Orange Community Education & Recreation

This fun and feel good class is designed to help nurture your child’s developing morals and self-esteem. Each week will feature child-centered and engaging activities, such as cooking, talking to community helpers, learning how to do your own household and classroom chores, and how to earn prizes from doing these things! We will learn what words to use to tell ourselves and our friends we are truly amazing! Topics explored are loving yourself, diversity, patience, confidence, and cooperation. The goal is to learn confidence through responsibility! A $20 materials fee is due on the first day of class.  No class January 21 or February 18.

New! Come in your pajamas to enjoy some fun winter time stories and design your own mug for hot chocolate! Each child will get their own mug to design as well as a hot chocolate kit to make their own hot chocolate at home! We will enjoy stories such as Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and The Mitten by Jan Brett.

Young students build fun mechanical models using DUPLO® and LEGO® bricks. By playing with and manipulating the models, they experience pulleys, levers, gears, wheels, and axles while exploring energy, buoyancy, and balance. Classes include free-building time to promote creativity. Children will be building different models each week for winter and spring sessions. No class January 21 or February 18.

Viva! Spanish is a program designed to introduce preschoolers to concepts such as greetings, colors, numbers, days of the week, food, plus additional story vocabulary based on popular children’s stories. Students will enjoy Spanish through games, music, and art!

MIX IT UP is a unique hands-on cooking program that allows children to gain cooking skills and vocabulary, such as how to measure, whisk, level, and knead, while learning about kitchen safety and how to use various utensils. We will work individually and in groups, and play food related games. This class is a time for the kids to have fun cooking and learn to do it themselves! At the end of the class, students will wash their own dishes and clean their “work stations.” No class February 6. Make up class will be March 13. **Please note: we use milk products, eggs and some ingredients that may have been in contact with nut products.**

New! Art is all about the process, not the product! Join us for this enrichment class as we collect cups full of snow from outside to create art! We will be using snow, watercolor paint in spray bottles, and tissue paper to create wintry masterpieces! Come ready to be creative and messy. Each child will need their boots to walk outside as well as their winter coat and gloves to scoop up the snow.

Does your child love glitter? This class will allow your child to create a picture with glitter glue and sparkle shakers, play with glittery playdough, and craft their own glitter clothespin magnet to hang their art work on at home! Come prepared to get messy and leave with a nice shimmer! 

New!This class is everything trains! We will make letter trains that spell our names, listen and move to gross motor train songs, play in the dramatic play train area, build with train sets, and listen to train sounds. Each child will get to bring home their own train whistle!

Returning! Does your child like superheroes? This enrichment class is for the energetic child, ready to find their superhero within! We will make superhero capes or masks, create our own superhero name and super power, and create our own superhero badge! Each child will be able to take home what they make, as well a superhero sticker and cup! All supplies included.

NEW! This class will take you on a safari around the world! Grab your passport as we explore animals, books, games, songs, and lots of art from around the world! Each child will make a piece of art native to each country we “visit!” Children will have a passport that will be stamped each week after they learn about a country. All supplies included.

Does your child love to play dress up? This enrichment class is for the child wanting to embrace their imaginative side! We will wear dress up clothes, create our own crowns or tiaras, learn the duties and roles of a prince and princess and have a dance party! We will also create 3-D castles using large blocks and boxes and decorate them with art and glitter! Each child will get to take home his or her own crown or tiara!