Warm up your winter with this hands-on baking class! We’ll make a rich, chocolatey hot cocoa-inspired cake that you’ll get to take home and enjoy. But this isn’t just any cake – we’ll explore all the ways to customize it with mix-ins, flavors, and toppings, teaching you how to build your own dessert concept from a simple base. Learn tips for creative variations, ingredient swaps, and flavor combinations so you can turn one classic recipe into a world of possibilities. Perfect for gifting, sharing, or treating yourself!

All materials provided. Ages 10+ welcome, but minors must have adult accompaniment.

Get ready to sweeten up your Valentine’s season! In this hands-on class, each participant will receive eight pre-baked cookies to decorate and take home. You’ll use colorful icings, sprinkles, and fun decorations to make your cookies uniquely yours. Plus, everyone will leave with the recipe so you can recreate these treats at home anytime. Perfect for gifting, sharing, or just indulging yourself!

All materials provided. Ages 6+ welcome, but minors must have adult accompaniment.

Treat yourself – and someone special – to a sweet, hands-on experience! In this interactive class, pairs will work together to make three delectable desserts in small, shareable portions: a creamy crème brûlée, a rich peanut butter brownie, and a moist mini carrot cake. Ideal for couples, friends, or parent-child duos, this class is all about learning, sharing, and enjoying homemade treats together. Each pair will leave with their desserts ready to savor and recipes to recreate these goodies at home! 

All materials provided. Ages 10+ welcome, but minors must have adult accompaniment.

Need a little “me time” before Valentine’s weekend? Send your kids to Kyler’s Kitchen for a special evening of fun, cooking, and treats! They will be greeted with hot cocoa and upbeat music, then get hands-on at our personal pizza bar, making their own delicious pizzas for dinner. After dinner, they’ll create no-bake cookie dough bites to take home and enjoy. Perfect for kids six and above, this 3-hour event gives parents a chance to relax while kids have a sweet and savory evening full of creativity and fun! But don’t wait to sign up, the class is limited to six kids! 

All materials provided. Ages 6+ welcome.

Join us for an inspiring 3-hour workshop designed for artists of all skill levels to refine their portrait techniques. This session features a clothed live model holding an extended single pose, giving you the time and focus to create a detailed work or explore multiple interpretations from different angles (space permitting).

Bring your favorite materials and work in the medium of your choice or use ours! Easels and drawing boards will be available for your convenience. This is a self-directed session with no formal instruction, so come prepared to work freely and creatively.

Whether you’re a professional or a complete beginner to portrait drawing, all skill levels are welcome!

All materials provided. Ages 14+ welcome, but minors must have adult accompaniment.

Back by popular demand! Learn how to bake the ultimate soft, chewy, golden brown cookie cake from scratch, then explore a world of creative mix-ins and flavor combinations. From classic chocolate chunks and salty pretzels to colorful candies, nuts, cookies, or swirls of peanut butter and caramel – you’ll discover how to mix, match, and customize cookie cakes that are as unique as they are delicious. Perfect for birthdays, celebrations, or just because! All materials are provided.

All materials provided. Ages 13+ welcome, but minors must have adult accompaniment.

Step into the world of animation and create a character that moves, acts, and shows off its personality! In this workshop, students design their own paper characters and learn how animators bring them to life using simple joint systems, just like the basics of digital character rigging. Then the real fun begins. Students explore what makes an awesome TV show intro: building a cool world, setting the vibe (mystery? adventure? comedy?), showing their character in action, and crafting a title sequence that grabs attention.

After they craft their characters and storyboard their ideas, students use beginner-friendly stop-motion techniques to animate a short “intro scene,” much like a TV show opening. Each participant takes home their handmade paper character along with a digital video to share. At the end of the session, we screen everyone’s clips in a fun animation preview, complete with popcorn!

After the workshop, Design Lab staff add final edits to combine all clips into a polished collection of intro sequences for students to keep.