The Winter Break Day Camp runs concurrently with the Upper Arlington Schools Winter Break, providing a valuable service for those families in which both parents work. Children can enjoy a variety of activities including arts and crafts, games, quiet recreation, movies, library visits and field trips. Qualified leaders at an approximate ratio of 15:1 staff the program. Participants should bring a packed lunch daily and an afternoon snack. Winter Break Day Camp fees (registration & daily) are non-refundable, non-transferrable and cannot be credited to a household account. Program is subject to cancellation if insufficient participation by December 5th. Select the days you wish to register for below, you must register for each day your child wishes to attend. Register early as camp does reach the maximum!

Have a great time learning the sport of volleyball in the Bally Sports Group Volleyball Program! Throughout the duration of the program, participants will learn a wide variety of skills including passing, setting, blocking, and serving. Older players will also work on spiking. Each week will include modified games that help players learn spacing on the volleyball court, communication with teammates, and moving to the ball. The positive atmosphere makes for a fun learning experience catered to all skill abilities!

Bally Sports Group provides children with a fun and educational first basketball experience! Players are taught the fundamentals of dribbling, shooting, passing, rebounding, defense, and the concept of game play. The curriculum incorporates teaching styles that help this age group build an understanding of the skills that are taught by utilizing fun terminology and engaging activities. A positive and encouraging atmosphere is created in which kids learn proper sportsmanship. Each week players participate in developmentally appropriate instruction and modified, recreational game play.

Students learn the rules and concepts of chess, tournament procedures and etiquette, and the knowledge to participate in casual or competitive games with friends and family. This is the perfect class for a new player or novice players seeking more confidence in their play. In the first half of each class, student will learn world champion openings, ideas in the middle game, end game patterns, tactical moves, and elements are examined and discussed. Participants play against each other in friendly matches in the second half of each class.

Looking for a class where you and your child can engage in purposeful play while growing their speech, sensory and motor skills? Our class combines the expertise of highly trained speech and occupational therapists with the joys of playtime using obstacle courses, sensory bins, crafts, story-time and fine-motor activities. Our class is sure to be a fun and engaging learning and relationship-building experience for children and their caregivers. We met every child where they are developmentally and can curate our class to you-all abilities welcome!

The ukulele is enjoying an upsurge in popularity, not to mention it is small, portable and easy on the ears. Enjoy a hands-on instrument tutorial with the experienced professional musicians at Vaughan Music Studios. Learn some ukulele basics and practice playing a simple song in a relaxed, small-group setting. A new song is introduced at each class. Instruments are provided; but please feel free to bring your own.

The Intermediate Ballroom and Technique class covers more advanced steps in the basic social dances. Classes are taught at a faster pass and in greater detail. Participants should be familiar with the basics of social dances or should have taken one Beginner’s Ballroom. The class focuses on learning more steps, as well as how to lead and follow them with a variety of partners. Other techniques include an introduction to Cuban motion and footwork. You can register as an individual or as a couple, as partners can be provided and all ages are welcome! Individuals register in A – D and couples register in sections E - H. Register only one person per couple and note the name of your dance partner when registering. Individuals should sign up at least one to two weeks in advance to allow time for a partner to be provided. Specific location instructions included in emailed PDF receipt.

The stress of a busy day will immediately melt away as you enter a darkened spacious yoga room filled with illuminating candlelight and soothing music. With a focus on connecting to your breath, you’ll make your way through a slow-moving flow preparing your body and mind to unwind from the day’s activities. Warm candle light provided by Penn & Beech Candle Co. Please bring a mat.

Get crazy at Brush Crazy and pour some paint! You choose colors to flow across your canvas and instructors explain different techniques before you jump into creating your masterpiece. Choose a 16”x20”, 12”x24” or 10”x30” canvas. Sign up for a friend’s night out, date night or individually to learn more about the art of pouring paint! Bring your favorite drinks and snacks; BYOB permitted (must be 21 or older to consume alcohol).

Celebrate the upcoming holidays with this hands-on opportunity to prepare seasonal cocktails designed to pair perfectly with holiday cookies. Industry experts at Columbus Bartending School lead you through the process of creating their unique holiday-themed recipes in addition to a few mixology tips and tricks along the way. Cookies, recipes, mixology supplies, ingredients and non-sugary snacks provided. Class is $50 total; pay $15 to register and bring $35 to pay the event venue at class.

