Upcoming Events
Aug 13 - Venia's Vacation: Belarusse, Vienna, and..
Aug - 6 Topanga Beach Day (boogie boards and sandcastles)
July 30 - Summer Parkday
July 23 - Leather Stamping
July 16 - Ancient Rome
July 9 - Japan Past & Present
July 2 - Independence & H2O
June 25 Beach Day
June 18 Tenzi Frenzi
June 11 - Juggling Craft and Fun
June 4 - Stokes Theater & Plays
May 28 - Christina's Family Yogatime
May 21 - Bring your crafty projects & Potluck
May 14- Career Day
May 7 - Mother's Day Tea
April 30 - Art Show & Painting
Apr 23 - Earthday Show & Tell and Planting
Apr16 - 19 Joshua Tree Annual Family Campout
Apr 9 - HexiFlexigons - rescheduled
Apr 2 - Magic Tricks & Juggling Sticks
Mar 26 - HexiFlexigons - Geometry Gone Wild
Mar 19 - Potluck & Nat Amer Kid Presentations
Mar 12 - Nat Amer 2: Plains & Tipi's
Mar 5 - Native American 1: Inuit & Carving
Feb 28 - The Art of Debate
Feb 19 - Potluck & Chinese New Year & Korean, Vietnamese
Feb 12 - Valentyne's Day exchange
Feb 5 - Favorite Books
Jan 29 - Build an African Kalimba
Jan 22 - Patents and Inventors
Jan 15 Potluck, Patents and Inventors
Jan 8 - Boardgames and Beginnings
Jan 1st New Year's Playday
Dec 25 Merry Christmas No Parkday
Dec 18 Kwanza; Hannukah; Xmas; Solstice Celebration & Lunch Potluck
Dec 15 Caroling at Retirement Homes
Dec 11 Holiday Craft Day
Dec 4 Idioms by Maria Wheee!
Nov 27 Happy Thanksgiving No Parkday
Nov 20 Venezuela by Enrique & Potluck
Nov 13 Science Bloopers
Nov 6 Inside a Courtroom
Nov 4 Take your Kid to Vote
Oct 30 Costume Halloween Party
Oct 23 Bring a Poem
Oct 19 Campfire Potluck &Talent Show
Oct 16 Poetry Play Day & Potluck
Oct 9 Save Big Cats & Habitats
Oct 2 Making & Launching Rockets
Sept 28 Watts Tower Drumming Festival 10-4pm
Sept 25 Basket Weaving with NewsPaper
Sept 18 M&B Family Campout @ Sequoia Nat'l Park (No parkday)
Sept 11 OuterSpace Aeronautics or
Sustainable Farming & Husbandry (if cool enough for goats to visit)
Sep 10 M&B Free @ LA County Fair
Sep 2 Amazing Aeronautics
Aug 28 Beach Day
Aug 21 Pioneer Day
Aug 14 Five Year M&B Anniversary
Aug 7 Solar Ovens Part III
Jul 31 Solar Ovens Part II
Jul 24 Solar Ovens Part I @ Beach
Jul 17 Balloon Fun/Physics
Jul 10 Blind as a Bat (Braille & Sonar)
Jul 3rd (No Parkday Independence)
Jun 26 Tal Family
Jun 19 Kinetic Ball Run & Squirt bottle motion & Potluck
Jun 12 Summer Festival & Games
Jun 11 Full Moon Hike
Jun 5 Let's Get Tiny - Cells (Animal & Plant)
May 29 Lets get tiny - Cells (Animal & Plant)
May 22 Famous People
May 15 Beach Day & Potluck
May 8 Celebrating Mothers
May 1 Secrets of Water
Apr 24 Earthday & Planting
Apr 17 Games & Crafts Bring Your OWN
Apr 10 Nat'l Poetry Month
Apr 3 Cotton Magic
Mar 27 Bacteria Fun
Mar 20 Potluck & Organ Day!
Mar14-16 Joshua Tree Annual Spring Family Campout
Mar 13 - No Theme due to weekend Campout
Mar 6- Birdwatching & Nesting Day
Feb 27 - Physics of Bowling due to Rain
Feb 20 - The Winter Olympics
Feb 14-17 Backyard Bird Count
Feb 13 - VOLUNTEER PLEASE. Valentines Day
Feb 6 - Taxonomy & the Darwin Challenge
Jan 30 - Lunar New Year of the Horse
Jan 23 - Simple Machines II - Pulleys & Levers
Jan 16 - Habitats & Keystone Species & Noon Potluck
Jan 9 - Cogs & Cams: Simple Machines
Jan 2 - Reconnecting after holidays & New Year's Celebrations
Dec 26 - No Parkday Happy Holidays
Dec 19 - Celebrate Holidays: Winter Solstice, Kwanza, Christmas & Hanukkah
Dec 12 - Solar Fun & Mask Making with Michelle
Dec 5 - Monarch Magic & Eucalyptus
Nov 28 - Happy Thanksgiving - No Parkday
Nov 23 - Fieldtrip to Monarch Groves in Goleta
Nov 21 - Monarchs & Eucalyptus Trees postponed
Nov 14 - Atoms, Protons, Electrons, Oh My!
