Taking mommy and me classes is a fabulous way to participate in your child’s development in a fun environment. You get to spend quality bonding time when you and your child take music, yoga, painting, or swimming classes together while watching your youngster develop essential life skills and self-confidence. When you’re looking for places in the Maple Grove, Minnesota, area to take mommy and me classes, use this handy guide of five classes our team at Crème de la Crème of Maple Grove compiled for you.

Ladybug Music

The littlest drummer by Bev Sykes is licensed with CC BY 2.0

Since 2009, the professional educators and musicians at Ladybug Music have provided families with young children musical classes to enhance their fine and gross motor skills, body/brain connections, and language and reasoning skills. Kids also gain social/emotional understanding when they take music classes from Ladybug Music.

In the curriculum for the mommy and me classes, the instructors teach youngsters how to keep time with drums, shakers, and sticks; sing songs to learn new words; improve fine motor skills with small movement songs; and increase body awareness with fun dances. The classes offered are for children from infants to 4 year-olds and their parents. Each class is 40 minutes long and offered in 10-week sessions. After a fun day at Ladybug Music, take your family to any of these plant-based restaurants near Maple Grove for a satisfying meal.

Location: 6828 Hemlock Lane North in Maple Grove.

Contact: 612-386-1619.

Blooma Minneapolis

The professional yoga instructors at Blooma Minneapolis hold yoga classes for mothers with newborn babies, barre for parents with newborn to pre-crawling children, and little kids yoga. When you come to Blooma with your pre-crawling baby to the Bring Your Own Baby class, you’ll bond with your young child through loving touch, sight, sounds, and movement. As you practice gentle yoga moves, you can incorporate your baby into the yoga sequence to receive a nurturing and strengthening practice.

Barre is a great way to tone, lift, and engage muscles all at once. In the Barre babywearing class, you’ll have your baby in a carrier strapped to you while working out on your exercise mat and the stable wooden barre. Kids 9 months to 4 years will have a blast in the Little Kids Yoga class where the instructors combine song, dance, and basic yoga postures for a fun session.

If you have older children from 4 to 8, they can take their own Big Kids Yoga class. During this class, the instructors guide your child through yoga postures so your youngster can gain concentration skills, learn how to manage stress and anxiety, and build strength and flexibility.

Location: 5315 Lyndale Ave. S. in Minneapolis.

Contact: 612-223-8064.

Foss Swim School

When kids take swimming lessons, they learn basic water safety, swimming strokes, and self-rescue techniques that help make them strong and confident swimmers. When you enroll yourself and your child in Backfloat Baby classes at the Foss Swim School, you’ll get in the water with your baby under the age of 3 and you’ll learn how to support your child while they float on their back, how to teach your baby to climb out of the water should they fall in, and how to hold them when practicing submersion techniques.

Even if your child is already comfortable in the bathtub or pool and puts their face underwater, the Backfloat Baby classes will give you confidence that they are learning the fundamental skills of basic swimming and water safety. Once your child masters the Backfloat Baby levels, they’ll advance to classes where they learn more independent water and swimming skills.

Location: 8438 Highway 7 in St. Louis Park.

Contact: 952-935-8732.

Color Me Mine

You and your child from 2 to 5 years old can bring out your inner artist when you sign up for Toddler Tuesday at Color Me Mine. Once a month the instructors at Color Me Mine offer this fun and interactive mommy and me paint your own pottery class with a different theme for each month. The staff provides guidance, the pottery piece, all the paints, and all studio fees. Check the Color Me Mine website often for when they offer family day.

In this fun class, up to five family members can use the studio for up to two hours. After you’ve painted your piece of pottery, you’ll leave it at the studio where the staff will fire the pieces in the kiln. They’ll then let you know when the pottery is ready for pickup, between 7 to 10 days later, and you can then bring your masterpiece home. While you can guarantee a spot at Color Me Mine with reservations, you can always drop by with your kids to enjoy spending time together painting pottery.

Location: 12155 Elm Creek Blvd. in Maple Grove.

Contact: 763-420-0005.

Music Together in the Valley

Enjoy making music together in the mixed-age class at Music Together in the Valley. Children from infants to kindergartners come together with their parents or caregivers to learn singing, chanting, and movement while exploring a variety of musical instruments.

Having kids of various ages in this class helps inspire younger children to imitate the older ones and older kids learn to lead, similar to how siblings in a family learn. Each child participates at their own level to gain self-confidence in music and movement. The mommy and me classes offered at Music Together in the Valley are perfect for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and their parents who want to watch their children develop musical skills.

Location: 12951 Weaver Lake Road at the Maple Grove Community Center in Maple Grove.

Contact: 651-439-4219. 

Are you excited to sign up for these amazing mommy and me classes in our area? Which classes appeal to you the most? If you have a recommendation for other mommy and me classes nearby, let our team at Crème de la Crème of Maple Grove know and we can share the information with our local community.