Just wondering what experiences you all have had with the Kids Club at Michaels, or the Kid sessions at Home Depot? I'm sure there are others but those are the two that came to mind.
Thinking about signing DD up for a few this spring...
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We did some of the kid classes at Michael’s over the summer and liked them.
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We did a Home Depot class and it was nuts. There were at least 200 kids there at the same time we went. Taking turns for the tools was rough and there wasn’t even space to turn around. The project took my DD over 90 min but she was on the slow side.
Like an idiot I brought my 2.5yo along thinking I could watch him while my almost 5yo did the project. I strongly do not recommend. I’m only 80% sure he didn’t eat a nail.
I think I will return with my 5 yo again at some point. But so far I’ve preferred to just buy kits and do them at home. I’m sure the level of chaos varies a lot by location.
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The Home Depot workshops are awesome. My daughter has been going since she was 2. It’s the first Saturday of each month and my store does not require registration, though others might. We also have a local grocery store that does kids cooking workshops which are great, they’re like $25 a class though (Home Depot is free).
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DH takes our 5 year old to the Home Depot workshops every month. It does have a tendency to be a little crazy, I would't take a younger sibling that's not working on the project, but there's always plenty of kits, tools, and paint to go around. E has tons of fun doing it though and really likes to show off his work. They also give you an apron your first time and a pin to put on the apron after each project, he loves collecting them.
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Our Home Depot has awesome workshops. We took my son shortly after he turned 3. The only downside for us was that they also had the fire department come out "for the kids", and they kept turning on the fire truck siren every few seconds -- for my child who hates loud noises, it ruined the event. We will be going again to a different location in the hope that they don't have a fire truck right next to the kids tables - he loved the activity and it was very well organized and easy to attend.
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We’ve done several classes at Michaels and they have been fun. There’s never been more than maybe 15 kids there so not crazy.
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We love the Home Depot workshops! For ours, they do ask to register but we don't register for a time or anything so you can attend anytime between 9 and 1pm. The 10-11am block is crazy but not too bad.
It's free and you do it without an instructor but my husband takes the 5 year old (she's been going since 3) and sometimes the 2 year old. We like the stuff they make
We've been to a couple of Michael's classes too. Its a small fee (like $6?) but less people. You do have to register for the class and time. The Michaels material they come home with isn't as great as Home Depot. (Home Depot is wood, painted, etc while Michaels has like foam pages with stickers )
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We love the Home Depot workshops, but you definitely need to help kids with the projects.
We always go right when it starts at 9:00 and it's usually pretty quiet. The projects take 30 minutes. You need to register online, but it's free, so if you walk and it looks like a disaster, you can leave. -
We go to the Home Depot workshops. If I were you, I would go once just to scout. we are close to two HD. one of them uses wood planks and use 'cement buckets" as the feet for the table where you work on. The other Homedepot uses larger pieces of wood. One is more busy than the other. It's crazy out there but it's so fun for the kids.
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Thanks for the input ladies.
I found my HD does require registration - so maybe its a bit less hectic? Who knows...we'll plan to just take the 4 year old and scope it out.
I'm waiting for my michaels to release the March classes!
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@Mrs D: we love HD kids workshops
They are busy but its never packed to the point of having to wait or not finding table space
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I think all the HD workshops require registration, but that doesn't mean that they turn away walk-ins (the whole thing is drop in anytime between the set hours...the first time we went I thought that it was a 3 hour long class, which it definitely is not).
I think your best bet is to get there as early as you can. -
For HD, we usually bring our own hammer and screwdriver so we don’t have to fight or wait for it.
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I have done the Michaels classes, my son loves them because they’ll get you any supply you want to experiment with.
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@808love: brilliant! DS has his own - we need to do that next time.
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