Virtual Recreation & Resource Center
Virtual Bingo!
Thursdays - Visit Link Below For Dates
Games will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Virtual Bingo opens the 1st of each month! Multiple games will be played. Play for a chance to win prizes from the comfort of your own home!
Rules:
*All participants must be 18 years of age or older.
*One Bingo card per person.
*Participants must have access to the Zoom Application.
Participation is FREE! Pre-registration is required.
Zoom meeting details and Bingo card will be emailed to each participant.
To register, please visit Virtual Bingo!
Adult Fitness
Chair Aerobics For Seniors
The intention of chair aerobics is not to limit movement or keep folks off their feet, but rather to increase mobility, feelings of well-being, and encourage physical activity in people who might otherwise think that exercise is out of reach. Pull up a chair and let's begin.
Home Workouts & Fitness Ideas For All Ages
Everybody needs exercise to remain fit and healthy. But if you can’t go to the gym, that’s no reason that you can’t get exercise. There are tons of fitness activities that you can do at home. Exercising is important for men, women, and children of all ages. Physical activity will make you feel happier and more relaxed. You can have fun exercising indoors or outdoors with your whole family.
Pilates For Seniors
Pilates is a method of exercise that consists of low-impact flexibility and muscular strength and endurance movements. Pilates emphasizes proper postural alignment, core strength and muscle balance. Grab a beach towel or use an exercise mat. Take your time with each lesson and do what you can to move forward with your fitness abilities.
Pilates-Via Zoom
Joseph Pilates' fitness philosophy affirms that the whole (body) must be exercised to achieve good health. This course offers a full body regimen emphasizing proper alignment to achieve core upper and lower body strength that supports the spine. Targeted exercise includes aerobic and anaerobic, range of motion - varied, progressive, repetitive, and habitual in movement. If this aligns with your fitness philosophy, Pilates is the right path for you. Beginners welcome. New sessions are starting up each month. To register, please visit Pilates-Via Zoom Registration.
Silver Sneakers Exercise For Seniors
Silver Sneakers is a health and fitness program designed for adults 65 years & up. Workout from home with live or recorded classes and how-to-videos to help feel stronger, have more energy, and for peace of mind. A membership is required and is available at no cost for those with participating Medicare plans.
Stability Ball Yoga-Via Zoom
Seeking to develop stability and grace in less than a stable world? Or just seeking to improve your ability to talk and chew gum at the same time? Yoga postures and Pilates exercises performed on the large stability ball builds core strength, improves balance and encourages self-confidence. So grab your stability balls and join the fun! Beginners welcome. New sessions are starting up each month. To register, please visit Stability Ball Yoga-Via Zoom Registration.
Synergy & Surrender-Via Zoom
This soothing Hatha Yoga practice employs breath work (pranayama), postures (asanas), and meditation to maximize the mind/body union. It synergistically enhances physical and mental health. This form of Yoga increases strength, flexibility and stamina, and by reducing stress, allows you to surrender and become your best self. Beginners welcome. New sessions are starting up each month. To register, please visit Synergy & Surrender Yoga-Via Zoom Registration.
Adult Special Interests
Crafeteria With Christen: No Sew Fleece Pillow
Let's join the Gibson Senior Center's Crafeteria craft project today and learn how to make a No Sew Fleece Pillow. With Christen's step-by-step video, you'll be crafting like a pro in no time! The pillows are perfect to add to your bed or couch decor or to give as a gift to someone special. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to learn how to create this cute pillow!
Crafeteria With Christen: Watercolor Coasters
Let your creativity soar today with "Crafeteria With Christen"! Today, we'll learn the basic steps in creating watercolor coasters that will brighten up any room. Or, perhaps give a set as a gift to a friend or neighbor to brighten up their day. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to learn how to create your own watercolor coasters.
Crochet Fun!
From beginner stitches to advanced, the projects and creativity can be endless! Not only can you create some great projects like hats, gloves, doilies, sweaters, or scarves, crocheting is a great stress reliever!
Easy Crafts For Adults
Easy crafts for adults are are a fun way to relieve stress and rediscover your creative spark. Let's get started!
