37 art classes for kids in Manhattan, 3 free. Drawing, painting, clay and crafts. Includes Cooper Union Saturday Program and Art Students League Children's & Teen Classes.
A free Saturday visual arts program for New York City public high school students, held on Cooper Union's East Village campus. Teens take studio classes in drawing, painting, design and more, with portfolio courses for juniors and seniors heading to art school.
The historic Midtown art school offers drawing and painting for kids 8-12 and classes for teens such as figure drawing, materials exploration, comics and portfolio development. No experience or entrance exam is needed.
A long-running Village ceramics studio that runs after-school wheel-throwing classes for tweens and teens, plus family clay workshops for younger kids with a parent. Students learn to center, throw and glaze, with tools, clay and firing covered.
A paint-your-own-pottery studio where kids pick a bisque piece, decorate it with glazes, and the staff fires it for pickup. Seasonal painting events and kids' programs run throughout the year.
A long-established Chelsea ceramics studio offering pottery classes for adults and kids. Young students learn wheel and hand-building basics in a working studio with its own kilns.
A walk-in Upper West Side craft studio where kids paint pottery and plaster, make mosaics, stuff their own plush animals, design T-shirts and mix slime. It also hosts classes and birthday parties.
A weaving studio where children sit at their own looms and freely choose colors and yarns to create scarves, bags and wall pieces. The Fiber Arts Kids Club meets weekly during the school year.
An East Village center offering free programs for girls and gender-expansive youth, including a Maker Shop, media production, performing arts and a planetarium. Middle and high schoolers build, design and create after school.
A small Morningside Heights pottery studio and shop offering kids and teen clay classes in hand-building and wheel work. Young potters make and glaze their own pieces over multi-week sessions.
A children's art studio on the Upper East Side offering drop-in hourly art classes, after-school programs and camps. Toddlers and caregivers can join a 90-minute Grown Up & Me art and sensory session on weekday mornings.
A children's art studio on the Upper West Side offering drop-in hourly art classes, after-school programs and camps. Toddlers and caregivers can join a 90-minute Grown Up & Me art and sensory session on weekday mornings.
A Midtown art studio offering hands-on experiences like fluid art, spin art and a splatter room, plus youth and teen art classes. Parents and kids can also book sessions to create together.
An Upper West Side ceramics studio with children's and parent-child pottery classes in hand-building and wheel-throwing. Kids make and glaze their own functional pieces in small groups.
The downtown branch of The Craft Studio, where children choose from a menu of hands-on projects like painting ceramics, tie-dye and slime making. Drop-in sessions run daily alongside classes, camps and parties.
A bright craft shop and studio where kids can drop in to make projects like tie-dye, friendship bracelets and painted keepsakes, take structured classes, or celebrate birthdays. Staff handle setup and cleanup so families can just create.
A sewing and fashion design studio where kids use child-safe sewing machines to make garments and accessories, finishing with a runway show. Weekly classes, one-day workshops, camps and parties are available.
The West Side studio of The Fashion Class, where children learn to sew and design their own clothing and accessories. Classes, school-break camps and fashion birthday parties run year-round.
A long-running Upper East Side studio where children paint, draw, sculpt and try papier-mâché and fashion design in small weekly classes grouped by age. The studio also runs holiday workshops, school-break camps and art birthday parties.
Teens spend a week cooking in a professional Manhattan kitchen, choosing either a pastry/baking or a savory track. The camp runs as a day program or as sleepaway with housing in Brooklyn Heights, and welcomes all skill levels.
Kids work through a school-year art program grouped by age, trying dozens of visual art media and techniques. Summer workshops, birthday parties and homeschool options are also offered.
An Upper East Side art studio running drop-in workshops and semester classes for kids 3-12, with new projects rotating every two weeks. It also offers mini-maker classes for 2-3 year olds, holiday and summer camps, and birthday parties.
A storefront studio where kids and teens sketch, sew and build their own fashion designs, alongside painting, collage and sculpture projects. It runs after-school classes, camps and fashion-themed birthday parties.
The uptown branch of Fashion Squad School, where children learn to sew, sketch garments and create accessories in hands-on design classes. After-school programs, camps and parties are offered.
A nonprofit that brings free art-making to underserved kids and families through Free Arts Days, a Creative Lab, and portfolio development for teens. Programs are held with partner sites around the city.
LittleGotham lists 37 art classes for kids in Manhattan.
Yes. 3 of 37 are free to attend, including Cooper Union Saturday Program, Lower East Side Girls Club, Free Arts NYC.
37 listings are indoors, such as Cooper Union Saturday Program, Art Students League Children's & Teen Classes, Greenwich House Pottery - Kids & Teens Classes.
Upper West Side (9), Upper East Side (8), Chelsea (3).