Customers can design their own flyers, business card or bookmarks at Creative Apprentice’s printing and design station.
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WILBRAHAM — Wilbraham’s Creative Apprentice, 2141 Boston Road, has opened for business to bring hands-on art, craft and sensory experiences to Western Massachusetts children, teens and adults.
The studio offers an array of arts activities, such as slime labs, vinyl record painting, canvas painting, henna art, and business card design and printing for teens and adults. Each program is fully stocked with supplies and offers plenty of time to create.
Creative Apprentice’s mission is to make creativity accessible to every family in the community while providing affordable, welcoming arts and crafts experiences.
It also offers birthday parties with over 20 party experiences to choose from, held either at the studio or at your own space.
Creative Apprentice will hold community drawing labs for kids, ages 6-12, each Monday in September from 3-5 p.m. Admission is $9 for those who see the flyer.
The events will highlight and have participants draw a local landmark, building or community setting each week to build observation and creativity skills while drawing together and sharing ideas.
It will also hold a family paint night for all skill levels on Sept. 11 and Sept. 25 from 5-7 p.m. for $9 a person. There will also be sword and shield craft labs on Sundays in September from 2-4 p.m. for $15 a person.
Founder Pawel Dyrkacz said a goal with Creative Apprentice is to get children off devices and give families something to do. He added that the business also features a print and design shop, allowing customers to make their own flyers, banners and websites.
“It’s a bit in response to, what more can we do for our kids,” Dyrkacz said. “These events are output based, so the whole goal is what you’re creating is what you’re taking home with you. We strive to inspire young minds to be productive, to be creative and to have a sense of pride about that, and hopefully parents can share in that pride … we want to empower these young people to feel like they can produce something and inspire them to take that into the future.”
He said he started Creative Apprentice out of his own passion to deliver a quality experience to his own children.
“It’s going from painting one week to making fuzzy animals the next,” Dyrkacz said. “Next month, we’re thinking about how to design a board game. All these opportunities to do fun things with my own kids branched out into, ‘hey, why not have a place where all of this can happen and it doesn’t have to be just for my kids?’”
For a full list of programming, prices and scheduling, visit creativeapprentice.kids/#home.
