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Family Knife Skills – Keep the Knife!
Ages 7-10 w/Adult
Thursday, April 16th, 2026 | 5:30-7:30pm

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Learning knife skills at a young age fosters independence, empowers the cook and enhances safety by replacing fear with proper, controlled techniques. Mastering these techniques, as an adult or a young person, leads to more efficient cooking and better eating.
With basic knife skills we’ll learn about the knife, knife cuts and cooking application. We’ll enjoy a roasted vegetable bowl with our knife cuts. Mary will demo a classic French vinaigrette

Menu:

  • Roasted Veggie Bowl with French Vinaigrette
  • Baked Chicken Wings with Dip

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Kitchen Safety
  • Knife Skills
  • Roasting
  • Cooking Applications for Different Knife Cuts

What you’ll take home:

  • Eat what you’d like and take home the leftovers
  • Recipes and instructions
  • Take home the knife you learn with!

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 7-10 accompanied by an adult – each adult can only have one child with them.
  • Best for beginner-intermediate youth cooks

**If you have any food allergies, food intolerances, or aversions, please contact the Baker Hunt Administration office before signing up for any cooking or baking classes.**

** Please stay home if you are feeling sick.

 

Instructor: Mary Seguin

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All Supplies Included

 

Homemade “Pop Tarts”
Baking Class for Ages 9-12
Saturday, May 23rd, 2026 | 9:30-11:30am

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Join Chef Jeri for a fun morning making homemade pop-tarts! You’ll team up and make the crust from scratch, then make your own filling choices and assemble the poptarts, bake ’em, then frost and eat them! This class is for ages 9-12. Students work in pairs, so sign up with a friend!

Skills You’ll Learn:

  • Kitchen Safety
  • Pastry Dough Basics
  • Measuring

What you’ll take home:

  • Pop tarts of your own creation to share (or keep for yourself!)
  • Recipes and skills to make more at home!

More about this class:

  • Class is for ages 9-12.
  • Great for beginner cooks!

**If you have any food allergies, food intolerances, or aversions, please contact the Baker Hunt Administration office before signing up for any cooking or baking classes.**

** Please stay home if you are feeling sick.

Instructor: Jeri Kubicki 

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All Supplies Included

 

I can paint an AXOLOTL
Saturday, 12:00 pm
February 21 | Ages 5-7

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Class:

Have your child join us on a Saturday and we will have ‘OLOTL’ fun when they learn how to use acrylics to paint an AXOLOTL on a canvas!

(This is a kids only workshop, no adults are in the classroom)

What You’ll Discover:

They will be in a step-by-step group learning environment as they learn how to paint their very own Axolotl painting on canvas board. The will learn the basics of how to paint using acrylics while learning some fun nature and axolotl facts!

What You’ll Create:

They will paint a copy of the pictured axolotl picture above on a 8×8″ canvas board.

Deadline to register: February 17th

Instructor:   Matthew Litteken

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All Supplies Included

APRONS WILL PROVIDED, BUT PLEASE WEAR CLOTHING YOU DON’T MIND GETTING DIRTY.

 

Shape-Shifting Foods
5-Day Cooking Camp | July 13 – July 17
9:00am-12:30pm | Ages 7 to 10

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CAMP Theme:

We eat with our eyes first! Lots of foods take forms other than their original/natural state – it’s part of the process, and part of the fun of cooking! This camp explores those processes in a fun and delicious way. Join us for a week of flavorful food transformations of all shapes & sizes.

What You’ll Discover:

In this camp you’ll discover techniques in baking and cooking with shapes and textures that change the way you see your food, and fun ways to eat it, too!

What You’ll Create:

Work with the chef to create and shape a variety of delicious foods: pretzels, porcupine buns, challah, pizza, cookies, meatballs, donut-holes, onigiri (rice), and so much more! Eat all you’d like during camp, and take any leftovers home with you each day!

Before-Care Available:

Before-Care provides additional time before camp for early drop-offs. Before-Care starts at 8am. To enroll, add the Before-Care “ticket” to your registration. After-care is not available for this camp | students must be picked up at 12:30pm

Deadline to register: June 13, 2026

Supply List

  • All Supplies Included.

 

Baking Masters!
5-Day Baking Camp | July 27 – July 31
9:00am-12:30pm | Ages 7 to 10

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CAMP Theme:

This camp is ALL about BAKING! Tackle the basics-intermediate baking skills like reading recipes, measuring, and more while you bake and decorate desserts all week!

What You’ll Discover:

In this camp you’ll discover techniques in baking like measuring, safely using the ovens, how to bake and build a beautiful cake, cupcakes, and more!

What You’ll Create:

Work with the chef to create muffins, cookies, cakes, cupcakes, creme brulee, cheesecakes, mini pies, and more! Enjoy making a delicious snack each day to help offset the sweetness of this camp! Students get to keep all the leftovers from what they bake in camp!

Before-Care Available:

Before-Care provides additional time before camp for early drop-offs. Before-Care starts at 8am. To enroll, add the Before-Care “ticket” to your registration. After-care is not available for this camp | students must be picked up at 12:30pm

Deadline to register: June 27, 2026

Supply List

  • All Supplies Included.

 

Introduction to Character Design
Saturday, 12:00 pm
January 10 – January 31 | Ages 11-13

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Class:

Learn the basics of character design in this four week course, offering demos on drawing basics like shape breakdowns and best sketchbook practices, with hands-on studio time. Students will develop original characters over the course of 4-weeks and learn visual storytelling elements.

What You’ll Learn:

You will learn what is meant by perspective, composition, foreshortening, anatomy, line quality, and shading. You will have the opportunity for one-on-one guidance, and inspiration from the instructor.

What You’ll Leave With:

By the end of each class meeting you will have a more understanding and confidence of how of how to draw and develop elements of creating character. After each of the four class meeting, you will have learned a new drawing application and character development skills.

Deadline to register by: January 6th  

Instructor:  Elyse Thaman

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  • All Supplies Included.

 

Animation Illustration
Saturday, 12:00 pm
February 7 – February 28 | Ages 10 – 15

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Class:

Learn the basics of animation, some of the principles, and history. You will be introduced to motion and hand-drawing paper animation by creating a flipbook! Begin creating your own character and start to animate them using the animation techniques used in the first class.

What You’ll Learn:

You will learn what is meant by perspective, composition, foreshortening, anatomy, line quality, and shading. You will have the opportunity for one-on-one guidance, and inspiration from the instructor.

What You’ll Leave With:

By the end of each class meeting you will have a more understanding and confidence of how of how to draw and develop elements of creating animations. After each of the four class meeting, you will have learned a new drawing application and character development skills.

Deadline to register by: February 3rd  

Instructor:  Elyse Thaman

Supply List

  • All Supplies Included.

 

Youth Handbuilding
Saturday, 9:00am
January 10 – January 31 | Ages 9-14

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Explore the magic of clay as we create beautiful pieces of pottery, in a positive and creative atmosphere. This class focuses on the foundations of clay handling, technique development, glazing, and decorating as they work on teacher-led projects and practices.

Students are required to follow the instructor’s curriculum. Only work produced from that curriculum will be fired.

What You’ll Learn:

Student’s will learn fundamental skills in handbuiling such as building from pinch pots and coils, introductory surface decoration, and the basics of glazing.

What You’ll Leave With:

Students taking this class will learn introductory skills in ceramics and will leave with 2-5 pieces.

(Students will submit glazed works for final firing on the last class of the session. Students will be contacted, via email, once their pottery has finished firing and available for pick up on a later date)

Instructor:  Charity Rust-Jordan

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All Supplies Included