CURIOSITY: Tiny Worlds

Try something new.

CURIOSITY is Creative Curiosity’s monthly exploration series, a chance to experiment with different analog crafts, creative tools, and hands-on processes.

One month we might sew, another we might make books, experiment with printmaking, or try something neither of us has done before.

You don’t have to decide that this is your new thing. You get to spend a couple of hours finding out what happens when you try it.

This Month

Build a tiny place. Give it a story.

Create a miniature world from paper, found objects, tiny figures, and other curious materials.

In this workshop, we’ll experiment with miniature making and scene building, creating tiny worlds inside small containers.

Maybe yours becomes a peaceful garden, a cozy room, a tiny pond, a roadside motel, a miniature library, or someplace entirely invented. We’ll play with scale, composition, layering, and small details to give your world a sense of place.

Then we’ll bring our worlds to life.

Who lives there? What are they doing? What happened five minutes ago? What might happen next? A duck could be enjoying a very luxurious bath. Dinosaurs might be having an important meeting. A tiny motel could have one very peculiar guest. Or maybe nothing unusual is happening at all.

Your world can be cozy, funny, strange, nostalgic, peaceful, surreal, or some combination of all of them.

There’s no single scene we’re trying to reproduce. You’ll have materials, examples, prompts, and guidance to get started, then plenty of room to experiment and follow your story wherever it goes.

By the end, you’ll leave with a miniature world small enough to hold in your hands and a story that belongs entirely to it.

What to Expect

• An introduction to miniature making and scene building

• A small container to transform into your own tiny world

• Papers, tiny figures, natural textures, found objects, and other materials to explore

• Guidance on scale, composition, layering, and assemblage

• Story prompts to help you imagine who lives there and what might be happening

• Plenty of room to make your world cozy, funny, peculiar, surreal, or entirely your own

• All materials provided

Who It's For

CURIOSITY is designed for adults who enjoy learning, making, and exploring new creative processes. You don’t need experience with miniatures. Bring your ideas, follow the prompts, and see where your tiny world takes you.