Week Calendar

Join us at the Community Gardens in Hoffman Park for our 2nd annual garden storytime! We’ll read the classic tale Stone Soup, and afterwards we’ll plant some of the seeds for stone soup in the garden.

Grades 6-12. 

Stop by our Tiny Art Creation Station and turn your tiny canvas into a masterpiece! This free-form drop-in is the perfect place to sit down and work at your own pace with access to a variety of art supplies.

Ages 3-10 with caregiver (and siblings 3 and up). 

Grades 1-4.

Grades 2-5. 

Grades 6-12.

Use the sun to take cameraless photos, just like early photographers did in the 1800s.

Ages 3-6 with adult supervision. 
(Little Kids in the Kitchen)
Sweet little breakfast tarts that look suspiciously familiar (but taste better and are more fun)!

Grades 1-3. 
See thrust and kinetic energy at work as your pom pom and marbles race through your own designed track!  

For children birth to age 6 with an adult. 
Stimulate your child’s senses through books, rhymes, music and movement.

Ages 9-adult.

Are you in awe of all the spring and summer blooms around you? Come join us at a one night nature in summer inspired collage workshop. Join nature artist Christina Lovering in creating a mixed media collage inspired by nature.

Families (children must be school age or older). Please register under one name, then list how many are in your group.

Let's welcome summer with a beautiful terrarium ideal for the season. Using recycled glass containers and other gardening materials, build a small and almost self sustaining plant ecosystem to take home.