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Family and Kids
Toddler Time: Parents Coffee Hour
with MACE Staff
We’re partnering with Parsons Memorial Library to bring a guest speaker to the first Toddler Time of each month. Learn more about resources available for families while your kids play in the library. 1st Thursday starting 2/5, 10:00-11:00
Family Literacy: Writing
Unlock powerful strategies to confidently support your Pre-K to 5th-grade student’s learning right at home! Join us for this hands-on series designed to build your skills and confidence in crucial academic areas: Reading, Writing, and Math. Attendance is completely free, and we provide complimentary child care and take-home resources for all participants. Sign up for one session or all three. Food wil provided for all.
Baby and Toddler Play Group
with MACE Staff
Bring your little one to play, and meet other local parents! Find out more about resources available for families. 2nd Friday starting 1/9, 10:00 - 11:00 am
Kids Fluid Acrylic Canvas (Ages 6+)
Join us for a fun and creative workshop where kids will work with their caregivers to create a fluid acrylic canvas. This is a perfect way to spend an afternoon during school vacation week with your creative child! Open to ages 6 and up.
Martial Arts for Families (Ages 6+)
with Jessica Peck-Lindsey
Families who play together, stay together. Whether you have had martial arts training or are just a beginner, all families are welcome to this fun, stress-free martial arts class! Based on World Tang Soo Do, Jessica Peck-Lindsey will guide participants through gentle therapeutic exercises that lead up to focus work and traditional forms. Learn a new way to move, together! No prior martial arts training is necessary. Classes are designed to meet the experience level of participants from beginner to advanced.
Family Literacy: Math
Unlock powerful strategies to confidently support your Pre-K to 5th-grade student’s learning right at home! Join us for this hands-on series designed to build your skills and confidence in crucial academic areas: Reading, Writing, and Math. Attendance is completely free, and we provide complimentary child care and take-home resources for all participants. Sign up for one session or all three. Food wil provided for all.
LEGO Robotics
with Maine Robotics
Ages: 9 - 12
LEGO Robotics workshops are a fantastic opportunity to dive into the world of robotics and programming! This session is for beginner LEGO Roboteer families (1 adult and 1 or 2 kids aged 9-12). Explore robotics concepts using the LEGO robotics platform. Campers use “Scratch”-style block coding to guide their LEGO robots through various missions, while learning how to use sensors to help their robots navigate challenges and obstacles. Through building and modifying their robots to complete missions, campers learn problem-solving skills that help them become independent STEAM-thinkers!
Nature Journaling (Ages 5+)
with UMaine Cooperative Extension 4-H
Bring your curiosity and observation skills, and start a nature journal from scratch in this three part series open to youth aged 5+. You don’t need to be an artist to benefit from nature journaling: learn different techniques and record what is happening in nature at that very moment.