District 196 Community Education

Enter a journey where fun meets fitness. Develop gross motor skills, coordination and balance through playful and engaging activities. Master skills, celebrate acheivements and boost self-esteem. Watch your confidence soar.

Join us for mindful movement that will slowly incorporate one movement practice per session with many styles of Qigong and Tai Chi for health, or Tai Chi Chih and Tai Chi for better balance. Meets outdoors.

Join us for community singing (no music reading or theory, auditions or solos, all singers are welcome or come to listen). Enjoy vocal warm-up exercises, self-lymphatic massage, breathing techniques and three to four songs to boost your brain and mood. Meets outdoors.

Design and build your own escape map using Minecraft EDU tools. Learn to power up traps with redstone, code hidden mechanisms and create clever puzzles to challenge your friends. Build secret rooms, treasure vaults and brain-teasing mazes that test creativity and logic.

Create your very own super-tools, design fun or fearsome custom mods, and invent tasty new foods to keep your characters energized. Using MCreator for Minecraft: Java Edition, learn the basics of coding logic, while building and testing their mods. Students should be comfortable using a computer.

Tame creatures, battle beasts and build epic fantasy worlds - secret lairs, mystical zoos and enchanted ruins. Learn pro building skills, explore with friends and take your Minecraft adventures to the next level!

Turn Minecraft from a game into a visual learning tool! Collaborate to create your own themed adventure maps. While immersed in Minecraft's fun and creative world, learn about programming and game design concepts.

Learn how to code robots (bots) that can mine, build and collect resources! Just like real-life robots, your Minecraft creations will help automate tasks and make your gameplay smarter and faster. Work with friends to program clever machines, explore creative coding tricks and unlock new ways to play.

Can you survive in the sky? You’ll farm, build and expand from your first floating island into an amazing sky world. You’ll master survival strategies, expand with farms and platforms and tackle amazing resource challenges.

Learn how to record, edit, add music and share your very own gaming videos while exploring the awesome world of Minecraft. Get insider tips on how to create engaging videos, fair use and copyright as you develop your on-screen style. Collaborate with fellow gamers, exchange creative ideas and take the first steps toward becoming a confident YouTube creator!

Join your friends for a fun day of mini-golf at King Park. You will be paired with another player for a round of nine holes. Following mini-golf there will be a hot dog lunch including chips, fresh fruit and dessert. There will be giveaways and a raffle! This event is hosted by the Lakeville Lions Club. Please arrive at 10:45 am so teams can be organized.

Join your friends for some fun outdoors playing mini-golf at the fully accessible nine-hole course at King Park in Lakeville. It is adjacent to a fully accessible playground area, so before or after you play you can enjoy the playground or walking trails. There is a picnic shelter at the park. Golf putters and golf balls provided. There will be a concession stand open, so bring money if you'd like to purchase a hot dog, snack, beverage or ice cream.

Our bowling leagues meet at Bogart's Entertainment Center. Join your friends for a fun afternoon of bowling and visiting. If you are hungry, arrive before bowling and enjoy a meal in the Back Alley Tavern. You receive a free beverage with a meal purchase before our league start time. Bowling sessions fill up quickly! You must pre-register to ensure you will have a lane assigned. Please respect Bogart’s NO OUTSIDE FOOD OR DRINK policy. Please indicate on your registration if you need lane bumpers and/or bowling ramp.

Our bowling leagues meet at Bogart's Entertainment Center. Join your friends for a fun afternoon of bowling and visiting. If you are hungry, arrive before bowling and enjoy a meal in the Back Alley Tavern. You receive a free beverage with a meal purchase before our league start time. Bowling sessions fill up quickly! You must pre-register to ensure you will have a lane assigned. Please respect Bogart’s NO OUTSIDE FOOD OR DRINK policy. Please indicate on your registration if you need lane bumpers and/or bowling ramp.

Learn financial literacy skills and practice math skills through experiential activities. Earn "money" through a series of games and activities. Play different roles and be presented with opportunities to spend, share and save your money. The week culminates when you can use your earnings to purchase items in a simulated store.

Ready to bring your love of movies to life? Create a mini version of SpongeBob’s Bikini Bottom, sculpt a clay Spider-Man and sharpen your drawing skills with help from Olaf. If you are a movie-loving kids who want to get crafty and express yourself, this is for you.

Sprout yummy microgreen mini-gardens in hollowed out potatoes. Grow yummy, delicious, nutritious snacks in just a few days using a real potato as a planter. Add fun faces to your potato planters and sprout chia, radish and cress seeds for “hair” and eating.

Work as a team to create a custom theme park in Minecraft. Use creativity and Redstone to create this world! Possible projects include roller coasters, water rides, a trampoline park, an obstacle course, a boat race, bumper boats, a dunk tank and many more rides and attractions! Take home a copy of the world map to expand upon.

Discover the joy of making Music Together! Sing, laugh, move and learn along with your baby, toddler or preschooler for pure fun. Enjoy a warm, supportive environment with the goal of having you feeling comfortable singing, dancing and jamming. Because young children learn best from the powerful role models in their lives, our engaging classes show parents and caregivers how to help their children become confident, lifelong music-makers just by having fun making music themselves. Classes are mixed-age so the siblings can be together. Infants under eight months on the first day of the summer session (born after October 20, 2025) attend free with a paid sibling. Receive a CD, a code to download the music, an illustrated songbook and parent education materials. Register your child only. Location: Apple Valley Community Center (AVCC) 14603 Hayes Road