The warmer months are upon us, and for many people with children, summer schedules are filling up. Before the season of sun and freedom disappears — and before you can even begin to wonder where it has gone — Life Time is here to help you plan for some regular you time while your kids learn, play, and are entertained.
Every week, Life Time Kids features Parents Night Out events, where your kids can hang out with others their age while taking part in games and activities related to that evening’s theme. There are Tween Takeover events held monthly, too.
“We use Parents Night Out events for much-needed date nights,” says Abby Banks, member at Life Time in Edina, Minn. “Between three kids in numerous activities, work, and other life obligations, it’s a great chance for my husband and I to reconnect. We know our kids are having the best time and being well taken care of at Life Time.”
Life Time families have even become friends thanks to Parents Night Out events. “We also use these nights to meet up with other Life Time parents,” says Banks. “We’ve developed such an amazing community here!”
Learn more about the events and themes taking place in June, July, and August:
| June | |||
| Surf & Turf | Slime Squad | Ready to Rock | Rookie Rally |
| Tween Takeover | |||
| July | |||
| Astronaut Training | Adventure Awaits | Glitter Galore | Super Builder Challenge |
| Tween Takeover | |||
| August | ||||
| Shipwrecked Tales | Yoga GLO | Creative Celebration | So Long Summer | Hula Hoopla |
| Tween Takeover | ||||
Tween Takeover
Ages: 9 to 13 years old
Length: Typically 3 hours
At Tween Takeover nights, kids rule! This time is for your tween to decide what they want to do at their athletic country club: They can play sports, create crafts, challenge one another to a board game, or participate in other fun activities. The space is theirs.
Surf & Turf
Ages: 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club)
Length: 3 hours
Surf’s up, dude! Kids will create tropical-themed crafts and jelly fish and sand art, play Hula-Hoop freeze tag and noodle dance tag, and make pool noodle structures and beach ball towers. Noodle wars, noodle smack down, and other activities are also featured at this fun luau.
Slime Squad
Ages: 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club)
Length: 3 hours
Slime at home? Messy! Slime at Life Time? Bring it on! Send your kids to this slime party where they’ll create custom slime colors and textures in the “science lab.” Kids will also enjoy crafting with tin foil: younger kids will make mosaics using cutout shapes of tin foil while older kids will use tin foil, washable markers, and paper to make art prints.
After they’ve made slime and created art, they’ll compete in some awesome gym games such as island-themed dodgeball and sink the ship, and tag games such as sharks and minnows and Ollie Ollie Octopus.
Ready to Rock
Ages: 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club)
Length: 3 hours
Get ready to mic up and rock the night away! Kids will unleash their inner rockstar as they craft music-themed masterpieces such as paper plate tambourines or hand drums, engage in musical games like rock and roll dots or musical hoops, and create a water xylophone or popsicle stick harmonica.
Rookie Rally
Ages: 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club)
Length: 3 hours
Kids can compete with friends in sports, games, and team-building challenges such as crazy kickball, capture the flag, sorting race, and paper bridge challenge. Players will show their team spirit by creating a team spirit flag or team spirit windsock.
Astronaut Training
Ages: 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club)
Length: 3 hours
Calling all astronauts to report to mission control: This event is going to be out of this world! Kids will see if they have what it takes to be an astronaut through activities including building flying saucers, painting planets, creating art with galaxy chalk, and playing gym games such as man from mars and catching stars.
Adventure Awaits
Ages: 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club)
Length: 3 hours
Come to Life Time for this exciting journey! Adventurers will create nature-inspired crafts like a sunshine catcher, DIY pinwheels, and paint out of dandelions, as well as play team-building games like ducks in a pond and frogs and fish.
Glitter Galore
Ages: 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club)
Length: 3 hours
Get ready to sparkle: Kids will use a rainbow of glitter to create dazzling masterpieces like a rainbow twirler or rainbow collage as well as will make their own glitter slime. After unleashing their creativity, they’ll run around in the gym playing games like stop-and-go freeze dance and popcorn launch.
