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Classes

Explore age-appropriate STEM concepts and have fun learning together!

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Hands-on Exploration

Classes at The Wonder Lab feature interactive learning through doing! Our engaging activities centered on kid-friendly STEM topics invite children to use all their senses and feature new materials every week.

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Welcoming Environment

Our small class sizes give young children space to play and explore. Educators take the time to get to know children and caregivers so that all families feel welcome and safe in our learning environment!

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Open Play Included

Our classes begin with 30 minutes of open play in our play space to give families time to transition and a little breathing room if they are running late. This also allows families to connect in a more unstructured way.

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Learning Through Play

Our play-based classes each feature a different STEM topic designed to engage children’s curiosity. Children are natural scientists and we invite them to explore class activities at their own pace and follow their own interests.

Our Class Offerings

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$26 | Ages 6 to 14 months

Explore all sorts of sensory play to help your baby’s brain develop! Classes feature a new theme each week with songs, rhymes, and sensory experiences to foster healthy brain development while babies & cargivers socialize & build community.

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$23 | Ages 14 - 36 months

Invite your curious toddler to explore different STEM topics each week as they learn through play! Classes include songs, a read-aloud, and 5-6 age-appropriate STEM centers designed to engage little minds and build confidence and independence as kids encounter new materials.

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$24.50 | Ages 3 to 5

Give your preschooler the opportunity to practice school-readiness skills in a playful and engaging learning environment! After a brief circle time with a read aloud and a central question, kids jump into hands-on activities and wrap up with a process-oriented maker activity to take home. 

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Check out our weekly calendar below to see all of our single session classes for the month.
Please note: single sessions are available to register once the month begins.
Book a course to sign up for multiple sessions at once and save!

Weekly Class Schedule


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For ages 6 - 14 months

In this caregiver-child class, we explore all sorts of sensory play to help your baby’s brain and senses develop! Each class, led by our experienced educators, features songs, rhymes, and sensory experiences to give you all sorts of ideas for interacting with your baby to foster healthy brain development. Babies and caregivers will have an opportunity to socialize with other children and adults and have fun making a mess without worrying about cleaning it up!

What makes Brilliant Babies special?

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Classes provide quality bonding time for caregivers & babies

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Sessions include songs & rhymes for language development

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Taste-safe messy play activates baby's senses

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Washed & sanitized class materials minimize germ exposure

Brilliant Babies Class Themes & Descriptions

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*No Class August 3 - 7* We are taking a short break from classes this week as we wrap up our summer camp!

AUGUST 10: 🔦 SUMMER NIGHTS Sing songs about nighttime and experiment with lights & glowing stars as we play with sensory bottles, light-up fireflies, and a light panel

AUGUST 17: 🌊 OCEANS Bring your little “baby beluga” to this fun ocean-themed class where we’ll sing ocean songs and splash around with aquatic animals in cool blue water!

AUGUST 24: 🦕 DINOSAURS Get ready to dig around in crushed cheerio “sand” as we play with dinosaurs, bury toy dinosaur bones, and squish dinosaurs into plastic eggs!

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AUGUST 31: 🧪 PLAYFUL POTIONS Mix up a colorful baby brew as we sing songs about potions and watch to see what happens when we mix & pour colored water in beakers and test tubes!

SEPTEMBER 7: 🏠️ JR. ARCHITECTS Baby builders will have fun singing songs about houses and get messy using taste-safe “cement” to stick plastic blocks together!

SEPTEMBER 14: 🦊 AMAZING ANIMALS Let’s moo, growl and howl as we pretend to be different animals and then tickle our fingers through green noodles to find the savannah animals hiding inside!

SEPTEMBER 21: 🍎 FALL HARVEST Celebrate the start of fall as we sing songs about autumn and dig around in an applesauce sensory bin!

SEPTEMBER 28: 🚧 CONSTRUCTION We will put our babies to work using toy yellow trucks to scoop and move yellow cooked couscous as we sing and learn about the construction site!

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OCTOBER 5: 🌈 CURIOUS COLORS Sing songs about all the colors of the rainbow and dive into a squishy, colorful world as we play with cooked rainbow noodles!

OCTOBER 12: 🪁 FLOAT & FLY Let’s sing about wind and play with air! Make wind with hand fans to tickle babies' faces and watch them discover the wonders of floating balloons & bubbles!

OCTOBER 19: 🎃 PUMPKINS Get ready for spooky season as we sing songs about pumpkins and squish our fingers through canned pumpkin!

