Youth programs in Delaware · Ages 8 to 18
Hands-on crafts, dance, game nights, and tech sessions for libraries, recreation centers, camps, and community organizations. Every activity builds a named character trait.
Every session builds character
Every youth program for ages 8 to 18 is built on CASEL’s framework for social and emotional learning. Each session builds one named character trait, printed on its card, and one real skill they can carry into the classroom and beyond.
Grounded in CASEL’s five core competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.
Card makers practice gratitude. Kinusaiga makers build resilience. Game nights are truly edutaining, with big fun and real learning in every round.
Art sharpens focus, patience, and creative problem solving. Movement builds discipline, coordination, and teamwork.
Ages 8 to 12 discover what they love. Ages 13 to 18 connect it to real paths, from design and music to coaching and teaching.
Youth enrichment in New Castle, Kent and Sussex County
Workshops start at $395 for up to 15 youth ages 11 to 18, with materials, setup, facilitation, and cleanup included. Every Creativity workshop is a make and take. Groups of 16 to 24, and any group ages 8 to 10, add an assistant facilitator. Download the youth menu (PDF)
Youth start with real strengths, school projects and interests, build a first résumé, then turn it into a brag book: an all-about-me book with pages for strengths, wins, goals and next steps that they keep adding to long after the session ends. Career connection: how a résumé works and what employers look for.
Builds character: Courage
Starting at $395
Practice braiding patterns and barbering technique on mannequin heads, guided step by step. Career connection: the path to a cosmetology or barber license and running your own chair.
Builds character: Self-control
Starting at $670
Assemble a wooden birdhouse, then paint and finish it to hang at home or in a community garden. Career connection: carpentry, the skilled trades, and wildlife conservation.
Builds character: Perseverance
Starting at $705
Makers turn torn fabric scraps into a piece that looks like stained glass, proof that broken pieces can become something beautiful.
Builds character: Resilience
Starting at $560
Before they start, makers list people they want to thank. They leave with a stack of finished cards addressed to real people.
Builds character: Gratitude
Starting at $510
A show-stopping faux dessert built layer by layer and dedicated to someone worth celebrating.
Builds character: Gratitude
Starting at $595
Bag charms and keychains that stand for a name, a value, a word, or a goal makers want to carry with them.
Builds character: Courage
Starting at $445
Youth mix their own sugar scrub and bath salts at a self-care scent bar, sniffing and choosing scents (unscented options always on the table), then pair each jar with a reset strategy card they can use at home.
Builds character: Self-control
Starting at $445
Paint a pot and plant a succulent to care for at home.
Builds character: Perseverance
Starting at $560
Design a wearable piece that carries a message.
Builds character: Courage
Starting at $445
Youth design a tiny world in a clear cube: stone and soil layers, moss, a small plant and figurines that tell a story. They learn what a plant needs to thrive and how to care for it at home. Career connection: horticulture, landscape design and environmental science.
Builds character: Respect
Starting at $525
Youth seal a photo or drawing of someone who matters to them inside a snow globe, then add a gift tag. A keepsake built around the people they love.
Builds character: Gratitude
Starting at $395
A young person and a parent or grandparent cast their hands together in one sitting and take home a keepsake. Up to 10 pairs.
Builds character: Gratitude
Starting at $595
Four weekly sessions where young people show up, keep at it, and see their progress.
Builds character: Perseverance
Starting at $1,525
A high-energy dance workout that builds stamina one routine at a time.
Builds character: Self-control
Starting at $395
Partner mirroring, call-and-response, and shared choreography that comes together as one group routine. Career connection: choreography, coaching, and leading a team.
Builds character: Teamwork
Starting at $510
Mobility, gentle stretches, and simple breathing skills young people can use before a big test or after a long day. Career connection: yoga instruction, coaching, and sports recovery.
Builds character: Self-control
Starting at $395
We turn the room into a TV studio with a live host, buzzers and prizes. Youth play Great Minds Think Alike, Then and Now, Spin and Solve or Brain Board. Play hard, cheer loud, lose well.
Builds character: Respect
Starting at $495
Stations represent countries around the world. Every guest collects passport stamps and learns from another culture.
Builds character: Respect
Starting at $510
Teams race through seven book-inspired stations, cracking clues, writing poems, sketching comics, and filling a reading passport. Career connection: authors, illustrators, editors, and librarians.
Builds character: Teamwork
Starting at $2,095The Book Race sized for a single branch: four book-inspired stations in one room, with titles from your collection. Career connection: writing, publishing, and library science.
