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Mental Health Awareness Month: FREE Mental Health Kits- Sponsored by St. David's Foundation Libraries for Health Grant

Lapsit and Story Time with Ms. Melinda and Mrs. Raby

Yarn Bomb the Park - Elgin Memorial Park

To support the Elgin Arts & Culture event on Saturday, May 5th, Elgin Parks & Recreation invites everyone of all skill levels to decorate the bollards in Elgin Memorial Park. This project is geared towards all ages and creativity levels. Everyone can decorate a bollard to bring brightness and joy to park goers! 1.) Sign up: https://secure.rec1.com/TX/elgin-tx/catalog 2.) Pick a bollard in Elgin Memorial Park, 361 N HWY 95. 3.) Knit, crochet, or weave your family friendly bollard decoration. 4.) Put up your decoration before May 5th to be included in Elgin Arts & Culture. 5.) Decorations will be on display until June 30th. What is "Yarn Bombing"? Yarn bombing is part street art, part graffiti, and part activism, which combines the seemingly “cute” and comforting elements of knitting and crocheting, with the revolutionary and mild civil disobedience of graffiti / “tagging” of public objects, in order to make some sort of artistic statement.

Video-Lead Classes - DVD Classes at the Elgin Recreation Center

Need a work out earlier in the morning than we offer instructor-lead classes? Check out our library of workout DVDs and participate in a video-lead fitness class! Staff set up chairs, equipment and DVDs at 7:45AM on Tuesdays and Thursdays and run DVD classes through 8:45AM. This is FREE for Elgin Recreation Center members and just $5/Day for non-members. If you're interested in DVD classes during a different time of day, send an email to parks@elgintexas.gov and we'll see if it works in our schedule!

Extreme Walking - FREE Challenge Walking Club for Ages 60+ at the Elgin Recreation Center

Extreme Walking - FREE Challenge Walking Club for Ages 60+ Tuesdays & Thursdays from 8:00AM - 10:00AM. Participants aged 60+ are invited to come to the Elgin Recreation Center every Tuesday and Thursday for fun and fitness! From 8:00AM - 10:00AM WildCat Walkers have the opportunity to take their walks to the next level with Extreme Walking! Extreme Walking is a fun way to socialize with other seniors while taking your walk to the next level! While doing laps, choose to take on low impact obstacles such as steppers, hurdles, balance beams and more. These obstacles are designed to help improve balance and increase fitness opportunities for Elgin's active older adults.

Senior Coffee Social Club at the Elgin Recreation Center

Our patrons aged 60+ are invited to sit and enjoy a free cup of coffee in the Rec Lobby after participating in our Fitness Programs. This is a great opportunity to make new friends, get out of the house and get a free cup of joe. Coffee provided in part by Chariot / Drive-A-Senior.

WildCat Walkers - Free Walking Program for 60+ at the Elgin Recreation Center

Seniors aged 60+ are invited to come to the Elgin Recreation Center for FREE Monday - Friday from 8:00AM-10:00AM to walk laps in the Gym. Wildcat Walkers is a fun way to socialize with other seniors while walking in a climate controlled gym, providing a safe space for fitness. The Elgin Recreation Center rewards walking milestones, so for your first 100 miles walked, you receive a shirt, for 250 miles you'll receive a pedometer and for 500 miles you'll receive a stainless steel water bottle.

Dance Body Work with Pedro at the Elgin Recreation Center

Group coaching for physical well-being, to relieve tension, correct posture, reduce stress, diminish fatigue and increase energy. Clients will learn how to improve their fitness, replacing fat with muscle. The work also increases mental concentration and memory; and physical balance is improved. The goal is not athletic performance, but to help you spend some effective time on yourself and your body through simple exercises adapted to age and daily activities. The class will advice you on using your body more effectively each day. Message from Instructor Pedro: I use my 45 years of experience as a professional dancer and teacher. From my daily practice of Tibetan yoga stretches. I have selected simple exercises that enable the maintenance or the achievement of physical fitness. I am concerned with giving you certain keys that will soon lead you, on your own, to acquiring the reflex of giving this attention to yourself and your body.

Skate Night at the Elgin Recreation Center

PLEASE NOTE: Skate Night is on hold during the winter months due to weather and darkness - we will see everyone when we return in March! ALL WHEELS ARE WELCOME! Come skate, bike, roller blade and scooter safely, at the Elgin Recreation Center every Tuesday from 5PM - 7PM! This event is fun for all ages and completely FREE. We will hang out, listen to music, wheel around and make new friends! Small scale skateboard ramps and rails will be available for children under 13. Parental supervision required

Kangoo Jumps Dance Class with Karla at the Elgin Recreation Center

Kangoo Jumps Dance Class at the Elgin Recreation Center is every Tuesday and Thursday from 6PM - 7PM. This fun, upbeat class combines cardio and dance to build fitness. Boots are available during the class.

Let Your Yoga Dance Class with Krista at the Elgin Recreation Center

Let Your Yoga Dance is a funky, fun, dance-like-no-one-is-watching experience for all ability levels, moving through the chakras from the root (foot) and to crown. It is truly a head-to-toe immersion in movement and goodness. Come dance with us where JOY and FUN meet the DEEP and SACRED! Dress comfortably and ready to stretch, relax, dance and move. Krista Lee is a long time Elginite and 33 year employee of Elgin ISD. After learning of Let Your Yoga Dance at a Camp Atta Girl women's retreat, she went out looking for places to engage regularly. Finding none, Krista enrolled in Teacher Training and is now a certified Let Your Yoga Dance teacher!