Family Activities, Visual, Performing, and Media Arts

A home visiting programs' primary purpose is to support and encourage parents and caregivers, share information, and connect families with resources in their home and/or a convenient location.

The Center for Families Newsletter is full of information, resources, and supports for Cambridge families with children birth-8 years old.

We provide a list of all upcoming opportunities for children ages 0-11; regular activities include story times, arts, musical, and dance events and more in our Children's Room.

We offer an afterschool program for students ages 5-12 based on the experience of Jewish values, traditions, holidays, culture, and life cycles that is both teacher-led and self-directed.

Learn to play the Steel Pan, basic music, and leadership development.

The War Memorial Recreation Center provides residents access to a state of the art, fully accessible, and climate controlled facility for recreational activities.

We bring robotics, coding, engineering, and design to life—shaping your child’s future through hands-on learning.
Join our afterschool studio with flexible open enrollment or convenient monthly memberships.

Quality musical instruction for students of all ages & levels. Study with highly trained & experienced professional pianists. Curriculum designed to suit you and your individual learning style.

We offer high quality, humanistic ballet education and training for children of all levels age 3 and up.

Safe, engaging, and enriching environment for students in kindergarten through elementary grades, the program blends academic support, creative expression, and hands-on learning.

Can you find the StoryWalks? A StoryWalk is a children's book hung page by page around a park in Cambridge where families can read, walk, and talk together. Find the 8 StoryWalks in Cambridge parks!

We've created orienteering courses throughout the city of Cambridge to get you and your family outside and moving around. Check out our map courses on our website!

We offer a progression of map navigation activities for home-schooled students who want to learning individually or in a group.

We offer summer ballet classes and dance programs, primarily for children of all levels ages 3-10 years-old.

We visit moms and dads of young children at a convenient location to share information about early literacy development, talking and reading with children, and community resources.

We provide summer reading book recommendations; activities for children, teens, and adults; live events; as well as prizes and giveaways throughout July and August.

In our two-week summer program, youth work with our theater artists and science experts from Lemelson-MIT to adapt a story for the stage and design a new invention inspired by the tale.

Our sewing studio and stitch lounge hosts a sewing opportunities during the school year and summer for kids ages 9 - 14.

We offer high quality, humanistic ballet education and training for all ages.

We offer weekly arts education classes for youth (5th-7th grade) that include dancing, acting, and other movement-based arts.

We partner with local businesses and organizations to sponsor free events in parks across the city.

We offer lots of free events throughout the year for people of all ages with a love of learning!

Riverside Early Head Start is a comprehensive early childhood program that partners with parents to promote children’s healthy development.

Cambridge Dads was created to increase fatherhood engagement in programming. The program strives to ensure dads are engaged, informed, and feel supported in their role as parents.

We can provide a home visitor who can visit your home for one-hour every week to explore books, educational materials, and play-based learning with your child.