Wonderseum
Two and Three day programs
*Students must be potty trained and be 4 years old by the start of the semester. Wonderseum is not designed for drop-in attendance.

The Wonderseum environment provides open-ended discussion and a “playful” approach to learning and discovery while empowering children with an easier transition to kindergarten.

Guided explorations encouraging a discovery of culture through the arts, expanding language and early literacy, science and math, circle drumming, are all determined and planned to create global awareness, reading readiness and comprehension, and number recognition and association, while refining children’s fine motor skills.

With a Reggio Emilia inspired environment located inside the museum, children are presented with projects that enhance their fine motor skills and self-expression, while preparing them with kindergarten readiness skills.

Math exploration provides open-minded activities reinforcing number recognition and counting through graphing with shells, cards, dominoes and pompoms.

In science, children explore the five senses and discover what body part is responsible for hearing, tasting, and smelling while using a mirror. Cloud formations are studied and insect cycles are explained by creating stain glass butterfly art projects.

Balance is explored by building a balance scale while using Playdough to engineer structures with sticks.

Children experience the joy of music through singing, dancing, and moving expressively to a variety of music genres, discovering different cultures through their music, and exploring rhythm and rhyme–all of which promote the development of essential skills including listening, vocabulary-building, social-emotional, and motor.

Every class includes hands-on experiences with activities involving parachute play, bean bags, scarves, rhythm instruments, or puppets. From acting out classic musical pieces such as “Carnival of the Animals” by Camille Saint-Saens to drawing/scribbling their feelings when listening to different styles of music, children are able to immerse themselves in a celebration of music!

Each day ends with a circle time reading that allows time for each student to ask questions and express their thoughts and feelings of the story.

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED FOR SPRING 2023.
2024-2025 school year registration coming soon. 

Two Day Program
Aug 20, 2024 – May 16, 2025
Meets Tuesday and Thursday
9am-2pm
$3,000.00 per participant. $300 a month.

Three Day Program
Aug 21, 2024 – May 16, 2025
Meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday
9am-2pm
$4,300.00 per participant. $415 a month.

Tuition and Fees 2024-25

M/W/F class Registration and Supply fee- $200.
T/Th class Registration and Supply fee- $170.

Monthly Tuition Payment: 10 equal payments (non-refundable pre-paid tuition) + August – April.
-A non-refundable registration and supply fee is due upon enrollment.
-Pre-Paid tuition (non-refundable after May 2024): 1 months tuition will be due in May 2024 (or upon registration if occurs after May) and will be counted towards tuition of May 2025.
-Tuition is calculated on annual amount divided into 10 equal payments. The initial tuition payment is due in May 2024 and is applied for the May 2025 payment for your child’s last month. Subsequent payments are due the first week of each month August-April.
-A 5% discount will be given to those who choose to pay for the entire year tuition in one payment at time of registration.

Refund Policy: Please notify us as soon as possible if you need to withdraw your child from the program. The registration and supply fee and the prepaid tuition are nonrefundable. If payment is made in full, all tuition will be refunded except for the non refundable registration fee and the nonrefundable pre-paid tuition. Refunds will be processed by check.

Class is limited to ONE ADULT per registered child.

Excellent workshop for grandparents searching for ways to spend time with their grandchildren while fostering a deep understanding between generations.

Twos and threes explore art as a learning experience and are more interested in “doing” art than making finished products. During the “process”, twos and threes discover their own independence, as well as delighting in the joy of exploring and creating art. Using a variety of mediums to create mini masterpieces and stimulate artistic imaginations, toddler and grownup share the “process” of art as a stimulus to engage discovery and becoming familiar with various art mediums, such as painting, collage, fiber art and building with clay while squishing, mixing, tearing and swirling. Leave the “messy” with us, but painting clothes are recommended.

WEDNESDAYS  dates:

Click to register for 2 year-olds,
9:00am-9:45am
1/24-2/28 (6 week session). Member $89, Non-Member $99

Click to register for 2 year-olds,
9:00am-9:45am
3/20-4/24 (6 week session). Member $89, Non-Member $99

Click to register for 3 year-olds,
10:15am-11:00am
1/24-2/28 (6 week session). Member $89, Non-Member $99

Click to register for 3 year-olds,
10:15am-11:00am
3/20-4/24 (6 week session). Member $89, Non-Member $99

Wear clothing that can get messy! You will meet with your teacher at the atrium on the first day of a class. (By the picnic table in front of the museum) You will receive an email the day before class.

REFUND POLICY: Patrons who notify the museum at least 5 business days before a class begins that they are unable to attend the class are eligible for a 50% refund.

NO REFUNDS are given for cancellation less than 5 days before class begins. TWCM reserves the right to cancel a class due to low enrollment at 4pm Friday before the class starts.

This workshop is scheduled for two eight-week sessions with new curriculum each eight-week session.

Combining the curiosity of science and the beauty of art, children will embrace an exciting opportunity to discover basic concepts of science through art experiences. Knowing that children love to explore, experiment and discover, the focus is to build on this natural curiosity while combining the beauty of art and the fascination of science. Children will share this journey discovering and exploring the combination of art processes with science hypothesis and outcomes.

