Holiday & Vacation Programs
Our holiday and vacation programs are open to children aged 5-12.
Holiday Workshops: Each workshop is limited to 10 students. During the 3 hours, we will spend some time outside to recharge our creative energy, have a snack together (bring from home or get a small nut-free snack from us), and work on our creative projects. On most federal holidays we offer morning and afternoon workshops that can be combined into a full-day program.
Vacation Programs: Vacation programs are limited to 10 students per day. Each week has a theme that will be explored with a variety of daily changing art projects. Vacation programs can be booked for single days, or for an entire week. We will always spend a good amount of time outside and have two snacks and lunch together during the day (please bring from home).
Please don’t hesitate to contact us with questions.
Join our art programs on no-school holidays and during school breaks!
Tuesday, November 11 (Veterans Day)
Morning Workshop: Create an Animal Portrait
We will use a transfer technique to create beautiful animal portraits. You can choose a photo from our selection, or email us a photo of your pet or your favorite animal ahead of time so that we can prepare a printout for you! Take your portrait home with you to decorate your wall or as a beautiful gift for a loved one.
Program time: 9am-12pm
Cost: $60 (all materials included)
If you enroll more than one child, register and pay the full price for the first child, then apply our 10% sibling discount when you register the sibling separately. Use coupon code SIBLING during checkout for the discounted fee.
What to bring: wear clothes that can be washed easily in case it gets messy (we have aprons), bring a warm layer and comfortable shoes to spend time outside, water bottle, nut-free snack
Please sign our waiver prior to your child’s first day at Blue Mouse Gallery. You can bring a printed copy to your first day of the program, email us a signed PDF, or fill out the form when you arrive at our studio (please allow for extra time). We cannot permit program participation without a signed waiver.
This workshop is sold out.
Afternoon Workshop: Let’s Build a City!
This workshop will use recycling art for an exciting open-ended STEAM project. First, we will plan building a city together and everybody chooses the kind of building, road, park, or playground they would like to make. Then we will design our projects, individually or in small groups.
Finding solutions to engineering challenges, solving real-life problems of city planning, and having fun with adding less realistic elements like mythical creatures will make this a unique, creative adventure. In the end, we will combine all our creations into one large cityscape before everybody takes their own artwork home.
Program time: 1-4pm
Cost: $60 (all materials included)
If you enroll more than one child, register and pay the full price for the first child, then apply our 10% sibling discount when you register the sibling separately. Use coupon code SIBLING during checkout for the discounted fee.
What to bring: wear clothes that can be washed easily in case it gets messy (we have aprons), bring a warm layer and comfortable shoes to spend time outside, water bottle, nut-free snack
Please sign our waiver prior to your child’s first day at Blue Mouse Gallery. You can bring a printed copy to your first day of the program, email us a signed PDF, or fill out the form when you arrive at our studio (please allow for extra time). We cannot permit program participation without a signed waiver.
This workshop is sold out.
Combine both workshops and stay all day!
Children who attend both the morning and the afternoon workshop on November 11th may stay at the studio during 12-1pm. We will eat together (please bring lunch from home), socialize, and play games during lunch break.
Due to space limitations, the lunch option is only open to children who stay the entire day. Use the link below to book both workshops as a full-day program. There is no additional fee for the extra hour, you simply pay the combined fee for both workshops ($120, with 10% sibling discount).
This option is sold out.
Morning Workshop: Welcome the Year of the Horse
The Chinese zodiac animal for 2026 is the horse. We will welcome the energetic and free-spirited animal with creativity and colors! (Even if we are a little ahead of the Chinese calendar.) Our inspiration will be Franz Marc’s Blue Horses. We will use tracing techniques to draw our horses—this way it becomes easy! Choosing our favorite colors for good luck in the new year, we will finish our painting to take it home.
Program time: 9am-12pm
Cost: $60 (all materials included)
If you enroll more than one child, register and pay the full price for the first child, then apply our 10% sibling discount when you register the sibling separately. Use coupon code SIBLING during checkout for the discounted fee.
What to bring: wear clothes that can be washed easily in case it gets messy (we have aprons), bring a warm layer and comfortable shoes to spend time outside, water bottle, nut-free snack
Please sign our waiver prior to your child’s first day at Blue Mouse Gallery. You can bring a printed copy to your first day of the program, email us a signed PDF, or fill out the form when you arrive at our studio (please allow for extra time). We cannot permit program participation without a signed waiver.
