MOMS Club® of Sumner/Bonney Lake, Washington

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Making Moon Sand

Today we met up at the park to enjoy a fun hands on project with the kids... Moon Sand! This was a fun, slightly messy project - a perfect way to enjoy some drizzly summer weather. Moon Sand is pretty simple to make - and now that I know the recipe I am amazed at how much they charge for it. We made our Moon Sand with purple sand... all the more fun to play with!

Moon Sand

6 cups fine sand
3 cups corn starch
1 1/2 cups water
drop of oil

Mix your dry sand and corn starch together first, add water and a drop or so of oil. Mix well. Enjoy the play!!! Store in an air tight container. If it dries out a bit just add a few drops of water and remix (like play dough).

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Rainbow Ribbons

Today we embraced the beautiful sunshine and enjoyed a nice play date at Rainier View park in Sumner. All the kiddos had fun creating a rainbow ribbon to enjoy on the playground. After they made them you could see little rainbow ribbons fluttering all about the toy structure, little kids running around in an attempt to make theirs fly and better yet, a good go at the merry go round to get them fluttering about. It was a great time and the kids had fun!

Monday, May 2, 2011

Discovery Village

Today we met up at the new Discovery Village out in Gig Harbor, it was wonderful!!! This is a very fun and clean place for children to explore and play as well as a great place for parents to visit over coffee.

Discovery Village features a fun indoor play area that is huge and perfectly clean, a moon sand play center, a rock patch to explore, art table, market center, pizza parlor to play in and a great train center! So much for kids to do in a safe area that is great for even the littlest of our kiddos. They also feature a coffee bar, basic treats and munchies.

We had a great time today visiting while the kids all played and explored. This would make for yet another great activity to attend again in a couple of months. Completely worth it!

Monday, April 25, 2011

Service Project & Recipe Group

This month our Recipe Group was combined with a wonderful service project as well. The kids & moms worked on creating little paper flower cones that will be filled with flowers and delivered to a local assisted living home near May Day. We had a wonderful turn out, great food, amazing little (and big) artists and a lot of fun!!

Monday, April 18, 2011

Wildwood Park

Today we had a small group meet up at Wildwood Park for a little Easter art work and tons of outdoor play! We lucked out and had sunshine the whole time, clear skies and no rain make for happy kids and moms. The little crafts turned out very cute and the kiddos really enjoyed playing all over. It was a really great time!!!

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Sunflower Pots

Even though the weather did not cooperate...

Even though is pretty much down poured...

Even though it was hailing when we left...

We had some fantastic troopers show up, picnic their lunch in the cold and the kids hit the playground!!!

Folks showed up with a smile (and shivers) to enjoy making little starter pots to plant sunflower seeds in. The rain will pay off when these kiddos grow a MAMMOTH sunflower in their back yard this summer!

About Us

Welcome to the MOMS Club of Sumner-Bonney Lake, Washington! We are a local chapter that is part of the international www.momsclub.org non-profit support group specifically aimed at supporting moms who choose to stay at home with their children, including those who work out of their homes, as well as those who work part-time. We provide an opportunity for you to meet new moms, get and share advice, learn about your community, enjoy fun activities for your children and for yourself. MOMS Club is about you, and what fits into your life. We are unique in that we welcome children at all our activities. Most activities are held during the day.

Nationally, the MOMS Club has over 2,000+ chapters and 100,000 members. Please take a few minutes to check out our website. If you have any questions about our club, or are interested in joining please contact us at.

We currently have 40 or so members.
For membership information or questions contact our Membership VP, Liberty at maizeydaizey@hotmail.com

We are a very active group. We have 2-3 activities planned per week. We also have playgroups that meet each week. When you join you will receive our monthly newsletter which along with other goodies will have our calendar for the month, and descriptions of each activity as well as who to contact for each activity. Each activity has a contact person (usually whoever has planned it) to RSVP to, and who will be at the activity. Any member can be a host/contact for an activity. The more members that add activities to our calendar the more activities there are.

Along with activities we also have a few groups that any member is welcome to attend:

-Recipe Club

-Walking Group

-Knit/Crochet/Craft Groups

Mom’s Night Out: We have a Mom’s night out once a month (generally child-free). It is a great opportunity for just the moms to get together, and take a break from life for a few hours. Mom’s night out can be as simple as game night at someone’s house, a friendly game of bowling, a movie, dinner, or a craft night.

Service Projects: Because the MOMS Club is a non-profit organization each year we are required to do one service project that gives back to our communities, and benefits families, or children in some way. Many of the MOMS Clubs do much more than one service project a year With so many opportunities out there to give back, and to share with others. Examples of some of the service projects we have done, or are currently doing are:

-Adopting a family at the holidays

-Collecting, and donating clothes, toiletries, cleaning supplies, etc. to Exodus Housing– a shelter in Sumner that provides for women and children.

-Assembling Emergency Room kits at our local hospital for kids when they come into the E.R. either as a patient, or, with a friend/family member. The kits have crayons, stickers, and coloring pages.

-Donating funds to The Mother To Mother fund. The Mother To Mother Fund was set up by MOMS Club International after the big earthquake in California that adversely affected several MOMS Club members. Financial help was given to these families from funds donated by chapters all over the U.S. The fund became established shortly after that. The fund provides help for MOMS Club members in situations such as in California. Since the fund began it has helped many families in crisis.