Early Childhood Programs
Learning through music, movement, storytelling, and play
Early Childhood Programs
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Explore Early Childhood programs
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Explore Early Childhood programs
Arts for Learning is the Maryland affiliate of the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning through the Arts. Our Early Childhood Teaching Artists are trained in the nationally recognized Wolf Trap model, which integrates music, movement, drama, and storytelling into everyday early learning experiences.
Grounded in decades of research and practice, our programs support school readiness across social emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development. Using a two-generational approach, we partner with educators and caregivers to build lasting skills that continue long after the artist leaves the classroom.
Residencies
Wolf Trap Baby Artsplay!™
Baby Artsplay!™ residencies provide hands-on music, movement, and drama experiences that parents, caregivers, and early childhood educators can use daily in order to set their young learners on a path toward kindergarten readiness.
Wolf Trap Baby Artsplay!™
Embedded Professional Development
Wolf Trap Literacy + STEM Residencies
Literacy and STEM-based residencies train early childhood educators to effectively integrate the arts in their classrooms and provide joyful, active learning experiences that encourage critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration.
Wolf Trap Literacy + STEM Residencies
Embedded Professional Development
Theme-based Residencies
Theme-based residencies are a series of five student-centered workshops focused on creating engaging, interactive arts-focused or arts-integrated experiences for children in PreK and Kindergarten.
Theme-based Residencies
Assemblies + Workshops
Assemblies
Inspire and motivate your youngest learners with a live, interactive, and educational arts assembly performance with an A4L early childhood teaching artist or ensemble.
Assemblies
Workshops
Engage in creative play through song, movement, and drama while learning essential skills like counting, sequencing, collaborative problem-solving, and more! Children and caregivers engage in hands-on creativity to support the learning of any topic.
Workshops
Professional Development
Professional Development Workshops
These workshops focus on building educators' confidence in using developmentally appropriate, arts-integrated strategies to support literacy, math, science, and social emotional learning.
Need help paying for Arts for Learning programs?
Grants may be available to Maryland schools, centers, and childcare providers to help subsidize the cost of Arts for Learning programs.