Young Makers
Events
THE MIRROR ROOM IN JUNE! JUNE PA DAY FOR KIDS!
Micro Mini MAKERS! | Miniature World Summer Art Camp
Mid-Century MINI MODERNISTS! | Young Designers Summer Art Camp
Beyond the STRATOSPHERE! | TECH+ART Summer Art Camp
POW! POP! PLAY! | Pop-Art Power Summer Art Camp
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Explore the colourful KA-POW world of pop culture in this big bold week featuring some big-wigs of the POP Art world! Andy Warhol, Keith Herring, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein will come to visit and inspire a week full of eye-popping colour, bold design, printmaking, stencils, collage and paint!MYSTERY Mansions! | Design it+Build it Summer Art Camp
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Roll up your sleeves this week and get ready to design + build a MANSION of monolithic proportions! We will be the designers, architects, and creators of our own collaborative mysterious build. Behind every door is a new mystery! In each room will have a secret to solve. From invisible ink messages, trap doors, and kinetic sculptures, we will create a mansion that will put the Winchester house to shame. Will you be able to find your way out of this mystery?ABC’s + LMNOP’s | Alphabet Summer Art Camp for Ages 4-6!
OUTDOOR Explorers! | Plein-Air+More Summer Art Camp
MAGICAL Creatures! | Draw+Doodle Summer Art Camp
Small HUMANS Big ART! | Big Ideas Summer Art Camp
DRAWING BASICS FOR KIDS! | 6 WEEK SUNDAY SERIES | with Eileen MacArthur
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaDrawing Basics is designed for older kids 10 and up who love to draw and want to learn some new skills! Young artists will learn how to draw from observation and how to translate what we see into drawing. Led by artist Eileen MacArthur, Eileen will guide the class in learning about line, value, and balance in composition. Artists will be experimenting with various wet and dry drawing material including graphite, charcoal, ink and watercolour.
NEON NOODLERS! | OCTOBER PA DAY FOR KIDS!
BOOK BINDING FOR KIDS! | WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaAGES 6-12 | MAX 12
$40 | No hst | All materials provided
Young makers! Join Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne and learn how to book bind! Make your very own notebooks, journals and books in this playful Saturday afternoon, perfect for kids who like to journal, draw, or keep track of their discoveries when they’re exploring outside. We'll bind and decorate together and then explore the Elora Centre for the Arts to document all our discoveries in these brand-new, hand-made pocket books. Artists will leave the class with the skills to keep making their own special books for all their favourite activities!
LET’S DILLY DALI! | NOVEMBER PA DAY FOR KIDS!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaHOLIDAY CARDS FOR KIDS! | MIXED MEDIA WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaAGES 6-12 | MAX 12
$40 | No hst | All materials provided
Do you have a crafty kiddo looking for new ways of using all the bits & bobs in your craft drawer? Join this mixed media class with Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne! Young makers will explore our current exhibition, collect inspiration in a fun scavenger hunt activity, then will take their new-found inspiration back to the crafting room to work with pencil crayons, pastels, markers, collage materials and more to create unique compositions of colour and shape on giftable cards, perfect for holiday giving!
HOLIDAY MINI CAMP! 2-DAY JANUARY WINTER BREAK WITH ALEXA COLLETTE
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaGive your kiddos’ school break a creative kickstart to the New Year before they head back to school!
Join artist Alexa Collette on Thursday and Friday for 2 snow-inspired days exploring mixed-media, paint and clay, to create their own imagined winter-worlds filled with snowy landscapes and captivating creatures! Ages 6-12.
PAINTING BASICS FOR KIDS! 4-WEEK SATURDAY SERIES
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaArtist Eileen MacArthur is back in the ECFTA classroom to lead a fast and fun, art-packed introduction to the basics of painting for young artists ages 8 +.
Eileen will offer guidance in observational painting techniques, transfer-methods, colour theory, value, brush handling and composition, and how to break a painting down into more manageable parts!
MIGHTY MATISSE! JANUARY PA DAY FOR KIDS
From bright solid shapes to colourful painted still life florals, we will ponder the beautiful and complicated inner world of French icon Henri MATISSE. Young makers will explore composition, pattern and colour, and learn about how artists tell stories with pictures!
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THE DRAWING ROOM! | 4-WEEK SATURDAY SERIES | LIVE ANIMALS with Donna Hull
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaArt-up your Saturdays in a playful afternoon of drawing with artist Donna Hull! Learn the 101’s of drawing from an art educator with more than 30 years of experience teaching in the classroom and beyond! This 4-week series will focus on a visit from LIVE ANIMALS, the wonders of nature, drawing organic shapes and artist's choice of a naturalistic animal portrait, Owl or Horse! FEB 15, 22, MARCH 1, 8
MARCH BREAK ART CAMP IMAGINING IS BELIEVING!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaIMAGINING IS BELIEVING March Break Camp!
