Community Education Classes Spring 2013 If you are interested in teaching a Community Ed class, or have ideas for a class, please email Julie Gamble at jgamble@pelicanrapids.k12.mn.us or click on E-mail Comm Ed link. *You do not need a teaching license or any certification to teach a class.
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Smartphone’s: Learn the Latest and Greatest Technology Cabinet Transformation Home Depot staff Monday, February 25th 6:00pm – 8:00pm Pelican Rapids High School Media Center Fee: $20.00 Learn how to easily change the color and finish of your cabinetry using Rust-oleum Cabinet Transformations System. Transform the look of your outdated cabinetry with beautiful, professional-quality results, in days, at a fraction of the cost!
How to Build a DecK Home Depot staff Monday, March 25th 6:00pm – 8:00pm Pelican Rapids High School Media Center Fee: $20.00
Decks are a perfect area for outdoor entertaining and outdoor relaxing! Learn about the different styles of decks, the materials you need to build one, and how to build it so you can be ready for Summer fun!
Cake Pops Ellie Nettestad Tuesday, April 2nd 6:30pm - 8:30pm Pelican Rapids High School Foods Lab Fee: $15.00
Ellie will demonstrate how to make fun and creative Cake Pops with a Spring theme. Cake pops are basically little smushed balls of cake and frosting (kind of like when you used to smash your birthday cake all in pieces, maybe with ice cream, and eat it as goop). You bake up a cake, let it cool, tear it into fine crumbs, stir in something to hold itall together and roll it into balls. Bring a contatiner with you to take some treats home.
How to make Ruffle Scarves Coleen Guhl Tuesday, April 16th 6:30pm - 8:00pm Pelican Rapids High School Room #416 Supplies: Please bring your own knitting needles or crochet hooks Fee: $10.00
One of the hottest new trends in knitting is the ruffle yarn scarf. Coleen will show how easy it is to make this trendy scarf so you can wear them or give them to your friends as gifts. You need to have basic knitting and/or crochet skills.
Dream Interpretation for the Dreamer Sue Nyhus Tuesdays June 4th, 11th & 18th 5:00pm - 7:00pm Viking Elementary Supplies: Please bring a notebook Fee: $25.00 (minimum of 5 participants)
Everyone dreams, some of us remember our dreams, and some of us don't. Dreams are messengers that tiptoe in our sleep. The can be eerie, dreary and fun. All of them carry messages in a language of their own. In this 3 part class, participants will become dreamworkers, learning tips for remembering dreams and decoding the messages they bring.
American Red Cross Babysitter's Training Ages: 11 and older Mary E. Johnson Tuesday, April 2nd & Thursday, April 4th 4:00pm - 7:00pm Viking Elementary Fee: $45.00 ( minimum of 5 students)
Get ready for summer babysitting jobs! This course included first aid, rescue breathing, and instruction in basic infant and child care. Upon completion of this course, students will receive an American Red Cross Certification in Babysitting Training. Students must attend entire class in order to be certified. The fee includes a babysitting handbook and a certificate from the Red Cross. Registrations for this class must be turned in by March 15th.
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Fitness Zumba Fitness Are you ready to party yourself into shape? That's exactly what the Zumba fitness program is all about. It's an exhilarating, effective, easy-to-follow, Latin inspired, calorie burning dance fitness party for people of all shapes, sizes, and ages. No dance experience necesary, just come and have fun! Hoola Hoop Denise Lund-Smith Tuesdays & Thursdays April 2nd - 25th 5:00pm - 5:30pm Elementary Schoool Cafeteria Come and hoola hoop to music! Instsructor will have hoops available for those who need them at the the first session to try, then will sell the non-weighted ones for $25.00 and water weighted for $30.00. Can have custom hoop made to size and color. Health reasons to hoop: Hooping exercises over 30 core muscles, improve balance, flexibility, dexterity and coordiation, tones and reshapes the abdomen, buttocks and legs with regular use, provides an alternative to going to gym and is accessible to people of all ages.
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Gardening Perennial Passion Brown-Eyed Susans, LLC Patti Boen & Connie Simons Thursday, March 7th 6:30pm – 8:00pm Pelican Rapids High School Media Center Fee: $10.00
In this presentations you will experience and overview of perennial options and combinations to suit your personal preference and satisfy your artistic spirit.
Everything’s Going to Pot Brown-Eyed Susans, LLC Patti Boen & Connie Simons Thursday, March 14th 6:30pm – 8:00pm Pelican Rapids High School Media Center Fee: $10.00
Explore the endless possibilities of flowers, foliage, herbs and vegetables creatively mingled in small, contained spaces.
The Home Orcharidist David Gottenborg Monday, March 18th 6:00pm – 7:00pm Pelican Rapids High School Media Center Fee: $10.00
David shares techniques for increasing apple fruiting including pruning, limb-spreading and thinning. He’ll cover apple growing from tree and rootstock selection to fertilizing and protection from those pesky things that fly and float around.
April Showers Fill Your Rain Barrel Brown-Eyed Susans, LLC Patti Boen & Connie Simons Thursday, April 11th 6:30pm – 8:00pm Pelican Rapids High School Media Center Fee: $10.00
Bring back the age-old tradition of collecting rain to sustain your gardening passions. A simple, informal approach anyone can utilize.
Salad Gardens Brown-Eyed Susans, LLC Patti Boen & Connie Simons Thursday, April 18th 6:30pm – 8:00pm Pelican Rapids High School Art Room Fee: $20.00
Learn how to combine a variety of greens in one container to fill your salad bowl over and over. This is a hands-on class, in which each attendee will plant and take home their own Salad Garden.
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