
active — Raleigh, NC
Luminaries
A creative survivalist scouts program where children ages 5-10 earn badges through real-world making, outdoor skills, problem solving, and hands-on creative projects.
Luminaries is a 16-week creative survivalist scouts program for children ages 5-10, now enrolling in Raleigh. Scouts work side by side in small pods, building friendships through shared making and earning eight badges as they grow in skill and character. The curriculum moves through four arcs: Strong Foundations (drawing, surface and pattern, building in space, story over time), Useful & Beautiful (block printing, fiber and weaving, clay and form), Value & Voice (reading nature, natural dyes, knots and carriers, a real field challenge), and Collective Build (the Wunder Mix enterprise, the Luminaries Market, and a closing Exhibition Night). Two age groups - Little Luminaries (5-7) and Rising Luminaries (8-10) - each progress through three journeys: Foundations, Applied Making, and Lead & Mentor. Every journey runs Fall and Spring with the same outcomes but fresh projects, themes, materials, and field missions. Each two-hour session follows a studio ritual: check-in, story and concept, demonstration, fifty minutes of making, cleanup and studio stewardship, then Field Guide reflection. Scouts take home a tool pouch, their first project, a Field Guide, and badge progress.
