ArtJoy WonderWorks: Puppet & Story Makers Summer Camp 2026

Week-long Camp: (1)

Taught by Toni Mikulka-Chang (ArtJoy & Giant Puppets Save the World)

Mon-Fri. July 27th – July 31st 9:00am-12:00pm

Cost: $275

 Required Consent form must be completed by June 1, 2026

🎭 ArtJoy WonderWorks: Puppet & Story Makers

Ages: 5–8
When: 5 days · 3 hours per day
Instructor: Toni Mikulka-Chang (ArtJoy & Giant Puppets Save the World)

✨ What’s It About?

Welcome to a week of making, moving, and imagining! In ArtJoy WonderWorks, kids explore all kinds of puppets, build their own creations, and bring characters to life through movement, voice, and storytelling.

Each day introduces a new puppet style, from tiny hand puppets to big, silly mouths and even flying puppets. Campers don’t just make puppets — they play with them, give them personalities, and invent stories together.

🧵 What Kids Will Do

• Create multiple original puppets to take home

• Discover how puppets move, talk, and show feelings

• Make up characters and simple stories

• Practice teamwork, confidence, and creative expression

• Share their creations in a fun, informal puppet celebration

(All materials and tools are child-safe, with close supervision.)

🌈 Big Idea

So many ways to bring a puppet to life!

📅 A Peek at the Week

• Day 1: Meet the puppets! Sock and upcycled puppet fun

• Day 2: How does it move? Sculptural and string puppets

• Day 3: Big mouths, big voices, BIG silliness

• Day 4: Stories take shape + flying puppets

• Day 5: Puppet party! Sharing stories and celebrating creations

About the Instructor

Toni Mikulka-Chang is a multidisciplinary artist, puppeteer, and teaching artist with over 20 years of experience working with children and adults. She is the founder of ArtJoy, Yoga Pottery, and Giant Puppets Save the World.

Trained in fine art, anthropology, and puppetry, Toni studied at SUNY and apprenticed with the renowned Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont. She later worked as an early childhood educator and teaching artist at Habitot Children’s Museum in Berkeley, where she designed hands-on, play-based art programs for young children and families.

Toni has worked with clay for over 25 years and teaches pottery to adults and children through her Yoga Pottery practice. Her creative work spans ceramics, sculpture, fiber arts, puppetry, and large-scale installations, and she performs at festivals, museums, and community arts events throughout California and beyond.

Her teaching philosophy emphasizes process over product, curiosity, and joyful discovery, creating inclusive spaces where all learners can explore materials, tell stories, and build confidence through art.

ArtJoy WonderWorks: Puppet & Story Makers is an original program developed by Toni
Mikulka-Chang / ArtJoy.

© 2026 ArtJoy / Toni Mikulka-Chang. All rights reserved.