Boys & Girls Club of Hawthorne

11/18/2025

🍳🎨 Introducing… Kitchen Creations Club! 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳
Middle school chefs and creatives, this one’s for you! If you love cooking and expressing your artistic side, come join our brand-new Kitchen Creations Club!

Each week, we’ll explore the exciting intersection of food and art. From colorful plating to decorative baking, you’ll learn how to turn simple ingredients into eye-catching, mouth-watering masterpieces.

🔥 What to Expect:
✨ Hands-on cooking and baking projects
✨ Fun lessons in food presentation
✨ Creative challenges
✨ And of course… taste-testing your creations!

Whether you’re a future chef, an artist, or just someone who loves to make things look and taste amazing, this club is the perfect place to explore your creativity.

🍽️🎨 Sign up today and let your imagination cook!
https://visioncps.net/form/WRForm.asp?OrgUnit=150/23

11/16/2025

Tickets are selling Fast!!!

11/16/2025

Thank you Mighty Mike for an awesome program!!

Today we finished our 6 Week Saturday Fall Clinic at the . Everyone got better from the first dribble to the final shot! Cannot be any more proud of this group as we accomplished so much! Thank you to the Boys and Girls Club, families, staff, volunteers and all who made this possible. So blessed!

11/15/2025

3rd–5th graders… get ready to DUCK, DODGE, and DIVE! 🔴🔥

Join us Friday November 21st from 6:30–8:30 PM for our Dodgeball & Gaga Ball Night!

It’s two hours of high-energy games, friendly competition, and tons of fun with friends.

Cost: $5

Sign up online today — spots fill fast!
https://www.bgchawthorne.org/news-events/event-calendar.html/event/2025/11/21/gaga-dodgeball-night-3rd-5th-/535328

11/14/2025

Our Holiday Dance for K–5th Graders is the perfect way to kick off the winter fun!

🎄 Music • Dancing • Snacks • Games 🎄

📅 [Friday, December 12th]
📍 [1 Downes Way, Hawthorne]

Dress in your festive best and let’s “sleigh” the dance floor! 🎅💃

Follow the link to pre-register!
https://www.bgchawthorne.org/news-events/event-calendar.html/event/2025/12/12/holiday-dance-k-5th-/535331

11/13/2025

TOMORROW NIGHT!

Join us for a Paint & Sip event.

🎨 Paint a canvas while enjoying a juice and snack!

👩‍🎨Pre-register and hold your spot today! Limited Spots available!

👨‍🎨$5 at the door on the night of the event.🖌

🖌 K-2 Grade Only | 6:30 - 8:30 PM

Follow the link to register:
https://www.bgchawthorne.org/news-events/event-calendar.html/event/2025/11/14/paint-sip-k-2nd-/535194

11/12/2025

A morning masterpiece made during our Before School Program at Roosevelt Elementary!

11/11/2025

WINTER PROGRAM REGISTRATION IS NOW LIVE!

🎁Give the gift of a Boys & Girls Club program this Holiday season!

All programs to begin after the Holiday break!

Swipe to see all of our available programs coming in the New Year!

🔭STEM Club starting 1/5
🎮GAME Club starting 1/6
🎨ART Club starting 1/7

📣BUDDIE Cheerleading starting 1/5
🏀BUDDIE Basketball starting 1/10

Some programs have limited availability, make sure to sign up soon!

Follow the link to register
https://visioncps.net/form/WRForm.asp?OrgUnit=150/23

11/11/2025

✨ 32nd Annual Every Kid Counts Dinner ✨
Last night, we gathered at Macaluso’s to celebrate the heart of our Club, our youth. 💙

We were honored to recognize over 20 amazing members, ages 5–18, whose enthusiasm, kindness, and dedication inspire us every day. Thank you to Mayor John Lane, Senator Kristin Corrado, and all of the dignitaries who joined us in this special celebration.

We proudly honored:
🏆 Staff with 20+ years of service to our youth
🏆 Teen members who have collectively volunteered over 5,500 hours
🤝 Our Helping Hands Award recipients: Charles Henion Sr. and Charles Henion Jr.
🤝 Our John M. Mottola Volunteer Service Award recipient: Paul Leesman

And the highlight of the evening…
Our 2026 Youth of the Year was announced! 🎉

Congratulations to our finalists: Kyle A., Gwendolyn R., and Aniyah W., all of whom displayed leadership, resilience, and strong character throughout the essay and interview selection process.

🌟 We are thrilled to announce our 2026 Youth of the Year: Miss Aniyah W. 🌟
This upcoming March, Aniyah will go on to compete for the 2026 New Jersey State Youth of the Year. We are so proud — and we’re rooting for you every step of the way! 💙🙌

Every child. Every effort. Every moment.
Every Kid Counts. ✨💫

11/11/2025

Thank a Veteran Today🇺🇸!!

11/08/2025

SIGN UP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

We are pleased to announce the second annual MOVIE DAY, a special movie showing of "Zootopia 2" for children with disabilities and their families.

This event is designed to be inclusive and accommodating, featuring "Zootopia 2" adapted to be sensitive to auditory and sensory needs.

🍿The movie showing is at 12:00 p.m., at the AMC Wayne 14 movie theater near Willowbrook Mall.

🎞The theater is completed reserved for guests of the Boys & Girls Club only!

🎥Reserve your tickets today! Limited spots!

Follow the link to register
https://www.bgchawthorne.org/news-events/event-calendar.html/event/2025/12/13/zootopia-2-family-movie-day-sensory-friendly-/503542

11/08/2025

YOUTH BASKETBALL REGISTRATION
ONLY A FEW WEEKS LEFT TO SIGN UP!

Sign up for our Youth Basketball League for 3rd-8th grade boys and girls!

🏀 Must be a Hawthorne resident
🏀 BGC Membership required

🏀 3rd & 4th Grade Boys - $90
🏀 3-5th Grade Girls - $90
🏀 5th & 6th Grade Boys - $100
🏀 6-8th Grade Girls - $100
🏀 7th & 8th Grade Boys - $100

🏀 Practices begin in December, games to follow in January

Follow the link to register!
https://www.visioncps.net/form/WRForm.asp?OrgUnit=150/26