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Drop-off & Discover
Our drop-off programs are designed to provide an exciting and enriching STEM environment for your child in a familiar space while you get some time to yourself! Our drop-off programs have exclusive use of the play space so kids can play freely. Snack provided!
STEM Enrichment
Program participants tinker with all sorts of hands-on STEM activities both in our classroom and our playspace. Research shows that exposure to STEM concepts in early childhood has a long-term positive impact on kids' academic success, in math, science, literacy, and language as well!
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Learning Together
Kids have a chance to bond with peers and make friends as they learn together through play! In our intimate setting, children get the time, space, and attention they need to truly explore. Small group learning leads to more hands-on experiences, more meaningful conversations, and more opportunities to ask “why?” and “what if?”—the building blocks of scientific thinking.
Trusted Teachers
Our drop-off programs are led by experienced early childhood educators and include familiar faces from our regular staff. Kids thrive when they feel safe, known, and supported. Our educators bring a thoughtful, play-based approach that balances structure, creativity, and hands-on exploration!
Our Drop-off Programs:
$45 | Ages 18 mo. - 3 years
Thursdays from 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
STEM Sprouts gives your little one a chance to play, explore, and learn in a familiar, nurturing space—while you enjoy a well-deserved break! This 2-hour drop-off program includes free play in our STEM-themed play space, hands-on exploration of themed activities in our classroom, and snack time (snack included).
$38 | Ages 3 - 5
Weds & Thurs from 1:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Our 2.5-hour drop-off program offers preschoolers an engaging STEM experience in a small, supportive setting. With exclusive use of our facility and experienced educators, each week features a new theme and a take-home project. Snack is included, and children must be potty independent.
For ages 18 months - 3 years
Thursdays from 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Our two-hour drop-off program offers young children a calm, enriching STEM experience in a space all their own.
With exclusive use of our facility, a maximum of 12 toddlers, and experienced educators, children receive the attention and support they need to explore with confidence. Each week features a new hands-on STEM theme to spark curiosity and discovery, and snack is included for added ease.
Potty independence is not required, so families can feel comfortable joining when their child is ready. With small group sizes and experienced educators, children enjoy a curated, welcoming environment filled with curiosity, wonder, and discovery.
What makes STEM Sprouts special?
This two-hour drop-off program gives kids a chance to play and learn with peers while you get a break!
Hands-on STEM activities with new themes each week spark curiosity & facilitate learning through play
Exclusive use of our STEM-themed playspace allows kids to spread out and explore freely
Experienced educators with low student-teacher ratios facilitate learning and socialization in a warm and caring atmosphere
STEM Sprouts Class Themes & Descriptions
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OCTOBER 8: 🌈 CURIOUS COLORS Explore color & light in this hands-on STEM class! Mix colors of water, scoop & pour rainbow rice, create colorful shadows, and weave rainbow ribbons on the light panel!
OCTOBER 15:🪁 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, move wind-powered cars and build with suction cups!
OCTOBER 22: 🎃 PUMPKINS Dig through real pumpkin guts to find seeds, stamp faces into pumpkin playdough, compare pumpkins by size and weight, tickle your fingers through a pumpkin patch sensory bin, and roll pumpkins down ramps!
OCTOBER 29: 👻 SPOOKY STEM 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!
NOVEMBER 5: 🧲 MAGNETS Explore what makes magnets so attractive as we build, repel, sort, and move objects using all kinds of magnetic STEM toys!
NOVEMBER 12: 🖐️ TOUCHY-FEELY STEM Get ready to get messy as we explore our sense of touch! Dig through rainbow spaghetti, experiment with weight and texture, tickle your fingers through foam, velvet, and fur and let your toes explore a barefoot sensory walk!
NOVEMBER 18: 🍁 LEAVES & SEEDS Jump into leaf piles, rake them back up, build fall trees out of red and orange playdough, shake and experiment with dried gourds, and make leaf prints in this fun and festive fall STEM class!
*NOVEMBER 25 : 🦃 NO CLASS * We will be open for Open Play this week but will not hold classes due to Thanksgiving.
DECEMBER 3: SIMPLE MACHINES ⚙️ Get "ramped" up as we investigate pulleys, inclined planes, screws, levers, gears, and wheels & axles! Roll, lift, spin, and build as we explore the simple machines that help make work easier.
DECEMBER 10: LET IT GLOW 🔆 Investigate things that glow as we make it through the longest nights of the year! Build glowing structures, play with flashlights and shadows, create glow-in-the-dark art, and hop on light-up stepping stones as we light up the dark winter days.
DECEMBER 17: WELCOME WINTER ❄️ Jump into the chilliest season with hands-on STEM fun! Dig through a snow sensory bin, learn about which animals hibernate and how, build towers with ice, and investigate different evergreen leaves.
DECEMBER 24 & 31: NO CLASS * We will be open for Open Play these weeks but will not hold classes due to winter holidays.
