St. Patrick’s Day

Prepare Early for the holiday with this awesome drawing project!

Supplies: Paper/Pencil/Colored Pencils/Markers
Quality family time, draw “St. Patrick’s Day folding surprise” together! Watch the whole video to see “this week’s Challenge-Time! Happy Early St. Patrick’s Day!

-PC and Project: How to Draw St. Patricks Day Folding Surprise + Challenge Time

We took inspiration last week from Alexander Calder’s mobiles and stabiles to create our own version of these Kinetic Art sculptures! We learned all about our line and shapes family: creating straight, curved and angle lines in our wires & pipe cleaners. Then connected these lines to our shapes! We were then introduced to the brand new medium of plaster wrap! Just dip in water & smooth with your fingers onto the surface. Our shapes were finally brought to life with a bit of watercolor!

Need a SPRING BREAK CAMP? March 22-April 2, Monday-Friday* Ages 4-6 /7-9. In-Person: Location: @1157 Lexington @ All Soul’s Church)

Week 1 & Week 2 / Choose AM or PM: (2 hours) 9:30-11:30am / 1-3pm / 3-5pm: Indoor + Outdoor art activities + *Friday field trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A full ARTS experience: Daily Courtyard Art and Movement, Drawing, Painting, Sculpting with exciting Multi-Media building of 3D Stories!

Click here to Contact us to Inquire or Register Now: (Limited Spaces/ 6 children per time/ Pods most welcome with a 6-student reservation.) $550 per week

Or join us for virtual ARTStory Adventures!

ArtStory Adventures includes abstract art games, drawing storybook characters, crafting with mailed art kits, storytelling, exercising, dancing, and so much more! Everything is digital and your kids can go at their own pace-3 hours of content: Monday through Friday!

Or Click Here for 1 hr. Zoom Classes or get (discounted) Digital only access to these monthly activities ($188). Or Try Introductory Week: 2 classes, art kits plus all videos for only $97!

Favorite 2020 Kid’s Activities & Highlights? We did it… Together.

The past year has been challenging but we have been able to grow in so many new ways.  Congratulate yourself for making it through this year! We couldn’t have made it without you, extraordinary parents! 

Thank you for continuing to enrich our community with your remarkable dedication to CCA’s mission and values. A year-in-review of some of our favorite moments helps us to focus on the positive, during this up & down rollercoaster of a year! Enjoy!


Making a Jeff Koons with plasterwrap and balloons

Favorite 2020 Kid’s Activities & Highlights @ Claire’s Creative Adventures?  

Toured the Metropolitan Museum of Art with all classes (2.5-10’s) to see the amazing exhibit Making Marvels, the Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe and making clocks (pre-Covid19) 

-In March, smoothly transferred all programs online without missing a class, keeping sane with empowerment and humor… starting with creating the virus as a Pac-Man & a Crunch Berry! “Crunchatize me Captain!” 

-Age-appropriated ART KITS grew to include all of the unique materials we would have used at school, shipped to each new home… including STEAM projects, like how to make your own Lava Lamps and snow!

Jonathan Lev was a visiting artist to our Art Adventures STUDIO Online Class where students 8-15 years learned how to draw landsccapes, architecture, perspecitve and portraits, including virtual studio tours of contemporary artists!

-Partnered with Central Studios (STL) to bring to life Penguins, Polar Bears, and Mermaids with 2D drawings, 3D set constructions, movement and dance for summer’s debut of DanceArt Camp (via Zoom) with fully-packed, weekly art kits

Built our famous snow globes  

Explored Chinese Art using new art materials: Bamboo brushes, ink and rice paper

-Celebrated Holi week and created our own colored paints 

 -Dove into color mixing with transclucent vellum and Elmer the Elephant in Mini-Art Adventures

-Created a stain glass mosaic for Mother’s Day 

Made our very own 2D-3D FROZEN translucent collage posters in Art Adventure Class

-Made haunted houses, painted foam skulls and bones, and created spooky necklaces in our FREE Halloween Kids Art Event! (in collaboration with Blue Bus Project held at the Culture Lab in Long Island City)

-Designed and Celebrated a 5 and 3 year old unicorn and construction birthday party during Covid-19

-Toured the newly-opened Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall with families:  2 boys, ages 8 & 11 with their grandparents, metal embossing + projects exploring Impressionism and color theory!

Be ready 2021, we are coming for you with new joy and inspiration in our hearts!  

Happy Kwanzaa!

Kwanzaa means first fruits of the harvest!

Thankful for the harvest this year has blessed us with. Food to fill our stomachs and time to spend with our loved ones whether near or far!

“Everyone can use these [explained] principles below…to be a better human being!”

-(What is Kwanzaa and How is it Celebrated?, Inside Edition: Youtube) 

Seven principles of Kwanzaa are Umoja: Unity, Kujichagulia: Self Determination, Ujima: Collective Work and Responsibility, Ujamaa: Collective Economics, Nia: Purpose, Kuumba: Creativity, Imani: Faith.  

Kwanzaa Kinara  

Supplies: Paper Plate, Markers, Scissors, Construction Paper, Popsicle Sticks and Glue.  

Watch the step-by-step video on how to color around the edges of the plate in a fun, colorful pattern; write the holiday greeting, cut slits in the paper plate, color the craft sticks, cut out Kwanzaa candle flames and glue the candles to the paper! 

Click Here to Watch!

Again Happy Kwanzaa and may the year be prosperous!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Celebrate this holiday year with wonderful cheer!  

Tis the season!  

Art Ingredients: 
*A spoonful of craft, 
*A dash of model magic & wire, 
*A sprinkle of collage 
*A heaping amount of creative fun!  

Check out these photos from our flashback Christmas Past Art 2-5’s Projects! (2018)    

Again Merry Christmas from Claire’s Creative Family!

The Holidays makes for creatively delicious ART!

Tis the season! These past 2 weeks have been filled with the holiday spirit….of making ART!

Art Ingredients:
+A spoonful of craft,
+a dash of model magic & wire,
+a sprinkle of collage
+and a heaping amount of creative fun

Mix well to make CCA’s Holiday Ornament making and Collage Christmas Tree Decorating!
Check out our festive Art treats HERE!

From All of us at Claire’s Creative Adventures, wishing you a very Happy Holiday Season & a Happy Art-filled New Year!