A week where creativity knows no bounds. A place to dream, to believe, and to inspire. Where imaginations can run wild, where possibilities are endless, and art comes alive! For ages 5-12.
PARIS MATCH! APRIL PA DAY FOR KIDS
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaI love Paris in the Springtime! CEZANNE, MATISSE, & CHAGALL will pay a visit to our studio classroom this PA Day, as we create our own art-salon, complete with Edith Piaf as our background crooner! Aspiring artists will learn about the great French Impressionists and consider how art movements develop, by many minds coming together to create a community!
THE ART OF ANIME+MANGA!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaAnime and Manga fans. This class is for you! Artist Eileen MacArthur will introduce young artists age 8 + to the basics of drawing and skill building, while learning about Anime!
COLLAGRAPHS FOR KIDS! PRINTMAKING WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaCalling all budding artists! Interested in trying something new? Learn the basics of printmaking through the art of collagraphs!
Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne will show you tips and tricks on how to compose an image of your choosing, translate your image to a collagraph matrix (raised surface), and ink up your plate for some hot-off-the-presses printing!
POKEMON WORLDS!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaPokemon kids! Join artist Eileen MacArthur for a half-day Sunday workshop celebrating the world of Pokemon! We will be making a Pokemon habitat using a variety of different materials and methods, including drawing, painting and sculpting!
PAINTING OUTSIDE! FAMILY PLEIN AIR
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaJoin in our local celebration of plein air painting this May in this 2-hour quick-paint class with artist Eileen MacArthur! Family Plein Air is a fun indoor-outdoor, family-friendly paint for all ages who want to experience art-making together!
LET’S VAN GO! JUNE PA DAY FOR KIDS
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaOne spot left!
Young makers! Take a stroll through the vibrant world of Vincent Van Gogh and explore his use of colour and line to create motion, emotion, and intensity! Let's explore the sunny side of painting and using LOTS of vibrant yellow, yellow, yellow and practice Impressionist methods of art-making, as we work together to recreate Van Gogh’s luminous sunflowers on canvas!
FLOW+GLOW! ART & MOVEMENT CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada3-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-7
If your budding artist loves art, with a little get-up-and-go mixed in, this ART + MOVEMENT camp is for you!
We’ll invent our own junior yoga moves and get those ants in your pants dancing and singing, along with playful creativity and friend-making!
ART THEN+NOW! MINI MASTERS CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
Let’s time-jump into the art time machine and look at Art THEN + NOW! This camp is full-on art making, trying out new materials, and exploring the connections between art today and art of the past!
ART TECHS! THE SCIENCE OF ART CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5 DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
If you love to experiment, innovate, and collaborate then this camp is for you! This STE(A)M-injected camp brings super-sonic art making to young artists who love bright colours, bright ideas and are curious about how science and tech can POWER their ART explorations!
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ART! THE ART OF NATURE CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-7
Let’s answer the call of the wild in this nature-inspired camp, designed to bring out the WILD artist in you! We’ll use our creative nature to wander, wonder and engage with the wild world all around us in a week of fresh-air creativity, nature explorations and outdoor play!
ALEXANDER CALDER! KINETIC CIRCUS CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
Ready for a week of avant-garde awesomeness? This kinetic camp will introduce young artists to American Modernist, Alexander Calder’s 1931 Cirque! A moveable feast of characters, contortionists, fire eaters, hi-wire performers and circus animals. We will spend the week creating our own kinetic circus fun!
POP UP BOOKS! STORYBOOK ART CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada4-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-7
Junior artists! Turn your fave book into a power pop-up 3-D Diorama Story Box. We will start each morning with a story and then get to work exploring visual story-making and transform our own favourite stories from home into sculptural ART!
POP UP BOOKS! YOUR FAVE KIDS-LIT CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
Young Makers! Turn your fave book into a power pop-up Diorama Story Box. Let’s explore visual story making and transform each of our favourite storybooks from home into sculptural Kid-Lit ART!
EARLY BIRDS+NIGHT OWLS! RISE+SOAR CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-7
Birds of a feather flock together in this week of high-flying fun! Join us for creative making inspired by our feathery friends! Whether you’re an early bird or a night owl we’ll spread our art wings and soar together and make memories that take flight!
DARK SHADOWS! THE IMAGINARIUM OF EDWARD GOREY CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada4-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
Love to draw and shadowy storytelling?! Join us for some old-timey illustration inspired by American Gothic writer and illustrator Edward Gorey. Let’s explore the world of fancy-fine-line drawing, graphic story-telling and dark humour in this week of drawing and doodling.
SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS TO THE ART CENTRE. LEARN DISCOVER CREATE!
