Bring your class to one of Chatham-Kent’s inspiring arts and culture destinations for a fun-filled, curriculum-connected day they’ll always remember! Whether your focus is history, visual arts, or live performance, we’ve got engaging, hands-on experiences designed to support the Ontario Curriculum.
Plan a day of creativity, discovery, and inspiration—right here in Chatham-Kent!
Ignite curiosity and fuel creativity with a full day of dual adventures in arts and history—just $35 per student!
Tailor the day to your group’s interests by handpicking two enriching experiences. Whether it’s a hands-on art workshop in a real studio, an inspiring museum exploration, or a magical live theatre performance, each program can be adapted to suit any age or curriculum needs.
Pack in meaningful exploration with a half-day of focused learning—just $20 per student!
Choose one immersive arts or history experience tailored to your class.
Whether it’s getting hands-on in a real art studio or stepping into history through interactive museum learning, your students will engage with the curriculum and enjoy a memorable outing. Perfect for morning or afternoon school trips that fit neatly into your schedule.
Let us bring the museum experience to you! Our one-hour Stories + Artifacts program transforms your classroom into a portal to the past. The cost is a flat rate fee of $55.
Students can handle real and reproduction artifacts, hear captivating stories and explore topics tailored to their curriculum. From local history to hands-on cultural connections, our educators make learning vivid and memorable—no bus required!
Supercharge your visit with an optional one-hour add-on at the Imagination Station—an interactive STEAM playground located on the second floor of the CK Museum.
Students of all ages can design, build and play their way through a range of creative challenges: roll through hands-on experiments like pendulum painting, explore the physics of motion, construct density columns and dig into paleontology-inspired fun.
Full of endless possibilities, this $5-per-student experience ignites curiosity through playful learning in a richly thematic setting.
Buddy up, Little Muddy Buddies and prepare to get messy! Join the Mudworks crew and explore the properties of clay. Go ahead, grab a fistful! Squash it, score
it, hollow it, roll it, sculpt it! Get hands-on and explore some cool techniques.
Dip your brushes, pinch a little clay, get a little messy – come and play! Explore the Elements of Design with tons of art materials, cool techniques, and your imagination! This hands-on workshop for K-Grade 2 includes stations for painting, drawing, clay, and printmaking.
Have you ever dug just below the topsoil and found clay? Maybe you’ve even dug up a pottery shard that was once part of an ancient clay cooking pot or storage jar? Clay is found all over the world and is composed of minerals found in the Earth’s crust. In this workshop, experience the age-old art of pinch pots and coil pots, and add embellishments for fun!
View a funny short by the Aardman Animators and watch how the sculptors manipulate the clay to bring the animal characters and birds to life. Student’s will shape and hollow out clay forms and properly reattach segments as they construct an animal in clay.
Make a musical Clay Ocarina! Belonging to the Chinese and Mesoamerican cultures, this wind instrument is formed by hollowing a clay ball to make a chamber. The addition of a mouthpiece and a blowhole gives your Ocarina a voice. Add more holes in the clay body to create different tones – this exciting activity takes patience and following instructions closely.
You Need Pollinators! One out of every three bites of food is the result of birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, and other small mammals pollinating plants and sustaining our ecosystems! Draw a pollinator – monarch, bee, etc., on paper, then recreate it on a clay tile by shaping and attaching clay segments. Bring your pollinator to life by adding details and pressing textured stamps into the clay.
“Bee” the change you want to see in the world. Try a radical craft! Design a stamp that illustrates the importance of pollinators for our food security. Carve the lines, ink your block, and print onto cardstock. Make multiples and share the message!
Scientists depend on artists’ drawings and paintings of plants to study growth and changes in plants, their habitats and communities and their effects on human health. The artist observes, analyzes and emphasizes the important characteristics of a plant, detailing veins, flowers, fruit and seeds. Work from examples and experiment with water washes, wet on wet, salting techniques, and wax resist.
How does art enrich our lives? Analyze an artwork from TAG’s permanent collection. How do images influence our ideas and views? Students will mix the primary colours to create a colour wheel and discover how artists use “play” and experimentation to express feelings and ideas as they create an acrylic painting on canvas.
NOTE: Please book clay workshops well in advance and allow three weeks for kiln firing. Thick clay may explode in the kiln, and pieces that are not well attached or too thin may chip/fall off.
Put on your white gloves, we’ve got an adventure waiting for you! Designed for object – and inquiry-based learning, students will get hands-on with history by
analyzing artifacts to discover how they were used in the past, as well as hear fun stories about some of our most curious, fabulous, and obscure objects in
the exhibit.
From axles to levers, join us for an immersive journey into the world of simple machines. Through hands-on learning experiences, students will discover how wheels, pulleys, levers, and screws come together to make work easier.
Travel back in time and discover how a child’s life has changed from the 19th and 20th centuries to today. Students will explore traditional chores, such as carding wool, making butter, and weaving, as well as leisure activities and games. During this program, students will also make a craft and learn a dance from this period (weather permitting).
Do you have what it takes to escape? Solve puzzles, find clues, decipher secret codes and work as a team to get out! Escape rooms are available at all three municipal museums – take on the challenge!
Design, build and play your way through the endless possibilities of STEAM. Roll through a variety of hands-on activities such as creating density columns, learning about the laws of motion with pendulum painting, and paleontology fun!
A great space to discover, build, create, and play!
Ask about adding one hour of free play.
Looking for a way to explore CK’s rich black history in your school? Book the CK Museum’s newest travelling exhibit!
“Let us March on till Victory is Won: The Struggle for Racial Equity in CK and Ontario” is a 19-panel, easy-to-assemble, travelling exhibit that traces the courageous story of the National Unity Association’s determination to end practices of segregation within Chatham-Kent and Ontario, and the
ongoing fight for equity in Canada.
Interested in educational materials and programming options to accompany the exhibit? Contact the Chatham-Kent Museum to find out more!
Fee: $100.00 per week.
Celebrate the season with us! Gather around the tree and learn about Victorian Christmas traditions by playing games, hearing stories, creating an ornament, and so much more. (December only)
Have a special workshop or content in mind for a workshop? Collaborate with us and create a program that fits YOUR specific needs.
Discover memorable theatre experiences for all ages. Share the magic of live theatre and create lifelong memories for your students. The Chatham Capitol Theatre and Kiwanis Theatre will present an assortment of productions for young audiences to experience.
Come watch a movie at the Capitol Theatre and have some popcorn on us!
There’s so much to experience onstage and behind the scenes.