Making Fun hands a workshop over to kids and lets their strangest, most delightfully pointless ideas drive the show.
What is Making Fun about?
Each episode of this 2022 family reality series opens the same way: a group of kids pitch an invention idea, and grumpy expert maker Jimmy DiResta has to decide whether it is worth his time. Some pitches are practical, most are gloriously impractical, and the fun of the show lives in that gap between what a child imagines and what a workshop full of tools can actually produce. When DiResta is in the mood, he and his fellow builders take the idea from sketch to finished object, improvising solutions with saws, welders, and whatever scrap happens to be lying around. The show leans into DiResta's short temper as much as his skill, treating his grumbling as part of the entertainment rather than something to smooth over. Along the way, the series doubles as an accessible introduction to basic fabrication, measurement, and problem-solving, presented at a pace and tone built for family viewing rather than a serious how-to program. Nothing about the format depends on ongoing plot or character arcs, which makes individual episodes easy to drop into and enjoy on their own.
About the cast
The series brings together Paul Jackman, Derek Forestier, John Graziano, Jimmy DiResta, and Patrick Laperrière as the workshop's regular crew, each contributing a different set of hands-on skills to the builds the kids dream up.
Context & significance
Making Fun belongs to a wave of American maker-culture television that grew out of hobbyist workshops and online build videos, translating that DIY energy into a family-friendly format. Rather than competing shows, it borrows the structure of a challenge series and applies it to whatever a child's imagination produces that week, with genuine tools and genuine consequences when a build does not go as planned.
Watching Making Fun on Ktime
Making Fun streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so the workshop banter and the kids' pitches both come through clearly for Farsi-speaking households. Watching only requires a free K-Time account login; the show's page itself is free to browse without signing in.