Minnetonka Community Education

Get ready for a week of cooking, eating and learning! These camps will take you through the basic step-by-step process of making unique and delicious recipes. French Bakery This will be a fun week as we explore some classical French recipes. Cinnamon Palmiers anyone? Recipes may include: Ratatouille Flatbread, French Sable Cookies, Apple Galette, Cinnamon Palmiers A Proper English Tea Start practicing your accent and get your pinkies out! Recipes may include: Cucumber Sandwiches and Tea Tasting, BLT stuffed cherry tomatoes, World’s Best Scones, Victoria Sponge Cake Chocolate Lovers All things chocolate during this week. Take home your own homemade chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Truly for chocolate lovers. Recipes may include: Truffles, No Bake Chocolate Wafer Cake, Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, Homemade Chocolate Cake Let's Make Breakfast Do you love PopTarts? One of the days you will make your own homemade pop tarts which are totally delicious. Recipes may include: Very Berry Muffins, Homemade Pop Tarts, Stuffed French Toast, Breakfast Pizza Four Days - Five Cookies Mint chocolate chip cookies, Oatmeal Cinnamon Chip and Craisin are just two of the yummy recipes from this week. Recipes may include: Oreo Truffle Balls, Gingersnaps, Snickerdoodles, Potato Chip Cookies, Palmiers Pasta Week Let’s start with some Homemade Pasta and see what happens. Recipes may include: Ravioli, Fettuccine, Angel Hair pasta and Lasagna Food Network Week Enjoy four different friendly competitions. Bring your creativity and your taste buds. Foods on a Stick Who doesn’t love eating this way? How about S’mores on a Stick for starters? Recipes may include: S’mores on a Stick, Pizza on a Stick, French Toast on a Stick, Hot Dogs on a Skewer, PBJ on a stick A Week of Stuffed Wontons Sounds delicious right? You will be stuffed after this week. Recipes may include: Nutella Stuffed Wontons, Crispy Wontons, Baked Cream Cheese Wontons and Jalapeño Popper Wontons A Pie a Day Each day bring home your own pie to share. Do you love French Silk Pie? This is the week for you. Recipes may include: Key Lime Pie, Apple Pie, French Silk Pie and Empanadas Taco Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Tacobout lots of tacos. Recipes may include: Breakfast Tacos, Pork Tacos with Pineapple Salsa, Black Bean Tacos, Taco Lettuce Wraps A Pizza Each Day Enjoy bold flavors, classic recipes, and fresh ingredients as you learn to cook and bake these delicious pizzas. Recipes may include: Elote Pizza, Fruit Pizza, Hawaiian Pizza, Taco Pizza Recipes may be subject to change.

All levels are welcome. The {YEL!} Teach It!…Practice It!... Play It! method keeps you progressing with 60+ chess lessons and thousands of puzzles, as well as guided games and an end of the week in-class tournament. The class fee includes a ChessKid.com membership for the session ($49 annual value). Battle summer brain drain...sign up today! Please bring a water bottle, nut-free snack and wear recess attire.

Build It! Code It! Move It! all with the Micro:Bit robot and coding platform. Construct and code robots to move, sense their environment, participate in challenges and more using Micro:Bit. Please bring a water bottle and nut free snack.

Let’s explore our creative side making art that you can actually eat! We’ll have a blast decorating real cookies, making beautiful art on paper and sculpting clay. Each day we’ll decorate a cookie and create fun art projects to bring home. Back by popular demand – all new projects! Please bring a nut-free snack, water bottle and recess attire.

In honor of Mother’s Day, spend some creative time with your child. How many times have you said “Love you to the moon and back.” to your child? You and your young artist will create an adorable wall hanging inspired by this popular endearment. Children must be accompanied by a caregiver.

Learn how to turn different crafting materials into pieces of art. We’ll have a blast as we make a clay pinch pot, a wooden trinket box, a paper mache bird, a tie-dye T-shirt and many other fun crafts. So, what are you waiting for? Join us and have a Craft Attack! Please bring a white T-shirt, a water bottle, a nut free snack, and dress for art.

