Fall Application for WonderKids Afterschool Program:

Visit the WonderArts webpage for the Fall 2024 Afterschool Application.

Reclaim the Rain

This 2024-2025 school year, WonderKids will spend a year deepening their love of nature and learning ways that they can change their behaviors and habits to help protect the environment. The activities will approach environmentalism and resiliency of humans and animals with love, curiosity, and creativity.

Daily topics allow us to take a deeper dive into the theme–and to pursue long-term projects from week to week. It is helpful for families to commit to sending their kids on the same day each week so that each child has a chance to complete long-term projects.

These programs are generously supported by Vermont Humanities and the Vermont Community Foundation. To recognize this funding, the activities in this enrichment guide strive to incorporate books and literacy, and to increase social capital and closing the achievement gap in children.
Drip: how many things can you imagine that drip or fall? Leaves from trees, watercolors onto a page, rain from the sky… Even sunlight can pour through a forest canopy. These activities will use paints, wax, collage, and more to create dripping, flowing artwork.
Re-: Recycle, reclaim, repair, repurpose! This series of projects uses found and reclaimed materials to make useful items that we can share and take home, like candle holders, ornaments, shopping bags, and more
Vermont Strong: Building, braiding, tying, and twisting–how can we make things stronger and last longer? This series of projects will appeal to the kids who love to engineer and create, as well as those who love to build habitats in the woods
Sea the Future: This is a deep dive into all things oceanography! We will investigate how water moves, what makes the oceans special, and how to protect our oceans for future generations and all the wildlife that live there now.