momstown KW Toddlers & Preschoolers Welcome their own Event Coordinator - Sarah!

momstown Kitchener-Waterloo is so excited to welcome another new member to our team, our very own Toddler & Preschooler Event Coordinator!  Watch out for Sarah as she coordinates everything that is "momstown movers", assisting Lindsay (our Pre and Post Natal Coordinator) and owner Paula Garceau with all of our momtastic events for 2013.

Introducing Sarah Janzen:

My name is Sarah Janzen.

I was born here in Kitchener-Waterloo but spent most of my childhood in Kincardine, Ont.

I went to college in Bellville, Ont. where I took Recreation Leadership and afterwards
worked in various roles including recreational progamming, fundraising and community awareness efforts.

I moved back to Waterloo in 2006, and married in 2008 before having my *spirited* daughter Layla in 2010.

I have recently been taking photgraphy courses in effort to improve my skills and advance in my side job, Fern Road Photography.

I am excited to begin my new role as Toddler and Preschool Event Coordinator at momstown KW and look forward to meeting you and your children personally!

momstown KW Celebrates 5th Birthday with a Big Bash!

momstown.ca turns 5 this year and just like any 5 year old, we want to party, in a BIG WAY!

FREE FAMILY FUN!
Sunday August 12th, McLennan Park Kitchener. 10am-1pm

• FREE Photos with Clifford provided by Close Your Eyes Photography
• The Birthday Bash Bounce and Ocean Playland Bouncy Castles from Grand River Inflatables
• Sweets Table & Cupcakes from Candy Coated
• Fun Face Painting with Bre Creative  (Our Art and Music Pillar Sponsor!)
• Building Blocks with Sunlife Financial, Theresa Devine
• Baby Food Making and Tips with Wildberry Nutrition (Our Nutrition Pillar Sponsor!)
• Family Photo Booth with Hulahoop Photography
• Play Zone with Fisher Price
• Bubble Time with the University of Waterloo, Lab for Infant Development and Language
• First Aid Hydration Station available from Playing it Safe
• Dress-Up Tea Party with Cupcakes and Cowboys (Our Play and Social Pillar Sponsor!)
• Dance Party with Oh Baby Fitness (Our Fitness and Adventure Pillar Sponsor!)
• Play Doctor with Sage Naturopathic (Our Science and Discovery Pillar Sponsor!)
• Reading Corner with Chapters Waterloo (Our Literacy Pillar Sponsor!)
• Music and Movement with Kindermusik
• Baby Care Centre with The Nesting Instinct
• Sports Zone with Sportplay
• Water Play and Wonder with Norwex
• "Nate on the Road" and Family Vehicles with Bennett GM
• Picasso's in the Park with momstown KW
• "Me Time" Mojo with Melitta
• Yummy Pudding Snacks from ConAgra Foods
• 100 Loaded Loot Bags to the first 100 Families from Today's Parent
• Plus Prizes from all these sponsors, plus our National Sponsors too!

How is that for a BIG BIRTHDAY BASH filled with FREE FAMILY FUN?

***RSVP on our Facebook event page too so you can stay up-to-date with all the latest sponsors, details, and surprises.

WIN:

• A Britax Cowmooflage Stroller
• more Britax accesories
• Clifford Prize Pack
• A Thyme Maternity Gift Card (x 2)
• 8 Fisher Price Toys!
• A Gift Certicificate for First Aid Training for 2
• A Radio Flyer Ride-On Toy
• $100 Photo Session Gift Certificate
• Chapters Gift Cards (x2)
• A gift certificate for 2 dz cupcakes or cakepops......  and more!

Our National Sponsors are helping to make this a Bash as well:

• Today's Parent is our media sponsor!
• Kids CBC
• Scholastic
• Fisher-Price
• Britax 
• Melitta
• ConAgra
• Red Cross
• Thyme Maternity
• IronKids

Check out all the fun we had last year!

Share the date - there's a momstown party happening near your friends too - and you don't want them to miss out! 

Little momstown KW Scientists Conduct Magic Milk Experiment

This morning was a beautiful day to head to the park and play!  So that's just what momstown Kitchener-Waterloo did.... and that's not all.  We also learned and experimented with Milk!

  

Yes, I said milk.  Who knew milk would make a great foundation for a science experiment right? Well, I have to tell you that it makes the Coolest Kaleidoscope ever! And, its so simple, you can do this at home, with ingredients from the fridge & cupboard.  

All you need is some high-fat milk (homo or 2% works best), some food colouring and liquid soap!  And a little dabber of some sort like a straw or q-tip.  The experiment is as simple as putting some milk in a large dish, adding a few drops of food colouring to it (spread out) and then dab the dish soap into the food coloured spots and drag them around in the milk. The liquid soap forces the colouring out into the milk and you can make all kinds of colourful patterns and designs with your stirring and mixing motions.  Its almost like the food colouring is scared of the liquid soap, the way it moves away from the soap when dabbed into the colour.   

Not only were the kids fascinated with the Magic Milk this morning, but so was Mom.  I can see lots of Magic Milk experiments being conducted all over Waterloo Region this summer.  Note to self and readers.... food colouring stains!  I am so glad that I had Huggies Simply Clean Wipes handy to help me clean up the food colouring and liquid soap off the kids, and mostly me... Thanks Huggies!