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Hi everyone! It's been a while since we posted some news so we'll do two posts now. :) We had eight packed build days spread between Black Friday and New Year's at the end of 2021, and had so much holiday fun with our LEGO enthusiasts ages 5-11. Those build days didn't make it on to the website because they were filled beyond capacity very quickly from our mailing list.
We wish everyone a happy, healthy 2022, and we certainly hope that we can get back to a full calendar of events in the near future. For now, we have decided not to have birthday parties temporarily, since community health is still largely impacted by the pandemic. We have not decided yet about school break build days in February and April. February would be a last minute plan at this point, but if some of our regular builders express interest, we might host some build days during the February 21-25 days off. You can email us at [email protected] to check if we will hold a couple of builds that week. We do have our plans made for our summer build weeks and we'll post those next!
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Finally, we are back at it with two summer activity weeks for builders ages 5-10! We will follow protocols of health and safety regarding Covid-19. This means we will have a slightly shorter brick morning and no snack time. We will also require masks, unless some big changes come to what is generally required in NYS. We will send other instructions by email for those who sign up, regarding pick up and drop off procedures and other details. Our bricks and other supplies are either individual use, or sanitized daily, and/or rotated for safe handling.
Sessions are daily, 9:30AM-12Noon Monday-Friday for the weeks listed. $100/week. No day only option this year. August 9-13, 2021 Week One - Mission Brickpossible! This activity week will focus on creative brick tasks and building missions. August 16-20, 2021 Week Two - MegaBuilds! This activity week will focus on using teamwork and individual building to fill our space with city blocks, unique structures, fun mini-figure citizens, and creative vehicles. As usual, our activity weeks take place at Risen Christ Church, 1000 Moseley Road (Rte 250) in Fairport. Activity weeks include a variety of stations and your-choice building opportunities - sets, open build, tech table, craft, art and design section, indoor and outdoor active times each day, movie-making, special theme builds and brick challenges, games, and sensory focus areas. Come join us for a great summer of building fun and friendships! Lots to choose from: as always our activity weeks include open build, sensory tables, building challenges, art and craft stations, kindergarten readiness reinforcement, and inside/outdoor active time. All activity weeks held at Risen Christ Church. Covid safety rules followed.
As of June 1, 2020, we do not anticipate being able to run our camps at all during Summer 2020, even though the phases are gradually allowing for the re-opening of businesses and programs in Monroe County, NY. The council for the location we use, Risen Christ Church in Fairport NY, has made the decision that for the safety and health of all involved, running children's programs this summer at their facility has been deemed too risky in light of the stipulations and continuing concerns of the CDC, the ACA, and the governor/state regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
If this situation is re-evaluated and changes, or if we find another safe location and a way to run any brick programs, camps or special event days, we'll spread the word. But for now, given the young ages of our participants, how social our programs are, and how hands-on brick-building is, we are thinking that it is wisest to wait a little longer to get started again. We are sad, antsy, and we miss all our builders, but we are also okay with this, since keeping everyone healthy and safe are top priorities. Keep on going with good building at home, and send us pictures of what you make! Hope to see you before long, and also to make new building friends when we get a fresh start in the not too distant future. Play well, folks! And see you soon... As you already know, like all other kid-oriented scheduled summer plans, 31Bricks May-August camps are on hold until we hear when summer programs for kids in New York State, and in particular Monroe County, are allowed to resume activity.
We will start up again with a revised plan that we will post here and email to our regulars just as soon as we know what that will be. If we can do any camps or special events, we plan to stick with some variation on our already published themes, so if your builders have any favorites, let us know. We'll go with whichever themes seem to be most popular if given the chance... Stay healthy and sane and keep building!!!!!!! We have not yet either canceled nor changed our summer program plans but we anticipate that there will be some changes in the schedule. We will update when we know more from the governor and Monroe County about the amended school plans, and whether the summer will be used for make-up sessions, and when that is settled, we'll publish a new summer plan accordingly. We will try to put together programming that is based on whatever needs seem to be the highest. Thanks for your flexibility during this unprecedented time of uncertainty and sudden Plan B formulation...
