Children will explore with paint, oil pastels, clay and other medium to create their own masterpieces. They will complete and take home a different art project each week!
Requirements:
Clothes that you don't mind getting paint on!
Coordinator:
Roberta Baker
Ages 6-9
Grades 1-4
Crafty Art for Kids
Learn the history of honey harvest, the history of purposeful beekeeping, hives of past and present, the composition of honey and why honey crystallized. What makes honey so dark or so light? How many varietals of honey are there? Why does honey crystallize? Why doesn't honey need to be pasteurized? Learn the answers to these questions and much more during this engaging talk and taste five varietals of honey from The Humble Bee Honey Company!
The Sweet History of Honey with a Honey Tasting
The New Milford Commission on the Arts hosts the third annual Arts Festival on the Green. It features over fifty fine artists and some artisans who exhibit their work from tents on the New Milford Green. Local dance, theatre, and music groups perform under a big tent near the bandstand. The event is free and runs from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
New Milford Arts Festival
The New Milford Commission on the Arts invites artists to submit their work for its third annual Arts Festival on the Green, taking place on June 28, 2025.
The Arts Festival is a juried fine art and artisan show that also features performances by local students, as well as dance, theater, and music groups.
Artists may submit up to five images. Registration deadline is May 31, 2025.
For more information and to apply, visit our website at artsnewmilfordct.org.
Call for Artists
Merryall Center is thrilled to welcome Joe Crookston to our stage. From touring with Gordon Lightfoot, headlining major US festivals, receiving Folk Alliance International "Album of the Year," releasing NINE BECOMES ONE (2023) to being named Folk Alliance International Artist-in- Resident, Joe is on fire. He's played with Suzanne Vega, Dar Williams, David Francey, John McCutcheon, John Gorka, Judy Collins, and hundreds more.
Special Guest Opener - John John Brown
John John has been chosen as a Kerrville New Folk winner and an Emerging Artist at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. He is known for mixing storytelling songs with the visual arts creating “an imaginative musical performance woven into a unique visual experience.”
Joe Crookston with special guest opener John John Brown
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
Robotics And Beyond is offering the following camps for grades K-6:
- LEGO Makers for grades K-4 (half-day am)
- STEM Explorers for grades K-2 (half-day pm)
- Bundled topics for grades 3-6 in Robotics and Mechanics, Coding, and Design (full-day)
Financial assistance available. Register at https://www.roboticsandbeyond.org/summer-stem-camp/.
STEM & Design Camps for grades K-6
Bring a couple of songs, a story, a few poems, or your tight 8 minutes of standup to the Merryall Center's Open Mic. Sign-ups at 6:30, performances start at 7:00.
Open Mic
Robotics And Beyond is offering the following camps for grades K-6:
- LEGO Makers for grades K-4 (half-day am)
- STEM Explorers for grades K-2 (half-day pm)
- Bundled topics for grades 3-6 in Robotics and Mechanics, Coding, and Design (full-day)
Financial assistance available. Register at https://www.roboticsandbeyond.org/summer-stem-camp/.
STEM & Design Camps for grades K-6
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
Robotics And Beyond is offering the following camps for grades K-6:
- LEGO Makers for grades K-4 (half-day am)
- STEM Explorers for grades K-2 (half-day pm)
- Bundled topics for grades 3-6 in Robotics and Mechanics, Coding, and Design (full-day)
Financial assistance available. Register at https://www.roboticsandbeyond.org/summer-stem-camp/.
STEM & Design Camps for grades K-6
Robotics And Beyond is offering the following camps for grades K-6:
- LEGO Makers for grades K-4 (half-day am)
- STEM Explorers for grades K-2 (half-day pm)
- Bundled topics for grades 3-6 in Robotics and Mechanics, Coding, and Design (full-day)
Financial assistance available. Register at https://www.roboticsandbeyond.org/summer-stem-camp/.
