Mentoring Tiny Humans

LEGOLAND California, 3368 Eureka Place, Carlsbad, CA 92008

mapLEGOLAND California, 3368 Eureka Place, Carlsbad, CA 92008

About

Mentoring Tiny Humans offers hands-on activities such as board games, coloring, puzzles, tie dye parties, and a Learning With Lego & Building Class. The program hosts events and classes that include an annual egg hunt at the park, holiday photos, making LEGO winter pendants, using LEGO to print winter themed messages, drinking and experimenting with making vegan hot cocoa, painting pottery ornaments, and holiday tree ornament making through pottery painting. Families can also take part in park days, board game days, field trips, camps, a boo-basket exchange, a ring in the new year event, Bored Game Day at the Canyon Lake Library, and monthly social activities such as park days, field trips, camps, and more.

• Ages: 3–17 years old
• Schedule: Day Camps (2 hours); Tie-Dying Parties (2 hours); Sensory Experience Workshop (2 hours); Individual/Private Classes or Coaching (1 hour); Virtual Business Coaching Consultation (1 hour); Virtual Coaching Consultation (30 minutes)
• Price: Learning With Lego & Building Class: $30; Learning Through Gaming: $25; Tie-Dying, Arts, and Crafts: $25; Creative Writing, Journaling, Literature: $25; Fun Fitness: $25; Communication and Social Skills: $25; Day Camps (2 Hours): $60; Field Trips (class/service offering): $25; Tie-Dying Parties: email for pricing; Virtual Coaching Consultation: from $25; Fundamentals of Learning with Felines: $30; Immersive Science: Silly State Science: $25; Individual/Private Classes or Coaching: from $120; Sensory Experience Workshop: from $250; Virtual Business Coaching Consultation: from $100

Mentoring Tiny Humans was created over 9 years ago by owner and operator Typhanie Sharfner. The owner and operator has over 25 years of experience working directly with children in various ways, including at educational facilities and immediate trauma education as a volunteer with Trauma Intervention Programs, and holds a degree in communications and cultural studies with education in Counseling studies.

Each class at Mentoring Tiny Humans is described as multifaceted, hands-on, and multi-sensory, with an autonomous, empathetic, child-led, and inclusive learning environment for all students, especially the autistic and neurodiverse community, including twice-exceptional (2E) students. The program offers neuro-affirming play-based education with a focus on self regulation, communication in whatever form, empathy, emotional awareness, self and situational awareness, self advocacy, and boundary setting. The organization states that it aims to create unique and affordable classes, events, and field trips that are welcoming, educational, all-inclusive, and that promote family and caregiver bonding and memory making, with weekly opportunities for engagement and monthly social activities.

Mentoring Tiny Humans provides neuro-affirming classes, field trips, tie dye workshops, tie dye supplies, clothing, and crafts for all ages and abilities, and offers a yearbook and lesson plans to go with activities. The program notes that there are no mandatory attendance quotas, and that it offers a co-op feel and co-op prices with options for charter and self determination funding, including acceptance of charter funds from Mission Vista Academy. It works to create unique sensory spaces, provides fidgets and sensory bins, and shares information about facilities or events ahead of time, with a stated willingness to collaborate in advance to make accommodations or supports.

Activities and services also include Learning Through Gaming, Tie-Dying, Arts, and Crafts, Creative Writing, Journaling, Literature, Fun Fitness, Communication and Social Skills, Day Camps (2 hours), Field Trips as a class or service offering, Tie-Dying Parties, Virtual Coaching Consultation, Fundamentals of Learning with Felines, Immersive Science: Silly State Science, Individual/Private Classes or Coaching, Sensory Experience Workshops, and Virtual Business Coaching Consultation. The program also offers take and make crafts, tie dye clothing, supplies, and accessories, and creates items such as a Drinking Mug & Handprint Dish or Plaque.

Mentoring Tiny Humans describes itself as a third-generation tie dyer using only professional proprietary fiber reactive dyes, with colors that do not fade after washing, and can either come to the client or provide a kit to do tie dye at home or with a group. The organization partners with Neighborhood Forest to provide free trees to children and serve as a central pick up location. It works with local libraries to offer monthly events, giveaways, and activities, including creating a unique sensory space and providing activities specifically for the special needs community. Sales from the shop help fund free community events, field trips, tours, sensory spaces, free consultation services, and free and low cost events throughout the Temecula Valley.

Last updated March 30, 2026.

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