How to Act Like You're in a Kids Camp (When You're a Grown-Up)

The kids get to go to camp… but why don’t we? And not family camp (though this one is amazing) where you are with your kids, but camp where parents get to do arts & crafts, sports, hang out with friends, eat endlessly and have a fabulous time, without a care in the world. While it might not be possible to check out of your life & responsibilities for a whole week, here’s how you can create a camp experience for yourself, one activity at a time.

Time to Get Messy with Arts & Crafts

Your kids aren’t the only creative ones in the family. If you miss getting out there and learning new crafts or dabbling in paints, there are a lot of fabulous options around town. Paint & Sip Studio LA is a BYOB art studio. Round up a friend or 10, pack your favorite bottle of something that will inspire you to get creative and get a lesson from an artist. At the end of the night you’ll have a completed painting to rival the one your kid painted at camp! Cobalt & Clay is a new ceramics studio in Elysian Park where you can take hand building or throwing classes. And perennial kid fave, Makers Mess, has a whole host of adult makers workshops that range in topics from block printing, embroidery, calligraphy, carving & casting a ring and tons more. You can make things your kids never dreamed of!

If your kids aren’t in camp and you gotta bring ‘em…
While Cobalt & Clay and Makers Mess also have great kids classes, they’re not ones that you can take with them. However, ReDiscover center lets everyone build and create together at during weekend open hours.

Paint & Sip Studio LA
351 S. La Brea Ave.
Mid-City
323-386-4700
Online: paintandsipstudiola.com

Cobalt and Clay
2017 Riverside Dr.
Elysian Park
323-522-6717
Online: cobaltandclay.com

Makers Mess
602 N. Hoover
Silver Lake
213-448-4002
Online: makersmess.com

photo: Chantal G. via Yelp