Super Builder Challenge
Ages: 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club)
Length: 3 hours
Does your child have what it takes to compete (all in the name of good fun, of course!)? Kids will be put to the test to race against their friends and the clock in block-building challenges and Minute to Win It-style games. Their accuracy and creativity will be challenged. After the competition, kids will play robot tag and balance tag in the gym.
If your kids attend and enjoy this event, try your own version of it at home: “Family Activity Night: Super Builder Challenge.”
Shipwrecked Tales
Ages: 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club)
Length: 3 hours
Come aboard and channel your inner castaway. Kids will embark on adventures in the gym playing ship ahoy or captain’s coming, create treasure playdough or pirate treasure slime, and engage in a treasure toss and treasure map relay. This event promises a treasure trove of fun for young explorers.
Yoga GLO
Ages: 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club)
Length: 3 hours
Kids will sample our Kids Studio SOL Yoga class at this glow-in-the-dark party. They’ll kick off the night making glow-in-the-dark bracelets to wear during their flow session, while younger kids will make glow-in-the-dark or neon slime. Then the lights go off, the glowsticks come out, and yoga is on!
Creative Celebration
Ages: 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club)
Length: 3 hours
Kids can unleash their imagination at this event that offers activities such as pool noodle balancing and a tic tac toe relay and the chance to create vibrant masterpieces with puffy paint and bubble art. They’ll also head to the gym to play rainbow road and four-corner dodgeball.
So Long Summer
Ages: 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club)
Length: 3 hours
Give summer the sendoff it deserves with a final bash! Kids will play gym games such as ice cream tag and swim or sand, make crafts like paper popsicles or paper leis (depending on age), and build a garden. They’ll also do a S.T.E.A.M. experiment to see how different summer items fit inside a beach bag. So long, summer!
Hula Hoopla
Ages: 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club)
Length: 3 hours
Hula on over to Life Time for this party. Kids will participate in a beach ball relay race, as well as make paper lei crafts or flower lei necklaces, and go through a glitter lava lamp or melting sandcastle S.T.E.A.M. activity.
Common FAQs About Kids Events
Shelly Forsberg, director of kids and aquatics at Life Time, shares answers to commonly asked questions from parents.
Life Time | What can I expect if I sign my child up for a Life Time Kids event?
Shelly Forsberg | Each event has a theme, and we build the curriculum around that so there are always fun, new activities for kids to take part in. There is a new theme each week to help accommodate family schedules and to allow for a greater chance for every child to attend. Kids’ events occur every Saturday. Depending on the club, there may also be additional events on Fridays.
Regardless of the theme, every curriculum follows an intentionally designed format: There’s always arts and crafts time, a STEAM project, a gym game or a sports activity — or some combination of those. Then, we always serve dinner, which is usually pizza and juice.
Events typically last two to three hours and can accommodate kids ages 4 to 12 years old (ages may vary by club based on state requirements). Tween Takeover events are generally for kids ages 9 to 13 years old, though that may vary by club as well.
Our Life Time Kids team members go through training before being entrusted with your kids. This training includes CPR training, a child-development course, and a classroom-management course to ensure your kids are in the safest hands.
LT | Do parents need to stay at the club while their child is attending an event?
SF | No. Parents can leave the club or stay on site. Most often, we see parents using this time in the club, whether that be to take a fitness class, use the space and machines on the workout floor, relax in the sauna or steam room, grab a bite to eat in the LifeCafe, or hit the pickleball court with friends.
LT | Is there a cost to these events? And do you have to be a Life Time member to participate?
SF | All Kids events are included at no cost in Junior Memberships. Your child does need to be on a Life Time Junior Membership to attend the events.
LT | How do I sign my child up for an event?
SF | Reservations can be made up to 30 days prior to each event. View the schedule on my.lifetime.life or in the Life Time app by clicking “View All Events” and under “Activity,” filtering by “Kids.”
If your child is registered and you need to cancel, we ask that you please do so at least five hours prior to the event to open up the spot for someone else. (Two missed reservations within a 90-day period without prior notification will result in a temporary suspension of your ability to make kids’ event registrations for 30 days.)
