'26 Fall Freedom Fridays with Ms. Ona

Service Description

Our Unique Curriculum: Welcome to Freedom Fridays, a hands-on homeschool enrichment program where children learn through creativity, connection, and craft. Freedom Fridays is a full-day pottery, art and cooking based program for ages 5 and up at Firefly Valley Pottery Studio in West Asheville, NC. Each week, children work in three core areas: pottery, fiber arts, and cooking—offering a rich, sensory experience that supports fine motor skills, patience, problem-solving, and self-expression. Our typical day might look like learning about the native landscapes, hand building planters with local fauna with underglaze transfers in the morning, whisking up some traditional snacks and learning weaving in the afternoon. In pottery, kids explore hand-building techniques like pinch pots, coil work, and slab construction, developing a tactile relationship with clay while making everything from functional wares to imaginative sculptures. Participants will also have individual wheel throwing lessons (morning or afternoon) with an instructor. Our fiber arts sessions introduce children to the magic of textiles, from natural dyeing to basic weaving, sewing, or knitting. Whatever textile practice fits in our cultural study theme of the semester! These activities foster focus and creativity while connecting kids to traditional handmade practices. In cooking, students engage in hands-on food preparation using wholesome, seasonal ingredients. They’ll learn kitchen basics, follow recipes, and build confidence as they chop, mix, measure, and taste their way through the seasons. Our unique environment: This will be almost entirely outdoors, with an indoor studio space available in colder/wet weather or lightening/high winds. We have a 500 square foot outdoor art pavilion that is covered for rain and sun. Oscar is our friendly, 22 lb hypoallergenic therapy dog that lives at Firefly Valley and is off leash, sniffing around the property. Come join us! And reach out with any questions!