Kindle your students’ creativity with hands-on arts workshops in drawing, painting, clay, sculpture, drama, music, and dance. Combine multiple workshops together or mix in a visit to our galleries, sculpture field, or theatre for young audiences to design a day of unique arts experiences tailored to your group.
You can view our menu of options below and fill out this form to request a customized field trip quote: Field Trip Request Form
Price: Workshops are priced at $5.50 per student/ per workshop unless otherwise indicated on the menu of options below.
Funding Support: Title 1 schools receive a discounted rate of $4.00 per student and funding assistance, for organizations that serve a high population of youth eligible for free or reduced lunch, is also available. To request funding assistance, please fill out this form: Funding Assistance Form.
To request a workshop for your group of students, please fill out the form below.
Available field trips for groups of up to 30 children, at the Arvada Center
Hooray for mistakes! In this workshop, students learn to let go of perfection and celebrate their creativity with every “oops”. Students get the chance to listen to the story Beautiful Oops! and use a variety of art materials to make their own masterpiece, utilizing ‘accidents’ like torn paper and spilled paint as creative inspiration.
Colorado’s amazing landscapes and rock formations are the foundation of this unique take on the landscape. In this workshop students tear and paste in layers to create images inspired by our natural landscape.
Students explore the animal kingdom and break figures down into simpler shapes while learning clay attachment techniques to construct their own clay animal sculpture.
Music through rhythm is explored from many different continents including: Africa, Europe, and Asia. Each region’s rhythm and music is tied into what we hear today in America, including: jazz, classical, military, folk, country, and rock by hands-on play with percussion instruments.
Participants explore rhythm and music while developing gross motor skills in this fun and up-beat workshop. Participants find ways to express themselves through music and speak through movement.
Tailored to each age group, this workshop of theatre games, improvisation, pantomime, and movement serves as a drama overview to stimulate imagination and encourage vocal and physical creativity. From tongue twisters to team-building games, participants learn skills and techniques used in the world of acting.
Characters, settings, problems, and solutions make up the basic elements of stories. Using familiar folk and fairy tales, students identify and discuss these elements and then work in small groups to create and present their own stories.
Children explore connections between body, mind, and imagination as they are invited to physically create a variety of animals and objects. The instructor uses recorded music, percussion instruments, and handclapping to guide imaginative movement and creative play. Students learn focus, listening skills, and gross motor skills.
Participants are introduced to acting concepts through a series of creative activities. Students then become actors in an adapted version of one of the plays listed below. Given costumes, props, and a few key lines, participants magically bring each story to life! Plays available for Playmaking include:
Running under an hour, children will leave the theatre with lasting and cherished memories of exceptional musical theatre produced just for young audiences.
To reserve your spot in the Charlotte's Web Field Trip Request Queue for Spring of 2023, please fill out the form at the link below.
Wilbur is no ordinary farmhouse pig, and he'd do anything to avoid ending up on the dinner table. But help arrives from the most unlikely of places... a spider's web. This musical version of the beloved children's story follows the heartwarming friendship between Wilbur and a barn spider named Charlotte with fine writing skills.
Featuring the story's unforgettable animals, Charlotte's Web is a treasured tale of loyalty, truth, and the meaning of friendship.
