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Adventures with Art hello@adventureswithart.com

Adventureswithart.com

Let your child’s creativity run wild this summer!

Adventures with Art is a website that offers tips and tutorials for a number of different art forms, including drawing, painting, digital art with Procreate, crochet, embroidery, and more. Run by an artist who was born and raised in Aptos, Diana loves to share her art knowledge with other artists of all skill levels at adventureswithart.com

Be Natural Music 740 Water St, Santa Cruz 831.515.8369

BeNaturalMusic.Live

Learn and perform Jazz, Rock, Reggae, Motown, Pop & more at our two locations: Santa Cruz and Cupertino. We offer ongoing private Music Lessons, Real Rock Band classes for teens, & young adults, Workshops, and Summer Music Camps. We offer lessons on voice, piano/keyboard, guitar, bass, drums & percussion, saxophone, clarinet, ukulele, harp, theory and composition. Summer camps, kid & teen musicians showcase their talent & creativity as they compose original music, script music videos, and record their song on stage! The final high-quality music video is posted on our YouTube Channel to jump-start your kid’s career.

The Bookakery BookakeryBoxes.com

Looking for activities to do with your kids at home? Have a kid that always wants to help in the kitchen or curl up on your lap to hear a good book? Love getting packages? The Bookakery has just the thing: Bookakery Boxes, a monthly subscription box for kids aimed towards fostering a love of reading and baking. Each Bookakery Box comes with a hardback picture book, kid-friendly recipe card, an activity, and one bonus item, all based around a theme of the month. Order yours today! Use code GUISC10 for 10% off any subscription length (renews at standard rate). Expires 12/31/2023.

Community Bridges Family Resource Collective

831.688.8840

Communitybridges.org/FRC

La Manzana Community Resources – 521 Main Street, Ste. Y, Watsonville

Live Oak Community Resources – 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz

Mountain Community Resources – 6134 Highway 9, Felton

Nueva Vista Community Resources – 711 East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz

The Family Resource Collective works with individuals and families in Santa Cruz County and the Pajaro Valley to build safe, healthy, and compassionate communities through education, resources, and advocacy. We offer a variety of bi-lingual, bi-cultural services to meet each family and individual’s needs. Our programs and services include food distribution, mental health counseling, parent education workshops, youth tutoring, and more.

Community Mountain Gym

San Lorenzo Valley 831.824.7750 communitymountaingym@gmail.com communitymountaingym.com

Ever wanted to learn how to do a cartwheel?

Want to try your balance in a handstand? Come tumble through the summer with us. We’ll stretch and cartwheel about as we work on our basic gymnastics’ skills using the bar, balance beam and varying gymnastics equipment. Community Mountain Gym is a mobile fitness gym that brings the fun to you! We are holding summer camp programs in Felton, Boulder Creek and at Ben Lomond’s Highlands Park. Activities will include art projects, science experiments, hikes, visits to the local fire stations, libraries and parks! Looking forward to tumbling with you soon!

Da Vinci Equestrian

831.359.2853 davinciequestrian.com/

Da Vinci Equestrian offers a horseback riding lesson program and full-service horse training, with facilities in

Watsonville and La Selva Beach. Da Vinci Equestrian emphasizes the relationship between horse and rider, horse care, and offers individualized programs to fit the student’s needs. Specialization in Hunter/Jumper and 3-Day Eventing. Monthly lesson packages and week-long summer camps available.Ages 5 and up welcome! Please view our website for more information.

International Academy of Dance (IAD) 320 Encinal Street, Santa Cruz 831.466.0458 info@iadance.com

Spend the summer dancing! We’re offering 7 different weeks of magic and fun, so choose your theme and come join us for movement games, art, and dancing! Perfect for ages 4-8, our camps offer a playground for imagination to thrive. We even have Early Drop-Off/Late Pick-Up Options, with an After Party happening until 2pm for maximum fun (and ease for parents). If you’d like to get started before summer, sign up for a trial class now! Just visit our website, iadance.com. We also have classes for older kids, teens, parents, and grandparents. We can’t wait to dance with you!

