Kids Life Skills Classes in Chicago, IL

Making music on your own is fun, but it’s even more fun to play with friends! Join us for the Bucktown String Ensemble and practice your listening and instrument skills while playing with others.  Some experience on violin, viola, and cello necessary. 

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...

This fun and informative one week, daily workshop is designed for teenage attendees who are especially passionate about beauty make-up artistry. Attendees will learn a variety of techniques used by professional artists to create classic, modern and trendy make-up looks, and more. Open to attendees aged 13-17. Guardian consent form required upon arrival....

Our passionate teaching team leads you and your child through a Kindermusik journey. Age appropriate musical activities teach your child singing skills, language development, steady beat, rhythm, creativity, ensemble and more at each stage of development. It's the perfect brain boost and a joyful way to get out of the house! Come sing, play, dance,...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Would you like to buy your milk while inside a milk bottle-shaped building? Learn what mimetic architecture is, looking at famous mimetic architecture from around the world. Explore the field of architecture through fun examples and hands-on practice. Specifically, finding inspiration from everyday life; gaining critical thinking and problem-solving...

After school snack is with us today. Learn a valuable life skill – cooking! It makes sense to start with breakfast for our first after school class right? Breakfast is such an important meal and those foods are some of the best techniques that translate into so many other dishes. Menu Perfect sunny side up egg Crispy bacon in the pan and the...