Village Studio Arts is an inclusive art studio with pottery classes, summer camps, home-school art classes, a potter's guild, open-studio hours, and more! Drop-in open studio is every Saturday 9 AM to 12 PM. VSA offers classes for adults, teens, and children.

Activities, Events, and Storytimes

The Family Nutrition Program’s mission is to teach limited-resource families and youth how to make healthier food choices and become better managers of available food resources for optimal health and growth. Our programs focus on basic nutrition, physical activity, safe food handling, and thrifty food shopping.

-Eating Smart, Being Active (ESBA) is the primary curriculum for adult programs that we use throughout the state. ESBA lessons encourage adults to make healthy nutrition and lifestyle choices. The program is discussion-based, includes hands-on activities like cooking and meal planning, and offers practical advice for making healthy behavior changes.

-In the Kitchen is designed to help caregivers of children ages 12 and under with basic cooking skills, including knife safety, food safety, recipe reading, and simple cooking techniques.

The Family Nutrition Program is offered through Virginia Cooperative Extension, an educational outreach partnership between Virginia Tech and Virginia State University.

BACK in 2026! Wild Explorations - Season of Discovery is back at the Virginia Living Museum. Plan your visit here!

Plan your next visit to The Virginia Living Museum, where you will encounter more habitats, wildlife and plant species than would be encountered in a lifetime of outdoor adventures in Virginia. The exhibits of The Virginia Living Museum showcase all of the state’s regions from the upland coves of the Appalachian Mountains to the salty offshore waters of the Atlantic Ocean and feature more than 245 different animal species.

Visitors enjoy hands-on activities, observatory, planetarium, outdoor boardwalk, native plant and conservation gardens, and 250 living species. Birthday parties available. Spring and summer camps. Homeschool Programs.

Find information on camp programs at The Virginia Living Museum on this link.

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Museum displays documenting America's wars from 1775 to the present. Summer camps.

Site of the 1810 courthouse and also the site of the recently restored 1884 Warwick Court House.

T-ball, Baseball & Softball for youth

We offer 4K Preschool, Kindergarten and year-round care for children ages 2 1/2 through middle school. This includes daily care for children under the age of five, preschool for four- and five-year-olds, before and after school care for elementary aged children and summer camp. Enrollment is open to the community.

Child Care for ages 6 weeks through PreK. Before/After Care available.

Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) is a program of USA Archery that teaches archery to young people, provides great opportunities for awarding achievement, and helps archers to enjoy the sport recreationally or progress to the excitement of competition!

A range of affordable private and public paint-and-sip parties for all ages, groups, and talents. From girl's nights out to birthday parties and work events to date nights. Kids Art Buzz includes Painting Classes, Art Camps, After School Art, Toddler Art Classes

Gymnastics, Mommy & Me, Birthday Parties, Camps

The best place on the peninsula to find comics, manga, tabletop games, and related collectibles.

Summer Camp, Basketball, Pickleball, Dance, Soccer, Swimming Lessons, Before/After School Care.

Kids Yoga Classes

The Young Adult Police Commissioners program, or YAPC, provides a unique opportunity for the City's youth to learn about the police department and interact with officers. Members meet weekly to discuss current events and use their voices about issues that affect young people.

The YAPC consists of a freshman, sophomore, junior and senior from each high school in Newport News. Members have participated in a variety of activities, including field trips, community walks, City Council meetings, and more.

The earthworks located adjacent to this 1820 tide mill were the western anchor of Confederate Major General John B. Magruder's first line of defense during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign.

If you can BRAID.... You can start a BUSINESS. Youth Braid and Business Academy is an enrichment program that provides hands-on hair braiding and entrepreneurship training to youth ages 10-18. Afterschool, Summer, and Saturday Classes Available.
Hair braiding training
Entrepreneurship education
Business skills development

The Youth Leadership Program (YLP) provides a service-learning opportunity for youth, ages 13-17, who reside in the Southeast community of Newport News, Virginia. Community youth have to complete an application and interview process. Selected youth have the opportunity to assist staff with the facilitation of summer programs and services at one of the five Wickham Avenue Alliance sites.

Prenatal and postnatal yoga, and summer yoga camps for kids