Learn something new, connect with others in the community, stimulate your creativity or improve your health. Adult Enrichment offers a variety of fee-based classes and activities designed for adults of every age.
PreK Plus Childcare: Providing Wrap Around, Extended Day, and Non School Day Childcare for students enrolled in an Early Childhood class.
Fun & Friends is a child care program for students in kindergarten through 8th grade. Please do not send your child to Fun & Friends until your contract and schedule has been approved.
We have a variety of programs for preschoolers aged 2 1/2 to 5 years at 2 locations: the Warrior Early Learning Center and Nisswa Elementary School.
Youth develop life-long interests, skills and knowledge through sports, performing and visual arts, academics, special interest clubs, outdoor educational experiences and many more programs.
Child Only classes provide children opportunities to explore learning in an ECFE classroom setting independently.
ECFE offers Love and Logic Parenting classes to learn practical techniques for gaining family cooperation.
ECFE offers many special events throughout the year for families with birth-5 yr olds.
Time Together Classes provide weekly time for parents/guardians and their children birth-5 years old.
Fun & Friends is a child care program for students in kindergarten through 8th grade. It has served the students of Brainerd Public Schools for over 30 years with age-appropriate, fun, recreational activities. Care is provided before school, after school, on non-school days, and over the summer.
Sites include Nisswa Elementary, Baxter Elementary, Riverside Elementary, and Harrison Elementary (also servicing Garfield and Lowell).
Summer registration has ended and all sites are full. To be added to a waitlist, please contact Cassandra Hale at 218-454-6956 or cassandra.hale@isd181.org.
SUMMER 2024:
Locations: Fun & Friends will be open at the following locations:
Dates & Hours: Wednesday, June 5- Friday, August 23. Monday-Friday, 6:30am-6:00pm.
Rates: $40/day or $45/day for a drop in, 3 days/week minimum
Registration: Summer registration will open in three different phases starting at the end of February. Please note that you can sign up any time during your registration window. See the table below. Current families: all past due invoices must be paid in full before a registration is processed. If it is not paid in full by March 5, your registration will be waitlisted.
*Families must sign up during the correct stage for their application to be considered. Signing up before your registration window will result in a denied application.
For more information or to view our handbook, please visit the Fun & Friends website, HERE.
