aftercare: grades K-5
Takoma: Open to Takoma Park Elementary and Piney Branch Elementary students
This program is full for 2025-26, but please add your name to the waitlist if you are interested!
Open House for new students or interested families: Monday, August 25, 4-6pm
Aftercare at The Loft is available to students at Takoma Park Elementary (grades K-2) and Piney Branch Elementary (grades 3-5). Our studio is equipped with a wide range of art materials and a curated collection of children’s books. We guide students in an art-based exploration of the natural world, encouraging careful observation and a study of patterns and relationships. Our approach to art education is interdisciplinary, fostering connections between subjects and ideas as they are connected in the real world.
In addition to original curriculum, our space provides a creative sanctuary after a busy day. Children enjoy time with friends, unstructured play at sensory tables, and creative play with art materials. The 3/4 mile walk from school to studio provides time for children to unwind from their day, experience the changing seasons, and get to know the teachers and each other. We often use materials we’ve collected from our walk in our projects at the studio: leaves, seed pods, cicada shells. This is a time for connecting, collecting, and observing.
The Loft picks up enrolled students at school, on foot at dismissal time, including scheduled early dismissal days. We walk back to the studio in all kinds of weather! Parents pick up at the studio by 6:00pm.
See our blog post in Artful Parent about our program!
$3,285 for the full school year, 2 afternoons/week.
Programming prices reflect market value of classes. However, to make programming accessible to all students, we have seeded a Scholarship Fund so that we may offer classes at a lower price. We encourage those who can to contribute to this fund. Your generosity makes creative experiences available to any child in our community who would like to attend.
Hyattsville: Open to Hyattsville Elementary students
Open House Wednesday, August 27, 3-6pm
Please come check out our space, meet the teachers, and find out more about programs!
We’re launching an initial 2 day/week program at our Hyattsville studio on Tuesdays and Thursdays, open to Hyattsville Elementary students. This is an aftercare program with an art enrichment component. We offer school pick up* (this will be at a nearby bus stop during renovations, information coming!) at dismissal, and caregivers pick up by 6:00 at the studio.
*This program will begin Sept 2 and will not operate the first week of school.
Please contact Lia at lia@theloftcollective.org if you are interested, if you have questions, or to hear more about scholarship options. Or register below!
*Registration for Hyattsville is T/Th only. Pricing is for the semester, not the full year.