Monday, December 29, 2025
Afternoon Workshop: Make Your Monster for 2026
Everything is better with a little monster companion. You can hand-sew a small plush monster from felt, or make a glove monster puppet by adding features and funny details to a kitchen glove with hot glue. Take your monster home to bring you good luck for the new year!
Program time: 1-4pm
Cost: $60 (all materials included)
If you enroll more than one child, register and pay the full price for the first child, then apply our 10% sibling discount when you register the sibling separately. Use coupon code SIBLING during checkout for the discounted fee.
What to bring: wear clothes that can be washed easily in case it gets messy (we have aprons), bring a warm layer and comfortable shoes to spend time outside, water bottle, nut-free snack
Please sign our waiver prior to your child’s first day at Blue Mouse Gallery. You can bring a printed copy to your first day of the program, email us a signed PDF, or fill out the form when you arrive at our studio (please allow for extra time). We cannot permit program participation without a signed waiver.
Combine both workshops and stay all day!
Children who attend both the morning and the afternoon workshop may stay at the studio during 12-1pm. We will eat together (please bring lunch from home), socialize, and play games during lunch break. Simply book both the morning and the afternoon workshop for the same child and they are automatically eligible to stay for a free extra hour during lunch time.
Due to space limitations, the lunch option is only available for children who stay the entire day.
Morning Workshop: Welcome the FIFA World Cup 2026
In 2026, the FIFA World Cup will come to North America, so this workshop will be all about soccer! We will create a 3D pop-up soccer playing field with our two favorite teams, cutting the goals and players out of cardboard and coloring them. In the end, we will add a small soccer ball and take our pop-up artwork home as a reminder to look forward to the summer of 2026!
Program time: 9am-12pm
Cost: $60 (all materials included)
If you enroll more than one child, register and pay the full price for the first child, then apply our 10% sibling discount when you register the sibling separately. Use coupon code SIBLING during checkout for the discounted fee.
What to bring: wear clothes that can be washed easily in case it gets messy (we have aprons), bring a warm layer and comfortable shoes to spend time outside, water bottle, nut-free snack
Please sign our waiver prior to your child’s first day at Blue Mouse Gallery. You can bring a printed copy to your first day of the program, email us a signed PDF, or fill out the form when you arrive at our studio (please allow for extra time). We cannot permit program participation without a signed waiver.
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Afternoon Workshop: Build Your Dream House for 2026
Don’t let the new year start without some recycling art! We will bring brainstorm our wishes and ideas for 2026 to design our imaginary dream homes. Would you like to live in a castle? Or a tree house? Or on a house boat? In a space station? First you imagine it, then we build it.
Program time: 1-4pm
Cost: $60 (all materials included)
If you enroll more than one child, register and pay the full price for the first child, then apply our 10% sibling discount when you register the sibling separately. Use coupon code SIBLING during checkout for the discounted fee.
What to bring: wear clothes that can be washed easily in case it gets messy (we have aprons), bring a warm layer and comfortable shoes to spend time outside, water bottle, nut-free snack
Please sign our waiver prior to your child’s first day at Blue Mouse Gallery. You can bring a printed copy to your first day of the program, email us a signed PDF, or fill out the form when you arrive at our studio (please allow for extra time). We cannot permit program participation without a signed waiver.
Combine both workshops and stay all day!
Children who attend both the morning and the afternoon workshop may stay at the studio during 12-1pm. We will eat together (please bring lunch from home), socialize, and play games during lunch break. Simply book both the morning and the afternoon workshop for the same child and they are automatically eligible to stay for a free extra hour during lunch time.
Due to space limitations, the lunch option is only available for children who stay the entire day.
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Morning Workshop: Colorful Fireworks
In this workshop, we will use sgraffito and printing techniques to create colorful firework displays on paper. We will experiment with adding cityscapes, landscapes, or anything we think of in the foreground to create a magnificent artworks to take home.
Program time: 9am-12pm
Cost: $60 (all materials included)
If you enroll more than one child, register and pay the full price for the first child, then apply our 10% sibling discount when you register the sibling separately. Use coupon code SIBLING during checkout for the discounted fee.
What to bring: wear clothes that can be washed easily in case it gets messy (we have aprons), bring a warm layer and comfortable shoes to spend time outside, water bottle, nut-free snack
Please sign our waiver prior to your child’s first day at Blue Mouse Gallery. You can bring a printed copy to your first day of the program, email us a signed PDF, or fill out the form when you arrive at our studio (please allow for extra time). We cannot permit program participation without a signed waiver.