Unwind and physically reset your nervous system with Yin yoga – the calming side of the practice. Sherry guides you through a slow pace of yoga postures, followed by a meditation. Please bring a mat.

FIT4BABY® is designed specifically for moms-to-be. The 60-minute workout includes cardio, strength, balance and flexibility training. All exercises are carefully selected to prepare your body for the many changes you will experience during pregnancy.

Pricing info: Unlimited Monthly Membership $69/month (+ one-time $65 enrollment fee), LITE Monthly Membership (4 classes/month) $49/month (+ one-time $65 enrollment fee), 8-Class Pass $129 (valid for 4 months, does not include FIT4BABY), 16-Class Pass $249 (valid for 8 months, does not include FIT4BABY). FIT4BABY 8-class pass $129. For more information or to register, go to https://UpperArlington.FIT4MOM.com/.

Stroller Strides® is a functional, total-body conditioning workout designed for moms with kids in tow. Each 60-minute workout is comprised of strength training, cardio and core restoration, all while entertaining little ones with songs, activities and fun!

Pricing info: Unlimited Monthly Membership $69/month (+ one-time $65 enrollment fee), LITE Monthly Membership (4 classes/month) $49/month (+ one-time $65 enrollment fee), 8-Class Pass $129 (valid for 4 months, does not include FIT4BABY), 16-Class Pass $249 (valid for 8 months, does not include FIT4BABY). FIT4BABY 8-class pass $129. For more information or to register, go to https://UpperArlington.FIT4MOM.com/.

This open gym program is for recreational players 30 yrs & up. One court and net provided. Must pre-register for entire session; no prorating. Self-officiated and self-organized play. Bring your own volleyball.

This popular basketball open gym is for recreational players 30 yrs & up. Play is on a smaller, shorter court. Call your own fouls. Self-officiated and self-organized play. Limited enrollment. Must pre-register for entire session; no prorating. Bring your own basketball.

Combining cardio, strength, core, and meditation, Body Boost™ is the perfect workout for mom’s mental and physical health. Body Boost is a 60-minute results-based, high-intensity interval training (HIIT) class designed to challenge, empower, and energize, leaving Mom feeling refreshed and recharged for motherhood and all that comes with it.

Pricing info: Unlimited Monthly Membership $69/month (+ one-time $65 enrollment fee), LITE Monthly Membership (4 classes/month) $49/month (+ one-time $65 enrollment fee), 8-Class Pass $129 (valid for 4 months, does not include FIT4BABY), 16-Class Pass $249 (valid for 8 months, does not include FIT4BABY). FIT4BABY 8-class pass $139. For more information or to register, go to https://UpperArlington.FIT4MOM.com/.

Get into the holiday spirit and paint a dotted-starburst ornament. A simple technique by following step-by-step instruction. You choose the colors you want during the painting process. Then using a toothbrush you finish the design with tiny specks of paint that bring life into the design. Bring an old toothbrush, all other materials are provided. An instruction sheet is included so you can make more ornaments for your friends and family!

Have you dreamed of being able to create beautiful bows for your holiday décor and gift giving? Now is your chance to learn how! During this class you create two large red bows using two different techniques suitable for adding to a wreath or garland and one mid-sized bow that is perfect to use for decorating Christmas trees or holiday packages. The techniques that are taught break the process down step-by-step and takes into account possible aging hands and arthritic joints. All supplies and materials included.

Knit, crochet and other needlecrafts welcome! This friendly group works on individual projects for themselves or others. All skill levels welcome. If you are a beginner, we are happy to teach you. Bring your own tools and supplies and come create with us! You must be a current Senior Association Member to register.

Mindy provides individual guidance, discussion and demonstrations. This is not taught as a beginner class; however, beginners are welcome to join this relaxed instruction. Many of our drawings are exercises. We look to modern and abstract artists to direct creative minds. Participants register for each month and supplies and materials are on their own. A supply list is included as an attachment with your emailed receipt.

