Things to Do in Avon Lake
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Golf: Inside & Out
- North Royalton
Instructors use video technology to help golfers hone their swings or teach classes of four about short-game and driving patterns
Buckeye Lanes
- North Olmsted
Bumpers & lightweight balls equip pintsize bowlers at alley with late-night Rockin' Bowl & eight billiard tables
Gymboree Play & Music Cleveland
- Multiple Locations
Innovative play environment hosts development-based classes focused on creativity and physical activity
Synergy Paintball
- Eaton
On 35 acres with multiple paintball fields offer themed play and capture the flag games in simulated jungle and speedball arena
Everyday Active Fitness
- Avon Lake
45-minute boot-camp classes blend cardio exercises, strength training, and interval training into high-energy workouts
Brunswick Bowling
- Brunswick Zone - North Ridgeville
Long-time bowling-industry leader opens its oiled lanes for pin-punishment sessions including cosmic bowling
Avon Ballroom
- Avon
Instructors lead a variety of ballroom styles in a 5,000 sq. ft. facility with two ballrooms
Premier Athletics Little Explorers
- Avon
Kids aged 2–5 learn movement skills during gymnastics classes divvied up by age, starting with Parents and Tots classes
Krysia Energy Yoga
- Westlake
Certified instructors lead classes such as Power Yoga, Deep Stretch, and Candlelight Basics in a private studio
Sara-J Sportfishing Charters
- Multiple Locations
Sail across Lake Erie on 34 ft. catamaran boat in search of perch, walleye, and smallmouth bass
Cannon Irish Dance
- North Olmsted
Lessons focus on proper Irish-dance technique, coordination, poise, movement, and rhythm
Puma Yoga
- Lakewood
Vinyasa, power, prenatal, and other yoga classes for beginners and experienced yogis
Recommended Things to Do by Groupon Customers
Rumor has it the maniacal laughter, sobs, and screams of ghosts echo throughout CornStalkers Haunted Cornfield and Forest's 1-acre cornfield. Fifteen-minute strolls down its easy-to-follow trail lead brave guests through rows of 7-foot stalks teeming with scarecrows looking for new brains to show off in Oz. Foreboding also hangs over the 5-acre forest, where flesh-eating zombies, creepy creatures, and spooky effects petrify patrons making the half-hour trek down its gravel path. Visitors that survive the cornfield and forest's PG-13-level scares can regain their bearings with snacks from the concessions stand.
When a performance studio stages The Sound of Music as its first production only months after opening, you know it means business. For the staff of Olmsted Performing Arts, their dedication to developing students' acting skills and hunger for creative expression continues to generate inspiring performances, whether their protégés pay homage to a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical or dazzle audiences with song-and-dance numbers from Footloose, a rousing tale about the adventures of a barefoot podiatrist.
While theater plays a large part in the curriculum, it isn't the only focus within Olmsted Performing Arts. The center’s dance academy fine-tunes steps in a variety of styles, its music-education program teaches voice and piano lessons, and its new gymnastics program encourages children to express themselves through movement rather than conceiving abstract poems in their alphabet soup.
In 1976, educator, musician, and kinesiologist Robin Wes opened The Little Gym based on his new take on physical education. His curriculum emphasized motivating children to achieve instead of pressuring them to win. As a result, The Little Gym became a noncompetitive, positive, nurturing environment where young ones could develop physically, socially, emotionally, and intellectually. Since then, Little Gyms have sprouted up across the country. Enter Kevin and Page Helmick. Kevin and Page's passion for working with children stirred the duo to open their own Little Gym locations in Liberty Township and Mason. Parents of two young boys, Kevin and Page captain a talented staff of childcare professionals and instructors that is as passionate about childhood development as they are. The programs and classes they teach aim to help kids develop skills such as rhythm and coordination, and kids camps during winter, spring, and summer breaks prevent children from creating finger paintings that express the existential ennui they feel when school is out of session. The gym's classes, camps, and childcare programs have earned this location the Best Children's Play award from Cincinnati Family Magazine.
The Five Seasons Family Sports Club houses tennis courts, a dining area, fitness facilities, swimming pools, and a full-service spa under one roof. Within air-conditioned indoor courts or on outdoor clay courts, racquet slingers compete in friendly bouts to sharpen swings, refine backhands, and showcase grunting abilities. Members can also break a sweat in exercise areas speckled with modern cardio equipment and weights or cool off in an Olympic-sized pool with diving wells and wading areas. Before meeting others for a postgame beverage at the lively café, clients can wander to the spa for a relaxing massage or partake in a sports workshop to gain a firm grasp on game mechanics.
Sometimes our dreams are within reach, but more often, those dreams are on the highest of high shelves, beside the BB gun and the cupcakes "for tomorrow." Reach that shelf with today's Groupon to stretch your muscles and muscle your stretches into a stretch of intense muscular moves. For $30, you get a five-class pass to Westside Yoga Studio in Lakewood, a $65 value. Upon your first visit, you'll receive your pass, which can be used toward any of the classes offered at the comforting studio. Once activated, you'll have 60 days to use your five classes, giving your card the considerable shelf life of a gallon of dehydrated milk.
Named among the top five local craft stores by Fox 8 City Voter, the shop serves as a workshop for burgeoning crafters, as well as a gift shop and a source for inspiring seasonal project ideas. Staff artists teach workshops in three crafting genres: jewelry, housewares, and needle arts, offering a well-rounded curriculum that helps students with all-around constructive knowledge. Just as fish parents drop their babies into the water to teach them how to swim, teachers instill the fundamentals of handicraft by walking students through their first project during classes. Inside the eclectic gift shop, more than 65 local artists display handmade loot such as purses, hair accessories, pottery, and greeting cards, each unique in design. The community-minded store also encourages crafters of all skill levels to gather under its roof, whether to trade inspiration, project ideas, or swap unneeded craft supplies.
