Hopkins Community Education

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✨ Let's dive into a whimsical world of fairy crafts together! Join us for a delightful crafting session where we'll be making enchanting fairy houses, magical wands, and sparkling crowns fit for fairy royalty. Come unleash your creativity and add a touch of fairy-tale charm to your day. It's going to be a fun-filled gathering of crafting, imagination, and maybe a sprinkle of fairy dust!

Join us in the thrilling adventure of testing and evaluating the latest and greatest toys. Together, we will decide what criteria makes a great toy and meticulously assess chosen toys for key factors like durability, packaging, instructions, and the duration of play. We'll also unveil our top picks and celebrate the magic that sets exceptional toys apart! This class will take place at Kiddwampus located at 1023 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343. Students must bring a bag lunch

Become a curious scientist with your friends! Explore caring for the earth through fun hands-on STEM activities, including experiments that promote environmental stewardship, surprising ways to grow plants, and making some yummy snacks from plants we grow. Students will start flowers and vegetables to be transferred to the outdoor garden. It will be a fun and educational experience that will spark student's interest in science and the environment! This class is for VEDU students and will take place at the Hopkins VEDU building in the multi-purpose room on 1st floor. Parent volunteers are welcome. If you are interested in helping, please email Amie Mondl at rober199@umn.edu. This class is sponsored by the Hennepin County Green Partners Grant program and is free of charge. Registration is required.

If you have Manga Mania, sign up for this class. We’ll be drawing and coloring all things ANIME! Artists will learn to draw their own anime style characters ranging from easy to challenging – this is a great way to perfect those skills and learn new manga tricks. Each day students will complete multiple pieces of artwork like customized faces, animals, sugoi action and more ARTastic drawings. Sign up today!

Sculpt, slab, coil, and carve... roll up your sleeves, because this class is all clay, all the time! We’ll sculpt silly puppies, fuzzy hedgehogs, a chocolate layer cake that looks good enough to eat, and more. This is your chance to use tons of air-dry clay, Model Magic®, and so much more as you have a totally claylicious time! Hopkins Community Education is excited to provide a pick your price payment option for before and after school programming. Our hope is to provide access to high quality enrichment classes for all Hopkins students. Contact us for more information or to donate more.

Calling all doodlers! Are you ready to take your drawings to the next level? We’ve got the perfect class for you! In this advanced class designed specifically for older artists, we’ll learn and master a simple step-by-step method to truly fantastic drawings. From cute koalas to radiant sunsets to a lighthouse that really glow-in-the-dark, we’ll hone our drawing skills as we create unique masterpieces any burgeoning artist would be proud of! Hopkins Community Education is excited to provide a pick your price payment option for before and after school programming. Our hope is to provide access to high quality enrichment classes for all Hopkins students. Contact us for more information or to donate more.

This engaging camp will introduce young artists to the magical and messy world of clay. Unleash your child's imagination as they learn basic clay building techniques as they create their own sparkly geode, a fun-filled tic-tac-toe game, a beautiful leaf-shaped pinch pot with a mosaic decoration, and so much more!. Embrace the messiness and join us for some sculpting, shaping, and transforming clay into one-of-a-kind masterpieces. Let the messy fun begin! Hopkins Community Education is excited to provide a pick your price payment option for before and after school programming. Our hope is to provide access to high quality enrichment classes for all Hopkins students. Contact us for more information or to donate more.