Our unique after school programs are designed as intensive and creative multi-week studies of fine art media. Each week, students will spend two hours learning new processes and building on skills from prior classes for a deeper understanding of the art form as a whole.
We combine education, fun activities, and hands-on skill-building to inspire children's creativity. While we remain cautiously optimistic about schools reopening this fall for the 2020-2021 school year, CBK will offer a slightly shorter nine-week program as we work to accommodate area families and schools through this complicated process.
As usual, we will offer five unique classes Monday through Friday from 3:30pm - 5:30pm, with staggered drop-off and pick-up times. Space is limited as we can only accommodate ten students in the studio at this time.
We ask that you provide a small, allergen-free snack for after school, and provide a smock they can leave at the studio if you’re worried about their clothes getting messy.
**PLEASE READ ALL NEW INFORMATION REGARDING OUR AFTER SCHOOL CLASSES BELOW
BEFORE REGISTERING**
As we continue in our ceramics class we will push our creativity as to what can be seen as functional ceramics. Students will create stand-out pieces that can be used in our everyday life, from unique paint palettes to a phone docking station that acts as a speaker, personalized stamps, and more! Students will continue to work on our pottery wheels, and their pieces will be beautifully glazed and fired in our kiln, creating lasting mementos you’ll always want to keep handy!
12/7, 12/14, 12/21, 1/4, 1/11, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8
NO CLASS: 12/28, 1/18
Books are the cornerstone of storytelling, provoking our imaginations with illustrations helping to tell the story. We'll look closer into how a book is made, from paper-making to bookbinding. Students will gain a newfound appreciation for the art of book-making, creating a hardback book that will become their new favorite nighttime story! We'll continue to communicate ideas through painting mediums, like gouache, watercolor, and acrylic as we delve deeper into the art of illustration. Join us as on our creative journey!
11/24, 12/1, 12/8, 12/15, 12/22, 1/5, 1/12, 1/19, 1/26, 2/2, 2/9
NO CLASSES: 12/29
As we continue to shrink our art, we will also shrink our art-making tools using a variety of art mediums. We'll construct a mini watercolor set by making mini paint brushes, palettes, and paper! We'll then try our fingers at mini ceramics using our very own MINI POTTERY WHEELS! These little wheels are the real deal, just pint size! There's no minimizing the fun and creativity we will have in this class!
12/2, 12/9, 12/16, 1/6, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10
NO CLASSSES: 12/23, 12/30
CBK is growing up! We're always working on new ways to grow, along with our students, and thought our beloved pottery wheels would be the perfect starting point. We are excited to continue our CBK+ program for our preteen students – a wheel intensive class for preteens who have already or are beginning to age out of the introductory skill-building and content of regular CBK classes.
Our Preteen students will continue to learn on our pottery wheels, gaining more knowledge and independence while they work. We'll learn about different finishing techniques as we move further into the class from trimming, creating texture, and trying glazing techniques while continuing to develop our artistic style! We hope that bringing older kids together will foster a focused learning environment where they can continue to grow as an artist and refine their ceramic skills.
12/2, 12/9, 12/16, 1/6, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10
NO CLASSSES: 12/23, 12/30
Fashion and art go hand and hand as we continue to blur the lines of what we think of as typical art and fashion. We will create standalone pieces that leave you guessing on whether you want to display it on your wall or your body. We will be pulling out the sewing machines to help us along the way! Our students will really make a statement by wearing their own creations - with these unique projects they’ll become walking works of art!
12/3, 12/10, 12/17, 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11
Lights! Camera! Art! As we continue our journey into Stop Motion Animation, the students will learn about the editing process and special effects. Students will gain the knowledge and tools they need to create cohesive shorts to be viewed over and over again! The creativity doesn't end there! We will continue to learn about photography looking to Picasso's famous light paintings and how adjusting aperture can create unique works of art! Join us as we continue the look through our artistic viewfinders.
12/4, 12/11, 12/18, 1/8, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5
NO CLASSES: 12/25, 1/1
With dismissal times varying from school to school and with many of our students traveling from home, CBK is helping to fill that void with our Arts + Academics Homework Club! We will be offering our After School families the option to join us up to 3 hours earlier in the afternoon.
Our Homework Club provides students with a safe, creative environment for day-time art activities, and homework help! CBK Teachers would assist students with homework assignments and offer academically informed art activities during the day that can be scaffolded into our after school programming.
CBK’s Arts + Academics Homework Club would run from 12:30 pm until 3:30 pm followed by our After School classes. Our program is designed for flexibility allowing families to add this on as needed or opt to sign up for the full session with a minimum requirement of 1 hour participation for the day and up to the full 3 hours in the studio. Rate is based on hours and number of days selected, offering a discounted rate when you register for the full session.
We hope that this program will support the wonderful parents and kids in the CBK community with a flexible option for day-time programming as we navigate the school year.
