Early Childhood

Mon, Dec 11, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months, with an adult | Catch your baby’s eye with light–filled works of art, shimmering art materials, and interesting gallery spaces.

$22 per baby/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Tuesdays, Nov 28, Dec 5, or 12, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months, with an adult | Explore the sun, stars, and shadows. Visit the galleries to discover the universe while experiencing play and art activities focused on the cycle of morning and night. 

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Thursdays, Nov 30, Dec 7, or 14, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months, with an adult | Explore the sun, stars, and shadows. Visit the galleries to discover the universe while experiencing play and art activities focused on the cycle of morning and night. 

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Wednesdays, Nov 29, Dec 6, or 13, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5, with an adult | Investigate contrast, value, and all the things that light up the sky.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Wednesdays, Nov 29, Dec 6, or 13, 4–5 pm | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5, with an adult | Investigate contrast, value, and all the things that light up the sky.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Saturday, Dec 16, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months| Visit VMFA’s portraits—from full figures to expressive and tender renderings. Discuss body parts and emotions and create your own self–expressive art. 

$25 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $22)

Saturday, Dec 16, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months| Visit VMFA’s portraits—from full figures to expressive and tender renderings. Discuss body parts and emotions and create your own self–expressive art. 

$25 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $22)

Saturday, Dec 9, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5 years| Visit VMFA’s portraits—from full figures to expressive and tender renderings. Discuss body parts and emotions and create your own self–expressive art. 

$25 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $22)

Mon, Jan 22, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months, with an adult | Explore the elements of value and contrast catching baby’s eye by observing photographs in Dawoud Bey: Elegy. 

$22 per baby/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Mon, Jan 29, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months, with an adult | View vibrant paintings and paint with bright colors while gaining an understanding of how your baby’s vision develops.

$22 per baby/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Mon, Feb 12, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months, with an adult | View Willie Anne Wright: Artist and Alchemist and enjoy interacting with your baby exploring emotion and expression.

$22 per baby/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Mon, Feb 26, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months, with an adult | Babies will enjoy bouncing to the beat while discovering musically themed works of art.

$22 per baby/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Mon, Mar 11, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months, with an adult | Enjoy singing animal songs as you search the galleries for creatures and create animal inspired art in the studio.

$22 per baby/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Mon, Mar 25, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months, with an adult | Notice the interaction between parents and children in VMFA’s collection. Along the way, sing, play, and create with your baby.

$22 per baby/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Mon, Apr 8, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months, with an adult | Discuss your baby’s developing senses while participating in a sensory-focused tour, story time, and art project.

$22 per baby/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Mon, Apr 22, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months, with an adult | Explore motion and motor development through action-filled paintings, simple parent-and baby yoga poses, and appealing art materials.

$22 per baby/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Mon, May 6, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months, with an adult | Spend time in the Sculpture Garden creating your own nature-inspired work of art.

$22 per baby/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Tuesdays, Jan 16, 23, or 30, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months, with an adult | Together we will identify our favorite  places and make connections to our  homes, neighborhoods, and communities through the galleries and special exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Thursdays, Jan 18, 25, or Feb 1, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months, with an adult | Together we will identify our favorite  places and make connections to our  homes, neighborhoods, and communities through the galleries and special exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Tuesdays, Feb 6, 13, 20, or 27, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months, with an adult | Dance your way through the galleries, engaging in singing activities, and rhythmrelated art.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Thursdays, Feb 8, 15, 21, or 28, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months, with an adult | Dance your way through the galleries, engaging in singing activities, and rhythm related art.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Tuesdays, Mar 5, 12, 19, or 26, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months, with an adult | Explore people in art and view Willie Anne Wright: Artist and Alchemist. Interpret facial expressions, body language, and represent yourself and others in mixed media.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Thursdays, Mar 7, 14, 21, or 28, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months, with an adult | Explore people in art and view Willie Anne Wright: Artist and Alchemist. Interpret facial expressions, body language, and represent yourself and others in mixed media.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Tuesdays, Apr 9, 16, 23, or 30, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months, with an adult | Play with spatial concepts, notice movement in artwork, and experiment with dimensional materials.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Thursdays, Apr 11, 18, 25, or May 2, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months, with an adult | Play with spatial concepts, notice movement in artwork, and experiment with dimensional materials.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Wednesdays, Jan 17, 24, or 31, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5, with an adult | Explore identity, portraiture, community, and architecture to discover unique ways to express yourself.  

