Make Fun a Priority: Upcoming Events & Ways to Spend Time With Your Little One
January 9th, 2012 by ricole
Happy New Year!
With the hustle and bustle of the holidays — not to mention the day-to-day busyness of balancing work and family — it is easy to prioritize our ‘need-to’s’ before our ‘want-to’s’. For example, our ‘need-to’s’ can be work schedules, deadlines, and obligations, while are ‘want-to’s’ may be a dinner out, a picnic with the kids, or just some peace and quiet! Balancing these obligations and activities in our families is such a necessary step to take so that our children feel they are a priority in our busy lives!
Spending fun, quality time with your child can be easy, but does take a bit of planning. Below are a myriad of family-fun events, things happening in the valley, and fun ‘want-to’s’ you can share with your little one to start 2012 with intentional time spent!
- Teddy Bear Picnic — Even though it is technically winter, we know that January in
Phoenix can bring spring-like weather! This is a perfect time to share a picnic with your kiddo and a couple of his/her favorite stuffed friends. Co-hosting a picnic in the park with your child is a great way to spend time together, promote dramatic play, and get to see your little one’s imagination!
- A Night at the Theater…the puppet theater that is! — Great Arizona Puppet Theater is showing The Princess, the Unicorn, and the Smelly Foot Troll until January 15th and Cinderella from January 18th – February 12th.Also, The Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts is showing ZooZoo, a “family-friendly production is a fun-filled cross between a circus, vaudeville and zoo” on January 28th (azcentral.com).
- A Day at the Zoo — Phoenix Zoo is hosting Farm Tots on January 20th for children 18 months – 2 years. Children can get up close and personal with sheep and other animals!
- Disney on Ice – US Airways is inviting all of the Toy Story characters for a fast-paced night of entertainment and fun.
- Weekend Matinee – Thanks to Angela at Scottsdale MomsBlog for sharing this idea! Studio Movie Grill has $2 Kidtoon matinees every weekend at 11:00am. Enjoy lunch and a movie together as a family!
- SLC’s Annual Valentine’s Party – Designate the afternoon on Friday, February 10th to making Valentines with your child at our school! We will provide all of the materials for you to make super creative, messy, and fantastic Valentine cards and notes for the big day. This will also be a great opportunity to meet your child’s friends and friends’ parents! Check out more details here!
If you know of any events or activities to add to this list, please let us know! We’d love to hear how YOU are spending intentional time with your family!
Posted by ricole
Bio: I have been with Scottsdale Learning Center since 2003, beginning as a Preschool Teacher then moving into the Director position in 2006. I love helping families incorporate grace-based parenting techniques at home, am obsessed with my nieces and nephews (and my entire family all-together), could drink a Starbucks eggnog latte every morning if possible, am hooked on traveling and learning about cultures with my amazing husband, and absolutely LOVE kids and early childhood education!
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