Sample Activities
(activities change with member interest)

• Playgroups: weekly, based upon age (newborns-school-aged), number of children and time of day.
  
  
• Walking Group: walk with kids in strollers at a park, 3x per week in the warmer months.
  
  
• Storybook Cooks and Crafts: moms and kids (18 months +) read a book and then do a recipe and craft related to the story, monthly. Cost is less than $5 per child.
  
  
• Cooking Group: moms and kids who meet monthly to share food/recipe based on a theme such as desserts, soups, pasta, breads, salads, fruit, etc. Recipes are published in the newsletter.
  
  
• Lunch Bunch: moms and kids meet monthly for lunch at a kid-friendly restaurant.
  
  
• Book Club: moms and kids meet monthly for an adult discussion and a children's read aloud. Books are selected from a variety of genres. For a list of books, please contact our president.
  
  
• Helping Hands: members help, with babysitting, errands, meals, etc., other members who are experiencing illness, new baby, new home, family emergency, etc.
  
  
• Park Play Days: monthly gatherings at a local park where moms can chat and kids can play.
  
  
• Community Tours: monthly tours to the bagel shop, fire station, flower shop, dentist, etc.
  
  
• Discussion Group: quarterly group that meets to discuss various topics.
  
  
• MOMS Night Out: monthly, have included going out to dinner, the movies, paint your own pottery, game night, spa night, a cookie swap, Pampered Chef party, and a video night.
  
  
• Monthly Meetings: this year included speakers (child abuse prevention, nutritionist, lawyer on wills, financial planner, overscheduled parenting author), activities (Father's Day Craft Project, parties, penny social, picnic), and discussions (terrible two’s, idea roundtable).
  
  
• Field Trips / Outings: this year has included strawberry/apple/blueberry picking, parks, Santa hayride, storytimes, family day festivals, indoor amusement centers, Nature Centers, family baseball game, zoo trips, parades, a hayride/visit to a pumpkin patch, Aquarium, Chuck E Cheese, children’s museums, bumper bowling, IMAX, nature hike, picnics, ice cream trips, paint your own pottery, beach and fall crafting trips, and many more.
  
  
• Special Events: End-Of-The-Year Banquet, bubblepalooza, ride-on day, new member coffee, New Year’s Luncheon, Egg Hunt, Mother’s Pancake Breakfast, Pool Party, Summer Picnic.
  
  
• Community Service Projects: Holiday Gift Wrapping/Toy Drive for HIV affected children, Penny Social-benefit a member whose son has cancer, child abuse prevention center volunteers, Valentine’s Day and Halloween visit with seniors, JA bowlathon, Light the Night Walk.