Sensory Art Classes
Ages 3 months to 5 years with a grown-up. One price for your whole household.
Sensory Art is a creative, full-body experience rooted in early childhood development and the Family Life Education framework. Each class invites babies, toddlers, and preschoolers to explore textures, colors, scents, sounds, and movement through open-ended, process-based art alongside their favorite grown-up. The focus is on the making, not a perfect result, so there's no wrong way to create.
Designed and taught by Founder Kaitlynn Blyth, a Family Life Educator, every project is built on current child development research to benefit a baby, toddler, and preschooler at the same time. It's messy, and it's made for growing minds.
What To Expect
Weekly themed, process-based art projects, each designed to benefit multiple ages at once
Sensory-rich materials, chosen to be safe for the youngest hands and mouths
Just as much fun for the grown-ups
Freedom to explore with gentle guidance, with no wrong way to create
Something to take home each class, made by your child's own hands
Every part of the class crafted on the Family Life Education framework
Designed and taught by Founder Kaitlynn Blyth, a Family Life Educator
A MESS. Please wear old clothes or bring a smock that fits your little one, and be ready to get messy too
How Happy Day Play’s Family Sensory Art Class Compares
Most art classes for little ones 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Type of art | ✓Open-ended, process-based art where the making matters more than the result. | Often a fixed craft where everyone makes the same thing. |
| 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 activities with no stated developmental basis. |
| Mixed-age by design | ✓Children create across ages together, the way real families and the real world actually work. | Often sorted into one narrow age band. |
| Materials | ✓Sensory-rich materials chosen to be safe for the youngest hands and mouths. | Varies, and not always suited to babies. |
| 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 week. | Frequently a paid term booked in advance. |
| Who designs it | ✓Designed and taught by Founder Kaitlynn Blyth, a Family Life Educator, on the Family Life Education framework. | Often no stated developmental design. |
| The grown-up's role | ✓Built in by design. You learn to support your child's process, not do it for them. | Parents often end up taking over and making the project themselves. |
Why It Works
For your child:
Builds fine and gross motor skills through hands-on art
Supports sensory regulation and brain development
Encourages creativity, problem-solving, and independence
One project meets every age, so siblings create side by side
For you:
You watch your child's coordination and focus grow week to week
You pick up simple sensory ideas you can repeat at home
You see how your child thinks when there's no single right answer
One class works for your baby and your preschooler at once
Scheduling and Pricing
Fridays from 11:15am to 12:00pm in the 2nd Floor Lounge at Bernikow JCC, 1466 Manor Rd, Staten Island, NY 10314
One price for your whole immediate family. A baby and two older siblings pay the same as one child. $25 per family, $20 for JCC members.
Walk-in. Come once or come every week.
Save with a 6- or 10-class bundle, good across our walk-in classes.
SENSORY ART CLASS TESTIMONIALS
