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The Children’s Studio
Reggio Emilia inspired creative enrichment for children eighteen months through seven years — a spacious, versatile play-space led by expert educators.
Inside the children’s studio →
A nonprofit creative studio in Brooklyn
Where creative play becomes a way of learning
Studio Creative Play is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring holistic creative enrichment and expression, and artistic visibility and promotion to all age groups.
- Children 18 months – 7 years
- Reggio Emilia inspired
- Playshops for adults
- Arts contest & anthology
What we do
Four commitments, one creative foundation
The studio is a diversity track organization that supports and encourages participation from multi-cultural communities, fostering in each participant a new, distinct and continuously evolving foundation of creative perspective.
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Creative Witness playshops
Adult creative play immersion workshops that reawaken creative potential, refocus goals and extend support and sharing in a community.
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Visibility & publication
Recognizing and celebrating independent, unpublished and unrecorded artists of various mediums on a national level.
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Custom programs
We design creativity development programs based on the specific needs of groups, organizations, individuals and corporations.
View all programs →
Musical expression is one of the integrated activities in every cycle.
Inside a session
A Holistic Process approach to creative play
Participation in activities and exercises is geared towards enhancing children’s natural development into energetic, imaginative expression. Diverse art forms and multiculturalism are integrated into the play schedule at consistent intervals, so learning spontaneously emerges, builds upon itself, and goes deeper with constant revisiting.
Creative portfolios exist as tools and records for the parent, teacher, and child to revisit their steps and enhance understanding through the various stages of the child’s creative development.
Integrated activities
What children practice every cycle
Each week the studio incorporates a different theme into the core curriculum — themes such as IMAGINATION, WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES, NATURE, or OUR BIG, VAST WORLD.
- Creative movement
- Drama & puppetry
- Musical expression
- Sign-language
- Arts & crafts
- Storytelling
- Yoga
- Conflict resolution
- Compassion Circle
The Compassion Circle is the studio’s interactive conflict resolution and compassionate understanding program, and special presentations feature dance and theatre troupes, magicians, artists, writers and musicians.
Community & publication
The Brooklyn–Berkeley creative arts family
In support of artists and writers globally, Studio Creative Play of Brooklyn, New York and Regent Press of Berkeley, California present the Brooklyn–Berkeley Creative Arts Contest — with categories from novel, novella and short story to poetry, spoken word, photography and children’s picture books.
Awarded writers and artists are professionally published and recorded independently and/or in THE BBQA — the Brooklyn–Berkeley Quarterly Anthology, a multi-medium creative arts publication printed four times a year.
Recognizing and celebrating the visions and voices of independent artists.
Families
Built around parents and caregivers
Active parent encouragement and participation maximizes the benefits to a child’s imaginative, social, emotional, spiritual and cognitive development.
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Participate
Co-teach classes, partner in Free-Play with other families, and assist in documentation — every family volunteers for one session over the three-month cycle.
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Enroll
All families apply to join. Sessions are held at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Park West — spacious, naturally lit and bright.
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Scholarships
A limited number of monthly scholarships support low-income individuals and families who wish to join and participate in our programs.
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Good to know
Questions families ask first
What ages does the studio serve?
The children’s studio is designed for children eighteen months through seven years. Adults have their own track — the Creative Witness playshops — and the studio designs programs for all age groups on request.
How do we join a program?
All families must apply to Studio Creative Play. Review the steps and forms on the applications page, or call the studio at 718-623-2775.
What inspires the studio’s approach?
The children’s curriculum follows a Holistic Process approach inspired by the Reggio Emilia method and philosophy, in which education is relationship-based and creativity is documented as part of learning.
Join a session, or help keep the doors open
Studio Creative Play will design creativity development programs based on the specific needs of groups, organizations, individuals, and corporations. Call the studio for more information: 718-623-2775.