Labubu heads into Texas art camps for kids of different ages

Labubu’s latest crossover is not another shelf drop or resale spike. It showed up in a Texas art camp, where Cordovan Art School built a four-day Summer Art Camp around Labubu & Other Legendary Monsters for kids ages 5 to 7, then repeated the same theme for ages 8 to 12 on the same dates and at the same time.

Both camps ran from May 26 to May 29, 2026, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM at Cordovan Art School. That matters because the school did not treat Labubu as a one-off novelty item for a single age group. It used the character as the anchor for a hands-on program that could work across elementary and preteen ranges, which is exactly the kind of practical reuse that turns a hot collectible into a durable cultural image.

The title of the camp also says a lot. By pairing Labubu with “Other Legendary Monsters,” the school placed the character inside a broader creature-making frame instead of presenting it as a solitary brand icon. That makes Labubu a prompt for drawing, decorating, and craft play, the sort of material kids can build on in a workshop rather than merely recognize from a blind-box package.

Cordovan Art School says it offers summer art camps in the Houston, Texas area for ages 5 to 16, with more than 40 themed camps in the mix. Labubu now sits inside that local arts calendar alongside other family-facing programs, a sign that the character has enough recognition to function as a public-facing theme, not just a collector reference.

That recognition has been building for years. POP MART places Labubu inside THE MONSTERS, a world Kasing Lung created in 2015 and rooted in Nordic mythology. The company describes Labubu as a mischievous but kind-hearted small monster. Kasing Lung’s official profile says he began collaborating with How2Work in 2011 and published his first Chinese illustrated book, My Little Planet, in Taiwan in 2013. Kaikai Kiki says The Monsters has appeared in more than 300 colors, shapes, and sizes.

The broader business numbers explain why a camp like this feels timely instead of random. Reuters reported that Pop Mart’s 2025 revenue rose 185 percent to 37.12 billion yuan, or $5.38 billion, and CNBC reported that revenue and net income surged 185 percent and 309 percent. Reuters also reported that Pop Mart shares fell more than 20 percent after the earnings release, a reminder that the market is still testing how long the Labubu wave can last.

For now, the Texas camps show one clear thing: Labubu is no longer only a collectible to chase. It is becoming a reusable visual language that can travel from blind-box retail into classrooms, camps, and other offline spaces where kids make something with it instead of just buying it.