subscription fee from $19 to only $4.99 (access for 1 kid) and also added an annual subscription for the same at $49.99. That’s right! Similarly, we’ve also dropped our monthly family subscription fee to only $7.99* (access for 2-4 kids) and added an annual family subscription at $79.99.
We believe this collective price drop will go a long way in encouraging more parents to keep kids enrolled in DIY.
Apart from this much needed change to the price, we are also working on restructuring our content. Young DIYers will start enjoying the following features in the coming days:
- Many more skills and challenges than ever before
- New courses are being added such as dance, yoga, chess, vocals, etc.
- A more active community with more Mods (moderators)
Our collective aim is to boost this enriching ecosystem that’s been developing for almost a decade now. And with these positive changes in motion, we’re sure we’ll be reaching out to a much larger audience of young, enthusiastic kids in the near future.
With DIY – any kid, anywhere, can learn any skill. For the love of learning!
*only the family monthly plan is available on iOS App Store
How does animator @juliapott come up with original ideas for her animations? In this clip, she explains the inspiration behind her film Belly, and how that became its own unique story. In her JAM online course for ages 8-14, she helps kids develop their own original ideas into animated shorts.
Julia’s Animate with Cartoon Networkcourse is FREE for kids who register before August 31, 2016. Final animations that are completed by August 31st, 2016 may be chosen to be shown on @cartoonnetwork’s platforms.
JAM online courses are brought to you by DIY.org! Learn more and sign up for free for ages 8-14: Animate with Cartoon Network
How do animators animate? Adventure Time’s @juliapott explains keyframing and much more in our Animate with Cartoon Networkcourse.
The course is FREE for kids 8-14 who register before August 31, 2016. Kids who complete their final animation by August 31st, 2016 have an opportunity for their work to be shown on Cartoon Network’s platforms.
JAM online courses are brought to you by DIY.org! Learn more and sign up for ages 8-14: Animate with Cartoon Network
How does animator and Adventure Time staff writer @juliapott write a story? Kids 8-14 can find out in our Animate with Cartoon Network course.
The course is FREE for kids who register before August 31, 2016. Kids who complete their final animation by August 31st, 2016 have an opportunity to be shown on Cartoon Network’s platforms.
JAM courses are brought to you by DIY.org! We help parents give their kids good screen time, and we help kids get really good at something they love… like animation,illustration,inventing,cooking,singing,Minecraft, and more.
Learn more and sign up for ages 8-14: Animate with Cartoon Network
Kids don’t have to wait to get their dream job.Inthis JAM online course, kids 8-14 can write, direct, & produce their own animated short with help of Adventure Time writer and professional animator Julia Pott.
The course is FREE for kids who register before August 31, 2016. Kids who complete their final animation by August 31st, 2016 have an opportunity to be shown on Cartoon Network’s platforms.
JAM courses are brought to you by DIY.org! We help parents give their kids good screen time, and we help kids get really good at something they love… like animation,illustration,inventing,cooking,singing,Minecraft, and more.
Learn more and sign up for ages 8-14: Animate with Cartoon Network
Introducing JAM Online Courses for Kids. JAM courses were created to help kids get skills they can’t get in school, and allow them to learn what they love (and love what they learn).
We don’t lecture kids at JAM. Instead, we invite kids to invent their own solutions within a safe and inspiring kid community. With 100s of hours of hands-on activities, our quests create a perfect circle of trying, failing, collaborating, and growing. Kids 8-14 can both learn from and teach each other in subjects that they love… like animation,illustration,inventing,cooking,singing,Minecraft, and more.
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“I love DIY because everyone is so nice, you can always find someone who likes the same thing you like (that that time) and because I am always being inspired by one person or another. DIY shows me things I wouldn’t have seen or tried.”
- guinea pig lover, member since July 2014.
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