Ready to book STEM Sprouts?
STEM Sprouts participants must be between the ages of 18 months - 3 years. Children may be in diapers or beginning potty training (children must come wearing a diaper or pull-up).
We encourage families to book our monthly registration option to help kids build relationships and foster a sense of community. Monthly registration also offers the best value! Single sessions will open at the start of each month.
Class descriptionFor ages 18 months - 3 years. Thursdays @ 9 AM. Single sessions open at the start of each month.
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45 US dollars- Class description
For ages 18 months - 3 years. 3 sessions: 12/3, 12/10, 12/17 ($40 per session)
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For ages 3 - 5
Wednesdays & Thursdays from 1:30 - 4:00 PM
STEM Club is the ideal program for your preschooler to learn about STEM topics through play!
This 2.5 hour drop-off session gives kids a chance to make new friends, learn about STEM concepts through hands-on experiences, and make their own process-oriented maker projects to take home. This program also includes snack: fresh fruit and a choice of packaged snacks from our playspace.
What makes STEM Club special?
This two and a half hour program with exclusive use of our playspace gives kids a chance to play and learn freely while you get a break!
Hands-on STEM activities with new themes each week spark curiosity, increase confidence, & build a foundation of conceptual understanding.
Open-ended maker projects emphasize process over product and give kids the opportunity to explore creatively and share their learning at home
Experienced classroom educators provide educational enrichment in small groups so that kids get a chance to ask questions and explore their big ideas
STEM Club Class Themes & Descriptions
OCTOBER 7 & 8: 🌈 CURIOUS COLORS Explore the science of light and tinker with making new colors as we mix red, blue & yellow water, scoop & pour rainbow rice, create colorful shadows, weave rainbow ribbons on the light panel, and solve a rainbow lock‑and‑key mystery box! Kids will also create their own colored play dough to take home!
OCTOBER 14 & 15:🪁 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, move wind-powered cars and build with suction cups! Kids will experiment with aerodynamics to make your own flying bird kite to take home.
OCTOBER 21 & 22: 🎃 PUMPKINS Compare and contrast real pumpkins and practice math skills as we weigh and measure, roll pumpkins down ramps, use geometric shapes to make pumpkin faces, and tickle our fingers through a pumpkin patch sensory bin. Use paper punches to create your own pumpkin shadow puppets!
OCTOBER 28 & 29: 👻 SPOOKY STEM Celebrate Halloween with a little STEM fun as we experiment with fizzing ghosts, explore spiders and their webs, and mix up spooky brews! We’ll also wind up characters to go ‘trick‑or‑treating,’ climb through a giant spider web, and make cool Halloween art with stamps and paint.
NOVEMBER 4 & 5: 🧲 MAGNETS Do a little science magic as we investigate how magnets attract, repel, and move things without touching them! STEM Club students will create their own magnetic maze to take home, then engineer magnetic forts and build magnetic cars.
NOVEMBER 11 & 12: 🖐️ TOUCHY-FEELY STEM Let’s investigate our sense of touch as we dig through rainbow spaghetti, experiment with weight and texture, and let our toes explore a barefoot sensory walk! Create a touch‑based sensory collage to bring home, then wake up your fingers with all sorts of fabric loose parts sprinkled throughout the play space.
NOVEMBER 18 & 19: 🍁 LEAVES & SEEDS Learn about why leaves change colors, sort and match different types of leaves and seeds, and jump into leaf piles before raking them back up! STEM Club will also practice pattern-making with different types of leaves and get a little silly building turkey towers. Kids will use real and paper leaves to make a ‘leaf man’ art project to take home.
*NOVEMBER 25 - 26: 🦃 NO CLASS * We will be open for Open Play this week but will not hold classes due to Thanksgiving.
DECEMBER 2 & 3: SIMPLE MACHINES ⚙️ Learn about the six simple machines and how they make work easier as we investigate pulleys, inclined planes, screws, levers, gears, and wheels & axles in this fun hands-on engineering class! STEM Club will complete collaborative challenges and build their own catapult to test and take home.
DECEMBER 9 & 10: LET IT GLOW 🔆 Explore the science of light as we make it through the longest nights of the year! Build glowing structures, play with flashlights & shadows, splash around with glowing toys in water and hop on light-up stepping stones as we bright light to the dark. STEM Club will create their own glow by exploring circuits and light technology, and make a glass-gem suncatcher to take home!
DECEMBER 16 & 17: WELCOME WINTER ❄️ Explore plant and animal adaptations to cold weather as we learn how animals hibernate, make instant snow for an Arctic sensory bin, take a closer look at evergreen leaves, and defrost frozen hibernating frogs! Experiment with building icy winter structures for penguins and create snowflake art with frozen watercolors to take home.
DECEMBER 23 - 31: NO CLASS * We will be open for Open Play these weeks but will not hold classes due to winter holidays.
