Artsplay Program Information

Artsplay classes are:

•  Designed to support the very young child's social, emotional, intellectual, and motor development through quality arts interactions with adults
•  Interdisciplinary performing arts: music, drama, and movement
•  Multisensory—using props, gestures, sounds, etc.
•  Book-centered—fostering language/literacy development
•  Taught by senior-level Wolf Trap Teaching Artists and a child development specialist

What to expect in an Artsplay class:

1.  Parents/caregivers and children arrive and become familiar with the space.
2.  Teaching Artists, parents/caregivers, and children participate in Warm-Up activity.
3.  Teaching Artists and children move into the Imagination Room* while the parents/caregivers remain in Café area.
4.  Teaching Artists lead children through integrated performing arts experiences in the Imagination Room.
5.  Toward the end of each class, one Teaching Artist will leave the Imagination Room and join the parents/caregivers in the Café area to discuss the strategies introduced during the class and ways to extend the experiences at home.
6.  Teaching Artist and children finish class and join parents/caregivers.
7.  Parents/caregivers and children are welcome to remain and socialize in the Café area.

* We ask that parents remain in the Warm-Up space during the main part of class. Your child will get the most out of this program if he/she is able to develop a positive relationship with the Teaching Artist. We believe that your child may have a more difficult time developing a relationship with the Teaching Artists while you are present.