The Yard at Corktown
You can spend a whole night at The Yard at Corktown playing a variety of games. It can start sitting down and playing nostalgic board games. Then, it can move outside for some cornhole, or try pinball or shuffleboard. Then, you can finish the night axe throwing with Detroit Axe.
Pewabic Pottery
Pewabic is a historic pottery on Detroit’s east side. You can learn all about it here, but the shop also offers a tile glazing workshop – which is a one-hour ceramic class where you’ll choose your tile design and learn to glaze. You’ll then pick up your pottery at a later date!
Detroit Dye House
In Corktown, Detroit Dye House offers a variety of different experiences. Their Dye Class 101 is a 60-minute experience where you’ll make three things – two to keep and one to give back. It includes a tote bag and then either socks, a tee shirt or other items. They also offer different specialty classes.
AR Workshop
AR Workshop has seven different locations across metro Detroit with different hands-on classes, camps and more. Their workshops involve woodworking, canvas workshops, knit blankets, candle pouring, embroidery and more.
Signal Return
Also on the east side, Signal Return is leading the Detroit revival of letterpress printing—a technology that radically transformed human communication in the 15th century, and an art and a craft appreciated anew in the 21st century. The studio offers different workshops where you can design cards, small posters, block printmaking and much more.
Speckles and Splatter
This art studio in Dearborn has splatter sessions and they encourage you to “let loose” by splattering paint all over a canvas they provide. The sessions are 45 minutes. They also have pottery wheel class in Northville that you can book if splattering paint isn’t your thing.
Sister Pie
The award-winning bakery in Detroit’s West Village neighborhood offers classes where you can try your hand at baking delicious food. They have classes for pie dough, hand pies, cookies, scones and more.
Garden Bowl
Garden Bowl is a legendary bowling alley in Detroit and has been around for over 100 years. Instead of sitting at a restaurant, try to get a strike on one of their 16 lanes while grabbing a slice of pizza and a drink.
Fowling Warehouse
Fowling (football bowling) was invented by Detroiters and the first Fowling Warehouse is in Hamtramck. You can try your hand at knocking down bowling pins with a football, and see if you can get a “BONK,” which is when you knock down the middle pin by itself and off the board with all other pins standing.
Painting With A Twist
Right in Downtown Detroit is Painting with a Twist, where you can pop-in and create your own painting, or join an event at the studio. You can bring your own drinks to enjoy while painting!
Detroit City Distillery
The distillery located in Eastern Market offers tours on the weekends where you can get a look at the whiskey-making process. They also have a new “build your own bourbon” experience where you create a custom blend of bourbon just for you.
The Damage Zone
Detroit’s first rage room just opened in December and offers what they call “smash therapy.” They have two adult rooms where you can go crazy and destroy whatever you’d like inside the room. If you want to bring kids, they also have a children’s room.
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