**You must be registered for our After School program to join our Homework Club. To sign up use the register button provided in any of our after school classes listed above**
For families who have relocated or simply want the option of at-home art instruction, CBK is pleased to announce our unique virtual after school programs. Like their in-person equivalent, these lessons are designed as intensive and creative multi-week studies of fine art media.
Each student will receive a curated Art Box full of the supplies needed to complete all the projects from our virtual curriculums listed below, which take place on a Wednesday's from 3-4pm. Each week, students will learn new processes and build on skills from prior classes for a deeper understanding of the art form as a whole.
Each project will come with a detailed instructional PDF for what we’ll be creating. Each class, there will be a live lesson starting promptly at 3pm ending at 4pm. You’ll also have access to library of supplemental videos that cover a wide variety of technical instruction, from clay basics to painting and drawing skills that you can view any time.
Our Comic Book & Illustration class teaches students how to communicate through narrative graphic artwork. Taking inspiration from painter Roy Lichtenstein, Avengers artist George Perez, anime icons Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) and Ken Sugimori (Pokemon), and other working illustrators and graphic novelists, students will develop original characters and stories in a variety of styles. We’ll hone in on our drawing skills as we explore portraiture, perspective, and figure drawing. We’ll translate complex concepts like emotion, movement, and personality to visual work, using ink, watercolor and acrylic paint, collage, and colored pencil to bring our creations to life. The students will also create their own comic book throughout the 12 week course.
1/13, 1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7
NO CLASS | 2/17
Created By Kids is excited to once again partner with Brooklyn New School this year to offer our Fine Arts program. We will be starting the year off Virtually, with curated art boxes sent to your home! These boxes are filled to the brim with everything your child needs to complete the project, minus a few at home staples like scissors and paper towels. We are offering two classes this fall Pop Art on Monday's and Functional Clay onThursday's. Follow the register button below to sign up!
While CBK has always offered a pick-up service to schools nearby the studio, we do not know what form dismissals will take at this time and have not received any official information from schools regarding this. Therefore, at this time, CBK is not able to offer pick-up service at your child’s school; in-person after school will be drop-off ONLY. If you are interested in the possibility of organizing pick-up for your school once a dismissal plan is in place, please communicate with us about the school’s policy and we will do our best to work something out that is safe and effective for all. As always, this is contingent on the walkability of the school’s location, as we will not be able to use public transportation during pick-up for any reason, including inclement weather.
Late Pick Up-
We understand that living in NYC there may be times when you are late picking up your child, due to transportation and works delays. We try our best to accommodate city life. However we have to account for our teachers time as well as our staggered pick up time slots to avoid too many families gathering outside together. We allow 1 late pick up during a session with in a 15 min time frame. There will be a $20 late charge applied to late pick ups thereafter, unless prior arrangements are made with the studio.
All sales are final; no refunds will be issued. If there is damage to your box or your items during shipping please reach-out to rene@createdbykidsnyc.com and we will do what we can to make it right.
We package all of our boxes in Ohio, we are taking as many safety precautions as possible when assembling these boxes. We are disinfecting all items that can be wiped or sprayed. We recommend to take extra precautions and disinfect when you receive these (or any) items in the mail.
If you miss your zoom lesson we will not be able to offer makeup classes as we are booked with other classes during the week. We will send over the instructional PDF and any links to technical videos to help catch your child up before the next class. We want to make this the best experience possible and we are here to help work around any issues that might arise during a given day, so do not hesitate to reach out! By signing below you are agreeing to our refund policy.
****PAYPAL has changed its policy and now charges a fee with every refund, this is a small percentage of each transaction. CBK is not responsible to for this fee, this fee will be automatically deducted out of all refunds through paypal. If a refund is approved by Rene we are happy to refund through other payment apps (like venmo) to avoid this fee.*****
Our number one priority is the safety of students and staff at CBK. We believe that visual arts are an important form of communication and expression, and that having a creative outlet can be deeply therapeutic, especially in difficult times. Staff will be serving your children both directly and behind the scenes and will initiate a process of constant evaluation of our policies, procedures, and interactions to reduce potential risk while fostering experiences that inspire creativity and celebrate community in new ways. These include: limiting the number of students in the studio to ten, with two to three teachers on staff who limit outside contact; staggering pick-up and drop-off times; strict sanitizing protocols; fostering a positive but socially distanced learning environment; mandatory mask-wearing, hand-washing, fever scanning; and most importantly, an open line of communication regarding the health and well-being of each and every family we work with. For more detailed safety information please visit our SAFETY GUIDELINE & POLICIES PAGE
If you have outstanding credits from Spring 2020, we want to work with you to ensure that your family is able to use them at some point during the upcoming school year, and we appreciate your patience and understanding as we launch our make-up program. You are more than welcome to use your credits for any of our virtual classes at any time. Regarding in-person makeups, our capacity in the studio is still restricted, so at this time we can only accommodate one student per in-person after school class to use an existing credit for the Fall 2020 program, on a first come first served basis (if you received credit for a summer camp in 2020, you will not be eligible to use this credit for after school as it is not a comparable transfer, but virtual and/or weekend makeups will be made available to you, as well as the possibility of using credits for Summer Camp 2021). We are still working on developing weekend makeup classes and hope to have registration open for that over the next month. Please reach out to rene@createdbykidsnyc.com regarding your credits.
