Learn how to make macarons from scratch! This class includes demonstrations and hands-on baking. Best of all, you'll take home all of the macarons you make! Space is limited! Registration full? Please use the waitlist!

Looking to expand your vining and trailing plant collection? We're going to create new plants from existing plants! In this hands-on class we will propagate plants from established houseplants.

Learn and play with your little one each Monday! The day starts in our gym with bikes, playground equipment, and a climbing wall. Next we will head to our early childhood classroom for time to engage with age appropriate activities, art and sensory play. While children continue their play, parents go to the adjoining room for learning, support and fun. The session ends with a circle time. If your child is 6 months or younger they will accompany parents and not need to be registered.

Learn and play with your little one each Tuesday! The day starts in our gym with bikes, playground equipment, and a climbing wall. Next we will head to our early childhood classroom for time to engage with age appropriate activities, art and sensory play. While children continue their play, parents go to the adjoining room for learning, support and fun. The session ends with a circle time. If your child is 6 months or younger they will accompany parents and not need to be registered.

Take the mystery out of your electric pressure cooker (multi-cooker) in this engaging, LIVE, chef-led virtual cook-along experience. Learn the foundations of cooking and care, and how to make a few amazingly satisfying dishes in your multi-cooker. Participants are invited to join in a hands-on cook-along creating the instructor’s Creamy-Cheesy Tuscan Chicken with Penne - a flavorful, family-friendly meal that is sure to be a new household favorite. In addition, participants will be treated to a Yogurt Tutorial, and demonstrations in creating breakfast and dessert options using the multi-cooker. An interactive and welcoming class with time built in for questions throughout—so you can leave feeling confident and inspired.On the menu: Creamy Steel-Cut Oatmeal or Egg Bites, Creamy-Cheesy Tuscan Chicken with Penne (cook-along), Dreamy Banana Bread, and yogurt tutorial.An all-inclusive PDF with the Instructor's Original Recipes, yogurt tutorial, cleaning and care, tips and terminology will be provided that will build multi-cooker confidence and creativity.Equipment Needs: If you plan on cooking-along, a multi-cooker (any brand) will be needed.A list of ingredients and class details will be received in advance of the class with enough time for shopping and preparation. The Instructor’s Personal Recipes from this class will be included in a professionally made PDF packet to be received by participants after the class.Note: One registration fee covers immediate family members living full-time in the same household. Adult supervision is required if children participate. If friends, adult children, or extended family members are participating together, EACH separate household must register SEPARATELY.Refund Policy: There are absolutely NO REFUNDS after the ingredient list/prep packet has been sent.This virtual class will be held via Zoom. All participants must have audio and visual technology capabilities, such as a laptop or tablet with a camera and microphone, or a smartphone.

Be prepared for hands-on fun possibly indoors or out. There might be materials you wouldn’t try at home!

Have you heard all the hype about building muscle to protect your health as you age, but you just don’t know where to start? Has menopause madness taken over? Mid-life, Menopause, Metabolism, and Muscle is the exact roadmap you need. This program cuts through the noise by pairing targeted, beginner-friendly weightlifting and conditioning sessions with solid information on hormone health, adaptogens, and metabolic fueling. Stop guessing and start building a strong, healthy body alongside an empowering and supportive community of women.

Make the stars your old friends as we watch the great celestial show in the skies over Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center! Getto know constellations like the Big Bear, Cygnus the Swan, Pegasus the Winged Horse, and many more. You’ll hear fun stories about how some of these constellations found their way to the heavens. We’ll have giant telescopes aimed at Saturn, star clusters, galaxies, and more. New video telescopes will display live images of distant celestial treasures in amazing color! You’ll also get a great handout package of star maps, constellation charts, as well as great websites and app recommendations, and a practical telescope buying guide. If the skies are too cloudy or it’s raining, we’ll have a mostly indoor program with a great presentation featuring Mike's astrophotography. Learn a lot about stargazing and exciting new telescopes available, and have a great time doing it! You'll be ready for stargazing once the skies clear with sky maps and constellation charts. He'll still share some of the wild (but family-friendly) stories about how some of the constellations wound up in the heavens. Unless it’s raining, telescopes will be set up outside for “land gazing”. Mike Lynch is a retired WCCO Radio meteorologist and has been hosting star watch parties and teaching astronomy classes for more than 50 years! He also writes a weekly stargazing column for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and is the author of the book “Stars, a Month by Month Tour of the Constellations.” Star Watch will be held at Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center. Please park in the gravel lot below the main building and walk up the hill for the program; those with limited mobility are welcome to park in one of the few spots next to the main building. No cancellations/refunds after October 1.

We're going on a nature adventure! Each week will be a different park in the Willmar area. We will explore nature using all of our senses. Art, Music, Science and Movement are other learning areas we focus on. Dress comfortably for the weather as all sessions will be outdoors. The first location will be Rau Park with the next locations TBD.