Minnetonka Community Education

As we say good-bye to the old year, we have to perfect project to welcome 2019: a perpetual calendar.  Using wood blocks in various shapes and sizes, you will make a calendar that can be used all year long. Each person can customize their calendar in the colors of their choice. Your perpetual calendar will look great on a desk, a table, on your nightstand - or even make a great holiday gift!

Everyone loves BINGO! So get your friends together and join us for a night of BINGO! Prizes galore! A snack and a pop are included in the fee. Snack and pop available for staff at an additional charge. 

It's that time of year again... our annual Holiday Bake & Take. Rotate from kitchen to kitchen and make and/or bake several different kinds of holiday cookies and treats to take home and share. Listen to holiday music, have a glass of punch, and chat with friends.This is the perfect event to get in the holiday spirit! We will provide bags for each of the treats.  Sessions fill quickly, so please register early. 

Do you have a cook on your holiday list and don't know what to get them? Join us as we prepare this special and unique gift any cook would love to receive! We will customize a chef's apron with fabric and/or fabric paints, then decorate a jar and fill it with kitchen essentials. Gift wrap it in class and your favorite cook's gift is all set!

You will love making these holiday gifts in a jar! We will show you how to prepare three different jar gifts in this class: a holiday cookie recipe, a brownie recipe and a hot chocolate recipe.  All the ingredients get layered in the jar, then we decorate each one using festive holiday labels, tags and ribbons. You will have three great (and delicious!) gifts to take home. Give these unique and special jars to friends and family for the holidays; we guarantee they will love them!

Do you love pumpkin? We certainly do! We are sharing some of favorite pumpkin recipes with you this fall. You will rotate around the kitchen and make/bake pumpkin cupcakes, pumpkin crumb bars and pumpkin chocolate chip bread. We will sample all recipes in class, but you will also take home some treats to share! 

Join us for our 6th Annual (and very popular) Holiday Make & Take. Because there are so many fun and beautiful ornaments and decorations for the holiday season, we couldn't decide on just one, so we've picked some of our favorites and will show you how to make them. You will rotate stations to create a unique holiday project at each. Give them as a gift or take them home for yourself. if you've attended our previous Holiday Make & Takes, you know you don't want to miss this one! Two sessions/dates are available for this class, please only register for one (we plan on making the same projects at each class).

Dare your friends to grab a Halloween treat from this spooky dish! Decorate the "tombstone" and dish, then fill with a mix of Halloween candy from our treat stash. As a second bonus project, we'll also make a simple Halloween luminaria for fright night!

our popular ice cream social is back! Join us for an old-fashioned ice cream social, play some games and connect with friends. Get your winter 2018-2019 Project SOAR catalog hot off the press! We will unveil upcoming classes, activities and events. Lots of great door prizes throughout the evening - don't miss out on all the fun! 

Join us for Sunday afternoon bowling! Bowling is fun and a great place to socialize with friends. You’ll enjoy unlimited bowling for 2 hours, shoe rental, pop and pizza. Discover your inner athlete! Adapted to all abilities. REGISTER EARLY - LIMITED TO 25 BOWLERS. Because of its popularity and limited bowling lanes, the bowling portion of this activity will only be available to participants in the program and not staff/family.  However, Staff is welcome to attend and assist the participant. REGISTRATION REQUIRED! 

Start your weekend early! Grab some friends and join us for this very popular event. Come and watch a recently released movie and dine on pizza, pop and a treat. We would love to have you!

You will love painting and creating your very own Rudolph and Frosty wall art! We start with canvas,use stencils and paint to make our character, then add 3-D details, such as pompoms, ribbon, yarn, and buttons to really make them special. They may look complicated, but they are really easy to make using the simple stencils we've created for you. You will go home with two canvas pieces to display in your home all winter long.

It's the holiday season and time to have your nails sparkle and shine! Join us for an evening of relaxation, beauty and friendship. We have some fabulous new colors for your nails, along with some sparkles and decals. Enjoy a glass of "bubbly" and a treat. Leave feeling beautifully relaxed, ready to finish up 2018! Staff, we ask that you stay to assist with this activity..

Our super popular Halloween cooking class is back, better than ever! Join us in making some spooky treats and haunted eats, including a main dish, side dish, treats and a haunted punch. We will have lots of ghoulish recipes to sample in class so come hungry. This class fills quickly, so register early!

Goggle, gobble! It's almost Thanksgiving and we are seeing turkeys everywhere!  In this fun class, we start off with a wooden "turkey" which you will paint and decorate to make it your own.  Tom Turkey is sure to brighten up your home or Thanksgiving table. 

Join us as we wrap up 2018 with this classic children's (and adults!) favorite: Winnie the Pooh. Winnie-the-Pooh is Christopher Robin's fat little "bear of very little brain" who would like to drift peacefully through life, humming tunes and stopping frequently to eat "a little something." However, he finds himself involved in all sorts of frantic adventures, assisted by such friends as Eeyore, Piglet and Rabbit. Pooh's intentions are always the best, but his passion for honey keeps getting him in trouble. No refunds/cancellations after December 5th.

Be a "deer" and join us in making this adorable winter wreath! We will use grapevine, snow-covered greenery and ribbon to assemble this woodland-themed wreath, then add our little deer. Perfect for holiday decorating and several months after, you can display in your home (or door) well into the heart of winter!