Schools Out Workshops | Kids Out and About Westchester

Schools Out Workshops


*The event has already taken place on this date: Tue, 11/11/2025
We are offering workshops from 9:30am-3:00pm on the following days for grades K-5: Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, and Election Day! Come check out our drawing, painting and sculpture one day workshops!

Please help us keep this calendar up to date! If this activity is sold out, canceled, or otherwise needs alteration, email mindy@kidsoutandabout.com so we can update it immediately. If you have a question about the activity itself, please contact the organization administrator listed below.

Columbus Day: October 13th 

  • Once Upon a Time: Monster Storybook Art 
    • Students will create their own storybook cover of their very own original bedtime story! Inspired by “The Color Monster: A Story About Emotions” childrens' book, Anna Llenas. Let's combine the love of reading, characters and art-making!
      Learn how to develop a simple story with your own characters
      Demonstrate the use of color, line, symbolism, and scale
      Complete a mixed media painting in the pop-art style
    • K-2 
    • 9:30am-12:00pm 
  • Illuminated Haunted House: 
    • Students will design their Haunted house and create an artwork that lights up!
      • Source elements in nature such as grass, rocks, and dirt
      • Use lights to illuminate your creation for a day and night version 
    • Grades 3-5 
    • 12:30-3:00pm 

Election Day: November 4th 

  • Once Upon a Time: Everything in Dots Storybook Art 
    • Students will create their own storybook cover of their very own original bedtime story! Inspired by “Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn't Sorry" childrens' book, Fausto Gilberti. Let's combine the love of reading, characters and art-making!
      • Learn how to develop a simple story with your own characters
      • Demonstrate the use of color, line, symbolism, and scale
      • Complete a mixed media painting in the pop-art style
    • K-2 
    • 9:30am-12:00pm 
  • Cartooning: Superhero Edition 
    • Aspiring cartoonists will make their own superhero illustration in this fun camp that will combine illustration and character development.. We will focus specifically on superhero comics from DC and Marvel for inspiration.
      • Learn how to draw a cartoon illustration
      • Develop a unique superhero character from your imagination or choose your favorite to recreate
      • Learn to render with microns and illustration markers
    • Grades 3-5 
    • 12:30-3:00pm 

Veteran's Day: November

  • Color Pop Art 
    • Pop artists take the simple and common everyday item or image and raise it to fine art. In this class, students will observe and recreate common foods by taking them outside of their typical context to imbue the objects with new meaning.
      Learn how to paint with acrylics and print onto your painting
      Demonstrate the use of color, line, symbolism and scale
      Complete a mixed media painting in the pop-art style
    • K-2 
    • 9:30am-12:00pm 
  • Eric Hibit's Textures: 
    • Explore elements of color and texture by analyzing the work of Eric Habit and crafting a mixed media painting. Understand the difference of complementary colors and two vs. three dimensional.
    • Grades 3-5 
    • 12:30-3:00pm 
Location: 
One River School of Art + Design, South Central Avenue, Hartsdale, NY, USA
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Contact name: 
Julia Bertussi
The event has already taken place on this date: 
11/11/2025
Time: 
9:30am-3:00pm