Builds creativity
Children arrive waiting to be told what to make. Within a few weeks, they're the ones with the idea.
At home you'll hear: “Don't throw that box out — I need it.”
After-school creative studio · Years 1–6
UnlockYourChild'sCreativityAfterSchool
Fun, hands-on creative experiences that help children build confidence, imagination and lifelong creative skills.
- Police-vetted, first-aid trained educators
- Every material included
- Artwork home the same day
Now running weekly at Rumera School.
Why parents love Junior Creators
Children don’t come home with a painting.
They come home different.
Creativity isn't a subject — it's the muscle underneath problem solving, resilience and speaking up. Here's what actually changes over a term.
Improves problem solving
The tower falls over. The paint runs. We don't rescue them — we ask a better question and let them solve it.
At home you'll hear: “I'll just try it a different way.”
Develops confidence
Standing up to show your work to eleven other children is a small, weekly act of bravery. It compounds.
At home you'll hear: “Can I show you what I made?”
Makes new friends
Mixed-year tables, shared materials, borrowed scissors. Friendships form over glue in a way they rarely do in a playground.
At home you'll hear: “Is it Junior Creators tomorrow?”
Inspires imagination
A cardboard tube is never just a cardboard tube. We protect the part of childhood that assumes anything is possible.
At home you'll hear: “What if it could actually fly?”
Inside a Junior Creators session
Ninety minutes, and you'll know exactly how each one goes.
Same structure every week, so children always know what's coming — and so do you.
- 13:05pm
Arrival
Bags down, aprons on.
We collect Years 1–3 from their classroom door and sign every child in by name against the roll. You know exactly who has your child, and when.
- 23:15pm
Warm welcome
A circle, and today's wondering.
One question to open the imagination — “what would you invent if gravity stopped on Fridays?” Everyone who wants to speak, speaks. Nobody is ever put on the spot.
- 33:30pm
The creative challenge
A real brief, not a worksheet.
“Design a home for a creature that lives in the wind.” There's no correct answer, which is the entire point — and it's why twelve children produce twelve genuinely different things.
- 43:45pm
Making time
The long, happy, busy stretch.
Music low, hands moving, educators circulating table to table. This is where the deep focus happens — the state teachers call flow and parents call “finally, quiet”.
- 54:30pm
Sharing
Everyone who wants to, shows.
We ask “how did you make that?” rather than “what is it?” — one question builds a maker, the other asks a child to defend their work.
- 64:45pm
Take home
Named, dried, and in their hands.
Artwork goes home the same day wherever it's dry, and a photo of your child mid-make lands in your inbox every Friday. The fridge fills up fast.
4:45pm
And then they ask if it’s on again tomorrow.
Every week, same hall, same two educators, a brand new brief. That rhythm is what turns a fun afternoon into a genuine creative habit.
Enrol your child
What children create
Real materials. Real projects. Nothing that came out of a packet.
Five kinds of making across a term, each one building a different creative muscle.
Painting & colour
Made in a Junior Creators session
- Colour theory
- Composition
- Confidence with mess
What this medium quietly teaches
Trusted by families
We’re at one school so far. That’s the point.
Junior Creators started at Rumera School in Term 2. We’d rather run a small number of sessions brilliantly than a large number adequately — which is why new schools open only when enough families there have asked for us.
- partner school
- 1partner schooland a waitlist forming
- children per session
- 12children per sessiontwo educators, always
- weeks per term
- 8weeks per termone afternoon a week
- materials included
- 100%materials includednothing to buy or bring
The hall is left tidier than they found it, the communication with families is excellent, and the children talk about it all week. From our side it has been genuinely no extra work.
Wind and the harbour
Year 4 · Rumera School
The house on our street
Year 2 · Rumera School
It had to hold nine books
Year 5 · Rumera School
What parents say
The bit parents mention isn't the artwork.
It's what they notice at the dinner table two months in.
She used to say she wasn't good at art. Last week she taught her little brother how to mix a colour he wanted. That's the whole thing, really.
Placeholder parent nameParent of a Year 3 child · Rumera School He's a busy kid and I never thought he'd sit still for an hour. He does. He comes out buzzing and he sleeps better on Wednesdays.
Placeholder parent nameParent of a Year 1 child · Rumera School Booking took two minutes, everything is included, and I get a photo on Fridays. As a working parent that is the entire difference.
