Magical Creatures Drawing Lab

Prepare to be amazed as you watch your differently-wired kiddo make real friends, explore this unique content, grow under the guidance of this expert mentor, and be seen in all their glory!

Ages: 5-9

Class size: Maximum- 8 Students

Meets: 1 x per week

Level: All

Price Per Session: $41.80 weekly

Why Take This Course?

For young artists who dream of dragons, unicorns, and fantastical worlds, Magical and Mythical Creatures Drawing Lab offers a joyful, inclusive creative experience designed specifically for gifted, 2E, and neurodivergent learners ages 5-8. Centered on shape-based drawing techniques and imaginative storytelling, this course builds artistic confidence while fostering creative expression in a supportive, sensory-friendly environment.

Each weekly session blends:
🧝 Mythical Creature Exploration – Discover featured magical beings through engaging stories and visuals, spark imagination through discussion, and support each other's creative interpretations
🎨 Gentle Drawing Practice – Learn to break complex creatures into simple shapes, develop fundamental drawing skills at your own pace, and add personal details that make each creation uniquely yours

This course is designed with neurodivergent strengths in mind and is ideal for young learners who love fantasy, art, and creative expression. Through shape-based instruction, optional sharing opportunities, and encouraging guidance, students will expand their artistic abilities while celebrating their individual creative voices

If your child lights up talking about magical creatures and loves to draw and imagine, Magical Creatures Drawing Lab is their gateway to bringing fantastical worlds to life through art.

  • For young artists who dream of dragons, unicorns, and fantastical worlds, Magical and Mythical Creatures Drawing Lab offers a joyful, inclusive creative experience designed specifically for gifted, 2E, and neurodivergent learners ages 5-8. Centered on shape-based drawing techniques and imaginative storytelling, this course builds artistic confidence while fostering creative expression in a supportive, sensory-friendly environment.

    Each weekly session blends:
    🧝 Mythical Creature Exploration – Discover featured magical beings through engaging stories and visuals, spark imagination through discussion, and support each other's creative interpretations
    🎨 Gentle Drawing Practice – Learn to break complex creatures into simple shapes, develop fundamental drawing skills at your own pace, and add personal details that make each creation uniquely yours

    This course is designed with neurodivergent strengths in mind and is ideal for young learners who love fantasy, art, and creative expression. Through shape-based instruction, optional sharing opportunities, and encouraging guidance, students will expand their artistic abilities while celebrating their individual creative voices.

    By the end of the session, your young artist will have:
    ✔️ Mastered shape-based drawing techniques that transfer to any subject
    ✔️ Developed fundamental art skills in a low-pressure, joyful setting
    ✔️ Built confidence in creative expression and imaginative storytelling
    ✔️ Gained experience in a neurodivergent-affirming artistic community

    If your child lights up talking about magical creatures and loves to draw and imagine, Magical Creatures Drawing Lab is their gateway to bringing fantastical worlds to life through art.

  • By the end of the session, your young artist will have:
    ✔️ Mastered shape-based drawing techniques that transfer to any subject
    ✔️ Developed fundamental art skills in a low-pressure, joyful setting
    ✔️ Built confidence in creative expression and imaginative storytelling
    ✔️ Gained experience in a neurodivergent-affirming artistic community

  • ✨ Supplies for Class: To help your artist feel prepared and confident each week, please have the following supplies ready before class begins. Don’t worry—there’s no need to buy anything fancy, and substitutions are always welcome!

    📝 Paper or Sketchbook: Any kind of blank drawing paper works! A spiral-bound sketchbook or drawing pad is great, but loose paper is fine too.

    ✏️ Two Sharpened Pencils: Please bring 2 pencils with working erasers, or bring a separate artist’s eraser if your pencil erasers tend to smudge.

    🖊️ Black Pen for Outlines: A black pen, fine-tip marker, or gel pen helps make the final lines pop! Totally optional if your learner prefers just pencil.

    🎨 Coloring Supplies: Markers, crayons, colored pencils, watercolor pencils—whatever your child enjoys using! We love seeing the variety.

    📄 Printed Reference Page: Each week, I’ll provide a printable reference sheet in the classroom. Please print this out before class if possible.

    🎁 Optional: A Homemade Creation to Share: Learners are welcome (but never required!) to bring something they’ve made—art, a toy, a costume, a story—to share during our optional creative show-and-tell.

Our Promise To You

Satisfaction Guarantee: If you’re not 100% IN LOVE with your courses:

  • Payment Plan: Let us know in the first 24 hours and we’ll immediately stop all payments. After that, no worries! Tell us anytime, and we’ll stop future payments after a 30-day processing period.

  • Paid in Full: You can switch to another class of equal value or get a credit for the remaining balance for future classes.

We can offer you a 100% satisfaction guarantee because we know what we do works for hundreds of other families—and we know it will work for your family, too!

