PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. -- Summer fun can be found online, a good option if summer camp isn't a good fit for your family this year.

University Area Community Development Corporation's Prodigy Cultural Arts Program is offering free online tutorials and challenges.

"We’re just trying to provide safe opportunities but continued opportunities for kids and even adults to continue their creative streams,” said Prodigy Director Mike Trepper.

"What we do is infuse life skills into those arts so while young people are learning about various cultural arts they’re also learning skills such as anger management, problem solving, communication, leadership development, teamwork," said Trepper.

Tutorials are available to learn about everything from dancing, drawing, and painting, to cooking and cardio. Other opportunities mindful not to overload kids online.

"Grab-and-go art kits, so we provided safe opportunities to pick up art supplies then they could go home and the participants could do projects and then show what they were doing online and virtually with their instructors,” said Trepper.

Children learning an art while learning a life lesson.

"'I can’t' should never be said," explained Carrie Harmon during one of her Life Skills challenges.

"If I say 'I can’t,' I never will. Your mind is an incredibly powerful tool. Once you tell yourself you can’t do something you’ve already decided it’s not going to happen.”

Instead, here's what Prodigy hopes will happen.

"We want them to find something that they’re good at, to build their self confidence and to be celebrated for the work that they’re doing, and so the big part of what we do is we host showcases whether it’s in person or virtually so that young people can feel that sense of accomplishment and they get to show off the work that they’re doing.”

Trepper says especially now between the coronavirus pandemic and social unrest, young people need an outlet to express themselves.

"They need a place, a safe place, and a safe space for them to creatively get their angst out, perhaps share their truth, their stories, their life experiences, and it’s really, really important and and it’s at the heart of what we do," said Trepper.