Games, Games, And More Games
From the convenience of your living room, sit back and enjoy an online classic. Perhaps a game of Chess or Backgammon. Or, if you prefer a crossword puzzle, game of solitaire, sudoku, or mahjong. There's something for everyone!
Jigsaw Puzzles For All Ages
Who doesn't love a good puzzle? Not only can they assist to improve your short-term memory, a puzzle can reinforce relations between brain cells and improve your mental speed, while providing the benefits of meditation and a means to help evaporate the stress in your life. And of course, puzzles can be a great source of entertainment!
Let The Pages Take You Places
From the convenience of your home, you may access best selling and classic eBooks, digital/audio books, and streaming videos, available 24/7 through Digital Audiobooks and eBooks at the Upland Public Library. Browse the collection, borrow with your library card, and enjoy on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or eReader. E-cards are currently available at the Upland Public Library.
Paw Print Art
Simply dip your dog’s paw into the paint and create some floral shapes. Once the shapes are stamped out and ready to go, you simply wash the non-toxic paint from your dog’s paw and grab your paintbrush to continue your paw print masterpiece.
Cooking Fun For All Ages
Chipotle Guacamole!
Happy Cinco De Mayo! To celebrate, let's grab some avocados and prepare a bowl of the tasty guacamole prepared by Chipotle. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to enjoy this tasty appetizer.
Cooking With Kathy: Fresh Mango Salsa
This fruity and spicy fresh mango salsa is yummy on just about everything! Follow our step-by-step instructional video provided by Cooking With Cooper to turn plain old chips and salsa into a mouthwatering event.
Cooking With Kathy: Frosted Lemonade
Frosted lemonade is the perfect icy lemon treat for a hot summer day, requiring only some basic ingredients. Cooking with Cooper shows us how simple this icy lemon treat is in her step-by-step instructional video.
Cooking With Kathy: Pizza Waffles & Five-Minute Dipping Sauce
Cooking With Kathy's step-by-step tutorial for Pizza Waffles with 5-Minute Dipping Sauces is a simple recipe that will provide you and your little chef time together in the kitchen, allowing for a tasty afternoon snack as the end result.
Easy Meal Prep: Cooking For One Or Two
Do you enjoy cooking, but would like to cook a meal for just one or two people, rather than for a family of ten? Today's step-by-step tutorial will provide instruction on how to do just that!. Today's menu: Chicken Parmesan.
Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cooking Course
Gordon Ramsay offers Ultimate Cooking Courses, teaching basic cooking skills on his YouTube channel. Today's menu: Pan-Fried Pork Chops & Peppers.
Homemade Ice Cream Without An Ice Cream Machine
Learn how to make ice cream without an ice cream machine with three simple no churn methods and fun flavor ideas. Get your sweet tooth ready...
Make Ahead Freezer Meals
Hot breakfasts usually require significantly more time to prepare—something that we're short on most mornings. Let's learn how to create three freezer meals that will come in handy on one of the crazy busy mornings.
Popsicle Time!
Warm weather means it's time for popsicles! Kids, lets' learn how to make three different homemade popsicles that are inexpensive, nutritious, and delicious. Don't forget to ask for assistance from your parents.
Youth Fitness & Outdoor Fun
DIY Sidewalk Chalk Paint
Making your own sidewalk chalk paint is super easy. You more than likely have the three required ingredients in your pantry. The children will be painting the sidewalk and driveway in no time after following the DIY video.
Fitness For Kids With Twenty Online Fitness Activities
Let's put the fun back into fitness with online fitness videos for kids that are safe and effective for kids of all ages!
Home Workouts & Fitness Ideas For All Ages
Everybody needs exercise to remain fit and healthy. But if you can’t go to the gym, that’s no reason that you can’t get exercise. There are tons of fitness activities that you can do at home. Exercising is important for men, women, and children of all ages. Physical activity will make you feel happier and more relaxed. You can have fun exercising indoors or outdoors with your whole family.
Homemade Bubble Fun!
Who doesn't love bubbles? Learn how to make your own homemade bubbles and bubble wands! Ingredients: 1/2 cup warm water, 4 T liquid dish detergent, and 2T glycerine.
Kids HIIT Workout
Kids HIIT Workout will build endurance, timing, coordination, and strength. This video may be followed by children of all ages!