We’re taking all the risk because you’re getting over $2000 in bonuses when you sign up, and you could cancel the class and keep all the bonuses.

My promise to you.

-Mr. Sam

Mr Sam

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Meet Your Mentor

Miss Alex

Miss Alex has been teaching one thing or another (mostly art and STEM) for the better part of her adult life--although she often has trouble remembering that she is, indeed, a grown up! Often described as "weird," "nerdy" or "unlike the other kids" when she was in school (very long ago), she's grown to embrace her quirkiness, especially as a parent and educator. Her favorite part about her work is that she gets to do the very serious job of teaching while also spending her whole day "geeking out" with awesome kids about the best stuff: science, magical creatures, nature, animals, dinosaurs, imagination, art. She is inspired by how incredibly smart and curious her learners are, and enjoys exploring the wonders of the world right alongside them.

Miss Alex has been a STEAM and art educator for 8 years, as well as a homeschool parent, teacher, and advisor for nearly a decade. She applies an eclectic approach to teaching, seeing herself as more of a facilitator and fellow life-long learner than lecturer. She loves getting to know her students and building relationships with them as they explore and investigate together.

Miss Alex combines different learning styles in her lessons, and uses humor, lots of interactive discussion, and an approachable attitude to help everyone feel included and valued. As an ADHD parent of ADHD and neuro-diverse children, it is important to Miss Alex that all types of learners are able to have a positive, meaningful experience in her classes. Her goal is to open each child up to the joy of wondering, learning and connecting with the wide world all around us.

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Questions Asked By Fellow Parents

  • 4 KEY things:

    1- A focus on the positive! We don’t focus on what students aren’t doing, we support what they are and we know the rest will come. We develop strengths, interests, and relationships. We build students up so they can build a better world! And do it with the new friends they make in our program!

    2- Like-minded neurodivergent peers. Our asynchronous students need one another and YSA is a safe haven for these kiddos to connect around their asynchronies, quirks, and interests. We’re a place where they can be their authentic selves and make friends while doing so!

    3- Passionate, masterful neurodivergent mentors who have walked the walk and can authentically validate and support your child with personal experience and care AND expertise as we all have advanced masters + degrees

    4-Content your students care about taught in a way they love! We offer the courses they need to be taking, not the ones they’re required to take.

    Come by and see for yourself!

  • Please don’t confuse reactive “distance learning” and virtual enrichment programming. After all, a student who is completely fried from a boring zoom class is often quick to pick up a tablet or phone, right?

    Our courses are not at all the same animal =)

  • THIS IS A SATISFACTION GUARANTEE, so your child must attend the class in question to qualify.

    If you’re not 100% IN LOVE with your courses, here are your options:

    1- 8-Week Courses Refund requests must be received up to 24 hours after the first course begins to do one of the following options: 

    Payment plan or Paid in full- 3 options: transfer to another course of the same price, get a 100% refund credit toward a future class, or get a 75% money-back to the original payment method. 

    2-  16+ Week CoursesThe deposit made at the time of enrollment is non-refundable. Cancellation options are:

    Payment plan- Cancellation requests received up to 24 hours after the first course begins will stop any future payments. Any cancellation requests beyond that require a 30-day notice to stop the membership/billing.

    Paid in full- Cancellation requests require a 30-day notice. The remaining balance at the end of the 30-day cancellation period can be used to transfer to another class or be converted to credit toward a future class.

    Please read the description of each course before enrolling.

  • We do! We have 3 kinds:

    1- Word of mouth: 25% off- we know that the best way to reach new families is word of mouth. When you help another family enroll in a YSA class and they name you at checkout, you will get 25% off the cost of the course you’re currently enrolled in once they stay past the refund period. Note— this applies to all regular courses, BUT only applies to the first month of membership courses.

    2- Multi-sibling: 10% off- We believe in supporting whole families and we are willing to put our money where our mouth is! When you sign-up 2 or more kiddos you will receive 10% off. Note— this does not apply to our membership courses.

    3-Multi-course: 10% off- To fully serve your family, we hope to provide your child with all the courses they dream of taking! To make this more affordable, when you enroll in 3 or more classes, you will receive 10% off. Note— this does not apply to our membership courses.

  • Of course!

    As we like to say, if you’re on our site, you’re in the right place.

    Our programming is for students who are not being supported or challenged enough in school.

    If you have an asynchronous kiddo who you know has strengths and struggles, our courses are for your child.

  • 2e students experience such asynchronous development that it proves difficult to have hard age limits.

    We often evaluate students on a case by case basis =)

    Please email us and we’ll discuss: sam@youngscholarsacademy.org

  • All of our programs are 100% virtual. This allows us to bring together the twice-exceptional/neurodivergent students of the world, connect them, and nurture them!

    Your child may very well enter a 6-person class with 5 other students from 5 different states/countries!

    Cool, right?