Progams & Registration
Art Spot
Art Spot is a place where kids get in touch with their creative side. We have a variety of guided arts and crafts such as collaging, painting, working with clay, drawing, and using recycled materials to create something awesome! Projects are often themed to celebrate holidays and current events. This is typically an AYC staff lead program and is always free for anyone who wants to participate!
Mad Science
Each week we host a Mad Science experiment where kids learn and get messy! Each session is hosted by an AYC staff or the Aspen Science Center. Examples of Mad Science fun include making lava lamps and volcanoes, building robots and Rube Goldberg Machines, computer coding, learning about how our brains work, baking experiments, and exploring other areas of chemistry, biology, and physics through experimentation!
Outdoor Explore
Outdoor Explore is a summer program that gets kids outside to experience the joy and education that our great mountain outdoors has to offer. Expeditions include river rafting with Blazing Adventures, horseback riding with Wind Walkers, trail building with Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers, flying in a plane with EcoFlight, and hut trips to Margy’s Hut in the White River National Forest. This program is always growing, and we welcome new ideas about how to get Aspen Youth Center members outside and learning!
AYC also gets kids moving and interacting with one another throughout the school year with sports like fencing, tennis, wrestling, and more.
Top Chef
Top Chef is a crowd favorite here at Aspen Youth Center. Kids love experimenting in our fully-stocked kitchen and cooking delicious food with our AYC staff. We cook on Thursdays and Fridays during the summer in preparation for our Community Lunch, on Fridays at noon. Occasionally, we invite a professional chef or health food expert to teach a cooking class.
Special Programs, Partnerships and Field Trips
AYC is partnering with people and organizations all over the Roaring Fork Valley and is always looking for new ways to engage kids in fun and enriching activities. Please reach out if you would like to partner with AYC or know of an organization that might be a good fit. We are always looking for volunteers with special and unique knowledge or talents who would like to be a guest teacher—sharing their skills with our members!
