CULTURE KIDS PROGRAMS

Art Museum of the Americas

As part of our educational programs, we invite you to participate in interactive workshops, where participants learn traditions of the Americas through hands-on activities.

Joy of Motion Dance Center

Our Youth Program includes inspirational, fun, and challenging classes for students in the 1st – 12th grade offered weekly from beginning to advanced levels in ballet, jazz, modern, hip hop, tap, belly dance, ballroom, salsa, and beyond. 

Bike and Roll

Bike and Roll offers fun, easy and safe bike tours in Washington, D.C. Learn about the history, see the sites, take lots of photos, and make new friends.

Capitol Hill Arts Workshop

At Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW), our mission is to build community through the arts. Visit our website for information on upcoming youth classes, workshops, and camps.

Chinatown Community Cultural Center

At Chinatown Community Cultural Center children love our educationally effective classes. Whether your child is new to Chinese or has some familiarity with the language, we welcome you to enroll.

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Inspired by the work of artists from different time periods and around the world, your child will find new avenues of self-expression and gain an understanding of his or her creative potential in our Camp Creativity classes.

The DAR Museum

The DAR Museum provides a variety of activities and events for families, children, and school groups. Popular programs include: Fun Family Saturdays, Colonial Adventure, and Colonial Camp.

Dumbarton House Museum
Step back in time at Dumbarton House during one of our Scout programs! Bring your Scout troop, den, family, or youth group to learn about the early history of Washington, D.C. and participate in a hands-on workshop at Dumbarton House. While all programs are designed to meet Girl Scout or Cub Scout Try-It and Badge requirements, families and organized youth groups are invited to travel back in time at Dumbarton House!

Folger Shakespeare Library

The High School Fellowship Program gives students the opportunity to explore Shakespeare's plays. Or, students can explore British and American women poets and write poetry of their own in Shakespeare's Sisters: Five Centuries of Poetry by Women. We also work with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to bring nationally known writers into public high school classrooms, and offer additional internships.

Freer and Sackler Galleries

Visit our events page and find out what upcoming family-friendly classes we have to offer.

Historical Society of Washington

Join us once a month for a Family Workshop where we explore different themes related to DC History. Also, our Second Saturday Scavenger Hunts are a great chance to explore HSW and the community that is around us. Finally, programs for Girl Scouts are also offered monthly.

International Spy Museum

Whether it's the challenge of cracking secret codes or the fine art of donning a mustache, spies of all ages will find lots of workshops, demonstrations, and action-packed missions.

Kirov Ballet Academy, Washington DC

A fully accredited international ballet school, we also offer a Summer Intensive program and a Preparatory Program featuring classes for children age 2 and up. Experience quality training from the very begining.

Kreeger Museum

We offer several children's events, including story time about artists and their inspiration, observe and create workshops for children to create their own artwork, and discussions.

National Aquarium

Our Daily Animal Encounters allow you to watch feedings with some of the the most exciting creatures at the aquarium. The Shark feedings, Piranha feedings, and Alligator feedings will leave you hungry for more.

National Building Museum

There is something for families to do everyday at the National Building Museum, such as The Building Zone, Family Tool Kits and the Amazing Arches activity, and Discovery Carts. Additional youth programs at the National Building inspire students to examine the people, processes, and materials that create buildings and places.

National Gallery of Art

Faces & Places encourages children of all ages to create portraits and landscape paintings in the style of American naive artists. This two-part interactive activity offers an overview of American folk art of the 18th and 19th centuries.

National Museum of American History

We offer several children's activities at the museum, such as Interactive Carts, Sparks!Lab, Historic Theatre, Intervention at Play, and much more!

National Museum of the American Indian

The musuem offer hands-on activities and family days - Families—drop by the Welcome Desk on your way into the museum to discover all the great things you can do during your visit. 

National Museum of Women in the Arts

The museum expands the audience's knowledge of women artists, composers, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, dancers, and those working in other creative disciplines. Programs include school and youth tours, music, and family and teen programs.

National Portrait Gallery

Youth and Family Programs at the National Portrait Gallery are created with the Education Department's goals in mind: to present programs that "inform, involve, and inspire" the visitor. Each program contains components that allow visitors to have an interactive gallery experience and a chance to create something inspired by that experience.

Lincoln's Cottage

Abraham Lincoln found that his hat came in handy for more than covering his head! Come discover the mystery of Abe Lincoln’s hat in Learning from Lincoln, an interactive program for kids at President Lincoln’s Cottage.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Smithsonian American Art Museum offers a variety of programs for families and children of all ages. Bring your young, budding artists to explore the museum and participate in fun hands-on activities that will be sure to spark their creativity!

Tudor Place

Georgetown's Summer History Weeks offer a fun approach to American history. Children help cook and sample snacks and drinks of times past, try on period clothing, experience the historic garden, plant their own garden, play historic games, paint watercolor landscapes, go on an archaeological expedition and much more! The week ends with an early American "parlor party" that children host for family and friends.

Dumbarton House

Georgetown's Summer History Weeks offer a fun approach to American history. Children help cook and sample snacks and drinks of times past, try on period clothing, experience the historic garden, plant their own garden, play historic games, paint watercolor landscapes, go on an archaeological expedition and much more! The week ends with an early American "parlor party" that children host for family and friends.

U.S. Botanic Garden

You can become an Apprentice Junior Botanist by asking for an Adventure Folder for exploring our Conservatory. Bring along an adult adviser with an official ID (e.g., a driver's license) so you can check out a backpack filled with cool tools to use during your explorations.

The Washington Youth Garden

The Washington Youth Garden offers an intensive, fifteen-week, family gardening and cooking program on Saturday mornings in the WYG, May through August. The program is designed to bring 25 to 30 local families together to grow and prepare their own organic foods.

Young Playwrights' Theater

The Young Playwrights' Theater offers in school, after school, and summer playwriting programs. These programs intergrate the art of playwriting into the classroom in order to enhance student literacry, creative expression, and communication.