OCTOBER 26: 👻 SPOOKY STEM Celebrate your baby’s first spooky season as we sing Halloween songs and squish wiggly, themed jello shapes!

Ready to book a Brilliant Babies class?

 

Join us for a course (group of consecutive classes) for discounted admission (save over 15%!) or book a single session for maximum flexibility!

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For ages 14 - 36 months

In this caregiver-child class, we invite curious toddlers to explore different STEM topics through age-appropriate hands-on activities each week. After a short circle time, kids explore open-ended, taste-safe sensory stations designed to engage little minds! Tots & Twos includes 30 minutes of Open Play and 30 minutes of guided instruction. Caregivers must stay with their child for the duration of the class. 

What makes Tots & Twos special?

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Bond with your toddler by exploring new activities each week

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Simple songs and stories bring the group together

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Age-appropriate STEM activities ignite curiosity & build confidence

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A carefully curated space allows toddlers to explore freely

Tots & Twos Class Themes & Descriptions

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*No Class August 3 - 7* We are taking a short break from classes this week as we wrap up our summer camp!

AUGUST 11, 12 & 14: 🔦 SUMMER NIGHTS Flick on your flashlight and jump into this nighttime camping experience as we zip ourselves into a cozy tent, look for glowing fireflies, play with light-up sensory cubes, look for constellations, and dig through a glowing sensory bin!

AUGUST 18, 19 & 21: 🌊 OCEANS Explore all things related to the deep blue sea as we build coral reefs, go fishing, play with wave bottles, dig for shells in the sand, and investigate animals that live in the ocean!

AUGUST 25, 26 & 28: 🦕 DINOSAURS Dig for dinosaur bones, help dinosaurs avoid erupting volcanoes, make dinosaur footprints in black “volcanic” play dough, and build (or take apart) dinosaur skeletons!

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SEPTEMBER 1 - 5: 🧪 PLAYFUL POTIONS Get ready to make some bubbly concoctions as you mix and pour colorful, kid-safe chemicals for some surprising results!

SEPTEMBER 8 - 12: 🏠️ JR. ARCHITECTS Little builders will dream, design, and create their own structures in this engineering class! Build cozy forts and towering Duplo skyscrapers, design Magna-Tile homes on a glowing light table, dig through a city sensory bin, and engineer a floating city in the water table!

SEPTEMBER 15 - 19: 🦊 AMAZING ANIMALS Take a walk on the wild side as we explore different habitats and the living things that inhabit them! From the icy Arctic to the sweltering rainforests and everything in between, we will explore animals and the features that make them amazing.⁠

SEPTEMBER 22 - 26: 🍎 FALL HARVEST Bring in the harvest as we learn about what makes fall special! Pick velcro apples off trees, pack gourds into baskets, pluck seeds from sunflowers and wash dirt off veggies!

SEP. 29 - OCT 3: 🚧 CONSTRUCTION Beep beep! Get ready to scoop dirt with mini construction trucks, build towers of cardboard bricks and demolish them with a wrecking ball, experiment with kid-friendly hammers, and engineer roads through the building site as we get messy in our construction themed class!

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OCTOBER 6 - 10: 🌈 CURIOUS COLORS Explore color & light in this hands-on STEM class! Scoop multicolored sponges from water, reveal baking soda & vinegar color surprises, create rainbow shadows, and sort colorful loose parts on the glowing light panel.

OCTOBER 13 - 17: 🪁 FLOAT & FLY Experiment with the forces of air and wind as we blow bubbles, test materials in the wind tunnel, use air to knock down towers, lift loads with balloons and build with suction cups!

OCTOBER 20 - 24: 🎃 PUMPKINS Dig through real pumpkin guts to find seeds, practice hammering into pumpkins, compare pumpkins by size and weight, and roll pumpkins down ramps!

OCTOBER 27 - 30: 👻 SPOOKY STEM [Note: no class on Saturday due to our Halloween party!] Get spooky as we create our own witches' brew, dissolve fizzing ghosts, explore spiders and their webs and more in this fun and zany Halloween-themed class!⁠

Ready to book a Tots & Twos class?

 

Join us for a course (group of consecutive classes) for discounted admission (save over 15%!) or book a single session for maximum flexibility!
 

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For ages 3 - 5

Our Mini Makers class gives preschoolers the opportunity to explore STEM concepts through play! After an introduction with a read aloud and a question for the day, kids jump into STEM learning with hands-on activities and wrap up with a process-oriented maker activity to take home. Caregivers must stay in the building but do not need to attend the class portion unless desired. 