Show yourself a little self-love by making some natural gifts for yourself! All the products contain few ingredients and are completely NATURAL (using ingredients from the food co-op and essential oils). Open to all. All supplies are included. Day 1: Chocolate Mint Lip Balm, Contouring/Blush Powder Day 2: Peppermint Bath Salts, Shower Bombs Day 3: Makeup Remover, Lavender Eyelash Growth Serum Day 4: Coconut Oil Deodorant, Activated Charcoal Whitening Toothpaste

Explore the principles and elements of design as we create a product brand, logo and packaging, among other exciting projects. We’ll have fun creating many applications for our designs like our own stationary, stamp, gift wrapping and much more. Please bring a nut-free snack, water bottle and recess attire.

Launch and watch your very own rocket speed 300 feet into the air! Make and take home multiple rockets of varying difficulty. We will use these rockets and airplanes to investigate basic aeronautical concepts including propulsion, thrust, lift, drag and more. We will also hypothesize about travel in outer space, how to get a United States astronaut to Mars and life on Mars. Do you have the right stuff? NOTE: Parents will be asked to contribute two, 2 liter soda bottles (empty) for 2 different experiments. Please bring a water bottle and nut free snack.

Design your own rooms and spaces as you choose colors, elements and materials. Have fun sketching fabric designs, making miniature furniture and creating cool decorations to take home and display in your room. Please bring a nut-free snack, water bottle and recess attire.

Race drones against your friends, learn about model rocketry, uncover the science behind flight and discover how to shoot rockets up to 300 feet into “space”! Are you intrigued by Drones? Would you like to learn more about this amazing technology? What about learning to fly them and participate in aerial races? Then this camp is for you! Please bring a peanut-free snack and beverage.

Explore the awesome world of Dungeons & Dragons! Learn about the game, create your own character and embark on a short, one-shot adventure. Participate in D&D-related STEAM activities, like creating your own D&D-inspired video game. Bring a USB drive on the last day. Please bring a water bottle and nut free snack.

Are you ready to change the world through car creation? With LEGO® Bricks, you can design and construct a variety of cars, including wind-powered vehicles, high-performance drag racers and rubber band-propelled cars. Are you the next Nikola Tesla? Start your odyssey today! LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this site or program. Please bring a water bottle, nut free snack and wear recess attire.

The Ministry of Magic is inviting all aspiring wizards to this extraordinary camp. Participate in engineering challenges to earn points for your houses like creating the farthest-reaching Golden Snitch Launcher and the fastest Gringott Cart to reach the vaults. At the end of the week, the house with the most points is awarded the house cup, a great honor! Please bring a water bottle and nut free snack.

Work in small teams using the EV3 Mindstorms Robotic Systems and specialized LEGO® Technic™ engineering components to build extreme robots and run programs to experiment with and overcome Olympic-style challenges. You’ll be challenged to morph your projects into better, stronger, or faster robots. Possible robotic projects include Shot Put Launcher, Flipping Gymnast, Sumobot, and more. You will be working in small teams of 2-3. Please bring a water bottle and nut free snack.

Combining the LEGO® building system's versatility and the Mindstorms EV3 you will construct fun LEGO® models, experiment with programs and compete in robotic challenges. Robot building, block programming and teamwork will be part of each day's activities. The final challenges will be centered around hitting targets and a sumo battle. You will be working in small teams of 2-3. Please bring a water bottle and nut free snack.

Magical, mythical, marvelous art is coming your way! Tap into your imagination while learning to draw otherworldly creatures like fairies, trolls, and a forest queen. Please bring a nut-free snack, water bottle and recess attire.

Fashion Runway is back with all new artwork and all new fashions! Learn to draw portraits, figures and tons of the latest ‘tween fashion trends. Please bring a nut-free snack, water bottle and recess attire.