We understand that times are uncertain, but due to the up-front cost of staffing, supplies, and other studio expenses, CBK will not be able to offer refunds for any cancellations or missed classes. In the event of another DOE shutdown due to Coronavirus, all in-person classes will move online immediately. A curated box of supplies will be shipped to your home and you will receive log-in info for our virtual classes, picking up wherever in-person after school programs left off. In the event that the CBK studio itself needs to temporarily close, accommodations will be made either in the form of makeup classes and/or online learning, at the discretion of the studio. This policy is non-negotiable; by registering for class you agree to our refund policy. You will be asked to sign a form recognizing that you understand our policy in full before your child attends class.
**We do not offer a make up class or refund if the student is not able to make it to class**
Our unique after school programs are designed as intensive and creative multi-week studies of fine art media. Each week, students will spend two hours learning new processes and building on skills from prior classes for a deeper understanding of the art form as a whole.
We combine education, fun activities, and hands-on skill-building to inspire children's creativity.
Our after school classes for the 2018 - 2019 school year will be running as Semesters. This will allow the students to gain a deeper understanding of the art process, and create more projects!
Classes run for 2 hours from 3:30pm - 5:30 pm. We offer a pick up service to schools in the area, please find additional information under the Pick Up Service section below.
*Please provide a small snack for after school
We use a lot of different materials and most are washable, however we strongly suggest to dress the children in clothing that can get messy. You can also send a shirt or smock they can leave at the studio.
Our afterschool illustration program teaches students how to communicate ideas through their artwork. We’ll take inspiration from real-life working illustrators, like Bill Watterson, Garth Williams, Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter, Shel Silverstein, and Quentin Blake over the course of several weeks. Students will learn to develop characters and bring their original stories to life with unique drawings. We will bind our own books just like the ones they already have on their shelves at home so their work will become a lasting, memorable part of your library. We’ll also explore how illustration is used in advertising, combining mediums like painting and printmaking to create posters that pop. Because typography also plays an important role in illustration, we’ll work on some text-based projects too, including one-of-a-kind comic strips. These fun projects will show students the true meaning of the old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words.”
Our afterschool illustration program teaches students how to communicate ideas through their artwork. We’ll take inspiration from real-life working illustrators, like Bill Watterson, Garth Williams, Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter, Shel Silverstein, and Quentin Blake over the course of several weeks. Students will learn to develop characters and bring their original stories to life with unique drawings. We will bind our own books just like the ones they already have on their shelves at home so their work will become a lasting, memorable part of your library. We’ll also explore how illustration is used in advertising, combining mediums like painting and printmaking to create posters that pop. Because typography also plays an important role in illustration, we’ll work on some text-based projects too, including one-of-a-kind comic strips. These fun projects will show students the true meaning of the old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words.”
Our afterschool illustration program teaches students how to communicate ideas through their artwork. We’ll take inspiration from real-life working illustrators, like Bill Watterson, Garth Williams, Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter, Shel Silverstein, and Quentin Blake over the course of several weeks. Students will learn to develop characters and bring their original stories to life with unique drawings. We will bind our own books just like the ones they already have on their shelves at home so their work will become a lasting, memorable part of your library. We’ll also explore how illustration is used in advertising, combining mediums like painting and printmaking to create posters that pop. Because typography also plays an important role in illustration, we’ll work on some text-based projects too, including one-of-a-kind comic strips. These fun projects will show students the true meaning of the old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words.”
Our afterschool illustration program teaches students how to communicate ideas through their artwork. We’ll take inspiration from real-life working illustrators, like Bill Watterson, Garth Williams, Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter, Shel Silverstein, and Quentin Blake over the course of several weeks. Students will learn to develop characters and bring their original stories to life with unique drawings. We will bind our own books just like the ones they already have on their shelves at home so their work will become a lasting, memorable part of your library. We’ll also explore how illustration is used in advertising, combining mediums like painting and printmaking to create posters that pop. Because typography also plays an important role in illustration, we’ll work on some text-based projects too, including one-of-a-kind comic strips. These fun projects will show students the true meaning of the old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words.”
Our afterschool illustration program teaches students how to communicate ideas through their artwork. We’ll take inspiration from real-life working illustrators, like Bill Watterson, Garth Williams, Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter, Shel Silverstein, and Quentin Blake over the course of several weeks. Students will learn to develop characters and bring their original stories to life with unique drawings. We will bind our own books just like the ones they already have on their shelves at home so their work will become a lasting, memorable part of your library. We’ll also explore how illustration is used in advertising, combining mediums like painting and printmaking to create posters that pop. Because typography also plays an important role in illustration, we’ll work on some text-based projects too, including one-of-a-kind comic strips. These fun projects will show students the true meaning of the old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words.”