Cloud 9 Workshop: A welcoming Milwaukee maker space for kids to explore art, learn by making, and gain confidence.
Cloud 9 Workshop in Milwaukee is a welcoming space for kids offering classes, after-school art club, open studio, and summer camps. Reviews highlight friendly, patient staff and a hands-on, creative environment where projects like Gadgets & Gizmos, Lotions, Potions, and Slime come to life, plus Amazing Animal Art and Treehouse Architects. It emphasizes prototypes, learning from mistakes, and growing confidence.
5205 W North Ave #5209, Milwaukee, WI 53208, USA
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Week-long themed camps for kids, including Gadgets & Gizmos, Amazing Animal Art, and Treehouse Architects, focusing on hands-on skills and creative confidence.
Customizable party packages with art projects like spinning tops, including decor and supplies, in a fun, engaging space for children.
Drop-in tinkering and art sessions for families and individuals to build projects like dragons or gnomes using provided materials and tools.
Regular programs for kids to explore creativity through various art forms in a supportive, skill-building environment.
A self-directed area with open-ended materials for building and creating, ideal for creative thinkers of all ages.
Overall rating
Annette kirchen
Such a wonderful place to spend time with a little one. The instructor was very engaging, the project was fun and age appropriate, loved that it started with a story read by the instructor and there was plenty to keep my great neice engaged before during and after the project. Would go again in a heartbeat 💓
Dennise Miranda
Christie Vick
My daughter has loved her experiences at Cloud 9 Workshop—from classes to after-school art club to open studio and summer camps. Kelcey has created such a welcoming and creative space, and I really appreciate that my daughter can explore her ideas while I don’t have to worry about the mess at home. Highly recommend!
Jesus Enrique Nañez
Great place and great owners!
Abby Bar-Lev Wiley
This was the second year that my rising second-grader experienced the Cloud9 summer camps. Last year he did Gadgets & Gizmos and Lotions, Potions, and Slime. Loved them so much that he couldn't wait to come back. This year, he did those two camps again, plus Amazing Animal Art, Teeny Tiny Rooms with Itty Bitty Art, and Treehouse Architects. Our family has SO many positive things to say about this very special place. My son is a naturally crafty kid (unlike his mother), and this place absolutely feeds his soul. The people who work there are kind, skilled, patient, community-minded, and are wonderful with the kids. My son learned so many new skills (more than I'm aware of, I'm sure), but they include: hand sewing, weaving, paper mache, sanding, and even just how to draw up a blueprint and how to have the patience to think through a design before just diving in. He loved that he both was always learning new skills, AND that he could build upon the skills he had learned in earlier camps (for example, he learned to weave during Amazing Animal Art, and then decided to weave a window covering in Teen Tiny Rooms). In fact, his confidence and comfort in making mistakes has SOARED this summer, for which we are so grateful and which is so so so perfect for going into the school year. When the kids first build their initial designs, they do the "earthquake test" for the projects that include structures (like the "Teeny tiny room" camp, which was more like building your own dollhouse than making a diorama, which is what I had been expecting, or "Treehouse Architects"), and if the structure doesn't hold up they identify what needs to be fixed and go about making those changes. Similar process for when they make their boats during Gadgets & Gizmos (a floating test). Essentially, they are learning about prototypes and the process of creation, understanding that making errors is part of the process, and that we don't always get it right the first time. WELL, my 7yr old boy is telling me on one of the last days of his last camp at Cloud9 this summer, that a friend who was new to the camp got really upset during the earthquake test because the friend's structure broke. Without my prompting at all, he says, "I guess he just doesn't understand yet that making mistakes is part of how you create." WOW. I was floored. This is a kid who previously did not have this mindset. As we talked more about it--how he really learned through his experiences at Cloud9 that it's not always going to be right the first time, and that's ok, in fact that's to be expected--I really came to understand that what these camps have given him is not just new skills, not even just the pride he feels around his art. It's CONFIDENCE: it is comfort around making mistakes, the understanding that failure is just one step in a longer process, the self-assuredness to bounce back and see mistakes as an opportunity to make something better. This confidence (and frankly, humbleness) will serve my son well not just at the beginning of the school year, but throughout the years. I am SO grateful to Cloud9 Workshop. It's so much more than just a place to create. My son has loved every single thing they've done every single day, and he takes so much pride now in his ability to create. He's made unique creations that he wouldn't have been able to do at home or at any other camp. AND he's gained a newfound patience and confidence around the process of being a maker. Truly a very, very special place. Sharing here just a few examples of the art he's made (and been so proud of) this summer.
M. Harris
Staff was amazing!