Builds character: Teamwork
Starting at $595
A hands-on science lab. Teams predict how one change to the recipe changes stretch, bounce and ooze, test it, record results and fix a failed batch like chemists. The facilitator adds the activator.
Builds character: Perseverance
Starting at $480
A fictional AI is spreading convincing false answers. Teams solve five analog missions, from fact-checking to map reading, and learn to verify before they trust. The room stays unlocked. Career connection: journalism, cybersecurity, and data analysis.
Builds character: Integrity
Starting at $785
A real place setting and a guided dinner: introductions, table manners, and how to hold a conversation. Career connection: interviews, business meals, and hospitality careers. The meal comes from the host or a licensed caterer.
Builds character: Respect
Starting at $785
A gym or community room becomes a festival where everyone tries something new. The Studio Edition brings five Everyday Now stations, such as a slime studio, a charm bar and an instant photo station, with music on our sound system. The Vendor Edition adds outside specialists such as a face painter, a caricature artist, a photo booth and a live DJ.
Builds character: Courage
Starting at $1,795
How to show up online as yourself, protect your privacy, and spot what is not real.
Builds character: Integrity
Starting at $395
Young people gather their best work and build a simple portfolio site that tells their story honestly. Career connection: web design, and applying for jobs, programs, and scholarships. No public posting required.
Builds character: Integrity
Starting at $560
Teams pitch an original idea for a movie or show, develop characters and a scene-by-scene storyboard, and, where time and host devices allow, shoot and edit a short scene. Career connection: film, TV, content creation, and video editing.
Builds character: Perseverance
Starting at $560
A 6 to 8 week series for pre-teens and teens that builds confidence, personal brand, and professional skills, then puts them on a stage in front of family and community.
Builds character: All eight traits
Starting at $3,950One favorite from each category. The full menu lists every program and its starting rate.
Download the full youth and community menu (PDF)
Assemble a wooden birdhouse, then paint and finish it to hang at home or in a community garden. Career connection: carpentry, the skilled trades, and wildlife conservation.
Four weekly sessions where young people show up, keep at it, and see their progress.
We turn the room into a TV studio with a live host, buzzers and prizes. Youth play Great Minds Think Alike, Then and Now, Spin and Solve or Brain Board. Play hard, cheer loud, lose well.
How to show up online as yourself, protect your privacy, and spot what is not real.
A 6 to 8 week series for pre-teens and teens that builds confidence, personal brand, and professional skills, then puts them on a stage in front of family and community.
Ways to book
Starting at $395
Pick one experience for one age group. Everyone leaves with something finished or a skill they can use right away.
Starting at $1,525
Four Movement sessions or four Technology workshops. We confirm the mix with you first.
Starting at $2,095
The Amazing Book Race brings seven stations for up to 35 youth. The four-station Branch Edition fits one room. Larger events are quoted by scope.
Starting at $695 per month
For libraries, community centers, churches and other groups that serve teens and older adults: one youth workshop and one older-adult craft each month, up to 15 each, on one invoice.
Signature series
A 6 to 8 week series for pre-teens and teens that builds confidence, personal brand, and professional skills, then puts them on a stage in front of family, friends, and community.
Five phases: The Innerview, The Lemonade Stand, You Got Served, It's Lit!, and Connect Café.
Each series serves a cohort of up to 24 with two facilitators.
From past youth programs led by Chelsi N. Glascoe, M.Div.
How the partnership works
Questions
Everyday Now youth workshops start at $395 for up to 15 youth, with materials, setup, facilitation, and cleanup included. Every Creativity workshop is a make and take. Four-session series start at $1,525. Events start at $595 for the Book Race Branch Edition, and the full Amazing Book Race starts at $2,095. Partner Monthly starts at $695 per month for one youth workshop and one older-adult craft.
Ages 8 to 18. Standard workshops serve up to 15 youth with one lead facilitator and host staff present. Groups of 16 to 24, and groups ages 8 to 10, add an assistant facilitator.
Every youth program is built on CASEL’s framework for social and emotional learning. Each session builds one named character trait and one real skill, and teens connect what they love to real career paths.
Facilitators working with youth complete Delaware-required background screening, and no facilitator is ever alone with a child. Check-in, supervision, and pickup stay with the host.
Libraries, recreation centers, camps, schools’ after-school programs, churches, and community organizations in New Castle, Kent, and Sussex County.
A room, a staff contact, youth supervision and pickup, and devices and Wi-Fi for Technology sessions. Meals come from your team or a licensed caterer.
Plan a program
We will reach out within two business days with program options, dates, and rates for your group. We can also supply program language for a grant application.