Family Crafternoon Classes
Ages birth to 5 with a grown-up. Older siblings 5 to 8 welcome. One price for your whole household.
Family Crafternoon brings color, materials, and traditional crafting to little hands and their grown-ups. Each class is a cozy, collaborative space to make something real together, no artistic experience required. With a new themed project each month, families paint, cut, glue, and build side by side. It's designed on the Family Life Education framework and taught by Founder Kaitlynn Blyth, a Family Life Educator. Every project is built on current child development research to work for a baby, toddler, preschooler and the big kids at the same time.
This class runs in the cooler months, fall through winter, exclusively at our Avis South Shore JCC location.
What To Expect
A new themed crafting project each month: paint, collage, paper crafts, and more
A full spread of craft supplies to explore: glue, scissors, paper, fabric, stickers, and tactile materials
Parent-and-child teamwork, with plenty for grown-ups to enjoy too
Full freedom to create, with no checklist and no wrong way to craft
A take-home craft each session to keep or display
Every part of the class crafted on the Family Life Education framework
Designed on the Family Life Education framework and taught by Founder Kaitlynn Blyth, a Family Life Educator
How Happy Day Play’s Family Crafternoon Class Compares
Most kids' craft classes look similar from the outside. The difference is in how they're designed. Here's what sets the Happy Day Play model apart, from how we price to how every project is built.
| The Happy Day Play Model | Typical Models | |
|---|---|---|
| Each month | ✓A new themed crafting project every month, with real supplies to explore. | Often the same kind of craft each time. |
| How activities are designed | ✓Every project is built on current child development research to benefit a baby, toddler, and preschooler at the same time. | Often one-size projects with no stated developmental basis. |
| Mixed-age by design | ✓Children craft across ages together, the way real families and the real world actually work. | Often sorted into one narrow age band. |
| Take-home craft | ✓A finished craft to take home and keep every session. | Varies, and not always something to keep. |
| Pricing | ✓One price for your whole immediate family, every child included. | Usually priced per child, so the cost climbs with each one. |
| Adults in the room | ✓More than one grown-up can join your child. | Often one caregiver per child. |
| Commitment | ✓Walk-in. Come once or every month it runs. | Frequently a paid term booked in advance. |
| Who designs and teaches it | ✓Designed on the Family Life Education framework and taught by Founder Kaitlynn Blyth, a Family Life Educator. | Often no stated developmental design. |
| The grown-up's role | ✓Built in by design. You craft as a team and learn ideas to try at home. | Parents often end up making the craft themselves. |
Why It Works
For your child:
Builds fine motor skills and creative confidence through hands-on crafting
Encourages sensory exploration across materials and textures
Supports following steps and finishing a project, at their own level
One project meets every age, so siblings craft side by side
For you:
You craft alongside your child instead of watching from the sidelines
You pick up simple, low-mess project ideas to try at home
You get a relaxed, after-work way to spend time together
One class works for your baby and your preschooler at once
Scheduling and Pricing
Select Thursdays from 4:30pm to 5:15pm at Avis South Shore JCC 1297 Arthur Kill Rd Staten Island NY 10312
Priced Per Family: $25 non-JCC members, $20 JCC members
No commitment classes. Come to one or come to all!
Purchase a class pass online and show it to the instructor when you arrive
Extra Savings: Purchase a 6 or 10 class bundle (which can also be used on our other walk-in classes for more fun!)
CRAFTERNOON CLASS TESTIMONIALS