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Fun for Kids • Ages 4–12 Glitzy Girlz : Masquerade Glam Night Ages 4 –11 Come join the Glitzy Girlz and welcome Mardi Gras! Our staff gives each girl a fun make-over with a neon hairdo, sequined face mask, neon nails, and beads. You and your friends will each design and decorate a colored tote bag using stamps, paints, and other embellishments. Glitzy Girlz staff leads a fun dance party, complete with disco lights and cool music. We provide fun props like hats, scarfs, and life size photo frames where parents can take pictures the girls. Be sure to bring a camera, and tell your friends to sign up, too! kr Min/Max: 7/14 Leisure Center, Room 112 Thursday, February 18 6:00 –7:15p R: $26/NR: $33 #461603-1 Pop Princess : I ♥ Taylor Ages 4 –11 Join Glitzy Girlz and celebrate the AMAZING Taylor Swift! Our staff gives each girl a hairdo with a “rock princess" vibe, plus red lips and red nails inspired by Taylor's favorite color! Each girl decorates a mini guitar with paints, jewels, and special Taylor messages made with stickers. There will be a Taylor Swift trivia game, and prizes for everyone. Each girl gets into wardrobe with a super cool mesh skirt, a glove and a microphone to channel Taylor, and all of those items are for you take home! Then we “Shake it Off” to her popular tunes and really rock out. Tell your friends to sign up with you! kr Min/Max: 7/14 Leisure Center, Room 112 Thursday, April 21 6:00 –7:15p R: $33/NR: $39 #561602-1 fun, fabulous unforgettable birthday parties for ages 3–10 are on page 15! 20 Elementary Engineering for Kids Ages 7– 8 LEGO™ Engineering Kit is a fantastic tool to get children started on path to engineering. In this ‘build and explore’ class they get to build working models of simple machines that they see and experience in day to day life. The hands-on curriculum of building engineering models provides them with knowledge of simple machines to include working of levers, concept of pulleys and how pulleys multiply force to do difficult jobs, simple and compound gears, inclined plane and much more. After building of every model, they get to explore their ingenuity by modifying the working models to make them more efficient and dynamic. They do what the LEGO™ children love the most to do. As a direct outcome, it improves their skills in STEM, and builds an attitude for studies in fields of STEM. The class draws strength from working in teams of twos, exchanging ideas with each other to build and explore. mh Min/Max: 4/12 8 Weeks TechnoSaurus, Instructor Prairie Lakes, Meeting Room 1 Mondays, 5:30 – 6:15p 1/18 –3/7 R: $133/NR: $166 #455308-1 Video Gaming: Making Computer Games Ages 8 –12 From the word go, participants plunge in to the virtual world learning the art of making multimedia computer games for everyone to enjoy. Children acquire knowledge and skill to work with graphics software with graphical programming language specifically designed just for kids by MIT Media Lab, to bring their imagination and creativity to life. Participants will learn how to create computer games with assortment of dancing and singing characters, animated motions and actions against custom b ackground settings. They also try their hand at digital drawing and painting to create characters and backgrounds, and importing and adding sound effects and music to their creations. Participants will be able to carry the accomplished computer game projects on their own USB flash drives. mh Min/Max: 4/12 8 Weeks TechnoSaurus, Instructor Prairie Lakes, Meeting Room 1 Mondays, 6:45 –7:30p 1/18 –3/7 R: $139/NR: $174 #455312-1 LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse these classes.