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We do soccer 2X week. Monday's at 5:30pm and Sat at 9am.
We do swim Wednesday at 7:30pm.

Daycare offers stuff onsite but I enjoy going with DS to local facilities so I can meet other kids/parents.

Mine are in daycare full-time, so we only do activities on the weekend. Usually one activity at a time on Saturday mornings. Last time it was Gymnastics and before that it was Swimming. We'll probably do Swimming again next.

Only on the weekend! By the time we get home from school it is 3:00/3:30 pm and by 6 we are starting bedtime routine. There's just no time.

I think we might be in the minority here, but LO mostly didn't do scheduled activities when he was in preschool. He was in preschool for 3 mornings/week and then we found other things to do--reading, hiking, playing outside, etc. We tried a couple of group activities, because I felt like he might be missing out and I wanted to meet more parents. I eventually decided that he wasn't and that it was not a particularly efficient way to make new friends for either of us.

To be honest, I don't see enough value in doing a weekly/twice weekly group sports/dance until they're older to outweigh the costs (particularly in the child's time) anyhow. The main exception to this is that I think swimming lessons are important, but they don't have to be done in a group.

For dance specifically, I would show her videos of excellent ballets or excellent versions of whatever style of dance you prefer. Or take her to see a live performance if she'll sit through it. I danced ballet from preschool through college and now sometimes dabble in ballroom. I love dance, but I don't think there's much advantage to toddler/preschooler dance classes. I think there is a case to be made for laying the groundwork by showing the child the best of the best, though! And then supplement that by putting on music for her to move/dance to during the day.

My son is in kindergarten now and there is no way that I could put him through activities during the week, he's just too tired in the afternoon and he's in bed by 7:30. Our only option is the weekend, and we're doing a Saturday morning art class for the first time beginning in January.

When my son was in preschool, it was part time, he went in the morning or afternoon, but even then we didn't do activities because he was there 4 or 5 days a week and I really protected his downtime.

She does ballet and gymnastics at school which is super convenient. Next year we're planning to sign her up for soccer, so I think that'll be one practice/week (in the evening) then the games are on Saturday.

My son is in kindergarten. He does guitar one hour per week, but with a teacher he knows from daycare, and it's in our home. We may start swimming lessons early next year, and that would be Saturday morning. I think that's more than plenty, especially since he has homework every day.

ETA: my younger LO only goes to daycare. We probably won't do any additional activities for her until school, unless we do swim lessons for her too.

My daughters in kindergarten and there's no way we can do activities on weeknights. She's done by the time the day is done. In January we'all be doing gymnastics on Saturday mornings and swimming on Sunday afternoons.

Have you looked into library storytimes or classes at nontraditional venues for your other class? I love our local library and we do an activity there at least once a week- they have some storytimes that are every week and some that are special themes on Saturdays. We have also taken classes at the local jump place, the bounce place, and are currently enrolled in an awesome music class at a church. I SAH and I don't do any classes that interfere with meals or afternoon nap... AM activities only in this house and the afternoons are for the park, craft time, stories, etc. The baby is still young enough to nap anywhere, but she will just have to adjust to DD1's activity schedule when she gets bigger. There is no way I am gonna be trapped in the house to a nap schedule with a cranky wound up toddler. Morning nap can happen in the car or I will try to put her down early.

My oldest is in school full time, so depending on the season he has a sport practice one weekday evening and a game Saturday morning or afternoon. In the summer, he has swimming every day. The youngest is starting gymnastics and swim in the new year, both will be later in the morning while brother is at school.

we did 2 afternoons a week after school because i was worried her nap was going to interfere with bedtime if i didn't tire her out. and that backfired because we were running around everywhere. we did monday morning next (TThurs preschool all day) and that worked because DD2 transitioned to 2 naps, but the class wasn't a good fit for us. hoping to find another morning class for the winter (only a 6 week schedule).

DS1 is almost 4, and is in preschool 3x a week (half days). Both DH and I work full time.

We did do soccer, which was on Saturday mornings, but he hated it, and franky, so did we. We enjoy our lazy weekend mornings together and it was too much for us. There's no way we could pull off a weeknight evening activity, at least not at this stage.

Full time daycare here. Daycare does not offer it. We do not do outside activities. It's too much with our schedules. When she starts K, we will look into it.