Activities, Camps and After School Classes in Winchester, MA

Back by popular demand! Is your child an artist who loves to build, construct, and sculpt? This week, we'll be making 3D art projects that might include dioramas, model magic, string art, found objects, recycled materials, paper mache, and more!

Get ready to draw, glue, and yarn-ify your art! This week, kids will explore two exciting art traditions from Mexico: Huichol yarn painting and Talavera tile design. Huichol artists create textured pictures using bright yarn, while Talavera tiles are known for bold colors, repeating patterns, and mirror-image designs. You’ll combine these ideas to design your own Yarn Painting Talavera, using symbols, colors, and patterns that show who you are—animals, sports, nature, family traditions, and more. You’ll also learn to weave on a wooden loom, creating colorful textile pieces while practicing over-under patterns and adding fun details like beads, pom-poms, and yarn textures. This hands-on, project-based week is full of color, creativity, and self-expression. You’ll head home with unique artwork that’s truly one of a kind—just like you!

Have you ever dreamed of building your own house, school, or even a fire station? Do you love animals? In this hands-on week, you’ll bring your ideas to life using cardboard and imagination to create BOTH! Throughout the week, you’ll explore the design process—from planning and problem-solving to building and improving your structure. You’ll design and construct a cardboard building inspired by a real-life place of your choice, adding recognizable details like doors, windows, roofs, and textures. You’ll experiment with depth, structure, and craftsmanship to make your building sturdy, detailed, and unique. After you paint and finish your building, you will work together with others to place it in a purpose-built Studio on the Common neighborhood, seeing how your creation fits into a shared community. But that’s not all! You will also work on creating your own animal using all the same skills. This class is perfect if you love building, creating, and imagining the world around you—no prior experience needed, just curiosity and creativity!

Make some art—and some memories! Join us for a fun-filled family painting workshop where each person creates their own canvas, then connects them all into one big, beautiful masterpiece. Perfect for kids (4+) and their grown-ups—parents, grandparents, caregivers, and loved ones of all kinds are welcome as we celebrate creativity and connection this Father's Day weekend. One adult + one child included. Add more family members for $25 each. All materials provided—just bring your imagination!

Ready to level up your drawing skills and have a blast doing it? Join us for a full week of drawing adventures! You’ll get your hands on tons of cool supplies—markers, pencils, pastels, and more—and learn how to turn ideas into awesome artwork. Each day brings something new: - Sketch realistic portraits - Draw what you see (out in nature!) - Create your own original characters - Try fun techniques and discover new favorite tools - And more! By the end of the week, you’ll head home with a stack of drawings you’ll be proud of—and the skills to keep creating long after summer is over.

Our most popular summer program returns for Summer 2026: Art Lab! Does your child love to engage in the process of art making and experiment with new things? If so, Art Lab! is the week for them. This week will be chock full of exploration of art materials and may include things like making fizz art using baking soda, salt resist painting, kaleidoscope making, paper marbling with shaving cream and more! It's sure to delight the adventurous artist!

Does your child love books and storytelling? This week, we'll be using children's stories to inspire our artwork. With a different book each day, kids will create art that explores the connection between books, storytelling, and art. As they unleash their imagination and create their own unique interpretations and artwork, projects might include a mix of drawing, painting, sculpture, and more!

Let’s build a city… and put on a puppet show! This week, you’ll work together to build a mini city filled with fun places like pizza shops, parks, fire stations, and museums. Everyone will help plan the city and build their own part, using cardboard, blocks, and art materials. You’ll also make simple puppets—people, animals, or silly characters—who live in the city. Your puppets will have jobs, homes, and stories to tell! Once the city is built, it’s time to play and pretend. You’ll use your puppets to act out stories like helping a neighbor, visiting the park, or going to the pizza shop. There’s no script—just imagination and teamwork. At the end of the week, you’ll share your city and perform a short puppet show for families, then take home your puppets and your own buildings. This week is all about building, pretending, working together, and making new friends while having lots of fun!

Get creative and dream up your own superheroes and fantasy creatures! In this action-packed, week-long class, students will design characters, build exciting worlds, and learn how pictures and words work together to tell a story. Then it’s time to unleash the fun—plan wild plots and tell the crazy adventures your characters go on in your very own comic book. By the end of the week, each student will have an original comic to share and show off!

Let's have some fun on a no school day! Grab some friends and spend the morning making some amazing art projects with us. In between crafts, we will take time out for a story and snack, so be sure to pack something yummy and NUT-FREE!

Do you love drawing, patterns, and experimenting with art? This week, you’ll explore fun and surprising ways to make images by printing them again and again! You’ll learn a variety of printmaking techniques, such as relief printing, texture prints, and simple monotype processes. Using safe, kid-friendly tools and materials, you’ll carve, roll, press, and pull your own prints while discovering how artists use repetition, layering, and color to create exciting designs. Each day, you’ll experiment with new methods and build your skills while creating original artwork. By the end of the week, you’ll have a collection of prints to take home and share—plus a deeper understanding of how artists turn one idea into many works of art. This workshop is perfect if you enjoy hands-on art, trying new techniques, and getting a little inky while you create!

Curious about the After School Art Enrichment Program? Come join the fun and see the magic for yourself! Calling all caregivers and future artists entering grades K–2 this fall! This special event is the perfect chance to come and find out more about our After School Art Enrichment program and see if it's right for your little budding artist! -Make hands-on art projects -Meet our amazing teachers -Check out incredible artwork created by our talented students -Ask questions and learn all about the program Whether your child loves painting, drawing, sculpting, or simply getting creative, this is a wonderful opportunity to discover what makes our After School Art Enrichment Program so special. We can’t wait to meet with you! We are offering 2 different times for this event - please choose the one that works best for you: 6:30-7pm or 7pm-7:30pm.

