Events
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Sunflowers
This craft combines sunshine, paper loops, and a little bit of nature! Young artists will create these cheerful sunflowers using strips of paper curled into big, loopy petals, and real sunflower seeds for the center!
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Nickelodeon Worldwide Day of Play
It’s time to get up, get moving, and PLAY! Worldwide Day of Play celebrates the importance of active, imaginative, and joyful play in helping kids learn, grow, and connect. Whether you’re running, building, creating, dancing, or simply having fun, today is the perfect day to play!
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Peter Reynolds Dot Day
Dot Day was so much fun, we’re doing it again! Inspired by Peter H. Reynolds’ beloved book The Dot, this time we’re putting a personal spin on it—literally! Kids will use a silhouette of their own handprint as the starting point for a one-of-a-kind piece of art. Because what better way to celebrate creativity and…
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Pasta Porcupine
This craft will really stick with you. Who knew dry spaghetti could make such perfect porcupine quills? Push dry spaghetti strands into clay to create these prickly but adorable little creatures, giving those little hand muscles a great workout, too!
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Exploring Music
Wednesdays are for wiggles, giggles, and grooves! Kerry combines music, movement, and playful activities to help your little one find their rhythm—and maybe teach you a new dance move or two. Join us from 10-10:45 am.
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Fall Foliage
Kids get to play Mother Nature for the day! Sticks glued to a backing board become the trunks and branches, and then it’s time to decorate. Tissue squares, dot markers, or jewel-toned fabric can transform their little trees into colorful creations that are completely their own.
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Pages & Play
NEW! Stories introduce toddlers to new words, ideas, characters and experiences while helping build the foundation for a lifelong love of reading. That’s the idea behind Pages & Play, a new class on Thursdays where a great children’s book is just the beginning. We might create something, play a game, move like the characters, pretend…
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Pablo Picasso Faces
What if a face didn’t have to look… well, like a face? That’s part of what made Pablo Picasso, our Artist of the Month, such a revolutionary artist. He looked at familiar things, like faces, and broke them apart, rearranged them and put them back together in unexpected ways.
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Oil Pastel Moths
Butterflies get all the glory, but moths are pretty fascinating, too. There are more than 160,000 known species of moths, and they come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and patterns. Some even use camouflage to disappear right before your eyes.
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Jack-o-Lanterns
Is yours spooky? Silly? Surprised? Slightly grumpy because someone woke it from its pumpkin patch nap? Kids can glue their very own orange paper gourd onto a textured black background and then give it a face that’s entirely their own. No pumpkin-carving tools required—just glue, creativity, and a lot of Halloween spirit!
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