Mathnasium of Santa Cruz 1642 Mission Street, Santa Cruz 831.440.7574

24 Rancho Del Mar, Aptos 831.621.5978 mathnasium.com/SantaCruz

Summer is a great time for kids to get away with their families. It’s also an important time to keep up their math skills so they don’t lose what they learned during the school year. The good news is they can do both, with Mathnasium! Our summer math program builds up kids’ math knowledge and prepares them for the school year. Best of all, we make it fun! They’ll receive: a comprehensive assessment and customized learning plan that details summer goals for long-term success, live face-to-face instruction, and a proven teaching method that results in true understanding and increased confidence.

Mountain Music School

216-A Mt. Hermon Rd, Scotts Valley 831.201.9605 mountainmusicschoolsv.com

What better time than summer to pick up that dusty guitar? MMS offers year-round lessons in a variety of instruments, with fun performance opportunities and lesson plans tailored to you! Our excellent team of teachers is ready to support you in realizing your musical dreams.

MusicalMe, Inc. offering Music Together™

All over Santa Clara & Santa Cruz Counties 831.332.9002

Musicalme.com

Our Music Together classes are playful, rich, and engaging. They help young children —babies, toddlers, and preschoolers—discover their inner music-maker by playing with the grownups they love. Our music and movement classes also offer other important benefits: music for children supports overall early childhood development. Join us!

Underwater Explorers Tours at Monterey Bay Aquarium

Come dive with us! Underwater Explorers is a unique (summer only) program where kids ages 8-13 are introduced to the underwater world through surface scuba diving. Kids are safely guided by Monterey Bay Aquarium dive staff in our Great Tide Pool, where they’ll meet amazing animals while getting a fish’s-eye view of the wonders of the bay. No experience or wet suit is necessary — just your sense of adventure! For questions, please call us at 831.648.4800, from 9am to 4pm, daily. Tickets available for purchase online at www. montereybayaquarium.org/UnderwaterExplorers

Santa Cruz Art League

526 Broadway, Santa Cruz

831.426.5787 scal.org

Join artist Linda Cover for a week of fun, creativity, and artistic growth this summer! Campers get to explore the Art League gardens and experiment with the artistic process. Each day, they’ll get to learn chalk art, observational sketching, paint making, assemblage, printmaking and photography! June 5-9 or July 24-28.

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History

1305 East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz 831.420.6115 santacruzmuseum.org

Located above Seabright Beach, Santa Cruz’s first Museum is in an excellent location to showcase the region’s rich natural history. Explore interactive exhibits featuring animals, plants, geology, and more from the shoreline of Monterey Bay to the summit of the Santa Cruz Mountains, including an intertidal touch pool, fossils, and an observation beehive. In our Gift Shop, you’ll find unique books, guides, toys, art, and apparel. Check our online calendar for engaging events and programs for all ages, including free family activities, seasonal camps, nature crafts and walks, and our Summer Kickoff Festival. Kids are always FREE.

Santa Cruz Public Libraries

224 Church St., Santa Cruz

2005 Wharf Rd, Capitola

251 Kings Village Rd, Scotts Valley 831.427.7713

SantaCruzPL.org/SRP

The theme at the Library this summer is: Find Your Voice! Our voices have power. We use our voices to share stories, express ourselves, and spark change. Our voices include not only the sounds we make, but the words we write, the movements we perform, and the actions we take each day to impact our world. This June and July we encourage you to read for fun as part of our Summer Reading Program, to learn a new skill, to make a new friend... Library programs and events are focused on maintaining and improving reading skills, exploring, and building our community.

SpeechRighter – Social Skills Learning Groups

820 Bay Ave, Capitola

831.854.2060 speechrighter.com/summer-programs

Social-Skill Groups designed to improve social thinking & pragmatic language skills, by developing