Education & Community

Dementia is a journey, not a destination, similar to traveling to a foreign country: different language, different time zone and different cultural norms. Travels With My Aunt draws on vignettes, real life stories to illustrate proficiency, physical coordination, and recognition/recall of familiar situations, to provide those caring for, living with and loving someone with Dementia with the tools for productive communication and positive interaction. Read more about Travels with My Aunt - The Journey of Dementia

Meet new people and grow your business network at this event hosted by Accelerated Global Connections. Get motivated by the evening’s guest speaker, too. Learn more about successful business tactics and motivational tools for business professionals. You can also expect to meet between 50 and 100 new people while attending this event.  Read more about Woodbury Business Networking Event

For more than 30 years on Thanksgiving Eve, the Woodbury Area Clergy Organization (WACO) has hosted a service that brings together many different Christian denominations and expressions. There are readings from scripture, songs of thanksgiving, a message for adults, a time for children, and prayers. The hour-long service is a joyous celebration of unity—a great opportunity for people of many backgrounds to give thanks to God for all that He has given us. Read more about Woodbury Community Thanksgiving Worship

AT MAPLEWOOD NATURE CENTER, 2659 E 7TH ST., MAPLEWOOD, MN 55119.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 10:30AM-11:30AM

Meet a snake and salamander, and learn where Minnesota’s wild reptiles and amphibians go in the winter. You can share your stories about real wild animal encounters, if you choose! Try a wild animal craft to take home too!

Fee: Free. Register online by Friday, January 24 at www.maplewoodnaturecenter.com and click on the RegisterOnline-Go button,or call 651-249-2170. Activity # 16630 Read more about Meet the Animals

(ADULTS, FAMILIES, MIN. AGE 5)

AT MAPLEWOOD NATURE CENTER, 2659 E 7TH ST., MAPLEWOOD, MN 55119.

Friday JANUARY 17, 6:30PM-8:00PM

Snowshoe (need 6 inches) or hike along our luminary trail. If the weather conditions allow; we’ll check out some holes in the ice, and try your hand at making a new one. Win an Ice Globe luminary kit to take home!

Fee: $5 per person, register online by Sunday, January 16 at www.maplewoodnaturecenter.com and click on the RegisterOnline-Go button,or call 6519249-2170. Activity #16629 Read more about Luminary Hike

(ADULTS, FAMILIES, MIN. AGE 5)

AT MAPLEWOOD NATURE CENTER, 2659 E 7TH ST., MAPLEWOOD, MN 55119.

Friday JANUARY 17, 6:30PM-8:00PM

Snowshoe (need 6 inches) or hike along our luminary trail. If the weather conditions allow; we’ll check out some holes in the ice, and try your hand at making a new one. Win an Ice Globe luminary kit to take home!

Fee: $5 per person, register online by Sunday, January 16 at www.maplewoodnaturecenter.com and click on the RegisterOnline-Go button,or call 6519249-2170. Activity #16629 Read more about Luminary Workshop

(ALL AGES)

Crafts! Science! Nature! Cut and create beautiful snowflakes for your windows, and other snowflake crafts from simple to highly complex. Learn how snowflakes are formed in the sky, and peer at beautiful preserved snowflake crystals up close on the microcam. Make a snowflake catcher to take home so you can identify different kinds of snowflakes all winter! Fee: $5 per person, register online by Thursday, January 2, or call 651-249-2170. Activity #16627 Read more about Snowflake Wonders

Brains On!, the widely popular podcast for curious kids and their grownups from American Public Media, is hitting the big stage with an all new science-themed show. Co-hosts Molly Bloom, Marc Sanchez and Sanden Totten will show audiences how the human brain can take a handful of signals from the eyes and ears and turn them into vibrant pictures of the world.  There will be magic tricks, dance moves, out-of-body experiences and even a game show. Read more about Brains On! LIVE: Your Brain is Magic

Everyone is invited to the annual Fall Festival at King of Kings Lutheran Church to take place on Friday, October 25. Dinner will be served from 5:30–7:00 p.m. with the Children’s Party from 6:30–8:00 p.m. Read more about Family Fall Festival at King of Kings

Celebrate our Grand Opening at Growing Explorers Learning Center! Saturday Sept. 28th from 10am - 1pm. This event is free and open to all families in the community!

Join us for face painting, games, food, prizes, a bouncy house, a visit with Paw Patrol and MORE! We can't wait to see you there!

158 Jade Trail N. Lake Elmo, MN 55042 Read more about Grand Opening Party at Growing Explorers