Monday, January 5, 2026
Morning Workshop: Paint Your Wishes for 2026
At the beginning of the new year, we will think about our wishes and dreams for 2026. First, we will help each other to trace profiles of our faces onto paper. Then we will fill our profile with everything that will be important to us this year. We will take our paintings home to keep them with us throughout the year as a reminder to keep our wishes and dreams alive!
Program time: 9am-12pm
Cost: $60 (all materials included)
If you enroll more than one child, register and pay the full price for the first child, then apply our 10% sibling discount when you register the sibling separately. Use coupon code SIBLING during checkout for the discounted fee.
What to bring: wear clothes that can be washed easily in case it gets messy (we have aprons), bring a warm layer and comfortable shoes to spend time outside, water bottle, nut-free snack
Please sign our waiver prior to your child’s first day at Blue Mouse Gallery. You can bring a printed copy to your first day of the program, email us a signed PDF, or fill out the form when you arrive at our studio (please allow for extra time). We cannot permit program participation without a signed waiver.
Monday, January 19, 2026 (MLK, Jr. Day)
Morning Workshop: Topic TBD
We will talk with the participants of the scheduled holiday workshops above and make a list of the most popular art project requests. Then we will choose topics from this list for the morning and afternoon workshops on MLK, Jr. Day. Once we make a decision, we will post the topics here.
Program time: 9am-12pm
Cost: $60 (all materials included)
If you enroll more than one child, register and pay the full price for the first child, then apply our 10% sibling discount when you register the sibling separately. Use coupon code SIBLING during checkout for the discounted fee.
What to bring: wear clothes that can be washed easily in case it gets messy (we have aprons), bring a warm layer and comfortable shoes to spend time outside, water bottle, nut-free snack
Please sign our waiver prior to your child’s first day at Blue Mouse Gallery. You can bring a printed copy to your first day of the program, email us a signed PDF, or fill out the form when you arrive at our studio (please allow for extra time). We cannot permit program participation without a signed waiver.
Afternoon Workshop: Topic TBD
We will talk with the participants of the scheduled holiday workshops above and make a list of the most popular art project requests. Then we will choose topics from this list for the morning and afternoon workshops on MLK, Jr. Day. Once we make a decision, we will post the topics here.
Program time: 1-4pm
Cost: $60 (all materials included)
If you enroll more than one child, register and pay the full price for the first child, then apply our 10% sibling discount when you register the sibling separately. Use coupon code SIBLING during checkout for the discounted fee.
What to bring: wear clothes that can be washed easily in case it gets messy (we have aprons), bring a warm layer and comfortable shoes to spend time outside, water bottle, nut-free snack
Please sign our waiver prior to your child’s first day at Blue Mouse Gallery. You can bring a printed copy to your first day of the program, email us a signed PDF, or fill out the form when you arrive at our studio (please allow for extra time). We cannot permit program participation without a signed waiver.
Combine both workshops and stay all day!
Children who attend both the morning and the afternoon workshop may stay at the studio during 12-1pm. We will eat together (please bring lunch from home), socialize, and play games during lunch break. Simply book both the morning and the afternoon workshop for the same child and they are automatically eligible to stay for a free extra hour during lunch time.
Due to space limitations, the lunch option is only available for children who stay the entire day.
Winter Break, February 16-20, 2026
Theme: Ocean Week!
While it’s cold and hopefully not too grey outside here in Massachusetts, let’s pretend to spend a week on warm ocean beaches, swimming and diving with fishes, dolphins, and whales. We may even encounter some friendly sharks.
We will paint our favorite ocean creatures, make sculptures of them, and create beautiful Gyotaku fish prints. On the last day, we will work on ocean-themed monoprints and everybody who brings a white T-shirt can decorate it with a beautiful textile print!
Program time: Monday-Friday 9am-4pm
Cost: $120 per day/$550 for full week (all materials included)
If you enroll more than one child, register and pay the full price for the first child, then apply our 10% sibling discount when you register the sibling separately. Use coupon code SIBLING during checkout for the discounted fee.
What to bring: wear clothes that can be washed easily in case it gets messy (we have aprons), bring a warm layer and comfortable shoes to spend time outside, water bottle, nut-free lunch and 2 snacks
Please sign our waiver prior to your child’s first day at Blue Mouse Gallery. You can bring a printed copy to your first day of the program, email us a signed PDF, or fill out the form when you arrive at our studio (please allow for extra time). We cannot permit program participation without a signed waiver.
Register for the full week, February 16-20
Register for single days
We will offer a full-week vacation program for April break, 4/20-24, 2026.
Our summer vacation programs will start on June 29, 2026 and will be posted here in early spring.
Please contact us with questions about our planned holiday/vacation programs.