Creative Reuse Classes in Kansas City
Magpie Creative Reuse Collective offers classes and events focused on inspiring reuse. We teach skills, and encourage creative thinking, to transform materials through reuse, upcycling, downcycling, recycling and repair.
Check back regularly to find arts & crafts classes taught by local artists, mending classes, and other sustainability focused education about reuse. Sign up for updates to stay informed.
Classes at Magpie
8/20 Digital Reset with Tidy For Good
Take a master class with Kim Shiu from Tidy for Good to declutter and organize your own devices in real time. Free up space for your mind and your hard drive storage.
Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm
9/3 Kaleidoscope Necklace
Join Whiskey & Bone to make one-of-a-kind beaded necklaces from used and leftover beads.
In this class you will make a single, 18” necklace. Tarrah will guide you on how to design your piece, and how to start and finish your necklace with different mixed metal findings.
Time: 5:30 – 7:30pm
9/5 Mish Mash Mobile
Join Tara from Lost and Found Designs to make a doodads and whositwhatsits mobile. Think of yourself as the little mermaid and you have collected your own sparkly thing-a-ma-bob! We will have seashells, tumbled glass and ceramic bits, wood scraps, jewelry beads and baubles. In this workshop you will learn to solder with lead free materials.
Time: 1:00 – 4:00pm
9/13 Mending with Heather
Learn to mend your clothes! Join sewist Heather Anacker to practice the basics of mending.
Time: 1:00 – 4:00pm
9/20 Beginner Sashiko
Join Dan Miller from Sashiko Dan to learn the fast-stitch art of Sashiko, including history, modern uses, and pattern design while decorating your own patch to continue the tradition of clothing repair and upcycling.
Time: 1:00pm – 3:30pm
10/3 Sustainable Fabric Brooch
Fabric bits and special stitches become the softest brooches in this hands on workshop with artist Aimee Hagedorn. Guests will play in piles of colorful fabric scraps to design their own signature piece.
Time: 10:30am – 1:00pm
10/24 Scraps to Scarabs
In this fabric scraps focused workshop, guests will experiment with 3D form and hand stitching to create their own one of a kind beetle brooch. There couldn’t be a more delightful way to transform materials that would otherwise be considered waste.
Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm
11/1 & 11/8 Ceramic Paint Palette
Create a unique paint pallete out of recycled clay! This is a two day class. The first day will be spent creating your paint pallete out of recycled and rehydrated clay. After the palletes are fired, we will come back and paint them with underglaze.
Time: 10:30am- 12:30pm
11/19 Ribbon Awards
Find a reason to bestow honors and make your own dazzling award for the occasion. We will turn scrap ribbon into a DIY awards with added ruffles, tassel, or baubles for pizazz.
Time: 6:00pm- 7:30pm
Monthly Craft Meetups
Junk Journal Meetup
Monthly: First Thursday
Bring your own junk journal projects or start something new. New material pack every month, curated from our collage section.
$10 per session.
Hosted by Missi
Next: Sept 3
Time: 5:30 – 7:30pm
Trash Club
Monthly: Second Sunday
Rethink our refuse! Make useful items and works of art out of traditionally discarded materials. Free.
Hosted by Miranda
Next Meetup: Sept 13
Time: 2:00 – 4:00pm
KC Creative Club
Monthly: Third Saturday
Free meetup for creative folks. Bring your own project and create in community with others.
Hosted by Baylee
Next Meetup: Aug 15
Time: 1:00 – 4:00pm
Save the Date – Supply Swap: Sept 19
Time: 1:00 – 4:00pm
Mending Circle
Monthly: Fourth Sunday
Bring your own mending projects for an open mending meetup. Space and time to care for your things. Free. No instruction provided.
Hosted by Heather
Next Meetup: Aug 23
Time: 1:00 – 4:00pm
Classes with Community Partners
Fall at MCPL – Woodland Fairy House
Make a tiny woodland fairy house for all the small creatures that wander the forest. Turn leftover cardboard, corks, and other recycled materials into a cute forest abode – Free!
Time: Multiple Days – Starting Sept 9
Fall at MCPL – Button Rings & Pop Tab People
Teens can craft with wire, beads, and leftover things you can find at home. Make a tiny person or wearable ring from wire and beads. Free!
Time: Multiple Days – Starting Sept 2
Fall at MCPL – Celestial Embroidery
Learn a few embroidery stitches in this beginner-friendly hand sewing class with. We’ll use scrap felt, fabric, and ribbon to create homemade stars. Free!
Time: Multiple Days – Starting Sept 16
ArtsKC – The Drop
Look for Magpie classes on The Drop. Discounted arts opportunities for members.
Girl Scout You Schedule It Classes at Magpie
Earn badges with creative reuse materials. Schedule a workshop with Magpie for your troop.
Events Calendar
Artist Talk – Starting with Waste
Conversation with Nadia Boone & Alison Wood
Aug 22 – 10am
Event Details
KC Creative Club – Supply Swap
Sept. 19, 2026
1-4pm
RoeFest
Oct 3, 2026
Event Details
Volunteer Sign Up
Heartland Book Festival
Oct 3, 2026
Event Details
Volunteer Sign Up
OP Recycling Extravaganza
Oct 17, 2026
Donations – Event Details
Save the Date – Magpie Makers Market
Nov 14th, 2026
Store Hours & Donation Drop Off Hours
Thursdays: 12pm – 8pm
Fridays: 10am – 5pm
Saturdays: 10am – 5pm
Sundays: 10am – 5pm
We Are
A non-profit Creative Reuse Center in Kansas City. Our mission is collecting and reselling leftover and remnant material, using collective work to keep things useful longer.
Find Us
Creative Reuse Store
3331 Roanoke Rd.
Kansas City, MO 64111
Open Hours:
Thur 12pm – 8pm
Fri – Sun 10am – 5pm
Magpie Creative Reuse Collective 