Minnetonka Community Education

Join us for a camp that combines art and yoga! We will start with yoga poses followed by drawing, painting, collaging, sculpting with clay and more.Each day we’ll play yoga games, use breathing and mindfulness techniques and have a great time unleashing our creativity!Bring a beverage, nut free snack and recess attire.

Learn art tricks as we draw and paint using different mediums like canvas and watercolor paper. We’ll also sculpt with clay, color with pastels, collage and more.This award winning program is designed to promote uniqueness and imaginative thinking. Join us in this popular class filled with color, texture, shape and fun! Each week we'll finish a new project to take home.

Experiment with different types of art while learning simple step-by-step painting and clay techniques. Make 3D bears, owls that glow-in-the-dark, a scratch board painting of a cat and so much more! Enjoy exploring the incredible world of art.Please pack a nut free snack and drink for your child.

Learn the basics of cartooning and create your own characters. Learn techniques used in cartooning; such as characteristics, features, exaggeration, action and personification, then apply your new skills to create your own original cartoon characters.

Animal lovers rejoice! Learn pastel drawing and texturing techniques to illustrate whimsical bees, a fanciful army of frogs, a striking owl and more artistic critters filled with detail. Challenge your creativity with a world of pastels, a guaranteed favorite summer tradition for every artist.

Create amazing crafty projects like a wooden picture frame, a papier-mâché animal, an origami dog, tie dye t-shirt and more. You’ll surely have a blast in this fun and crafty camp!Bring a white T-shirt, beverage, nut free snack, lunch and recess attire. 

Did you know that 95% of all species on earth are insects? Learn facts about bugs while creating beautiful butterflies, lovely ladybugs, brightly colored beetles and more. We’ll learn about different creepy crawlies and have fun creating art inspired by the bug of the day. We’ll explore several art methods as we create sculptures, paintings and more.his is a great class for siblings to take together! Please pack a nut free snack and drink for your child.

Join us for this all-new drawing workshop. Themes from the Secret Garden, Bridge to Terabithia and other fantasy worlds will be included in this week-long marker and colored pencil camp.

Work with a variety of art supplies including clay, paint, and of course, lots and lots of glitter! Create snow globes that glow-in-the-dark, butterflies that shimmer and glimmer, an Eiffel Tower with stars that twinkle, and so much more. Glitter and glow… here we go!

Are you a Harry Potter fan? Join us as we delve into the magical world of Harry Potter. Make fizzy potions, secret treasure maps and magic wands, host a “quidditch” tournament, design a fantasy creature and more. Don’t be a boring muggle, come and join the fun! Please bring a sack lunch and beverage. 

Jump on the Hogwarts Express at Platform 9 ¾ for Harry Potter fun. Design and create your own Tri-Wizard cup tournament, plant mandrakes in Professor Sprout’s Herbology Class, send owlers and howlers to your friends, experiment with delectable concoctions in our Honeydukes cooking class and more!  Don’t worry if you haven’t taken Harry Potter Hullabaloo 1 you can jump right into the fun!Please bring a sack lunch and beverage.

We’ll guide you step-by-step through the creation of super silly (and cute) animals! From cute, cuddly puppy dogs to happy hedgehogs, you will be impressed with how great your drawings turn out! Each child will receive their own How to Draw Cartoon Animals booklet to take home! Please pack a nut free snack and drink for your child.

Have you ever wished you were better at drawing cartoons? Learn step-by-step techniques that will help you draw super cool cartoons! From cute, cuddly puppy dogs to kooky cool characters – we’ll do it all at this camp. You will be impressed with how great your drawings turn out! Receive your own How to Draw Cartoons booklet to take home! Please pack a nut free snack and drink for your child.

Do you love to get messy? Then this is the art camp for you! We’ll use clay, papier-mâché, paint and more simply sloppy supplies to make projects your mom would never let you do at home! We’ll become masters at making a mess, learn some pretty cool stuff – and have lots of fun while doing it! Making a mess is the best!Please pack a nut free snack and drink for your child.

Be inspired by art created by Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edward Munch and Claes Oldenburg. We will recreate famous works of art like Monet’s Water Lilies, Munch’s The Scream, Oldenburg’s Spoonbridge and Cherry and more, all in clay. Make room to display these masterpieces! The projects your child creates in this class are going to be amazing! Please pack a nut free snack and drink for your child.

This camp is packed full of fan favorites! From papier-mâché bowls, projects that glow-in-the-dark and messy clay masterpieces; these are the projects our littlest students love the most! This is the stuff the kids can’t get enough of and guaranteed to be an artsy good time! Please pack a nut free snack and drink for your child.

Let your child become a superhero for a week in this fun-filled art camp! We’ll make our own superhero accessories like shields, cuffs, special pins, masks and more! Along the way we’ll do art related to PJ Masks.  Children are welcome to come in costume.  Please bring a change of clothing.  Bring a beverage and nut free snack.

Celebrate the summer with art! Your little one will create with clay and paint with bright colors as we practice fine motor and social skills. We’ll have a great time printing, collaging, reading stories, playing games and singing favorite songs.Bring a beverage, nut free snack and recess attire. 

Calling all Pokémon fans! Join us at this ultimate Pokémon art camp based on the hit series and movie. Explore your creative side bringing virtual designs to life and learning how to draw, paint, collage and sculpt creatures from Pokémon to take home.Bring a beverage, nut free snack and recess attire. 

Get ready for your very own Project Runway fashion show exhibiting sewing projects (a swimsuit cover-up, mini messenger bag, ear bud case and your personalized sewer’s handbook), designs and flair made with your own hands! Learn the basics of hand sewing, machine sewing as well as measuring, pinning and cutting patterns. The {YEL!} Project Runway Sewing Camp follows four basic principles: •Teach It!…Students are taught multiple hand and machine sewing techniques; •Practice It!… Students practice those techniques on basic projects; •Sew It!…Students increase their skill and sew more complicated projects; •Own It!…Students showcase their projects on the last day of class (family and friends are invited), then take everything home with them to walk the runway of everyday life! Sign up today to THINK, LEARN and PLAY WELL with {YEL!}.Mark your calendar for the PROJECT RUNWAY SHOWCASE the last day of camp. 

Join the unicorn craze! Create several magical unicorn projects including an adorable unicorn stuffie, a unicorn charm, a canvas painting, a whimsical collage and sparkly slime.Bring a beverage, nut free snack and recess attire.