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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.

  • Infants + Toddlers (Ages Birth-4)
  • Embedded Professional Learning

Wolf Trap Baby Artsplay!™

Early Childhood Baby Artsplay

Wolf Trap Pre-K and K 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.

  • PreK + Kindergarten (Ages 4-6)
  • Embedded Professional Learning

Wolf Trap Pre-K and K Literacy + STEM Residencies

Early Childhood PreK-K

PreK + K 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.

  • PreK + Kindergarten (Ages 4-6)
  • Student-centered

PreK + K Theme-based Residencies

Early Childhood 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.

  • Ages Birth-6
  • Assemblies are 30 minutes in length with a maximum audience size of 250 children.

Assemblies

Early Childhood 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.

  • Ages Birth-6
  • Workshops are 45 minutes in length and serve a maximum of 75 participants.

Workshops

Early Childhood Workshops

Professional Development Workshops

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.

  • Early Childhood Educators and Children
  • Workshops are 1-3 hours and serve a maximum of 75 participants.

Professional Development Workshops

Early Childhood Professional Learning

“The residency was amazing! The lessons were so well thought out and easy to understand! Students were HIGHLY engaged throughout the whole residency. I’ve got so many fun ideas and great perspectives! Loved the scarfs, drums, and elements of dance book.”

—Somerset County Kindergarten teacher

Maryland Wolf Trap

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.

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