NORWICH – With a new year comes new events for the Fun Club at the Norwich Family YMCA. After more than a week off from school for holiday recess, Fun Club kids are already getting excited for their next day off, when the YMCA hosts a Carnival Day.

When schools plan to close, the YMCA Fun Club is in full swing for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. The Fun Club Carnival Day will be from 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 16, when schools close in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The day promises to be “oodles of fun,” said Bonnie Tiffany, youth and family director at the Y. “And it’s going to be a great alternative for kids to enjoy their time away from school.”

“We always have a theme and I try to pick a theme that the children will enjoy ... Kids will get to implement their own games, designing their own games in the morning and playing them in the afternoon,” explained Tiffany. “Each game is going to have some really cool prizes. It’s going to be a whole day of fun-filled activities.”