40 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019
Give the Gift
of an Experience
LYNNE KONSTANTIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
From private wheel-throwing
or canvas-painting classes to
Mommy and Me weekend classes
and art camp — even wax hands
and spin art — Creative Arts
Studios in Royal Oak is inventive fun for
all ages. creativeartsstudios.com.
Give an underwater adventure
in Metro Detroit. Recipients can
learn to scuba dive in a pool with
Novi’
s Motor City Scuba, whose
blended approach begins with
eLearning, then classroom, then confined
water before heading out to open-water
certification dives. motorcityscuba.com.
Introduce the kids (ages 6 and up)
to classical music and the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra with the
DSO’
s Young People’
s Family
Concerts (purchase a single con-
cert or season tickets). Often including
dance, theater, storytelling and video,
the 2019-20 season includes Gershwin’
s
Magic Key (shown) and Musical Heroes.
dso.org.
Learn to cook pasta from a chef
in Italy, sushi from a chef in
Japan, paella from a chef in Spain
and more with The Chef & The
Dish, cooking classes with chefs
from around the world via Skype. Your
chef shows you, then watches and coaches
you from your computer. From the ulti-
mate couple’
s night to a dinner party with
the girls — all taught by chefs featured on
the Food Network, the BBC and more.
thechefandthedish.com.
Pack up the family and head to
Washington, D.C., for a festive
Chanukah Getaway package:
Three nights at the Watergate
Hotel, including two family-con-
necting rooms, kosher wine tastings at
the Bar at Kingbird, kosher chocolate
gelt, a kids’
Chanukah book and dreidels,
a private car and more. Check out the
National Menorah Lighting on the
Ellipse, Chanukah on Ice, Zoo Lights at
the National Zoo, a holiday market and
more. Kosher meals can be included for
a cost. thewatergatehotel.com/offers/
hanukkah-in-dc-package.
Take a peek into your past — and
gain insight toward your future —
with a visit to a psychic medium.
Gift givers can schedule a small
group or private reading with two
local, renowned intuitive mediums, both
of whom may provide affirmation of an
afterlife if the client is open to it: Lynn
Darmon in Farmington Hills (248-860-
1121; lynndarmon.com) has clairvoyant,
clairaudent and precognitative abilities;
Lori Lipten, a shamanic medium, author
and spiritual teacher based in Bloomfield
Hills (248-219-5928; lorilipten.com), says
she can “see into the multiple dimensions
of this universe and sense people’
s souls.
”
Sign up for a course or two with
JLearn (formerly FedEd), the
JCC’
s and Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit’
s Jewish
adult learning mecca. Offering
workshops and classes on topics includ-
ing genealogy, ethics, Jewish history,
Hebrew language and more. (248) 205-
2557; jccdet.org/jlearn.
gift guide 2019
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CREATIVE ARTS STUDIO
MOTOR CITY SCUBA
GERSHWINÍS MAGIC KEY
THE CHEF AND THE DISH
THE WATERGATE HOTEL