Get ready to blast off on a super fun space adventure! This week, you’ll travel far beyond Earth and into outer space using your imagination and creativity. Young artists will explore the stars as they create bright, glowing galaxy paintings, experiment with cosmic colors, and learn fun techniques to make space really shine. You’ll also build your very own rocket ships, designing them with windows, fins, and special details for imaginary space missions. Along the way, you’ll create silly alien masks and other space-themed crafts, inventing friendly (or funny!) creatures from faraway planets. Each day is filled with hands-on art projects, creative play, and storytelling as we imagine life in outer space. By the end of the week, you’ll have a collection of out-of-this-world artwork to take home—and memories from an exciting creative journey through the cosmos. Perfect for kids who love planets, rockets, aliens, and big adventures in space!

This week is for those kids who say that their favorite color is all the colors in the rainbow! This week we will focus on making colorful projects that will sure to put a smile on your face! Each day will feature super fun art projects including drawing, painting, sculpture, and more! A few of the AWESOME projects we will make this week include: Extra large rainbow collage - a fan favorite project! Rainbow inspired paper piñata Model magic rainbow Beaded sun catcher that will make rainbows in your window Red, orange, green, blue, purple, pink drawings, paintings, and sculptures! AND so much MORE!

This week, we’re diving into the colorful and creative world of mosaics. Young artists will learn how mosaics are traditionally assembled using small tiles made from materials like glass, stone, and ceramics—often square in shape, but sometimes round or irregular for added visual interest. Inspired by these techniques, kids will design and create their own unique mosaic artworks using pieces of broken pottery, china, glass, buttons, figurines, and even jewelry! By arranging and cementing these fun found objects onto a sturdy base, artists will transform scraps into colorful, textured masterpieces—boosting creativity, problem-solving, and artistic confidence along the way.

Do you love animals and making things with your hands? In this one-week needle felting workshop, you’ll turn fluffy wool into adorable animal friends using special felting needles and lots of imagination! You’ll learn the basics of needle felting, including how to shape, layer, and attach wool to build animals step by step. From tiny ears and tails to spots, stripes, and expressions, you’ll add personality and detail to bring your creatures to life. You can create a real animal or invent one of your own! Throughout the week, you’ll practice patience, focus, and craftsmanship while working safely with special tools and plenty of guidance. By the end of the week, you’ll have one or more soft, sculpted animal friends to take home and show off. This workshop is perfect if you enjoy animals, soft materials, and creating small sculptures with big character!

Step into a magical kingdom where creativity reigns! This week, you’ll enter a world of magic, castles, and enchanted forests! You’ll let your imagination run wild as you: Build castles and fairy gardens using cardboard, clay, natural materials, and colorful decorations. - Craft fairy wands, magic potion bottles, and other magical tools to spark your own stories. - Design crowns, tiaras, or royal costumes to bring your favorite fairy tale characters to life. - Tell and act out your own fairy tales, sharing adventures with your friends in a magical kingdom you’ve helped create. Every day is filled with hands-on, imaginative projects, from sculpting and decorating to painting, crafting, and storytelling. By the end of the week, you’ll have your very own collection of magical creations to take home—and memories of a whimsical kingdom you helped bring to life! This workshop is perfect if you love magic, storytelling, building, and creating—and want to spend a week exploring a world where anything is possible.

At the Studio we're lucky to have ceramic artists eager to share their craft with your kids. This week-long camp will focus on a mixture of hand building and wheel throwing. We will create a variety of bowls, plates, cups, vases, and more while experimenting with surface design and glazes.

At the Studio we're lucky to have ceramic artists eager to share their craft with your kids. This week-long camp will focus on a mixture of hand building and wheel throwing. We will create a variety of bowls, plates, cups, vases, and more while experimenting with surface design and glazes.

Here at the Studio we're stockpiled with art supplies that give young children the chance to explore a variety of topics and activities. Our art projects will reinforce emerging skills as we work on letters, numbers, line, shape, texture, color, fine motor skills, and creative expression. This thoughtful combination is designed to expand and stimulate our youngest student’s minds in a fun, art-rich environment. NOTE: We will follow the Winchester Public School Calendar. There will be no Messy Mushy Preschool Art on days when Winchester Public Schools are closed or on half-days. While your child is welcome to register for Messy Mushy on multiple days of the week, please note our curriculum is designed to repeat the same set of projects in each class. We offer after school pick up from Neighborhood Coop Nursery School at 12pm for students attending the half day NCNS program.

Here at the Studio we're stockpiled with art supplies that give young children the chance to explore a variety of topics and activities. Our art projects will reinforce emerging skills as we work on letters, numbers, line, shape, texture, color, fine motor skills, and creative expression. This thoughtful combination is designed to expand and stimulate our youngest student’s minds in a fun, art-rich environment. NOTE: We will follow the Winchester Public School Calendar. There will be no Messy Mushy Preschool Art on days when Winchester Public Schools are closed or on half-days. While your child is welcome to register for Messy Mushy on multiple days of the week, please note our curriculum is designed to repeat the same set of projects in each class. We offer after school pick up from Neighborhood Coop Nursery School at 12pm for students attending the half day NCNS program.