September: Vertical vs. Horizontal Lines
9/9 - Sketching Streets and Buildings: Use light and shadow to create perspective. Bring in travel photos to inspire creativity and developed into drawings. Relive the experience. Use a ruler, a 2b Pencil and good white drawing paper.
9/16 - The Fairy Tale Cottage: Align your fairy tale dream cottage into this world. If you have a personal photograph, bring it to class. Use colored pencils and black gel pens. Choose a pastel earth toned paper or good quality white paper.
9/23 - Your Home Interior: Enjoy photographing a favorite space at home and use that photo to draw it. Lay out the composition with a 2 H pencil and then skim over the line with an eraser and re-draw it with a gel pen. Include shading with varied textures and some blending stomp. The paper may be white or earth tone pastel.
9/30 - Catch up day: Bring in the unfinished pieces to work on today.

October: Fruit to Nuts Textures
10/7 - The Nuts: Using the theme nuts, create a still life of nuts, a squirrel eating a peanut, a wreath of leaves and nuts, or design a botanical realistic study of with all its' parts, the leaves, the textures and the branches.
10/14 - Berries and the Birds: A theme of birds eating the fall seeds and berries. You may use the bird house, the branch, a bird perched on a fence etc. Our focus is the textures
10/21 - Warm Fall Colors: Use the warm fall colors, warm gold, browns and warm grays and create a tapestry of abstract shapes based on leaves. The colored pencils are preferred. They can be inspired by stain glass, mosaic designs or actual leaves.
10/28 - Catch-up day: Bring in the unfinished pieces to work on today.

November: Turning Inside Outside
11/4 - Negative vs. Positive Shapes: Begin to draw circles of various shapes, size and texture. Be sure that they overlap. Allow them to fill the page. Next color only the negative shape. Learn to find the area that most enhances the shape of circles.
11/18 - Warm vs. Cold: Use one hot and one cold color to create random patterns of triangles. See how to force the emergence of a form. Overlap the shapes and types of triangles.
11/25 - Foreshortening with Density: Use scribble pen and pencil lines to create a shifting density texture. Some areas become opaque from so much layering of textures and then stretch apart to create light. Try to create an animal, for example. Implode or explode the animal by shifting its' body size vs. its head. You can make it look like it is approaching or going away.

December: Snowy Days Landscaping
12/2 - Frozen Water: On the creek, use of hard edge cuts through the water and snow caps over the edge of the bank. Its barren tree has one side of it built up with snow. These are a few suggestions that give you that look of nature.
12/9 - Starlight Mints on Wrapper: We use a simple common object like a starlight mint to create realistic pencil art.
12/16 - Children's Dream of Christmas: Design a child's face using the egg shaped oval and some carefully placed dots and dashes. Watch for facial expressions such as raised eyebrows, a wink and a grin. An elf hat or halo can top the curly hair. The more the merrier.

With over 30 years of teaching experience, Mindy uses exercises to teach technique, color and composition. She mentors ongoing participation, this is not taught as a beginner class; however, beginners are welcome to join this relaxed instruction and participants may work on their own project. Participants register for each month. Supplies and materials are on your own. A supply list is included as an attachment with the emailed receipt. Participants may choose to get colored watercolor prints for a $5 material fee paid directly to the instructor.

September: Structures in Watercolor
9/3 - Fantasy Home: Prepare a sketch to align your intersections based on hunches and what inspires you by watching a demo. We break up the page with up and down lines to create the composition. Begin to place your building with your lines and then break up the paper with the laying of the washes.
9/10 - People and Places: Use a trip to one of your favorite cities and a photo of a street. This could be a famous place, or a back alley that delights your imagination. Refine your color scheme to fall, using warm neutrals. Focus on the white paper for light source. Learn to create people with dots and dashes on the tip of the brush.
9/17 - Ancient Architecture: Surround an organic shape, such as a cave for a troll, with spears, a fort and weapons. Or, it could be a mystical Tolkien castle with beautiful elves and floating orbs. Just flow with wet into wet mixes.
9/24 - Catch up day: Bring in the unfinished pieces to work on today.