What makes Mini Makers special?

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Learning through play encourages deep thinking, experimentation, and collaboration

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Preschoolers build independence and school-readiness skills like taking turns & following directions

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Class begins with a question which kids explore through hands-on experiences

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Each class ends with a different  process-oriented maker activity to take home!

Mini Makers Class Themes & Descriptions

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*No Class August 3 - 7* We are taking a short break from classes this week as we wrap up our summer camp!

AUGUST 10 & 14: 🔦 SUMMER NIGHTS Search & find nocturnal animals with flashlights, zip into a cozy tent, collect glowing fireflies, identify constellations, and dig through a glowing sensory bin! Mini Makers will use glow-in-the-dark paint to make firefly process art.

AUGUST 17 & 21: 🌊 OCEANS Investigate ocean habitats as we build coral reefs, go fishing, experiment with wave bottles, dig for shells in the sand, and identify animals that live in the ocean! Make your own “gyotaku” fish print with paint and rubber fish and take a closer look at fish anatomy!

AUGUST 24 & 28: 🦕 DINOSAURS Become a paleontologist as we explore fossils, identify dinosaur adaptations, make impression fossils in black “volcanic” play dough, and build dinosaur skeletons! Make a paper plate dinosaur world to take home.

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SEPTEMBER 4 & 5: 🧪 PLAYFUL POTIONS Learn about chemical reactions as we mix and pour all kinds of kid-safe potions. Experiment with changing colors, dissolving materials, bubbles, and baking soda and vinegar and then make a colorful potion print with foil to take home!

SEPTEMBER 11 & 12: 🏠️ JR. ARCHITECTS Budding builders will dream, design, and create their own structures in this engineering class! Build cozy forts and towering Duplo skyscrapers, design Magna-Tile homes on a glowing light table, dig through a city sensory bin, and engineer a floating city in the water table, then use building blocks and white paint to create their own blue prints to take home.

SEPTEMBER 18 & 19: 🦊 AMAZING ANIMALS Learn about how animals adapt to their environments as we explore different habitats and the living things that inhabit them! From the icy Arctic to the sweltering rainforests and everything in between, we will explore animals and their features that make them amazing.⁠ Mini Makers will then choose some adaptations to make into a fun animal mask to take home!

SEPTEMBER 25 & 26: 🍎 FALL HARVEST Learn about the fall equinox and bring in the harvest as we learn about what makes autumn special! Pick velcro apples off trees, pack gourds into baskets, pluck seeds from sunflowers and wash dirt off veggies, then experiment with patterns to make your own beaded fall corn to bring home.

OCTOBER 2 & 3: 🚧 CONSTRUCTION Learn about building and demolition as we build walls with cardboard bricks and knock them down with an inflatable wrecking ball, drive trucks through a dirt sensory bin, practice tool skills and work with pulleys. Mini Makers will look at different kinds of tires and drive trucks through paint to make process art to take home!

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OCTOBER 9 & 10: CURIOUS COLORS 🌈 Explore the science of light and tinker with color mixing as we reveal baking soda & vinegar color surprises, create rainbow shadows, sort colorful loose parts on the light panel, and solve a rainbow lock‑and‑key mystery box! Mini Makers will also create their own colored play dough to take home!

OCTOBER 16 & 17:🪁 FLOAT & FLY Experiment with the forces of air and wind as we blow bubbles, test materials in the wind tunnel, use air to knock down towers, lift loads with balloons and build with suction cups! Use straws and paper to make your own zippy glider to take home.

OCTOBER 23 & 24: 🎃 PUMPKINS Compare and contrast real pumpkins and practice math skills as we weigh and measure, use geometric shapes to make pumpkin faces, hammer golf tees into pumpkins and tickle our fingers through a pumpkin patch sensory bin. Use paper punches to create your own pumpkin shadow puppets!

OCTOBER 30: 👻 SPOOKY STEM [Note: no class on Saturday due to our Halloween party!] Celebrate Halloween with a little STEM fun as we experiment with fizzing ghosts, explore spiders and their webs, and mix up spooky brews! Mini Makers will finish the class by creating cool Halloween art using stamps and paint.

Ready to book a Mini Makers class?

 

Join us for a course (group of consecutive classes) for discounted admission (save over 15%!) or book a single session for maximum flexibility!

Have a question about classes?

Give us a call or submit your question here! 

919-213-8527

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