Educational Experience Design

Welcome to my virtual creative learning lab,

I'm Celeste.

I design and study creative learning experiences that engage curious minds
of all ages.

I share free resources, example projects, stories, and ideas in-progress to support creative learning learning here in my "virtual lab".

What if you could turn your code into candy?

What if you could make microscopic creatures touchable and observable without a microscope?

What if you could make toys out of mushroom mycelium?

WORK

Featured Experiments:

Edible Code

*Check out the Instructables post for this project: https://www.instructables.com/Code-You-Can-Eat/ * Recently I've been obsessed with...

Chibitronics Guest Blog Post - How to Make a Light Up Nicho

This year I finally got around to making my own nichos (shadow boxes, or mini shrines). I shared my process, which includes resources...

Hack-o-Lantern - Automata Pumpkin

Each year the Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium invites people to join in the process of making "hack-o-lanterns" where you are...

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Creative Learning Sparks 12/17/22

The theme of this week's sparks is zines! There are all kinds of zines out there, in fact I recently got to visit the zine library in...

Creative Learning Sparks 12/11/22

A thread on creative uses for craft-cutters

Creative Learning Sparks

Creative Learning Sparks are blog posts that round up resources, websites, tools, ideas, readings, products, etc. that may be relevant to anyone who is interested in designing creative, interdisciplinary, material and tool-rich learning experiences. Explore Creative Learning Sparks here.