ISD 279 - Osseo Area Schools Community Education

Become a master bricklayer and use our special architectural LEGO® kits to build your creations! Be an architect as you learn the principles of construction and learn the concept of 3-dimensions and the role in design. You will construct buildings, structures, towers, castles, and more within teams – and even build houses with removable roofs, castles with turrets, and towers of strength! This camp is at a Summer Kidstop site. All students welcome.

3D Printing is here to stay and learning how it works is as basic as learning to use a computer! For students who have no or limited experience with 3D Printing. Learn the ropes of 3D modeling and printing. Use 3D pens to understand printing in plastic and luse CAD software (computer-aided design). You’ll use Engineering Design Process to create your own designs and print them out at camp to take home. To allow everyone to print their creations, items may have to be scaled down to allow printing during class times.

Bring your creations to life in this 3D printing class. The ancient craft of jewelry making is brought to the modern world using TinkerCad & 3D printers. You will learn to build 2D and 3D models on the computer using CAD software. Design and print a pair of earrings, a ring, or a pendant in this class. Bring home two of your 3D creations. Printing and material fees are included.

More than just an ordinary drawing program! In this amazing drawing camp, you’ll learn how to draw all sorts of things, like animals, plants, faces, landscapes, and everything in between. You’ll use an innovative step-by-step method using simple shapes to create animals, landscapes, still life and more. Learn about contrast, light/shadow, and volume among other exciting concepts. Take your own sketch book home at the end of camp.

Amazing Athletes Training Academy is a cross-training, game-based sports program designed to engage you in active wellness through physical fitness and interactive sports lessons. Four main areas covered: progressive skill-based sports lessons in volleyball, basketball, soccer, and football. You'll also participate in collaborative teamwork activities, fitness challenges, and introductory strength training. Get movin’ and join us for some summer fitness fun.

Come draw and color your favorite Pokémon and Anime characters! Learn how to evoke humor through exaggeration, breakdown the study of facial anatomy and proportions, and take a detailed look at facial expressions. Final drawings inspired by the works of Asia Ladowska on Instagram, a celebrated contemporary Anime and Manga artist.

Join us in for this unique camp that combines art and yoga. You will have fun starting our day with yoga poses followed by amazing art projects where you will draw, paint, collage, sculpt with clay and more. Each day we will play yoga games, use breathing and mindfulness techniques and have a great time unleashing our creativity! Wear comfortable clothing to camp.

Have a blast creating amazing projects with all sorts of art materials like watercolors, pastels, clay, canvas and more! You’ll draw, paint, sculpt, and collage amazing projects to take home. Animals, cupcakes, funny characters and landscapes are part of this awesome camp.

This art camp is a celebration of all the incredible things you are learning right now: the colors of the rainbow, shapes, ABCs, and 1-2-3s. Each day will involve a magnificently messy sensory encounter and an art project that are sure to lay the foundation for a lifelong love of art and learning.

DASH Sports Basketball Tykes camps provide you an introductory experience to the great game of basketball through fun skill-based drills and mini-games. You will be taught how to properly dribble, pass, shoot, and play defense in a fun and positive environment. Balls are provided.

Bedazzle and create an amazing unicorn masterpiece on a real canvas board. You’ll also make one of our most popular projects, unicorn slime!

Come to this amazing summer art camp and you will learn how to draw and doodle fun characters, cartoons, and special decorations to make your drawings unique. Adorable animals, funny food, dimensional letters and everything in between are all part of this fantastic camp. Along the way you’ll learn how to add amusing doodles to your notebook, cards, stamps and much more. You’ll get your own sketch book to keep and continue doodling.

Experience major fun as you learn and play your favorite physical education games! Games may include: Capture the Flag, Kickball, Dodgeball, Tag games, Ultimate Frisbee/Football, Sharks and Minnows, Soccer, and more! Learn teamwork, and values such as respect, hustle, and pride, all in a fun environment while increasing athleticism and learning teamwork and gameplay.

What’s more beautiful than the Eiffel Tower? Use a simple step by step process as you learn to draw the Eiffel Tower, add glow-in-the-dark paint so it lights up the Parisian night sky!

Who loves being fancy? Fancy is for everyone. Turn plain into exquisite. Make those blah things something chic. Just add a little fancy...and voila, life’s fantastique. Go glamping indoors while you experience everything STEM. Build a fort, LED light stick, lip gloss, fancy slime, bracelets and necklaces and more in this fun and fabulously fancy camp. On the last day, you’ll have a pajama party and enjoy some fancy smores!

This one-day camp will include a fun morning of painting. You will use acrylic paints on an 11x14 stretched canvas to paint a festive llama. This will be a great addition for your room or gift for someone special.

The {YEL!} Teach It!…Practice It!...Play It! method keeps chess students progressing with 60+ chess lessons and thousands of puzzles as well as guided games and an end-of-week in-class tournament. Fee includes ChessKid.com membership for the session. Battle summer brain drain...sign up today. Visit YELKids.com for more info. All skill levels welcome.

The {YEL!} Teach It!…Practice It!...Play It! method keeps chess students progressing with 60+ chess lessons and thousands of puzzles as well as guided games and an end-of-camp in-class tournament. Camp fee includes ChessKid.com membership for the session ($49 annual value). Battle summer brain drain and keep your chess skills sharp. This Chess camp is at a Summer Kidstop site. All students welcome.

The Child & Babysitting Safety (CABS) program from the American Safety and Health Institute (approved by the American Pediatrics Assoc.) gives everything you need to know for safe and successful babysitting. Learn responsibilities of being a prepared, responsible, professional and safe babysitter. Topics will include: supervision, feeding, behavior guidance, diapering techniques, personal safety, basic first aid, fire safety, and medical emergencies. All dolls, bottles and diaper supplies provided for hands-on participation. You’ll also receive a manual and certification card. Bring a nut-free snack and beverage to class.

Color your world with a happy art camp that will build your artistic skills, make new friends, and create adorable, colorful masterpieces. You’ll create 3D creations, and get messy with fingerpaint; you’ll even use a special spin-art technique to make the cutest, most colorful artwork ever. Get ready to roll up your sleeves and color yourself happy!

Do you love creating art and cookies? Join us as we explore our creative side making art that you can actually eat! We’ll have a blast decorating real cookies, making beautiful art on paper and sculpting clay. Each day we’ll decorate a cookie and create fun art projects to bring home.

Messy? Slimy? Sticky? This is a must take camp! Have a blast exploring chemical reactions in a fun, slimy way, creating all kinds of ooey gooey, sticky, bouncy, slimey mixtures. You will be challenged to solve fun engineering problems and so much more. In this camp all the mess stays behind, as fun memories and learning go home!