OI Holiday Art Camps: Great for Kids and Parents

Holiday Art Camps for Kids - Stifel Fine Arts Center

Are you a busy parent looking for fun and educational activities for your children during the holiday break from school? Oglebay Institute can help.

Take advantage of daytime holiday camps being offered at OI’s Stifel Fine Arts Center and Schrader Environmental Education Center.

Kids Create Holiday Inspired Art at Stifel

Holiday Art Camp takes place from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Friday, December 21 at the Stifel Center. Kids will create a variety art projects to keep for themselves or give away as gifts. Projects are creative, holiday-inspired as well as age appropriate. They’ll have fun exploring the historic Stifel Mansion, too.

Cost is $35 per day, and members of Oglebay Institute receive a discount. OI provides all the materials, but children must bring a bag lunch.

Holiday Art Camps at Stifel Fine Arts Center
OI director of art education Brad Johnson is one of the instructors who will lead the Holiday Art Camps at the Stifel Fine Art Center.

Kids Explore Nature at the Schrader Center

Give your kids the outdoor time that they crave at the Schrader Center. School’s Out Child Care takes place at OI’s Schrader Center from 9am – 4pm. Friday, December 28. Parents can enroll children for a  full day or half day.

They’ll play nature games, explore the forest, meet with the Schrader Center’s animal ambassadors, build forts, and roast marshmallows and enjoy hot cocoa around the fire. Kids should dress for the weather and bring a bagged lunch if staying for the full day.

Cost is $30 for full day and $20 for half day. Multi-child discounts and pre and post care are available. Members of Oglebay Institute receive a discount.

Reserve Your Spot

Register online for Oglebay Institute’s Holiday Art Camp or you can call  304-242-7700.

To reserve a spot at the Schrader Center programs, you must call 304-242-6855.

Oglebay Institute offers hundreds of programs, workshops and classes in nature, history, art, dance and theater for children, teens and adults.  Winter classes begin January 6. For a complete class schedule, visit www.oionline.com.