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Wednesdays, Jan 17, 24, or 31, 4–5 pm | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5, with an adult | Explore identity, portraiture, community, and architecture to discover unique ways to express yourself.  

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Wednesdays, Feb 7, 14, 21, or 28, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5, with an adult | Activate your senses as you discover the sights, sounds, textures, and smells depicted in art.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Wednesdays, Feb 7, 14, 21, or 28, 4–5 pm | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5, with an adult | Activate your senses as you discover the sights, sounds, textures, and smells depicted in art.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Wednesdays, Mar 6, 13, 20, or 27, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5, with an adult | Little yogis will enjoy active stories that incorporate yoga poses and process-based art projects.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Wednesdays, Mar 6, 13, 20, or 27, 4–5 pm | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5, with an adult | Little yogis will enjoy active stories that incorporate yoga poses and process-based art projects.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Wednesdays, Apr 10, 17, 24, or May 1, 10:30–11:30 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5, with an adult | Notice nature’s many colors and textures and create art from natural materials.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Wednesdays, Apr 10, 17, 24, or May 1, 4–5 pm | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5, with an adult | Notice nature’s many colors and textures and create art from natural materials.

$22 per toddler/adult pair (VMFA members $18)

Saturday, Jan 13, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months| View vibrant paintings that captivate the senses and paint with bright colors to make colorful works all your own. 

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, Jan 13, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months| View vibrant paintings that captivate the senses and paint with bright colors to make colorful works all your own. 

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, Jan 20, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5 years| View vibrant paintings that captivate the senses and paint with bright colors to make colorful works all your own. 

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, Feb 10, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months| Find wonder and creativity through explorations of light and dark using luminescent art materials in the studio. 

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, Feb 10, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months| Find wonder and creativity through explorations of light and dark using luminescent art materials in the studio. 

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, Feb 17, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5 years| Find wonder and creativity through explorations of light and dark using luminescent art materials in the studio. 

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, Mar 9, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months| Find furry, scaly, webbed, and winged creatures all throughout VMFA’s campus. Enjoy singing animal songs and making animal-inspired art of your own. 

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, Mar 9, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months| Find furry, scaly, webbed, and winged creatures all throughout VMFA’s campus. Enjoy singing animal songs and making animal-inspired art of your own. 

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, Mar 23, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5 years| Find furry, scaly, webbed, and winged creatures all throughout VMFA’s campus. Enjoy singing animal songs and making animal-inspired art of your own. 

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, Apr 13, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months| Spend time in the Sculpture Garden exploring the sights and sounds of this urban green space, then create your own nature-inspired work of art.

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, Apr 13, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months| Spend time in the Sculpture Garden exploring the sights and sounds of this urban green space, then create your own nature-inspired work of art.

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, Apr 27, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5 years| Spend time in the Sculpture Garden exploring the sights and sounds of this urban green space, then create your own nature-inspired work of art.

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, May 4, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 3–14 months| Artists like to eat just as much as we do! Explore edible items in paintings and discuss your favorite foods.

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, May 4, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 15–30 months| Artists like to eat just as much as we do! Explore edible items in paintings and discuss your favorite foods.

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)

Saturday, May 11, 10:30–11:45 am | Art Education Center, Classroom

Ages 2 1/2–5 years| Artists like to eat just as much as we do! Explore edible items in paintings and discuss your favorite foods.

$24 per child/adult pair (VMFA members $20)