Cool Classes

Kids can do the most amazing things. We ponder this as we watch our three year-old master the ‘pretzel up the nose’ trick, all on her own.

So in the spirit of doing amazing things, we bring you some cool classes for the masses that are slightly out of the ordinary…just like your kids.

What happens in Vegas doesn’t have to stay in Vegas. Toronto’s School of Circus Arts offers Sin City-style circus aerobatics for kids. But it’s far more than just kids clowning around. Starting at age five with an aerial and acrobatics class, kids can learn static trapeze, silk ropes and aerial hoops along with tumbling and hand balancing. Think of it as a mini Cirque in the city.

At the Freehand School of Art, creativity is unleashed through drawing, painting, sculpting and mixed media. Run by a mom and daughter team, former elementary and visual arts teachers, the small inventive art classes (for ages four and up) in a bright studio in North Toronto offer an interactive educational element in each class which then inspires the creative craft to be completed afterwards. It’ll make an impression on any future impressionist or modern artist(s) to be. 

Before Glee and Gaga, the hills were alive with the sound of music. Our kids may not be in high school, or have any idea who Julie Andrews is (did we just date ourselves?), but a vocal vocation may be inspired by Bravo School of Music, which offers a free children’s music choir program for children ages four and up. Individual attention is given to each student, but the main focus is on the choir as a whole, with an amazing performance at the end of the session.

So you think you can sew? When the creative role-modelling in your home is exemplified by a badly sewn-on button, it’s probably time to take a future designing diva to a professional. Sew Be It Girl offers classes for boys and girls ages 8 to 13 (as well as a mother/daughter class) where they’ll learn to hand-stitch, use a sewing machine, make a pattern and more. Being sew-savvy is definitely in fashion.

It may be a tough climb, but eventually kids grow up. While they’re inching up the growth chart, introduce them to a lifelong love of scaling up real surfaces at a rock climbing class for kids. Toronto Climbing Academy offers instructive lessons for young climbers aged four and up with classes that offer the fundamentals of climbing and safety as they scale up the wall.

Rock on, kids.

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