Ready to book STEM Club?
STEM Club participants must be between the ages of 3-5 and potty independent (able to communicate the need to use the restroom, manage clothing, wipe independently, and wash hands without assistance).
We encourage families to book our monthly registration option to help kids build relationships and foster a sense of community. Monthly registration also offers the best value! Single sessions will open at the start of each month.
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For ages 3-5. 3 sessions: 12/3, 12/10, 12/17 ($33 per session)
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For ages 3-5. 3 sessions: 11/4, 11/11, 11/18 ($33 per session)
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For ages 3-5. 3 sessions: 11/5, 11/12, 11/19 ($33 per session)
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Peek Inside STEM Club
For ages 3 - 5
Select Fridays from 5:00 - 7:30 PM
STEM Club is the perfect opportunity for your preschooler to learn about STEM topics through play! This 2.5 hour drop-off program gives kids a chance to make new friends, learn about STEM concepts through hands-on experiences, and make their own process-oriented maker projects to take home. This program also includes snack (fresh fruit and a choice of crunchy snacks from our play space). Caregivers will have an opportunity to select their child’s snack upon arrival, and kids may bring a snack from home if desired.
What makes Parent's Night Out special?
Two and a half hours of childcare means kids a chance to play and learn with peers while you get a break!
We serve a kid-friendly dinner of pizza, veggies & juice at 6 PM
Exclusive use of our STEM-themed playspace allows kids to spread out and explore freely
Open-ended makerspace materials give kids free reign to create whatever they imagine!
STEM Club Class Themes & Descriptions
JAN 6: 🪇 SOUNDS LIKE FUN Learn about the science of sound as we experiment with pitch, volume and rhythm! Try different musical instruments, guess mystery sounds, use kitchen utensils to test out how different pots and pans sound and engineer your own shaker to bring home.
JAN 13: 🌋 ROCKS, FOSSILS & VOLCANOES Learn about different kinds of rocks and how they form as we use playdough to make model fossils, take a closer look at geodes on the light table, sift through sand in a model fossil dig, and experiment with kid-safe volcanic eruptions! Make your own sparkling watercolor geode to take home.
JAN 20: 🏰 FAIRYTALES The Gingerbread Man, Rapunzel, Jack, and The Billy Goats Gruff need our help! Use catapults, parachutes, slides and building skills to solve problems for these familiar friends. Make a an optical illusion toy to turn a frog into a price!
JAN 27: 🌨️ GROUNDHOG DAY & WEATHER Learn about the science of weather and making predictions as we read about this wacky holiday and construct different cloud types, build a groundhog den, and experiment with rain, wind & model tornados! Make your own groundhog shadow puppet to take home.
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FEB 3: 🧠 HUMAN BODY Learn more about what makes us tick as we listen to heartbeats, examine X-rays, inflate lungs, assemble skeletons, and make organs out of playdough! Learn about how fingerprints are unique and make art with your fingerprints to take home.
FEB 10: 💗 VALENTINE’S STEM Spread the STEM love as we celebrate Valentine’s day with themed STEM activities including fizzy baking soda hearts, flying rose petals in the wind tunnel, coffee filter chromatography, and a rose petal rice sensory bin! Make a cute clothespin “love bug” to take home.
FEB 17: 🌀 PLAYFUL PATTERNS Explore visual and textured patterns as we make patterns with playdough, sand, crayons, colored beads, and light! Use patterned collage paper and washi tape to pair together a paper pattern quilt to take home.
FEB 24: 👃 FOLLOW YOUR NOSE Investigate your sense of smell as we mix fresh herbs into play dough, draw on sandpaper with cinnamon sticks, activate tea bags with warm water, and play with a citrus sensory bin! Test your smelling skills by matching scents and painting scratch and sniff art to bring home.
MARCH 3: 🪺 BIRDS, NESTS & EGGS Learn about different birds & their adaptations including nest types, beak shape, diet and colors! Learn which bird makes a nest with its own spit and make your own papier-mâché to mimic the process!
MARCH 10: 🚗 THINGS THAT GO Investigate force & motion as we roll cars, float boats, fly planes, twist cranks, and launch rockets. Use makerspace supplies to personalize your own rolling box car!
March 17: 🐣 WELCOME SPRING Investigate signs of spring as we collect eggs, examine flower buds, match mother and baby animals, and make pretend chicks chirp, then create a flowering spring branch to take home.
MARCH 24: ⚖️ BALANCING Experiment with weight and levers as we investigate different balancing toys & games, compare weights with scales, balance our bodies on stepping stones and create a collaborative hanging mobile! Use makerspace supplies to build a “balancing buddy” to take home.
MARCH 31: 🧪 SCIENCE SURPRISES Jump into kid-friendly chemistry as we pop bubbles, whisk up taste-safe foam, use chemical reactions to inflate balloons, and experiment with pH indicators before we make our own marbled “magic milk” print.