Preschool Playtime

09/01/2026

Join us Wednesday at 10 AM for our first meet up of the school year! The theme for September will be ocean animals. Our first week with focus on Fish!

Kids will use celery to make a rainbow fish, do a magnet fishing puzzle, sort the numbered fish, play go fish with a grown-up or another child, catch fish with letters on them, toss fish sponges into the bucket, build a magnet castle for the fish to swim around, roll and add fish to the fishbowl, play with the ocean animals in the water table, eat and sort rainbow goldfish, put rocks inside a fish until it sinks, and put the ocean animals around the coral reef in the requested position.

08/18/2026

I know some of you took your children to Miss Connie's Storytime at the John Graham Library. I am co-hosting a SURPRISE 'Farewell' party for her (she is retiring at the end of August). It will be at the Newville Park this Friday, August 21 at 6pm. If you can't make it in person, feel free to send her a card: 128 Steelstown Rd. Newville, PA 17241

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08/05/2026

In case any of you were wondering- the splash pad meetup today is still on. The rentals are rain or shine. Hope to see some of you out there!

07/15/2026

Someone left this water bottle at the splash pad meetup today. Please let me know if it’s yours.

06/17/2026

Someone left this behind at today’s splash pad meet up. If it’s yours, please reach out! 

06/15/2026

05/26/2026

Join us Wednesday at 10am for our last meetup of the school year! We will have three REAL Lizard visitors! Then kids can visit centers and: make chameleon colorful with watercolors, sort the colored items to the right chameleon, go around the room and give the right shaped wand to each ‘lizard wizard’, play a lizard matching game, give the salamander the right number of spots, trace the lines to help the lizards move, make lego cars and have lizards race them, use party blowers as lizard tongues to pick up letters with Velcro, pretend to feed the bearded dragon worms, make a newt craft that actually climbs, make a lizard sensory bag, and shop at Gecko’s Grocery store. When the kids leave, they will get a special gift bag with goodies inside!

05/19/2026

Fun, Free Summer Events at Newville park

05/18/2026

Join us Wednesday at 10am for Snakes! Kids will get to meet some LIVE snake friends! Then they can visit centers and: make a squiggly snake out of straws that moves with a magnet, make a playdough snake, walk across the snake’s back to cross the river, paint with snake motions, sort the snakes as venomous or not, make an abc snake, match patterns on the snakes with shape blocks, dig in the rice bin and sort the reptiles, try gummy snakes, make snake bubbles, make a spiral snake mobile, and sort the snake tongues to the right snake mouth numbers.

05/11/2026

Join us Wednesday at 10 AM for turtles! Kids will get to meet a REAL turtle! Then for centers, they will: make a turtle with colored dot stickers, blow bubbles on the turtle shell, toss letter beanbags onto the turtle, match the turtles to the right shape home, make a turtle craft with paint and cut outs, make a tower for Yertle the turtle, make the turtles swim in the water, cut and match the turtle shell shapes, eat turtle crackers, roll the die and cover that number on the turtle, feed the turtle seaweed while naming letters, and cover the sticky turtle shell with green items.