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Enjoy the insights and ideas of our teaching team on child development, parenting, and how to incorporate the arts at home.
Gift Card Special through Small Business Saturday!
Thank you for supporting our small business! Bubbles Academy is proud to be a Chicago Original! Founded in 2003, we take pride in creating individualized class content, events, workshops and experiences for families and meaningful work for passionate teaching artists!...
Donation Drive with Cradles to Crayons!
Throughout this holiday season, Bubbles Academy will be collecting donations of items for children, ages 12 and under, for Cradles to Crayons, a wonderful organization in Chicago that works to provide children with essential items, free of charge. New items in need:...
Scare-Free Halloween!
Halloween is a hugely popular holiday, with good reason! Candy, costumes and community make for a fun times all around. However, this holiday can be overwhelming and overstimulating, not to mention, scary for toddlers and young children. Here are some tips to having...
Encourage secure attachment & positive separation experiences with these steps!
“When a child is held in mind, the child feels it, and knows it. There is a sense of safety, of containment, and, most important, existence in that other, which has always seemed to me vital. . . . It seems to me that one of life’s greatest privileges is just that—the...
Lauren Smoke Music Scholarship
For over 8 years, Miss Lauren was a beloved teacher at Bubbles Academy. She lifted spirits of children and families through her lovely voice and kind heart. Sadly, Lauren lost her battle with stage IV breast cancer this past April. We think of her daily at Bubbles...
MomBoss Mondays!
We are excited to launch our MomBoss Mondays program! Bubbles Academy is a mom-run-mom-owned business and we are always looking for ways to help support and encourage our fellow small businesses. This is a fun way for us to provide local resources for our families and...
Tips from Kim: Make Your Crunches Count
Tips From Kim: Make Your Crunches Count Did you ever wonder why after doing hundreds of sit-ups, you don’t see a six-pack but instead see the dreaded poof and are left with a back ache? It’s probably because most of us don’t do them correctly and end up doing more...
Our Attention Intention – Listening with all of our senses
Every two months, our team focuses on an area of development to reflect on in our teaching artist practice. This season, we are starting the year with the intention of ATTENTION. Adults are often concerned with attention when raising or working with children. “How do...
A Great Big THANK YOU!!
With the completion of this exterior mural and amidst the buzz of construction at 2184 N. Elston, we’ve crossed an important threshold where we can actually see that THIS IS HAPPENING! 🙂 The new Bubbles Academy is on its way and we will be announcing exciting details...
Bubbles Academy PoP-Up Halloween Events!
We love this time of year! Looking forward to tons of creative and silly fun with our friends at these scare-free Halloween events: Bubbles Academy Halloween Party for a Cause at Athleta on Weed Street! Friday, October 28th 4:00 - 5:30 pm Admission by donation - All...