Ongoing & Upcoming Classes
Art Club at YMCA
We’re now offering art classes for ages 6-12 at the Lakota YMCA! Our first will begin end of April 2025. Register on the Y website via the link here!
Do you have a child who loves to draw, paint, or create with their hands? This class is designed for school aged children, ages 7-12, to learn and explore different forms of art and creative expression. We will:
♡ learn about classic and modern artists, focusing on two artists per month
♡ work with many different mediums including (but not limited to) water colors, acrylic paints, sculpturing, collage art, canvas painting, working with pastels, drawing, textured art and more!
Art has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, increase self-esteem, and even enhance cognitive functioning. Our goal is to fan the flame of your child’s love for creativity and art and allow them time and space to explore and self-express.
For our first session Spring 2025, we will learn about Frida Kahlo & Picasso and create projects each week inspired by Frida's iconic self-portraits and Picasso's cubist art, exploring their differences and similarities.
Sessions run monthly, meeting every week.
Kids’ Choir
We are beyond excited to be collaborating with the Lakota YMCA to build a new, exciting project: a community children’s choir! Our goal is to start end of April 2025 and registration will be up soon on the YMCA website.
Do you have a child who loves to sing? This class is built for school-aged children (6-12 years) who love to sing and want to learn more about their voice and singing with others! It is led by 20+ year musician and vocalist, Erica Bostick (aka Ms. Erica), and will be a fun, choir environment where we will learn songs everyone loves based on new themes each 8-week session. Our goals will be: enjoying singing, growing our listening skills and pitch, and learning to sing with and listen to one another well. No audition necessary to join, but we will hold auditions for solo parts that will be available in some pieces. And, we will host a performance of the songs we've learned during our last meeting.
For our first session Spring 2025, we will be learning a compilation of fun, pop songs that make you wanna dance. Think "Happy" by Pharrell, "Dance Monkey" (Kids Bop), and "Can't Stop the Feeling" by JT.
Group Voice
Ms. Erica
Led by mother-of-four and 15-year professional singer/songwriter/musician, Erica Bostick, these 45-minute classes are designed for ages 7-12 to:
♡ Explore and learn about our voices and voice care, build confidence, and have fun!
♡ Strengthen voice, pitch, and breath control
♡ Learn to sing with others while also giving opportunity for connection with other kiddos who love to sing and create
My heart (Ms. Erica) is to fan their love of singing into a fire by keeping it light, fun, and focusing on areas and songs my students are excited about learning while still giving them the tools they need to grow as singers and performers. Each student gets a bit of individual time as well each lesson.
Sessions run monthly, meeting once per week, Tuesday evenings in Liberty TWP. Each month we introduce new themes and songs and even explore songwriting, music theory, music production, and a bit of piano.
Baby&Me Creative Kids
Find us at the Lakota YMCA for Baby&Me Creative Kid classes held in six week sessions. You can check here or on their website to see if there is a class currently running or coming up!
Led by Baby&Me Music teacher, Ms. Erica, these 60-minute classes are designed for toddlers and up (best for ages 1-4 years old) and a caregiver to:
♡ help you and your little one connect
♡ grow your littles' creativity, self-esteem, and benefit emotional and motor development through art, crafting, sensory play, games, music and loads of FUN
♡ allow you the opportunity to connect with other parents and caregivers
Each week we’ll have an art&craft activity, sensory play, musical games, and free play time. You can expect activities such as finger painting, slime making, pipe-cleaner crafts, clay sculpting, sensory bins, obstacle courses, musical games, and so much more.
Sessions run in 5-6 week sessions, meeting every week. Check our calendar for upcoming sessions!