Sticky Fingers
Let your children release their inner masterchef! Our professional chef instructors guide kid chefs by providing safe, entertaining, hands-on learning throughout the class, but it’s the kid chefs who do the prepping and the cooking! Our class sessions are a BLAST for all ages and recipes are never repeated throughout the school year! We provide all of the tools, ingredients and instruction needed to cook up a delicious, healthy and hearty after-school snack each week. Our online recipe collection is included as well for loads of future family cooking fun at home! Sticky Fingers Cooking is 100% nut free. We CAN and WILL accommodate ANY and ALL food allergies. Contact us at info@stickyfingerscooking.com or 303-648-4078 x5 with any questions! (link)
Ukelele Lessons
Groundwork Music Project offers a great chance for kids eight and older to learn to strum, pick and sing along on the ukulele, a small instrument that can pack a big punch. Using both original and traditional material, we create arrangements that allow beginners and more experienced students to participate at their own level of skill. Special events give students a chance to perform on stage, alongside professional musicians. The Fall semester culminates with an opportunity to perform with the Groundwork Music Orchestra at a special concert. Contact founder Neal Kassanoff at neal@groundworkmusic.org or 512-669-2028 with any questions. (link)
Smudge Art Class
Join Smudge Studios this fall as we get back to the basics! Learn the building blocks of fine art through line, shape, color, form and texture. Our projects will explore a range of media, from charcoal drawing to abstract painting, wire sculpting and more. We will focus on the process of art-making by challenging students to manipulate their materials in new and exciting ways. If you have any questions about our camp, please read our CAMP FAQ, email to SmudgeStudiosAustin@gmail.com, or call 512-777-1742. (link)
Improv Classes
Improv can be hilarious, but there’s a lot more to it than just laughs. Listening, supporting other’s ideas, approaching situations with a flexible mindset and learning we can discover things together we’d never find alone are the skills we develop in order to create characters and situations on the spot. While we spend time developing our performance skills, the real focus is on learning to be in the moment and to find wht is awesome about what’s already there. Taught by Kristin Henn, Director of Excused Absence Comedy and Move Your Tale at ColdTowne Theater, this class is available only to 4th through 6th graders at Lee Elementary. It meets on campus, Tuesdays, immediately after school. Class is invited to perform together at Excused Absence Night, date TBD and has the option to perform at school, should the opportunity arise. Meets at ColdTowne Theater. (link)
Girsl on the Run
Kids Yoga
TLYH (The Little Yoga House) provides our very own yoga curriculum in many after-school programs around Austin. We offer semester long programs with a focus on mindfulness and specific yogic themes. For all inquires about registration, payment, classes, camps, workshops or trainings, please email play@thelittleyogahouse.com or call 512-358-6190. (link)
Mad Science
Mad Scientists present elementary science concepts to kids in a way that makes sense to them — with hands-on experiments and eye-catching demonstrations. Kids actually get to DO science, not just hear about it! During after-school programs, children engage in exciting hands-on activities, watch spectacular demonstrations, participate in inquiry-based discussions and take home things that they have made themselves like model rockets, periscopes, Mad Science putty, and more! Our hands-on, one-hour science programs are themed around a particular area of science and include such topics as electricity, magnetism, optics, biology and many more. (link)
ATX Ballers
ATX Ballers Basketball welcomes all levels of experience! Each after-school session includes skills-intensive lessons and fun basketball games. Players are taught the fundamentals and skills of basketball in a team-oriented, friendly environment. *Players need to be able to shoot on a regulation, 10-foot basket. (link)
Spanish Immersion Class
The Olas Traveling Program partners with Austin area schools to provide planned weekly lessons and online access to curriculum. Contact at info@olasspanish.com or 512-909-9065. (link)
Chess Club
Film Kids
Film Kids uses hands-on, student-driven video production to encourage young people’s creativity, confidence, and critical thinking skills. (link)