Explore It! Programming – Winter 2025
We’re thrilled to be joining the Northlea community for 2024/25. Let’s explore together!
Explore It! continues to offer engaging, in-person programming, at lunch. We have an exceptional team of talented, experienced instructors ready to explore with all participants.
Contact us any time with comments, questions or suggestions. We’re here for you!
Wednesdays • 8 Classes
Masterpiece Theatre: Dramatic Creators
Grade 1 – 3
Embrace your inner thespian and explore their inner actor! Participants will explore their dramatic depths through theatrical games and activities, character development and mini-performances. They will develop performance skills while enhancing confidence, creativity, and communication skills with peers. Are you ready to step onstage and embrace the magic of the theatre?
STEAM Connections: Builders Workshop
Grade 2 – 4
Let’s explore in Builders Workshop! This STEAM based program encourages curiosity and creative thinking through problem-solving, questions and hands-on experiments that explore art, science and more. Join us in Engineering Workshop this term to explore a world where Science, Technology and Art intersect – from Watercolour Explorations and Hanging Structures to Ramps and Marble Runs, we’ll build it all!
Fine Art Workshop
Grade 4 – 6
Imagination will carry us to worlds far and wide this term, as we explore our creativity through art. In this art and expression program, participants will explore a range of artistic mediums, with a strong focus on cultivating creativity and finding their own artistic voice. We will explore techniques which form a strong foundation for all art, and learn how art can inform and influence the world around us. Come and sketch, caricature and colour, to tell your story in The Creative Art Studio.
Fridays • 7 Classes
STEAM Great Minds: Engineering Explorers
Grade 1 – 3
The great minds of our time have shaped the way we look at the world. In this program, students will use a hands-on approach to learn about the great minds of history. Together, we may learn about Archimedes’ “eureka” moment, investigate the revolutionary engineering of Gustave Eiffel, or discover Leonardo Da Vinci as an artist, a mathematician and an inventor. Explore with us and you could be the next Great Mind of the 21st century!
Crafty Creators: Toy Maker Club
Grade 2 – 4
It’s time to revamp your toy box with Toy Maker! In this creative program, we will create our own toys, games and dress-up accessories to add to our collections. In Toy Maker – the possibilities for fun are endless… We could sew our own puppets or stuffed animals. We might make ooey gooey silly putty. create our own board games or fashion our own capes, dinosaur tails and monster masks! Join us as we learn how to make the best toys – in Toy Maker!
Creators Club: Fashion Crafts
Grade 4 – 6
In this fun program, we’ll explore different fashion based arts such as drawing and pattern making, sewing and folding or draping, weaving techniques and creating to make our own fashionable crafts. From hair clips, necklaces, and toys, to purses, jewelry boxes, and mp3 sleeves – we can make it all! Working with different materials, students will be able to design and create fashionable items they will be proud to take home, wear and use. The project ideas in this program are endless – join us for some fashionista fun!