YOUTH
EXPERIENCES
at Wicked
Rae's
Most kids' classes have a finished product on the wall before the kid even walks in. A sample. A model. A "this is what yours should look like."
We don't do that.
At Wicked Rae's, kids show up, look at a table of random supplies, and start making something nobody told them to make. Watercolor. Clay. Plaster wrap. Cardboard. Paper mache. Balloons for lanterns. Things we pulled out that morning. We don't announce what is available before they arrive. We don't want them to plan it. We want them to walk in and meet the materials.
This is how art is actually supposed to work.
What they make might look terrible to you. That is the wrong measure.
To them it is a masterpiece, and we want you to call it one too. Because what is happening inside their brain while they make it is the thing you are actually paying for.
Sensory
Workshop
(Ages 3 to 7).
$35 per child. 60 minutes.
Parents stay and create alongside.
This is hands-deep, table-messy, full-body art for the youngest set.
Kids in this age range are not built for sit-down anything. Their brains are still organizing the basics. Sensory input. Motor coordination. Language. Attention.
Neural connections are forming at a rate they will not repeat for the rest of their lives, and the way those connections get built is through doing.
Touching, dropping, mixing, smelling, trying it again with the other hand. Hands-on sensory art is one of the most efficient inputs for that wiring because it engages multiple senses at once and ties them to a single act of making.
We bring out a mix of supplies. Some days it leans tactile (clay, plaster wrap, paper mache). Some days it leans color (watercolor, splatter, dye).
We don't tell you ahead of time and we don't tell the kids.
Part of the practice is walking into the room and noticing what is there. The splatter room is open to them too, just without the paint balloons.
Parents stay for this one workshop.
That is not a logistics rule, it is a developmental one. Kids this age learn through co-regulation.
They watch your face, they take their cues from you, and they need you at the table making something too.
You do not have to be good at it.
You just have to do it next to them.
If you say "mine is bad" they will hear that for the rest of their life. So we ask you to make something too, and to let yours be weird.
A note we feel strongly about.
If your kid is 3 to 7 and they truly cannot sit for a minute, they may not be ready for this format yet. That is not a flaw.
That is a body that needs to run. At this age, the brain develops just as much through climbing, falling, and racing across the grass as it does through art.
Sports, parks, and movement classes are not a downgrade.
They are the same kind of brain-building in a different room. Bring your kid to us when they are ready to settle for a minute.
There is no rush.
Open Studio
(Ages 8 to 14).
$50 per child. 2 hours. Drop-off welcome.
This is the sit-down session for kids who are ready to disappear into making something.
Around age 8, the prefrontal cortex starts coming online in a real way. Planning emerges. Self-concept sharpens. Kids start being able to hold an idea in their head, choose materials to express it, sit with the frustration of it not working, and try again.
They start being able to fail on purpose.
That capacity is the foundation of every creative discipline. Engineering. Writing. Coding. Music. Surgery. Art.
The kid who learns at 10 that the first version is supposed to be bad is the adult at 30 who can finish things.
Worksheets test what kids already know. Sports build coordination, teamwork, and physical capacity.
Art is one of the few places where they have to invent the answer from scratch and live with the gap between the version in their head and the version in their hands.
That gap is where everything interesting happens.
In Open Studio we put out the same kind of random supply table. Watercolor, clay, plaster wrap, cardboard, paper mache, balloons for lanterns, whatever showed up that day. We do not announce it.
They walk in, look at the table, and decide. They get the splatter room too, just without the paint balloons (those are for our adult workshops).
Parents can drop off and go. Two hours is a real break for you. It is also developmentally important for them.
Kids this age need a space that is theirs, with adults who are not their parents, where they get to try something without anyone watching too closely.
That is part of the work.
What you pick up at the end might look like nothing. It might look like everything. The brain that did the work is the same either way.
HOW WE WORK WITH YOU.
Here is the part we cannot say loudly enough.
When your kid hands you what they made, please do not say "what is it." Please do not say "we can fix that part." Please do not say "next time try drawing it like this."
Say "tell me about it." Say "I love how you put this part next to that part." Say "I would love to put this on the fridge."
We are not saying this because we are precious about art. We are saying it because the kid handing you that piece is a more confident, more regulated, more focused version of the kid you dropped off. That version is fragile in the first five minutes. A wrong sentence from you can erase the whole hour. A right sentence locks it in.
You are the most important part of whether this stays with them.
Logistics.
Sensory Workshop is for ages 3 to 7. $35 per child. 60 minutes. Parents stay and create alongside.
Open Studio is for ages 8 to 14. $50 per child. 2 hours. Drop-off welcome.
Small groups on purpose.
All supplies included.
Wear clothes that can get messy.
We 💚 the odd ducks.
Neurodivergent kids are loved here. Kids who don't fit the crowd. Kids who think sideways and ask the questions other kids don't ask. Our studio is built for them.
We are also honest about one thing.
If your kid cannot sit at the table for more than a minute, yells in a way that makes it hard for other kids to focus, or needs a level of one-on-one attention that the group format cannot provide, please call us before booking. We can build a private workshop just for you and your kid. It will be designed around how they actually move through the world instead of forcing them into a format that is not for them. That is a better day for everyone, including them.
We are not turning your kid away. We are saying we will make a different room for them.