October: Outside Scenes in Watercolor
10/1 - The Falling Leaves: Create a composition in watercolor painting with a song in mind. It should remind of us of old album covers. You may Google "songs about autumn" to become inspired.
10/8 - Ohio Birds in Fall: Choose one of 20 Ohio birds to paint with focus on the use of opposite colors. Yellow vs. purple, blue vs. orange and red vs. green. Choose from prints on line, old calendars or photos taken by you or a friend.
10/15 - Ducks and Water Reflections: Using the farmlands, the forest or parks, create a composition that reflects the focus of reflecting water sources around ducks. They may be wet so stay out of their way when they start splashing. Prints provided but better to use your own.
10/22 - Farmers Market: Paint a farmers market stand, filled autumns' harvest. Choose from Indian corn, apples in baskets, a stand with husked corn or fresh gourds. Learn to paint stick figures in gesture and as a crowd to excite this scene.
10/29 - Catch up day: Bring in the unfinished pieces to work on today.

November: Wildlife and House Pets
11/12 - Cats: If you have a cat to pose that is great, but otherwise we need some prints or photos you may have taken. Make them beautiful or make them funny. You learn watercolor techniques for creating fur and cats' eyes. Prisma Ink tense Colored Pencils recommended making realistic watercolors.
11/19 - Dogs: Ask a friend for an autumn photo of their dog, or use your own. These make great gifts and I suggest watercolor pencils. Prisma Ink tense Colored Pencils recommended.
11/26 - Compositing Prints for Wildlife: Select friendly critters prints, such as a deer, bunny or bird. You research ideas for backgrounds vs. foregrounds from photos in magazines, on line, and from the instructor, to construct the composition. Imaginations work wonders too.

December: Beautiful December
12/3 - Illustrate Winter Warmth: Paint someone or yourself, bundled up in blankets, sleeping in a bed or chair. Another idea is whip creamed hot cocoa, a glowing book and candle or a wood burning fireplace. Create a pine forest scene of various wildlife animals observing people. Just enjoy thinking about staying warm.
12/10 - Musical Messages: Design a musical instrument with various wintery messages. My examples are a bird whistling on mailbox, a caroler singing, a set of bells with holly or treble clef notes decorating a snow covered pine branches. Of course, we have music to put you in the mood.
12/17 - Botanical Christmas: The poinsettia is most favored but also the Christmas cactus, Mistletoe, Holly, Canna Lily and Rosemary. Prints are provided. If you need a last-minute gift, we can make them into cards or bookmarks. You may use cut and folded to size watercolor papers for envelopes. Paper cutter is available.

Create your own sun catchers, small and large panels, glass mosaics, stepping stone projects and more in this friendly open studio format. There is no instructor and each member works independently on their projects. The completion of a beginning stained glass class or equivalent prior experience is required. A large assortment of equipment and supplies are available for use. Some items are purchased individually by the participant. Waiver forms must be completed prior to attending. The $10 season workshop fee is for both Tuesdays and Fridays.

Tuesdays, 9 am-Noon
Fridays, 12:30-3:30 pm

Imagine what you can do with your own two hands, some wood and a knife. Try your skills by joining our experienced carvers. Newcomers are welcome and encouraged to carve with the group. Established carvers bring projects to share and work on together. Materials and tools are on your own.

New to line dancing or maybe it has been a while? Join this Friday group to learn the basics of line dancing. Each week you learn and go over new dances at a slower pace. Note: this class will meet in Bldg 1, Rm 102.

Zumba Gold® takes the Zumba® formula and modifies the moves and pacing to suit the needs of the active older participant, as well as those just starting their journey to a fit and healthy lifestyle. Active older adults want camaraderie, excitement and fitness as a regular part of their weekly schedule. Zumba Gold® is the perfect fit. It is a dance-fitness class that feels friendly, and most of all, fun.

Line dancing, whether to pop or country music or anything in between, is a great way to get everyone out on the dance floor. Enjoy instruction in beat, basics and the benefits of line dancing! No experience necessary and partner not required!

If you’re looking to mix up your exercise routine in your older and wiser years, try Fit after 50. This class mixes up both strength and cardio exercises, making no 2 workouts exactly the same. Learn to strengthen your muscles and increase your energy levels. All levels welcome. Please bring a mat.