Karate For All Ages
Karate For All Ages emphasizes the qualities that martial arts have become known for, such as self-discipline, confidence, respect, improved concentration, skills learning, and self-defense. And of course, it's fun, too! Beginners and Advanced Beginners welcome. To register for the month of September, please visit Karate For All Ages Registration.
Make Your Own Fairy Garden
Create a whimsical, miniature fairy garden using a large planter and some terra-cotta pots or an outdoor version with some spare wood and craft paint.
Youth Special Interests
A calming breath meditation designed to introduce kids to mindfulness. Kids imagine a sail boat rising and falling over waves as they inhale and exhale and use mental imagery to see their breath as color as they observe the sensation of it passing through the nostrils. Finally they cultivate beginners mind imagining they were once a fish and are feeling air in their lungs for the first time.
Create Your Own Butterfly Puddler
To have a really successful butterfly garden, you will also want to provide them with butterfly nectar and fresh water in a butterfly puddler. Butterflies drink by “puddling”. They sip at shallow puddles of water in mud or sand instead of landing in large open water areas. Learn how to create your own butterfly puddler with air dry modeling clay and simple tools by visiting our link.
DIY Scrappy Self-Portraits
Help your kids create their own 3-D self portrait using scrap pieces of wood and plenty of imagination.
First Aid For Feelings
A free 16-page downloadable workbook, available in English and Spanish, designed to help kids cope during the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Fur, Feather, Fin - All Of Us Are Kin Virtual Story Event
Join the Busy Bee Virtual Story Event with special guest Diane Lang -- author, educator, and nature enthusiast, as she reads her picture book "Fur, Feather, Fin - All of Us are Kin."
Home Base For Kids
A safe and fun digital community for kids, where kids can explore islands based on their favorite book series. Kids will love the trivia games and live chats with authors.
Jigsaw Puzzles For All Ages
Who doesn't love a good puzzle? Not only can they assist to improve your short-term memory, a puzzle can reinforce relations between brain cells and improve your mental speed, while providing the benefits of meditation and a means to help evaporate the stress in your life. And of course, puzzles can be a great source of entertainment!
JumpStart For Kids
JumpStart offers a wide variety of fun activities for kids to help engage the young ones with activities to make learning fun.
Kids' Wooden Robot Workshop
With items found around the house, you and your kids can learn to make cute, wooden robot toys.
Learn How To Draw A Dog
Learn how to draw a dog with just a few steps and just a few supplies, by following an art tutorial for kids and beginners.
Let The Pages Take You Places
From the convenience of your home, you may access best selling and classic eBooks, digital/audio books, and streaming videos, available 24/7 through Digital Audiobooks and eBooks at the Upland Public Library. Browse the collection, borrow with your library card, and enjoy on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or eReader. E-cards are currently available at the Upland Public Library.
Paper Mouse Corner Bookmark
With just a few supplies and some added creativity, learn how to create these super cute tiny paper mouse bookmarks. Keep them for your reading adventures or share with friends and family.
Paw Print Art
Simply dip your dog’s paw into the paint and create some floral shapes. Once the shapes are stamped out and ready to go, you simply wash the non-toxic paint from your dog’s paw and grab your paintbrush to continue your paw print masterpiece.
Quick & Easy Science Experiments For Kids
Enjoy ten science experiments for kids with household items.
Scholastic Learn At Home
The Scholastic Learn At Home series offers day-by-day projects to keep kids, grades Pre-K through 9th reading, thinking, and growing.
Scholastic Teachables
The editors of Teachables have created a free collection of worksheets and activities for your kids, Pre-K through 8th grade.
Science Flix
From weather to our cell phones, science is all around us! Kids can watch, read, and explore hundreds of science topics including Earth Science, Space Science, Physical Science, Health & The Human Body, and more!
Sea Animal Paper Plate Crafts
Kids, get out your paints, scissors, colored pencils, paper plates, a plastic cup, and your creativity and let's build Sea Animal Paper Plate Crafts, by following a step-by-step tutorial.
Stress Balls For Kids
Learn to make tactile sensory balls using balloons and other materials around your home. You can even accessorize them to look like any character you choose.
