ENRICHMENT

Adventures with Art hello@adventureswithart.com

Adventureswithart.com

Let your child’s creativity run wild this summer!

Adventures with Art is a website that offers tips and tutorials for a number of different art forms, including drawing, painting, digital art with Procreate, crochet, embroidery, and more. Run by an artist who was born and raised in Aptos, Diana loves to share her art knowledge with other artists of all skill levels at adventureswithart.com

Be Natural Music

740 Water St, Santa Cruz 831.515.8369

BeNaturalMusic.Live

Learn and perform Jazz, Rock, Reggae, Motown, Pop & more at our two locations: Santa Cruz and Cupertino. We offer ongoing private Music Lessons, Real Rock Band classes for teens, & young adults, Workshops, and Summer Music Camps. We offer lessons on voice, piano/keyboard, guitar, bass, drums & percussion, saxophone, clarinet, ukulele, harp, theory and composition. Summer camps, kid & teen musicians showcase their talent & creativity as they compose original music, script music videos, and record their song on stage! The final high-quality music video is posted on our YouTube Channel to jump-start your kid’s career.

Mathnasium of Santa Cruz

1642 Mission Street, Santa Cruz 831.440.7574

24 Rancho Del Mar, Aptos 831.621.5978 mathnasium.com/SantaCruz

Summer is a great time for kids to get away with their families. It’s also an important time to keep up their math skills so they don’t lose what they learned during the school year. The good news is they can do both, with Mathnasium! Our summer math program builds up kids’ math knowledge and prepares them for the school year. Best of all, we make it fun! They’ll receive: a comprehensive assessment and customized learning plan that details summer goals for long-term success, live face-to-face instruction, and a proven teaching method that results in true understanding and increased confidence.

The Bookakery BookakeryBoxes.com

Looking for activities to do with your kids at home? Have a kid that always wants to help in the kitchen or curl up on your lap to hear a good book? Love getting packages? The Bookakery has just the thing: Bookakery Boxes, a monthly subscription box for kids aimed towards fostering a love of reading and baking. Each Bookakery Box comes with a hardback picture book, kid-friendly recipe card, an activity, and one bonus item, all based around a theme of the month. Order yours today! Use code GUISC10 for 10% off any subscription length (renews at standard rate). Expires 12/31/2023.

Community Bridges Family Resource Collective

831.688.8840

Communitybridges.org/FRC

La Manzana Community Resources – 521 Main Street, Ste. Y, Watsonville

Live Oak Community Resources – 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz

Mountain Community Resources – 6134 Highway 9, Felton

Nueva Vista Community Resources – 711 East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz

The Family Resource Collective works with individuals and families in Santa Cruz County and the Pajaro Valley to build safe, healthy, and compassionate communities through education, resources, and advocacy. We offer a variety of bi-lingual, bi-cultural services to meet each family and individual’s needs. Our programs and services include food distribution, mental health counseling, parent education workshops, youth tutoring, and more.

MusicalMe, Inc. offering Music Together™

All over Santa Clara & Santa Cruz Counties 831.332.9002

Musicalme.com

Our Music Together classes are playful, rich, and engaging. They help young children —babies, toddlers, and preschoolers—discover their inner music-maker by playing with the grownups they love. Our music and movement classes also offer other important benefits: music for children supports overall early childhood development. Join us!

Underwater Explorers Tours at Monterey Bay Aquarium

Come dive with us! Underwater Explorers is a unique (summer only) program where kids ages 8-13 are introduced to the underwater world through surface scuba diving. Kids are safely guided by Monterey Bay Aquarium dive staff in our Great Tide Pool, where they’ll meet amazing animals while getting a fish’s-eye view of the wonders of the bay. No experience or wet suit is necessary — just your sense of adventure! For questions, please call us at 831.648.4800, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily. Tickets available for purchase online at www. montereybayaquarium.org/UnderwaterExplorers

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History 1305 East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz 831.420.6115 santacruzmuseum.org

Located above Seabright Beach, Santa Cruz’s first Museum is in an excellent location to showcase the region’s rich natural history. Explore interactive exhibits featuring animals, plants, geology, and more from the shoreline of Monterey Bay to the summit of the Santa Cruz Mountains, including an intertidal touch pool, fossils, and an observation beehive. In our Gift Shop, you’ll find unique books, guides, toys, art, and apparel. Check our online calendar for engaging events and programs for all ages, including free family activities, seasonal camps, nature crafts and walks, and our Summer Kickoff Festival. Kids are always FREE.

SpeechRighter – Social Skills Learning Groups

820 Bay Ave, Capitola

831.854.2060 speechrighter.com/summer-programs

Social-Skill Groups designed to improve social thinking & pragmatic language skills, by developing strategies for building successful peer relationships & self esteem. Led by a speech-pathologist, build skills in effective listening, problem solving for social scenarios, perspective taking, and conversational skills.

WEST Performing Arts

831.425.9378

Santa Cruz westperformingarts.com

Summer 2023...create….innovate! Get ready for imagination and fun with our award-winning youth theatre company for ages 5 - 18. Our unique, process-based theatre and art classes, camps, and conservatory-style studies encourage young performers to embark on a creative journey and craft their own performance experience full of innovative collaboration, From immersive theatre-based day camps to original plays and classic productions or improvisation to hone your funny bone. We have it all. Come play! Our classes, training programs, and presentations are process-driven, believing that the creative journey is what matters. We build confidence, communication, and community.

Vista afterschool homework program because I like to get help from the volunteers, they’re all so nice!

- Sophie, participant at Community Bridges’ Nueva Vista Community Resources