2017 Golden Teddy Awards — Camps + Classes

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Photo credit: Creative Dance Center

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Winner: Seattle ReCreative

First-time winner Seattle ReCreative attracted mountains of your votes for its art classes and camps, which emphasize process over result. Kids already know how to explore and experiment; Seattle ReCreative gives them the tools, materials — lots of them recycled — and the space to unleash their imaginations. Among summer camp themes is one combining theater and storytelling with visual art; another focuses on constructing rockets, marble runs and more. Seattle ReCreative offers workshops and programs for kids and adults, and multiple Yelp reviews praise the friendly and helpful staff.

Finalists

Seattle’s Creative Dance Center has appeared in our Golden Teddy awards for years, and your votes show you continue to love this place. The center’s programs connect dance and movement with growing young brains. Parents like the inclusive environment and praise the studio’s “amazing” instructors. One voter raved that the center is a “truly phenomenal program for all children that focuses on brain development and the whole child.”

Roaring Mouse Creative Arts Studio lets kids explore creative expression at their own pace, and your votes indicate your roars of approval. Roaring Mouse offers classes, camps, workshops and kids’ nights out in its Seattle studio. Programs connect play and art, and encourage kids to let their ideas flow.

Northwest Girlchoir teaches musicianship and performance skills to girls, and you’re loving how its instructors do it. Girls can spend a week at Summer Sing day camp or join various choirs, which accept girls in grades 1–12. Along with choral music, choristers build friendships and serve their community. As parents, you appreciate that instructors “care about each child.”

Seattle’s Circle of Art Studios tickles your artistic fancy for its kids’ mixed media and clay classes that encourage exploration and following whims of creativity. Circle of Art also offers open studio sessions where kids and caregivers dig into art side by side.