Tuesday dates:

Click to register for 6 -8 year-olds
1:00pm-3:00pm
1/16-3/5 (8 week session). Member $119, Non-Member $129

Click to register for 6-8 year-olds
1:00pm-3:00pm
3/19-5/7 (8 week session). Member $119, Non-Member $129

REFUND POLICY: Patrons who notify the museum at least 5 business days before a class begins that they are unable to attend the class are eligible for a 50% refund.

NO REFUNDS are given for cancellation less than 5 days before class begins. TWCM reserves the right to cancel a class due to low enrollment at 4pm Friday before the class starts.

Using the LEGO® Mindstorms® Education platform, EV3 introduces young engineers to the basic fundamentals of building and mechanical principles by engaging and motivating them to design, build and program their robots, using motors, sensors, gears, wheels, axles and various technical components.

While gaining a better understanding of how technology can work in real-world applications, the EV3 curriculum develops creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. Coding is done by dragging and dropping icons into a line to form commands, allowing students to create, build and then mechanically manipulate their “rover” with space-themed missions and solutions. The second session introduces young engineers to LEGO® Education SPIKE™ by combining colorful LEGO building elements, easy-to-use hardware, and an intuitive drag-and-drop coding language based on Scratch. This curriculum engages students through playful learning activities to think critically and solve complex problems, regardless of their learning level. From easy-entry projects to limitless creative design possibilities, including the option to explore text-based coding with Python, SPIKE helps students discover the essential STEAM and 21st century skills needed to become the innovative minds of tomorrow… while having fun!

Click to register for for 7-10 year-olds
1:00pm-3:00pm
1/25-4/4 (10 week session). No class 3/14
Member $199, Non-Member $209.

REFUND POLICY: Patrons who notify the museum at least 5 business days before a class begins that they are unable to attend the class are eligible for a 50% refund.

NO REFUNDS are given for cancellation less than 5 days before class begins. TWCM reserves the right to cancel a class due to low enrollment at 4pm Friday before the class starts.

Lights, Camera, Action Spring BreaKation Workshop
for 5-8 year-olds, meets Monday, March 11 – Friday, March 15.
9:00am-Noon
Member $159, Non-Member $169
Click to register.

Experience make-believe and imagination as we peek into the world of Shakespeare in this interactive theatre arts workshop! Students will explore dancing, singing, theatre games, creating props and so much more! Lights, camera, action!!!!

Studio Animation Spring BreaKation Workshop
for 7-10 year-olds, meets Monday, March 11-Friday, March 15
1:00pm-4:00pm
Member $199, Non-Member $209
Click to register.

Presented by Creator Camp. Students discover the “right stuff” to create an animated film. Every camper will come up with their own individual idea that they will plan by storyboarding, making sets and sculpting characters.  They will, then, make it all come alive by taking hundreds of photos that they will edit in post-production with sound effects, music, overlays and more.  Students will, also, create their own LEGO® sets and experiment with green screens for the first time, allowing them to put any background they wish in their films.

Attending with individual iPads or tablet is highly recommended to allow instant access to films as they are created and completed. 

Where wonderful art happens

Using various plain and textured paper, tissue paper, fabric scraps, newspaper, torn images from magazines, cardboard, scissors, hole punches, paper punches, handmade stencils, rubbing plates, all kinds of colored tape, glue, paint of many varieties and colors, yarn, wool, string of all kinds, recycled materials and using fingers for tearing, ripping, snipping and cutting, this three-hour workshop presents a springboard to create a multitude of inspiring art sculptures, masks, self-portraits, and more.  Using themes such as transparent and opaque, playing with texture, big and little, black and white, exploring with architecture and more, children journey through a sensory process, discovering, collecting and arranging.  Come join us for artful experiences, implemented by talented artists and art instructors, that are sure to start the day out right. Dwell in the possibilities…
Online registration is required by the Friday before the session.
PLEASE send child with lunch and a thermos/bottle of water.

Saturdays 10:00am-1:00pm.
Member $49 Non-Member $59

January 20th – All About Me
Children begin with the interactive task of tracing each other onto large butcher block paper, creating faces, hair, clothing and other embellishments that spark interest and assist in expressing themselves, providing an exploration of different mediums such as paint, yarn, markers, feathers, recycled paper and more.
Click to register. 

February 17th – Playing Dress Up
Playing dress up truly inspires creative imagination.  Children delight in seeing pictures of themselves, set up in collage format and ready to be dressed up, providing another exploratory environment using different mediums and textured materials.
Click to register. 

March 23rd – Insects in the Garden
Prompting children to investigate “insects and bugs in the garden” using stock images, images from magazines, insect and bug themed books and exploring various collage materials, children draw, cut, arrange, embellish and create their own insects and bugs around a garden theme. 
Click to register. 

April 20th   – Places and Spaces
Embracing art as open-ended play and using table top sized recycled boxes, children paint and then embellish the boxes with torn scraps of paper, magazine scraps, and more exploratory mediums, while using their imagination to create houses, barns, sheds, city blocks, work places, theatres or whatever else is inspiring their artistic dialogue. 
Click to register.