Ten Fun-Filled Experiments For Kids
Cloud In A Bottle, Bouncy Egg, and Bending Water...These are all easy science experiments that will amaze kids, all with items located around the house. Let's have some fun!
Young Rembrandts Cartoon Art: Virtual Fun
Our Young Rembrandts Fun Art classes are now available from the safety and comfort of your own home! The registered student will receive a link to each class via email. Students will have the option to participate and complete the lessons at their convenience. Each four-week session includes lessons in drawing fundamentals and cartoons! Students will have a blast each month with each themed virtual drawing activity. Pre-registration is required. For registration information, please visit Young Rembrandts Cartoon Art: Virtual Fun.
Virtual Adventures For The Whole Family
Carnival Cruise Adventure
Take a break from what you're doing and go on an Instant Caribbean vacation! Carnival Cruise Line launched an Instant Caribbean Vacation in a full 360º interactive video. Users can experience all the fun of a Carnival cruise from gliding down water slides, to relaxing on the beach, or just taking in the glorious sunset from the deck. Don't forget to use the toggle on the top left screen to get the most out of your mini-vacay! Grab your suntan lotion and let's go on a virtual vacation.
Disneyland - Indiana Jones Adventure
Who says you have to stand in long lines to enjoy Disneyland rides? From the convenience of your own home, accompany intrepid archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones on a turbulent quest, aboard military troop transport vehicles, through a dangerous lost temple guarded by a supernatural power.
Disneyland - Peter Pan Flight
From the convenience of your own home, fly over London aboard a pirate galleon to Never Land.
Disneyland - Pirates Of The Caribbean
From the convenience of your own home, embark on a swashbuckling voyage to a time when pirates ruled the seas.
Disneyland - Splash Mountain
Warmer weather is just around the corner...let's celebrate with a log ride at Disneyland! Set off on a delightful log flume ride featuring characters and songs from the classic Disney film ‘Song of the South.
Famous Buildings In Dubai
Let's travel outside of the country today and visit Dubai, to virtually view some of the largest structures in the world, to read about the history of these large structures, and enjoy some fun facts about each. Plan to spend some time on this virtual adventure...there's tons to see and read!
Hogwarts Digital Escape Room
Created by the Peters Township Public Library in McMurray, Pennsylvania and inspired by the magic-filled works of J.K. Rowling, this digital escape room experience not only brings you into the world of Harry Potter, but also challenges your brains! Put on your wizard hat, get that robe steamed, and let's begin our adventure!
LEGOLAND Florida Resort Adventure
Explore the LEGOLAND Florida Resort virtually, through the twists and turns of The Dragon, an indoor/outdoor steel roller coaster.
Louvre Adventure
The Louvre was originally a fortress built by the French king Philippe Auguste. It was intended to reinforce the defenses that the king had ordered to be built in 1190 to protect Paris from attack via the Seine. Today, visitors can walk around the original perimeter moat and view the piers that supported the drawbridge.
Monterey Bay Aquarium Adventure
Located on the ocean's edge, the Monterey Aquarium is your window to marine life. Home to sea otters, penguins, sharks, and more, enjoy the amazing diversity of life found on and beneath the waves. Although the physical doors may be closed, you can still enjoy a virtual visit and experience the Aquarium.
San Diego Zoo Adventure
The San Diego Zoo showcases more than 3700 animals that call the San Diego Zoo home. Bring wildlife such as polar bears, apes, koalas, even pandas and tigers into your home when you visit. While watching the live cams, pick out your favorite animals and make a list of those that you would like to see in person!
Six Flags Magic Mountain Goliath Roller Coaster
Today, let's head on over to Magic Mountain and board Goliath! As far as roller coasters go, there are beasts, there are giants, and then there is Goliath. Find out why bigger is better on this intense 70 mile-per-hour body-blaster that is not for the timid.
The Taj Mahal
Built by a 17th-century Mughal emperor in memory of his favorite wife, who died during childbirth, the Taj Mahal is one of the most lavish and romantic architectural tributes on earth.
Tuscan Botanical Gardens Adventure
Let's head over to Arizona's Tuscan Botanical Gardens to view their Butterfly Exhibit, allowing people all over the country to enjoy and visit some tropical beauty.
Printable Activities For At Home Fun
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Resource Corner For Seniors
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