Events
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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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Tuesday Studio
Leaf Printing - Fall is the perfect time to turn nature into art! In this week’s Studio, kids will gently brush paint onto the back of a leaf, where the veins are most prominent, then press it onto paper to reveal a beautiful print. Try different leaves, overlap shapes, and see what happens when you…
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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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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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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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Ed Emberley Pumpkins on a Fence
Five little pumpkins, sitting on a gate… Except these pumpkins are made with your fingerprints! Inspired by illustrator Ed Emberley, our Artist of the Month, kids can turn simple fingerprint dots into a spooky Halloween scene on Friday. Add a few lines, give each pumpkin a jack-o-lantern face, and voilà—a whole pumpkin patch made by…
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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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Tuesday Studio
Rolling Eyeballs - Drop paint-covered “eyeballs” into a bin, then shake, shake, SHAKE! As the eyes roll, tumble, and bounce across the paper, they leave behind a wild crisscross of lines, almost like a tangled spiderweb. Then for the finishing touch, glue on a creepy-crawly spider.
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Ed Emberley Spiders
For this creepy-crawly craft on Tuesday, kids will make their own spider and learn a little science along the way. A spider’s body is made up of two main parts: the cephalothorax (say that three times fast!) and the abdomen. Then come the eight legs! Keep your spider flat, or bend and glue those legs…
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Exploring Music
Kickstart your day with a joyful tune in Kerry's music class! Toddlers learn about rhythms and beats through active movement and enthusiastic singing.
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Picasso & Emberley Mash Up
Our Author/Illustrator and Artist of the Month are teaming up for a Halloween mash-up! Ed Emberley taught us that you can make amazing pictures by combining simple shapes. Pablo Picasso showed us that faces don’t have to look the way we expect—they can be rearranged, turned around and seen from all different angles. Put those…