April Free Days/Events

Information courtesy of Colorado Parent

Spring Break: Embrace!
Embrace! inspired fun at the Denver Art Museum begins March 27 and continues through April 4. Free general admission for youth 17 and under throughout the week. Crawl through Tobias Rehberger’s interactive bungee maze, add your favorite expression to Rupprecht Matthies’s word soup, explore your creativity with special art projects, and more! Spring Break: Embrace! begins March 27 and continues through April 4. Find more information by visiting us at denverartmuseum.org or calling 720-913-0048.

Easter at Heritage Square
Come and spend Saturday April 3rd at Heritage Square and celebrate Easter. There will be fun events for families and children of all ages. Every venue at Heritage Square will be handing out Easter eggs with candy (Kids - Bring your Easter baskets!!). We will also have a live Easter bunny to greet the children and also for photo ops. There will be 1 large Easter Egg hunt all around Heritage Square with eggs hidden in and out of all the buildings and amusement rides! April 3rd is also the annual grand opening of The Amusement Park at Heritage Square.

8th Annual Arvada Kite Festival
Beautiful kites, special events, jumping castles, face painting, balloon animals, prize drawings and more! April 10, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Robby Ferrufino Park, 74th Ave. & Carr Drive. Free and open to the public. For more information, call 720-898-7400. www.arvadafestivals.com

2010 Mountain Area Earth Day Fair
Celebrate Earth Day 2010 at Evergreen Lake During this year’s Earth Day Fair, the Evergreen Alliance for Sustainability, or “E.A.S.-Y”, will help our Mountain community understand sustainability in its full definition of the “triple bottom line” which includes: the environment, social networking, and economic stability. Join us at Annual Earth Day Fair from 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday, April 18 at the Evergreen Lake House, 29614 Upper Bear Creek Road. Shuttle Parking is available at the Wolf Creek Recreation Center. Admission is free and open to all ages.

If you know of any additional events, please post a comment.

April All MOPS event

Mark your calendars for April's All MOPS event hosted by Planet Hugs and Kisses.

What: Free field trip to Hammond's Candy plus picnic at Robby Ferrufino park

When: April 20th

Time: Hammond's Candy 10:00-11:30.  Tour starts at 10:30

Picnic at Robby Ferrufino park Noon-1:30.  BYOL (Bring your own lunch)

Questions: Contact Rachel

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All MOPS event this Wednesday!!

Mark your calendar for a night of sweets and fellowship at Cheesecake Therapy. This all MOPS event will be hosted by Noisy planet.  Please RSVP to Megan K. ASAP

When: March 24th (This Wednesday)

Time: 7pm

Where: Cheesecake Therapy in Olde Town Arvada (7401 Ralston Road Arvada, CO 80002 - (303) 940-2530)

Reminders

Our next meeting is this Tuesday. Here are a few reminders:

1- At the meeting we will be having a mixer and tie dying one shirt for our oldest child or only child. If you have an infant and would like to tie dye an onesie , please bring one to the meeting.

2- Dues are will be due at this meeting.

3- Sign up for our spring pictures fundraiser and pay to reserve your spot.

4- Bring your magazine orders. They will be collected. If you sell five or more magazines, you will receive a Starbucks giftcard.

5- Sleepy, Noisy, and Forgetful Planets are up for food.

Comedy Night with Ken Davis

The Hope House of Colorado supports teen moms in the Denver area. The Hope House is having a comedy night on March 25 at the Soiled Dove Underground. For more information or to donate to the Hope house, click the following link: Hope House of Colorado :: Hope House News.

Countdown to Kindergarten

Here you can find the list of 25 things that your child needs to know before entering kindergarten.

Countdown to Kindergarten

The Strong Willed Child

Listen to Brenda Kaker's talk on The Strong Willed Child here.

Below are Brenda's book recommendations:

The New Strong Willed Child, Dr. James Dobson

Aaron's Way:  The Journey of a Strong Willed Child, Kendra Smiley

The Key to Your Child's Heart, Gary Smalley

The Five Love Languages of Children, Gary Chapman

Parenting the Strong Willed Child:  The Clinically Proven Five-Week Program for Parents of Two- to Six-Year-Olds, Rex Forehand and Nicholas Long

Announcements from 3/9/10 mtg

• Food Thank you –  Planet Cleanup, Planet Feed Me and Planet Hugs and Kisses


• Food Next Meeting – Sleepy Planet, Forgetful Planet, Noisy Planet


• Next meeting – March 23rd – craft and mixers


• Mark your calendars for a night of sweets and fellowship at Cheesecake Therapy!  Noisy Planet is hosting the March All MOPS event March 24th at 7pm.  See Megan K to RSVP and for more details. Email Megan here.


• Packs of Hope has expanded to Denver, for more information of Packs of Hope visit their website at www.packsofhope.org . If you or your small group would be interested in helping process these packs please contact Julie Jaeke or email Julie at here.


• If you were still planning on donating to the upcoming Haiti trip, donations can be dropped off at the church through Thursday, or contact Kim Francis


• If you are interested in more of a leadership role in MOPS, whether it is as a Discussion Group Leader or Steering Position, please join us for coffee and an informational meeting this Saturday morning, March 13, 9:30-11am.  Call Erin to rsvp and for meeting location.


• For more information on the magazine fundraiser, please contact Brittany Heckenberg


• Photo fundraiser details… April 23-25, beginning at 9:00 am. 30 minute time slots, location to be determined. Payment is due to reserve your spot. www.briankraft.com


• Cici’s pizza night/day – join us today for this MOPS fundraising opportunity. Make sure you mention that you are with FCC MOPS as you hand your receipt back in


• Don’t forget to check our blog for updated MOPS information, speaker podcasts, meeting notes, fun parenting ideas and more: www.fccmops.wordpress.com

Announcements from 2/23/10

• Food Thank you –  Noisy Planet, Planet Meltdown and Planet Laundry


• Food Next Meeting –  Planet Cleanup, Planet Feed Me and Planet Hugs and Kisses


• Next meeting – March 9th – Brenda Kaker – The Strong Willed Child


• Reminder - The next all MOPS event will be hosted by Planet Sleepy and will be a Family event!  Please join us Sun., Feb 28th from 4-6pm at the D-Note in Old Arvada for Baby Boogie!  Cover is free but, bring money for pizza and drinks.  See Tricia Nance for more info and to RSVP for this event. An evite has gone out for this event


• The Feb. newsletter is available at your tables and on our FCC MOPS Blog


• Please let us know if you will have extra children for the last meeting in March, so that we make sure we have adequate number of MOPPET teachers. This is spring break for many schools.


• For more information on the Spain student hosting, please contact Stephanie Fritz


• For more information on our Haiti Drive please contact Kim Francis


• For more information on the magazine fundraiser, please contact Brittany Heckenberg


• Don’t forget to check our blog for updated MOPS information, speaker podcasts, meeting notes, fun parenting ideas and more:www.fccmops.wordpress.com

At your local library...

at least if you have a Jeffco library account. Did you know that you can visit some of Denver's museums for free? It is called a culture pass. The Jefferson County Public Library has a select number of passes available each day for its patrons to use. To see your choices of museums click here. It will also tell you how many passes are available and the days they are available. I have taken advantage of The Wildlife Experience and the Butterfly Pavilion and I was able to invite up to three friends to accompany me for free.