MudPies & Bu’flies Village Parkdays 11:00am – 4:00pm

2009
July 27 - Yarn & More - Giant Wind Mobile

August 6 - Wind, Earth & Rocks -(w/ a little Roll)

August 13 - Water & weatherwizkids.com

August 20 - Celebrate different and same Cultures from around the world ***Potluck Dinner & Drumcircle until 8pm

August 27 - Character & Creative Construction Day (come as favorite character from book, movie or comic)

September 3 - Sky, Stars, Planets & Int’l Space Center

September 10 - Fairies & Dragons, Oh My!!!

September 17 - Tell (or read) a Story Day & Stone Soup *** Potluck Dinner & Drumcircle until 8pm

September 24 - Atoms & Molecules Part 1– Fun with building blocks of our World

October 1 - Anatomy Fun Part 1– learning how our body works

October 8 - Recycle, Reuse, Remember & Create

October 15 - Planets, Moons & Space (back for more!) Potluck Dinner & Drumcircle until 8pm

October 22 - Making Music: Investigating Rhythm, Song and Sounds: Make your own instruments

October 29 - Halloween Party & Making Masks ~Come in your Costumes

November 5 - Culture Gap- Focus on Tibet - Craft making Prayer flags and doing the Snow Lion Dance!

November 12 - Remembering the Early Settlers (Like Laura Ingalls Wilder)

November 19 - International day – come dressed in a cultural outfit and bring a dish of that nation.

November 26 - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

December 3rd - Into the Woods: Nature Activities

Dec 10: Nature Part II - PineCone Birdfeeders & Greet a Tree

Dec 17: Paint ornaments, Make Kwanza Mkekes & Hanukkah Menoras and sing Holiday carols

Dec 24: Holiday no Parkday

Dec 31: Make Music to bring in New Year

2010
Jan 7: Anatomy Part II

Jan 14: Physics & Spiderman

Jan 21: Rained out

Jan 28: Freedom & Civic Rights: Ghandi, MLK jr, Mandela

Feb 4: Chumash Native American Day

Feb 11: Spirit of Olympic Games:curling - speed skating

Feb 18th: Chinese (Korean & Vietnamese) New Year

Feb 25th: Spirit of Olympic games II Flags & Hockey

March 4th: Spring Bling: Worms, Dirt & Seeds: Preparing for spring

March 11th: Global Timelines (pocket timelines)

March 18th: Desert Life (preping for Campout at Joshua Tree )

March 25th: Magnetism part I: I'm attracted!

April 1st: Magnetism part II: Physical Force of Nature

April 8th: More than Block Designs: Bridges, Cantilevers & Treehouses

April 15th: Japanese Culture: Authentic Girls' Day & Boy's Day Celebrations

April 22nd: 40th anniversary of Earth Day

April 29th: Earth Day Part 2

May 6th: Let's get Nautical: Boats, Knots, Pirates & Explorers

May 13th: Ladybugs, Silkworms & Praying Mantis

May 20th: Cultural Highlight on Hawaii & Potluck Luau!

May 27th: Pollination, Fruit & Seeds - Turn fruits & vegi's into creatures

June 3rd: BodyGuards : Snot, Scabs and More

June 10th: Catapults & Parachutes: Gravity & Lift

June 17th: Swedish MidSummerFest & Potluck

2 week Holiday

July 8th: Undetermined

July 15th: Bastille Day - French Independence & Potluck

July 22nd: Inuit Culture & Games

July 29th: Mudpies & Butterflies 1 year anniversary

August 5th: Honey, Bees & Wasps

August 12th Turtles, Tortoises & YOU

August 19th: Potluck dinner

August 26th:Light, Refraction & Rainbows

Sept 2nd: History of Flight

Sept 9th: Chemical (molecular) Reactions

Sept 16th: Cancelled due to Campout

Sept 17-20th
Family Campout @ Sequoia Nat'l Park

Sept 23rd Russian Culture & Potluck

Sept 30th Light & Refraction Part II

Oct 7th

Oct 14th

Oct 21st Potluck

Oct 28th - Halloween Spooks

Swedish MidSummer Fest & Potluck

What a Fun Day!  We celebrated Summer   with a Swedish Festival and a Swedish MidSommer Pole called a Majstång (similar to a traditional MayPole).  Erected in a large gathering spot such as a village square or the center of our park, everyone dances and sings around it. Traditionally, there are no ribbons to [...]

BodyGuards: Scabs, Snot & Scars

I would like to take a moment to thank all the parents and friends  for your participation with MudPies & Butterflies as next month will be one full year.  Thank you for bringing supplies, coming up with themes and activities, helping clean up, motivating your kids, helping with my kids, and mostly for having [...]

Pollination -> Fruit & Vegi Nation

When it got really cold and threatened to rain often in late May, my daughter requested that we  PLAY WITH OUR FOOD for our theme.  For weeks, she had been flipping through books by Joost Elfers and getting truly inspired during roadtrips.  The books are just compilations of quirky animals, vehicles and creatures he modeled [...]