Placeholder parent nameParent of a Year 5 child · Rumera School What surprised me was the friendships. She's made a friend two years above her and they still sit together at lunch.
Placeholder parent nameParent of a Year 2 child · Rumera School
How it works
Five steps, and four of them are ours.
From “is this at our school?” to artwork on the fridge.
Find your school
Check whether Junior Creators already runs at your child's school. If we don't, register interest — that's how new schools start.
Book the term
One online booking covers the whole term. Materials, aprons and take-home folders are all included in the price.
Attend weekly
Same afternoon, same hall, same two educators. We collect the younger children from class so nothing changes in your day.
Create real projects
Eight themed challenges across the term, each building a different creative muscle — never eight versions of the same worksheet.
Bring artwork home
Every child leaves with something they made and can explain. You get a Friday photo and an end-of-term portfolio.
What a term costs
$176per term
8 weekly sessions · about $22 a session
- All materials, tools and aprons
- Two educators every session
- Take-home artwork each week
- Friday photo update
- End-of-term portfolio
Sibling discount available. WINZ OSCAR subsidy queries welcome — just ask.
Enrol now
Save your child a place.
Two minutes now, and we'll come back to you within one working day. If we're not at your school yet, register interest below instead — it's the fastest way to change that.
Bring Junior Creators to your school
Would you like Junior Creators at your child’s school?
Schools say yes when families ask. Register your interest and we’ll count you in — when enough families from your school have registered, we approach the school with the numbers already in hand.
You register
Takes a minute. No cost, no obligation, nothing to organise.
We count families
Your school appears on the demand board below so you can watch it build.
We approach the school
With a real list of interested families — which is what makes it an easy yes.
Sessions start
You're told first, and you get first pick of places.
Register your interest
We’ll only ever use these details to talk to you about Junior Creators at your school.
Community demand
Schools families are asking for right now.
Once a school reaches around 15 interested families, we approach them. Some of these are very close.
- 1 to go
Green Bay School
14 interested families
- 6 to go
Sunnyvale School
9 interested families
- 8 to go
Kōwhai Primary
7 interested families
- 10 to go
Bayview School
5 interested families
- 12 to go
Ōrākei Primary
3 interested families
- Add your school
Your school
Be the first family — every school on this list started with one.
Showing recent interest. Numbers update as families register.
For schools
Everything on this list is something your team doesn't have to do.
Junior Creators is designed to add a programme to your school without adding a single job to anyone's week.
We manage enrolments
Families book and pay us directly. No forms in the office, no chasing, no spreadsheets landing on your admin team.
We manage payments
All invoicing, refunds and subsidy paperwork sit with us. The school never handles a cent.
We provide every material
We arrive with everything in crates and leave with them. Nothing is drawn from school supplies.
We clean up afterwards
The space is returned in better condition than we found it. Caretakers are our most reliable referrals.
Minimal administration
One point of contact, one termly plan, one short report. Setting us up takes a single conversation.
Professional communication
Families hear from us, not from you. You're copied on anything that matters and nothing that doesn't.
A safe environment
Police-vetted, first-aid trained educators, 1:6 supervision, full public liability cover, and a documented child protection policy.
Experienced educators
People who have run classrooms and studios — trained in creative pedagogy, not just supervision.
One conversation is genuinely all it takes.
We’ll send our health and safety plan, insurance certificate, police vetting confirmation and child protection policy before we ever set foot on site. Most schools go from first email to first session inside three weeks.
The gallery
Every one of these was made by a child who wasn't sure they could.
A term's worth of work from Years 1 to 6 — no two the same, because there was never a right answer to copy.
Storm over the harbour
Year 4 · Acrylic on card
The creature that eats Tuesdays
Year 2 · Air-dry clay
Bridge that held nine books
Year 5 · Cardboard & tape
My street, but underwater
Year 3 · Torn paper collage
Matariki lantern
Year 1 · Mixed media
Self-portrait, aged six
Year 2 · Poster paint
A machine for making rain
Year 6 · Found objects
Pinch pot with a face
Year 1 · Air-dry clay
Artwork shown is representative of the projects children complete each term.
Questions
The things everyone asks.
And a few things people are too polite to ask, answered anyway.
Still wondering something? Email us — a real person replies, usually the same day.
One afternoon a week is all it takes to change what a child believes they can make.
Places are limited to twelve children per session, which is the whole reason it works — and also the reason terms fill early.