Forgotten Skillz offers hands-on workshops, outdoor experiences, and experiential education programs across Long Island. Our events explore the connections between nature, traditional skills, cultural history, craft, science, stewardship, and human ingenuity through direct participation and discovery.
Programs may take participants into the woods to learn fire-making, navigation, foraging, ecology, or wilderness skills; into the workshop to explore historic crafts and technologies; or into the past through activities inspired by the ways people have created, adapted, solved problems, and understood their world. Events are designed for a range of ages and experience levels, with opportunities for children, teens, adults, families, homeschool communities, and the general public.
ScribeCraft IV: Bookbinding for Teens – West Islip
September 17th, 2026 | 6pm | Teens | West Islip Public Library
Join Forgotten Skillz at West Islip Public Library for a hands-on bookbinding workshop created for the Teen Department.
Participants will explore how handmade books helped preserve stories, ideas, records, science, and culture across generations. We’ll look at the evolution of the written word, from manuscripts and stitched pages to printing presses, Morse code, typewriters, and digital media, then connect that history to the physical craft of building a book.
Teens will handle bookbinding materials, learn how pages are folded, gathered, measured, and stitched, and explore multiple binding styles before creating a hand-bound journal or notebook to take home.
This workshop blends history, technology, creativity, and practical craftsmanship in a relaxed, maker-friendly setting. No experience needed.
Open to all Suffolk County teens.
Every Forgotten Skillz event is built around learning by doing. Whether you are trying something for the first time or building on skills you already have, our programs invite you to experiment, ask questions, work with real materials, and discover new ways of looking at the natural and human world.
Explore the calendar above to find upcoming Forgotten Skillz workshops and events throughout Long Island.