STEM & Design Camps for grades K-6
Robotics And Beyond is offering the following camps for grades K-6:
- LEGO Makers for grades K-4 (half-day am)
- STEM Explorers for grades K-2 (half-day pm)
- Bundled topics for grades 3-6 in Robotics and Mechanics, Coding, and Design (full-day)
Financial assistance available. Register at https://www.roboticsandbeyond.org/summer-stem-camp/.
STEM & Design Camps for grades K-6
Robotics And Beyond is offering the following camps for grades K-6:
- LEGO Makers for grades K-4 (half-day am)
- STEM Explorers for grades K-2 (half-day pm)
- Bundled topics for grades 3-6 in Robotics and Mechanics, Coding, and Design (full-day)
Financial assistance available. Register at https://www.roboticsandbeyond.org/summer-stem-camp/.
STEM & Design Camps for grades K-6
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
Robotics And Beyond is offering the following camps for grades K-6:
- LEGO Makers for grades K-4 (half-day am)
- STEM Explorers for grades K-2 (half-day pm)
- Bundled topics for grades 3-6 in Robotics and Mechanics, Coding, and Design (full-day)
Financial assistance available. Register at https://www.roboticsandbeyond.org/summer-stem-camp/.
STEM & Design Camps for grades K-6
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
Join our FREE block party concert series downtown with live music on Bank Street, street games, local eats, sidewalk sales and fun! Grab your chairs and join us downtown for an evening of safe and community-involved entertainment:
July 17, with a Rain Date of July 18: Nashville Drive
+ Cotton Candy Cart
August 21, with a Rain Date of Aug 28: Pop Rocks
+ Henna By Elyse
Sept 18, with a Rain Date of Sept 19: Struggle Monkey
Rock The Block
Robotics And Beyond is offering the following camps for grades K-6:
- LEGO Makers for grades K-4 (half-day am)
- STEM Explorers for grades K-2 (half-day pm)
- Bundled topics for grades 3-6 in Robotics and Mechanics, Coding, and Design (full-day)
Financial assistance available. Register at https://www.roboticsandbeyond.org/summer-stem-camp/.
STEM & Design Camps for grades K-6
Deni Bonet and Chris Flynn are a New York-based Americana, folk-rock duo whose blend of voices, virtuoso violin, guitar, and humor have entertained and captivated audiences from Carnegie Hall to Mountain Stage to the White House.
"The whole is greater than the sum of the parts". So it is with Deni Bonet & Chris Flynn. As individual artists, they have more than made their mark in music. As a duo, they have created something extra, engaging and extremely entertaining. Bonet's voice and violin, and Flynn's guitar and voice, have echoed through the United Nations, Lincoln Center and Mountain Stage. They have shared stages with REM, Cyndi Lauper, Richard Thompson, Warren Zevon, Sarah McLachlan, Alan Toussaint, and many others.
Deni Bonet and Chris Flynn
Robotics And Beyond is offering more focused, in-depth camp topics in design, engineering and technology for grades 6-12 during the mornings and afternoons. Locations will be The Maxx, First Congregational Church, and our office at 46 Bridge St.
Financial assistance available. Register at https://www.roboticsandbeyond.org/summer-stem-camp/.
Intermediate STEM & Design Camps
Robotics And Beyond is offering more focused, in-depth camp topics in design, engineering and technology for grades 6-12 during the mornings and afternoons. Locations will be The Maxx, First Congregational Church, and our office at 46 Bridge St.
Financial assistance available. Register at https://www.roboticsandbeyond.org/summer-stem-camp/.
Intermediate STEM & Design Camps
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
Robotics And Beyond is offering more focused, in-depth camp topics in design, engineering and technology for grades 6-12 during the mornings and afternoons. Locations will be The Maxx, First Congregational Church, and our office at 46 Bridge St.
Financial assistance available. Register at https://www.roboticsandbeyond.org/summer-stem-camp/.
Intermediate STEM & Design Camps
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
Robotics And Beyond is offering more focused, in-depth camp topics in design, engineering and technology for grades 6-12 during the mornings and afternoons. Locations will be The Maxx, First Congregational Church, and our office at 46 Bridge St.
Financial assistance available. Register at https://www.roboticsandbeyond.org/summer-stem-camp/.