Camp Create Dreams

Welcome to Camp Create Dreams, Manhattan’s most exciting and most memorable Summer Camp! Camp Create Dreams is back for its third year to give your child the most original summer camp experience yet! No other camp has daily arts and crafts, indoor swimming, outdoor play time, music, dancing games, the best snacks ever, and themed weeks to entertain your child’s imagination! Each day incorporates birthday party zest, whether it is Pirate Princess or Fun on the Farm week. “Exciting Themed Fridays” wrap each week up with a magically themed activity! This year your child can plan on attending a Carnival, complete with face painting and balloon twisting one week , meeting adorable cuddly animals and crazy cool reptiles the next! Other weeks will include gaining self defense skills from a Karate instructor, making Sand Art creations, stuffing their own Cuddle - Pet, and performing Wacky Science experiments! Each day is filled with fun and adventure, created to fulfill your child’s camp dreams. Don’t let your child miss out on the most Creative Camp of the year: Camp Create Dreams 2009 … A memory to last a lifetime.

Our camp program starts July 6th through August 17th, Ages are from 5-10 years. We also have a choice of a 3 week session or per week.

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL – Sign up before May 1st and receive $50 .00 discount per session.

Signing up more than 1 child?... receive $25.00 off per week for each additional sibling after the first child!

HOURS : Mon – Fri 9am- 3pm              Optional – Early Drop Off/ Late Pick Up

Contact us @ 212.447.7263                        website: www.creativedreamparties.com                         

Email: camp@createdreams.com

apple seeds day camp

apple seeds is proud to launch it’s third summer of camp apple seeds!

Recently awarded “Best Day Camp” by Nickelodeon’s Parent’s Connect, camp apple seeds is an opportunity for preschoolers to play, laugh and make friends while developing independence and self-confidence. Programs are designed for children ages 3 – 4 and foster fun, curiosity and learning in a safe and clean environment built just for them.

“camp apple seeds is distinctive in many ways,” says camp director Janelle Rooks. “Besides low camper to staff ratios, our camp offers unique activities that reflect what parents and kids have come to love about apple seeds.”

Each day, after recreational play in our playground, campers participate in a special theme for the day (past themes have included Olympics, the beach, outer space and Native Americans). Through activities like, cooking, science, construction, art, crafts, music, movement, dance, language and many more, kids gain confidence, learn to share and work together, make friends, but most importantly, have fun.

“Because we are still a new program and facility, our ideas are fresh and out of the box,” says Co-Founder Alison Qualter Berna.

 

Camp runs from 9:30am – 12:30pm and includes a healthy snack.

camp apple seeds runs from June 8th - August 19th. We offer two, three and five day options. Session dates are as follows:

Session 1: June 8th - June 19th   

Session 2: June 22nd - July 3rd   

Session 3: July 6th - July 17th    

Session 4: July 20th - July 31st     

Session 5: Aug 3rd - Aug 14th      

Session 6: Aug 17th - Aug 28th

           

Please call 212.792.7590 for details and to register. Register now and receive 10% off summer camp registration. www.appleseedsnyc.com 

Friday Afternoon Video Break: Cute Time Lapse Baby

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Yes, Folks, it's that time of the week again...your Friday Afternoon Video Break. You've had a hard week and you've earned it. This week's video is the creation of a French photojournalist who apparently has the most inquisitive, autonomous and adorable baby in the Western World. Check out this kid's moves and wish he were yours. Hey, maybe it's time to have another...I'm sure the next one will totally be easy and play alone for long stretches of time...

 

Mommy of the Month: Molly Snyder—Driven to Do Good

jasmine.pngA few years back, Lisa and Molly became friends. They were neighbors, had kids the same age and were going about raising them. Then, without warning, Lisa was diagnosed with an advanced form of Leukemia. With little time to waste, Lisa Gershowitz Flynn was informed she needed a bone marrow transplant and that there was no match in the national bone marrow database. Molly got to work, and organized a bone marrow drive in the lobby of their children's school. Speaking of her involvement, Molly states simply: “There was no choice. What else is there to do when something like this happens to your friend.”  

At Mommy Poppins we love not over thinking it, acting from the heart and getting things done--that's why Molly Snyder is our mom of the month! Below is a short interview with her and information on how YOU could start a bone marrow drive, register yourself and attend a local drive March 7th for a little girl who desperately needs to find a match.

Linkin: Julia Roberts Children, New York Post Chimp Cartoon, Painted Babies, More

Little Miss Perfect.pngJulia Roberts is out on the stump promoting her new movie and talking about her kids, motherhood and marriage to husband, Danny Moder. The full-time mom (except for when she's working) has said that it should be illegal to take pictures of celebrity children, but I guess it's OK to sell your own pictures as she did in 2005 or to trot them out to promote your current film entitled, um, Duplicity. In other shocking news...the NY Post publishes a cartoon that critics claim represents Obama as a chimp, Little Miss Perfect is a new show about child beauty pageant contestants, girls and boys really do marry their parents (or people who resemble them), the preschooler essentials before you leave the house, and a fashion-garden mash up that benefits everyone.  Find out now!

New Building Brainstorm Exhibit at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum

The totally redone Brooklyn Children's Museum is still new enough that we hadn't yet exhausted the current exhibits, but they're staying one step ahead of us by adding a great new exhibit that we really enjoyed, Building Brainstorm. I have always been interested in the fields of architecture and design, and thought this would be a great opportunity to expose my boys to those interests during play.

Located on the second floor, this bi-lingual (Spanish and English—love that!) exhibition continues with the interactive theme found throughout the museum, encouraging and inviting children of all ages to plan, build, and design, with rough materials and soft cloths, plastics and wood. The exhibit is made up of a series of challenges: Shape Search Challenge, Shapes in Building Challenge, Inside Shapes Challenge, Window House Challenge, Floor Plan Challenge, Room Design Challenge, and Brainstorm Challenge.

Cleanest Indoor Play Spaces in New York City

200902161730.jpgDo you check back on posts to read the comments? Sometimes readers add great information there, or ask great questions. Some of my favorites lately were Margaret who asked other readers if they wanted to get a group together for a kids knitting class. Sharon, left a great comment with more ideas of places to eat on the Lower East Side on the Candy Store Itinerary post. Another commenter on our Drop In Play Spaces post asked for recommendations for the cleanest play spaces.

Good question. It seems to be a trade off. Places that don't charge hefty membership fees and are open to the public maybe aren't always quite as pristine. But I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule. Here are some of the indoor play places I've found to be really clean:

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