Young Makers Studio is a five-week after-school creative program for grades 3rd–8th at Artscope in Tower Grove Park.

A little independence for them and a little free time for you! Our Drop-Off gives kiddos a chance to play, explore, and build confidence - while you sneak in a few uninterrupted hours to yourself. Includes 3 hours of supervised play, snacks, and juice. Every Tuesday and Thursday, $30 per session.

This program will offer tutoring for a variety of subjects that will propel your student in tehir academic studies. Beyond tutoring, the program will engaged the youth in fun activities. STL City students only.

Investigate! Create! Solve! Calling all animal detectives and explorers! Children will investigate the fascinating world of animals through hands-on experiments, creative art, games, challenges, and mysteries. They’ll explore adaptations, animal senses, food chains, ecosystems, fossils, and more. A fun-filled lab where kids use creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills to discover how animals survive and thrive!

Do you like toys and games? What happens when they break or you lose a piece? What if we learn how to create new, original toys? Take your creative skills to new heights in this class where you’ll use some ingenuity and hands-on work to create something original. New toys and games are often based on existing ones, whether updating them, remixing them, or combining them. Choose a toy or game that you’re no longer using and remake it in a creative and unique way. What parts will you use? What parts or ideas from other toys would be fun to merge with yours? Join our Toy Workshop to create your own fun!

Explore! Create! Discover! Join us for a wild adventure exploring the amazing world of animals! Children will learn about animals through fun crafts, active games, stories, movement, and hands-on activities. Each session features a new animal theme—from safari animals and penguins to butterflies, ocean creatures, nighttime animals, and dinosaurs. Children will learn, create, move, and explore while building curiosity, creativity, and early science skills!

Get your building and coding on with these colorful kits. You’ll use the engineering design process to meet a different challenge each week, then use that knowledge to create your own build. The 3rd-4th class will focus on building and programming using a variety of templates. They will use their newfound knowledge to create their own invention and program in the last week. The 5th-8th class will work on creating more complex robots. They will use problem solving and critical thinking to create a robot of their own design. The challenges will be different from previous classes.

Do you like geography? History? Art? Trivia? This is the class for you! We will be “traveling” by learning about the geography, culture, art, and history of 3 different parts of the world (2 Saturdays per location). For example, we’ll visit Australia and create our own topographical map of the continent, learn about the people who have lived in Australia past and present, discover the most dangerous creature, explore the rock and bark carvings of the Indigenous people, dot painting, and more! Where will we go next? Join GRC and find out! (Students will bring home projects each Saturday.)

Daycare with weekly and daily options. Chasity and cash accepted. Transportation available.

Calling all builders, thinkers and inventors! In Novel Engineering we will learn about the Engineering Design Cycle, read a story, and design a project. We build from cardboard, hot glue, tape, and interesting odds and ends. We will test out our builds and exercise our perseverance by adding to it and making changes. This really tests students’ “stick-with-it-ness.” Students will bring their builds home each Saturday. If you have taken Novel Engineering before we have different stories and tasks.

Do you like toys and games? What happens when they break or you lose a piece? What if we learn how to create new, original toys? Take your creative skills to new heights in this class where you’ll use some ingenuity and hands-on work to create something original. New toys and games are often based on existing ones, whether updating them, remixing them, or combining them. Choose a toy or game that you’re no longer using and remake it in a creative and unique way. What parts will you use? What parts or ideas from other toys would be fun to merge with yours? Join our Toy Workshop to create your own fun!

Explore creation myths, deities and mythologies from across the globe as we dive into Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Chinese and Japanese cultures. Design your own Greek hero and their story. Draw and decorate Yggdrasil the World Tree. Create an Orisha artifact. And much more! Who were the people who created these mythologies? Where did they live? And what was important to them? This fast-paced class will tackle a different culture each week.

Our 60-minute class will integrate movement, mindfulness practices, coping tools and skills for life experiences, and interpersonal relationship concepts.