Ages 5–12
Sew Your
Story
A five-day puppet-making camp where kids design a character from the inside out.
Make Bold. Learn Free. Create Always.
I design hands-on learning experiences for young makers — curriculum, craft, and playful digital tools that help kids find out what they can build.
Sew Your
Ages 6+
Satchel’s
Art Studio
An interactive studio teaching art fundamentals through lessons and a real drawing canvas.
Self-hosted
Patch
A private AI assistant running Qwen3 8B on a laptop at home. Nothing leaves the house.
Open for work
Let’s Make
Something
Curriculum design, workshop facilitation, and playful learning tools for classrooms and camps.
Selected work
Three projects,
one instinct.
Two are about giving young people something real to make and the words to explain it. The third is about owning the tools you use rather than renting them. All three come from wanting to build the thing myself.
Curriculum design
Sew Your Story
A complete five-day camp built around a six-step identity-design process — Notice, Choose, Design, Build, Animate, Share. Every session is planned to the minute, with teaching prompts, age differentiation, materials lists, and guidance for the moments that get emotional.
Product & learning design
Satchel’s Art Studio
A browser-based studio that pairs short lessons with a canvas to practise on immediately. Eighteen modules across four levels — Foundations, Composition, Advanced, and Textiles — with a guide character, progress stamps, and a gallery of everything a young artist has made.
Self-hosted AI
Patch
A private AI chat assistant wired to Qwen3 8B running locally on a laptop at home. Reachable anywhere through a password-gated URL, but the weights, the inference, and the conversation history never leave the machine — no API key, no usage meter, no third party in the middle.
Art
Drawing is
how I think.
Sketchbook work, textile studies, and the characters that end up teaching a lesson. Most of it starts as a way to test an idea before I build it.
Curriculum design ✦ Workshop facilitation ✦ Textile craft ✦ Illustration ✦ Learning products ✦ Design thinking ✦
About
I make the thing
kids get to keep.
I’m Kirsten — a designer and creative educator. My work sits where curriculum design meets craft: I build programmes, materials, and digital tools that give young people a real thing to hold at the end, and the vocabulary to talk about how they made it.
That means writing a camp week that survives contact with twenty five-year-olds, sewing the prototype myself first, and designing the interface a nine-year-old uses without being told how. I care about work that’s genuinely hands-on, honestly age-appropriate, and never condescending.
I work with schools, camps, museums, and studios — on curriculum, workshop facilitation, learning products, and the illustration and identity work that holds them together.
Contact
Let’s build
something kids
will keep.
Available for curriculum projects, workshops, and learning products. Tell me who you’re teaching and what you want them to walk away with.