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Participate in a very special tea party where you and your child can make tea from choices you select. Pick teas you like and find out how something as fun as a tea party can be healthy! Create your own tea blend with your toddler.  Taste and smell the spices and herbs and blend them to create a delicious tea filled with good yummy things to...

This fun experiential playshop includes role playing, games, compassionate communication, and mindfulness practices to help your child(ren) build their emotional intelligence, cultivate empathy, and speak with awareness and compassion. Practice time includes discovering how to recognize and understand others’ needs and feelings, to walk in someone...

The purpose of Passport 2 Preschool is to meet the total needs of your child emotionally, physically, socially and intellectually with love and understanding. Centering on the Reggio Emilia philosophy, our educators work as facilitators and partners in the learning process. Children learn in various ways, whether it be visual, auditory or...

At the end of this course, children will be empowered and realize their own sensitivities and self energies. Course Description: All children have gifts but some may have not yet figured how to access and use these abilities to their advantage. You may have become aware that your child is intuitive or has a heightened level of sensitivity. These...

An hour of story time and creative story-based art for tots and their caregivers. Participating adult must accompany child.  No reservations required but we ask that you please be on time so as not to disrupt story time.

In a wide circle kids can explore full body rhythmical movement as they stretch, strengthen, laugh and play using balance boards of many different sizes and styles both individually and with partners. Two, three and even four kids can join together on one board by standing, sitting, laying down,  or rocking. The boards provide an energizing,...

Classes designed specifically with the ages of 7-9 in mind! This program makes sure the kids have fun while learning healthy habits and lifelong enjoyment of sport! Fencing specific activities as well as general fitness techniques teach a healthy start to learning how to train in a sport and develop goals. The program is broken down into levels with...

Enjoy a fun free flow, yet intentionally based, time with your child or grandchild. Through games, music, and movement, do yoga poses, tai chi movement, and joyful energy exchanges. Let the sillies out and let the calm float in. Open your child or grandchild to feeling centered energies, becoming more balanced and focused—mentally physically—all...

Taleblazers is offering a discounted week of Open Studio Time (July 25-29). Young authors will write alongside Ms. M.G. as she shows you how writers use collage. Choose to collage a scene, a character, a plot event, a map, or memories as part of your writing process. Bring a (nut free) snack. Taleblazers Reading in Val’s halla on the...

What does “being mindful” mean? Mindfulness is the simple awareness of the present moment - slowing down and paying attention. Learn basic mindfulness techniques such as breathing, meditation, observation, and listening. Create art in a variety of media as a response to these practices. For example, we might make an abstract painting in response...

Learning coding helps students develop computational and logical thinking abilities and improves problem-solving skills, while fostering autonomy, tenacity, and creativity.  Skills involved: • Computer science • Project design and planning • Team coordination and collaboration • Creating and testing algorithms • Debugging Our week-long...

Take a blank canvas and fill it with a still life, landscape, or portrait. Using acrylic paints, students will learn about color, perspective, and realistic rendering as they build a painting step-by-step.  All skill levels are welcome. This camp explores sketching, shapes, composition, color mixing, brush strokes, light and dark.  Bring...

Coordinate your hand and eye while exploring still life, landscape, and portraiture. First, we’ll develop and expand on fundamental drawing skills and techniques. You will explore how to create your drawings using light, shapes, and light. We will then focus on watercolor painting, to deepen your understanding of color and realistic rendering. Former...

Artists Ages 8 and Up will practice drawing with pencil & charcoal as well as paints. Lessons will stress color theory, still life drawing and painting, art history and technical skills.