We welcome SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS for Grades K-12!
Morning or afternoon sessions designed to inspire creativity and connect learning with the arts. Experience the power of Art in our art classroom and newly expanded Gallery + Atrium at the Elora Centre for the Arts.
2026 SUMMER CAMPS!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaREGISTRATION IS OPEN!
SCROLL DOWN TO JULY-AUGUST FOR CAMP DATES & THEMES
HOWL’OWEEN! OCTOBER PA DAY CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaCalling all mini mad scientists and mischievous monsters! Are you ready to create and craft your way through a PA day of creepy creativity?
Join artists Eileen MacArthur and Stephanie Lines-Toohill for a Friday bursting with hauntingly hilarious fun, both indoors and out!
THE DRAWING ROOM! 6-WEEK SUNDAY SERIES with Donna Hull
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaSundays. October 26, November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2025
Wake up your Sunday morning with artist Donna Hull for some junior-artist studio time and dive into the fundamentals of drawing. With over 30 years of experience in the classroom and beyond, Donna brings a wealth of knowledge to this engaging 6-week series!
ART YOU CAN EAT (BUT YOU CAN’T ACTUALLY EAT IT!)
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaA CREATIVE WORKSHOP FOR KIDS WITH ERIN PERRY
Get ready for a deliciously fun art-making experience with no ovens, no utensils, and definitely no bites. In this playful hands-on workshop, led by artist and educator Erin Perry, young artists will explore the world of food-inspired art, creating colourful, imaginative treats that look good enough to eat but are made entirely from art materials!
POKEMON WORLDS!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaPokemon kids! Back by popular demand. Artist Eileen MacArthur is in the house for a Saturday afternoon workshop celebrating the world of Pokemon! We will be making a Pokemon habitat using a variety of different materials and methods, including drawing, painting and sculpting!
MINECRAFTERS! NOVEMBER PA DAY CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaYoung builders unite! This Minecraft-inspired world of pixel imagination is perfect for artists who love to block.
Whether you’re a master builder or just love being creative, artists Eileen MacArthur and Stephanie Lines-Toohill will guide this hands-on, class blends art with the fun of the game! No gaming experience needed, just a love for building, crafting, and storytelling!
CAMP CANDY CANE! HOLIDAY MINI CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaTUESDAY & WEDNESDAY SINGLE TICKETS AVAILABLE!
Let your child's imagination fly free like snowflakes in this 3 day mini-camp December 29, 30 and 31 for ages 5-12.
Jump into a shimmering snow-kissed world where frosty dreams come alive, gently guided by ECFTA Educators' Leah Ferguson and Stephanie Lines-Toohill and sprinkle some imagination into the holidays and welcome the New Year with creativity!
THE DRAWING ROOM FOR 8+ with Donna Hull
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada6 WEEK SATURDAY MORNING SERIES
Jan 24, 31, Feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 7, 2026 (No class Saturday, Feb 7)
Saturday mornings have never been so wild! Join artist Donna Hull for some junior-studio time focused on drawing fundamentals. Whether your artist is new to drawing, or eager to build upon their skills, there is no better way than SKETCHING LIVE ANIMALS!
THE NIGHT ZOO! JANUARY PA DAY CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaLet’s light up those imaginations and embrace the darkest time of the year with a Friday-fun day dedicated to the magic of the night!
What happens when the sun goes down? Join artists Eileen MacArthur and Stephanie Lines-Toohill as we venture into the shadowy world of nocturnal creatures and explore the idea of art in the dark!
PAINTING BASICS FOR YOUNG ARTISTS. TOM THOMSON!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaeileenCelebrate Family Day weekend with artist Eileen MacArthur for a lively half-day Sunday workshop that blends creativity, technique and artistic expression with a splash of Canadian art history, inspired by the work of Group of Seven legend Tom T!
WILD CANADA! MARCH BREAK CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaWILD CANADA is calling!
Pack your sense of adventure this MARCH BREAK and join us to explore your imagination, inspired by Canada’s forests, animals, and landscapes! Each day will be bursting with games, stories, and hands-on creativity that celebrates the WILD wonders and beauty of our home—CANADA!
SPARROW’S NEST YOUNG MAKERS FOR AGES 7-12
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada12-WEEK AFTER SCHOOL TUESDAY PROGRAM FOR AGES 7-12
The Sparrow's Nest is a gently guided inclusive space to inspire connection and creativity.
SPARROW’S NEST YOUNG MAKERS FOR AGES 8-12
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada12-WEEK AFTER SCHOOL WEDNESDAY PROGRAM FOR AGES 8-12
The Sparrow's Nest is a gently guided inclusive space to inspire connection and creativity.














































