• Burning Away the Winter Blues: Building and Burning the Yeti Effigy

    Yukon Educational Theater approached YuKonstruct earlier this year to ask if the makerspace and Chris Lloyd, who designed the airplanes in the Winterval parade, would be interested in building the effigy for Burning Away the Winter Blues. Of course we jumped at the chance to build an epic effigy! Chris designed a snow monster, the Yeti,…

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  • Member’s Project: Custom-built Bed

    When I was asked to build a bed for a friend I was supper excited! But I didn’t have a place to build it or a good quality table saw. Then a light went on and I thought “Yukonstruct! I should go and check out the space.” From the first tour I was hooked and the ideas…

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  • Winterval Santa Clause Parade

    This past weekend, YuKonstruct was a part of Yukon Educational Theater’s 7th annual Winterval Santa Clause Parade. Inspired by Aidan Chopra’s cardboard Grumman F4F-4 costume, we decided to make laser-cut cardboard airplanes for some of our youngest members to wear in the parade. The planes were designed by Chris Lloyd, one of our members, in…

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