SUMMER CAMP SCHEDULE Below is the schedule for preschool and school age summer camps. NEW!!!! Some of you have asked if your littles (PreK - about to start K) and your olders (graduates of K - age 11) can come at the same time. We will give that a try for one week in late August, where we can bring in both age groups of kiddos for joint camp. Some of their activities will be together and some will be separate based on age-appropriateness. For safety, size, and sanity reasons, our active brick break times (inside or outdoors) will be age-divided. It will all be fun and flexible! ;) Scroll down to see our COMBO camp. The following 5 weeks of preschool camp are for PreK/K builders who are moving up from attending a 3 or 4 year old program in the 2019-2020 schoolyear. Building bricks, our awesome collection of fun and fabulous inflatables, and a variety of other materials used each week. Plenty of options for kids who love LEGO® bricks, and those who don’t. Camps are all 9am – 12pm. $100/week/builder or $25/day. 5/26-5/29 Week One – Rise and Shine! Themes – shiny stuff, sun, moon and stars, kids in motion, waffles (ha-ha!), bricks (This four day camp is $80/week) 6/1-6/5 Week Two – Get Hoppin’! Themes – animals, kids in motion, bricks 6/8-6/12 Week Three – Under the Sea! Themes - ocean, mystery island, ships, sea creatures, water, bricks 6/15-6/19 Week Four – Up in the Air! - Themes - planes, rockets, spaceships, kites, birds, hot air balloons, bricks, flight (no bricks or children will be launched) 6/22-6/26 Week Five – Makin’ Tracks! Themes – vehicles especially trains and racetracks, wilderness/camping, animals, dinosaurs, kids in motion, bricks ****************************************************************************************** CAMPS FOR AGES 5-11 (for independent builders) Summer 2020 Come join us for a great summer of building fun and friendships! Lots to choose from and always our camp days include – open build, tons of mini-figures and sets, sensory tables, building challenges, tech table, movie making, brain break art stations, snack and inside/outdoor active time. All camps and most program events held at Risen Christ Church, 1000 Moseley Road, Fairport. Cost for 9AM-Noon camp days is $25/builder or $100/week. 7/27-7/31 – Imaginarium (Be part of our dare-to-design team as we fill the room with fun brick creations and your own creative dreams - come imagine mid-summer with us!) 8/17-21 – Mechs and MegaCities (build, program, go technic, go mechanical, go mega-big and let's City it up together!) 8/24-8/28 – Mission Brickpossible (Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to finish your appointed brick tasks before the time runs out. Come experience challenges, missions and complete your goals before the end of the week...) *********Additional weeks possible if there is high interest in these times - 7/6-7/10 - All That Glitters (a week of brick adventures, dragons, outdoor escapades, and a quest for a lost treasure...) 8/10-8/14 - Land Sea Sky (come explore the world around us - as it is and as we make it - on the ground, in the air, and out at sea! There's nothing a few bricks working together can't do...!) ****************************************************************************************** COMBO CAMP WEEK!!!! Pre-K - age 11 August option: ***8/31-9/4 Week Six – Technicolor Tots (and Brainy Brawny Brilliant Brickers) Let all the kids come and have a last summer hurrah before they head back to school after Labor Day. This week is open to Pre-K and about to start K, as well as kids post-K through age 11. Can't wait to create fantastic bricktacular memories with your awesome builders!!!! Come join us for a great summer of building fun and friendships! Lots to choose from and always our camp days include open build, sensory tables, building challenges, art and craft stations, snack and inside/outdoor active time. All camps held at Risen Christ Church (1000 Moseley Rd, Fairport). Five preschool camps to choose from. The following 5 weeks of preschool camp are for those who are moving up from attending a three or four year old program (at Risen Christ or elsewhere) in the 2019-2020 schoolyear:
5/26-5/29 Week One – Rise and Shine! Themes – shiny stuff, sun, moon and stars, kids in motion, waffles (ha-ha!), bricks 6/1-6/5 Week Two – Get Hoppin’! Themes – animals, kids in motion, bricks 6/8-6/12 Week Three – Under the Sea! Themes - ocean, mystery island, ships, sea creatures, water, bricks 6/15-6/19 Week Four – Up in the Air! - Themes - planes, rockets, spaceships, kites, birds, hot air balloons, bricks, flight (no bricks or children will be launched) 6/22-6/26 Week Five – Makin’ Tracks! Themes – vehicles especially trains and racetracks, wilderness/camping, animals, dinosaurs, kids in motion, bricks Building bricks and a variety of other materials used each week. Plenty of options for kids who love LEGO® bricks, and those who don’t. Snack and active time inside/outside included. Camps are all 9AM-NOON. Contact is Sara Reczek at [email protected] and 585-290-8102. Cost of camps for all weeks/days: $100/week/child or $25/day/child (one exception: May 26-May 29 is $80/week because it’s a 4-day camp) Checks to 31Bricks LLC due the first day your child attends along with their registration forms. The only information I need ahead of time are the dates your child is coming and any allergy information. Email Sara for more info or for any questions at [email protected]. Registration forms available on the Forms page of this website. A detailed schedule of the camp day will be sent out in late April/early May. Socks and an extra shirt must be packed for all camp days in case of bounce house or water activities, respectively. :) When you bring your child the first day of participation, we need the signed registration form and the signed authorization form, as well as payment at that time. IF your child has participated in a 31Bricks camp or program in the past (does not include Lunch Bunch or Enrichments), and their information has not changed, I do NOT need a new form. Can't wait to create fantastic camp memories with your little builders!!!! Preschool camps: Five weeks from day after Memorial Day to June 26.
Summer Camps for ages 5-11: July 27-31, 2020 August 17-21, 2020 August 24-28, 2020 If there is a high level of interest in activity weeks for July 6-10 or August 10-14, those are potential additional activity weeks. February 17-21, 2020 we will have February Break Brick Activity Week running 9AM - NOON each day. $100/week and $25/day. Cash or checks to 31Bricks due the first day your builder attends.
Our theme will be Around the World in One Week. We will go on a mystery search to the east, a treasure hunt to the south, an arctic expedition to the north and an exploration quest to the west. Then we will tie it all together on the last day. We will use the whole building and also do tons of fun brick building, and we will have snack and active time each day. Builders should also bring boots and coats and outdoor gear (hats and mittens, etc.) in case it is nice enough to go outside. All programs are for independent builders ages 5-11. Registration forms can be found on our Forms page. (New ones not needed if you have participated in a 31Bricks program previously and your information has not changed.) |
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