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Improving the quality of early childhood education for children ages 0 to 5 living in DC’s most economically disadvantaged communities.

Inspiring a life-long love of learning through arts-based literacy programs for children, families, and teachers.

10/10/2026

Come join Inspired Child today at the Hirshhorn for their Open Studio program featuring our very own Magpie (Terry & Greg)! The program runs from 10am-2pm in the Hirshhorn’s Art School, where Magpie will be playing live music while visitors create art. We are thrilled to kick off our Hirshhorn partnership today for the 2026-2027 season!

09/15/2026

New school year, same joyful mission. Our teaching artists gathered this week to prep for another year of Inspired Child programming, including a powerful session from Dr. Jessica Phillips-Silver (Jessica Phillips-Silver )DAE’s Senior Advisor, on how music and the arts shape a child’s developing brain. We can’t wait to engage with our community through Dancing With Babies™, Rainbowdance®, and Dancing With Books™ in infant, toddler, and pre-K classrooms across DC and beyond.

06/10/2026

Join Inspired Child and for a special Storytime at the on Thursday, June 11, from 10:30–11:15 AM!
Enjoy a reading of A–Z, published by Shout Mouse Press, followed by an interactive music and movement session led by Inspired Child’s Mama Sylvia Soumah.
Bring your little ones for a fun-filled morning of stories, music, movement, and community. We can’t wait to see you there!

04/20/2026

✨🎶 Family Arts Series is coming! 🎶✨

Join us for a magical musical storytelling journey where imagination leads the way and even a simple piece of paper can become part of an unfolding adventure 📄🌊

In “The Magic Paper”, young children (up to 6 years old) and their families will explore creativity, movement, and music as we travel from city streets all the way to the sea 🚢🌆🌊

What sea creature will your child discover in their story?

📅 April 25th, 2026
🕙 10am – 11am
📍 Georgetown Location – Dumbarton United Methodist Church

🎵 Music & Storytelling with

Come play, imagine, and create together 💛

04/14/2026

✨ Spanish Storytelling Workshop ✨

On March 17th, we had a joyful Spanish storytelling workshop at the Hirshhorn Museum!

Children created dance costumes inspired by The Changes by Rashid Johnson, exploring art through stories, movement, and imagination. 🎨💃🏽

The workshop was beautifully led by Ms. Meli , and we are so grateful to the Hirshhorn team for this wonderful collaboration! 🤝

📅 Join us for the next Spanish storytelling workshop on May 19th — we’d love to see you there! 🌿📚.

03/19/2026

🌈 Let’s sing, move, and dance together!

Rainbowdance is a fun family program where little ones and their grown-ups explore music and movement in a joyful and creative space led by our teaching artist

🗓 Saturday the 21st

⏰ 10 AM

03/16/2026

Discover what makes you unique at the !

Teaching artist Melissa Strova-Valencia () from Inspired Child will be at the Hirshhorn Art School on Tuesday, March 17, for Estudio de Cuentos: ¿Quién soy yo? (Storytime Studio: Who Am I?), a free program in Spanish for kids. Estudio de Cuentos is a one-hour program, with sessions that begin at 10 AM and again at 11 AM. Facilitation is entirely in Spanish. We recommend that at least one person in your group (child or caregiver) speaks Spanish.

Join Meli and Hirshhorn educators for hands-on activities inspired by artist Rashid Johnson, whose installation artwork The Changes (2025) is on view in the Hirshhorn’s newest exhibition, “Big Things for Big Rooms.” Stay tuned for more Inspired Child and Art School partnership programs later this year.

🎨 Estudio de Cuentos is a free, drop-in program held on the third Tuesday of every month, once at 10 and again at 11 AM. It is designed for kids from birth to age 6 and their caregiver. The program takes place inside Art School on the Hirshhorn Museum’s Lower Level.

Learning in Art School. Courtesy Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Photo: Rick Coulby

03/01/2026

Color, hands, textures, and time together. 🎨

In our Inspired Child family program, children and caregivers explored side by side, touching, mixing, noticing, and playing.

Through color and texture, children and families shared discoveries, followed each other’s curiosity, and built connection in the simplest and most powerful way: being present together.

These moments of play become moments of bonding. 💛.

02/26/2026

Inspired Child was a partner in this amazing project with and , helping to amplify unheard voices 📚✨

Join us on March 8, 4pm–5:30pm at Busboys & Poets Brookland for a special book launch event celebrating nine teen parents who authored board books as part of the 2026 Mini Mirrors Series 💛👶🏽

The event will feature read-alouds of the stories 📖 and a conversation highlighting the journey these writers took to become published authors and create diverse books for young readers and families 🌱

This event is free, but please RSVP at the link in our bio to attend! 🎉

02/20/2026

🎨 Ready to get painty with us?

Join us for a joyful morning of movement, exploration, and art making alongside your little one.

This is a space where children and caregivers create side by side, discovering, playing, and embracing the beauty of process over product.

Come ready to move, connect, and leave with paint on your hands and memories in your heart 💛

Register through the link in our bio.

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Washington D.C., DC

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http://www.inspired-child.org/

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