Nov 7 - Autumn Leaves & Sewing with Heather
Oct 31 - Halloween Festival
Oct 24 - Spooky SeeSaw Algebra
Oct 17 - 3 City Geography & Int'l Potluck & 6:00pm Talent Show
Oct 10 - 2nd M&B Bug Faire
Oct 3 - Abacus Math Magic
Sept 26 - Bark Painting & Spirit Animals
Sep 19-23 Annual Sequoia Family Campout
Sep 14 Fieldtrip to Point Vicente
Sep 12 - Lighthouses & Prisms II
Sep 5 - Build Splash Toys @ Pool
Aug 29 - Lighthouses & Light I
Aug 22 - DeSalination @ Beach PD
Aug 15 - Weaving yarn or old clothes
Aug 8 - Hula Hoop II
Aug 1 - Hula Hoop I @ Beach A
Jul 25 - M&B's 4th Anniversary
All ages Talent Show
Jul 18 - Hawaii Day & Potluck
Jul 11 - Bubble Science Fun
July 4 No Parkday HOLIDAY
Jun 27 No Parkday HOLIDAY
Jun 20 - Crafts Free for All
Jun 13 - Gold Mining & BoomTowns
Jun 6 - Anyone? Or Lemonade Stands
May 31-Jun 2 Family Campout at Montano De Oro
May 30 - MayDay PlayDay II
May 23 - MayDay PlayDay
May 16 - Bats, Owl Pellets & Potluck
May 9 - Primitive Arts & Indian Trading Blanket
May 2 - Painting & Poems
Apr 25- Help Our Wildlife Thrive
Apr 18 - M&B Earthday & Potluck 5pm
Apr 11 - Missouri Day / Bees Part 2
HoneyLove.org
Apr 4 - Bees ($3/kid for candlemaking)
Ula's Birthday
Mar 28 - Feathers, Microscopes & Origami Cranes
Mar 21 - History of Sugar; Plant own sugarcane
Mar 14 - Robots & Circuitry $3/kid
Mar 7 - Rainy Day @ Skirball Free
Feb 28 - Felting & Fiber Arts
Feb 21 - Morocco II
and Islamic Prayer
Feb 14 Valentines & Asian New Year Traditions
Feb 7 - Huichol Yarn Paintings
& Esme's Bday
Jan 31 - Birth of a Nation
Jan 24 - Cancelled
due to RAIN
Jan 17 - Craft parkday
Jan 15 - USA Tour @ Skirball
Jan 10- Morocco Senses & Allah
Jan 3 - Free for All Playday
Dec 27 - Free For All Playday
Dec 20 - Xmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Divali & Winter Solstice (Carols & Potluck)
Dec 13 - Morocco, Art & Mint Tea
Dec 6 - Pompeii Part II & Archeology
Nov 29 - Let's BOWL
due to Rain
Nov 22 - Thanksgiving - No Parkday
Nov 15 - Duct Tape Crafts & creations by C & C
and Lunch Potluck
Nov 8 - Ancient Pompeii & Mt Vesuvius
Nov 1 - Election & Voting Debate:
More trees or Waterslide
Oct 25 - Trunk or Treat; Dress-up
Halloween
Oct 18 - Peace Building &
Anger drop
Oct 11 - Superhero Rain
Oct 4 - Inks from Nature
Sep 27 Ireland Fun & Culture
Sep 20 -Sequoia-sized Boardgames
Sep 13 - 3rd Sequoia Campout
Sep 6- Heroes and Heroines - Kids Presentations
Aug 30 - Simile, Metaphors & Figures of Speech
Aug 23- Letterboxing II
Aug 16 - Letterboxing I
Aug 9 - Beach Day
Aug 2 - Modern Olympics II
July 26 - Ancient Olympics I
July 19 - Paper Arts: Bowls, Books & Beads
July 12 - Beach Day
July 5 - Statue of Liberty - 4th July
June 28 - Storytelling & Aussie Rainsticks
June 21 - Fun Games Field day
June 14 - Mystery Math = Algebra Fun
June 7- Silly Summer Day Fun
May 31 - Build Miniature Golf
May 24 - Sewing & Haiku Part II
May 17 - Haikus & Drums & Evening Potluck
May 10 - Rock Hunter Guest Speakers
May 3 - May Day Celebrations
Apr 26 - Fibonacci & Nature
Apr 19 - Thai New Year -Songkran & Potluck
April 12 - Spring Bling & Night Crawlers Planting season
April 5- Easter /Passover Crafts
Mar 29 - Ethics & Fairytales
Mar 22 - Detective Fingerprints & Crafts
Mar 15 - Prep for Joshua Tree
Mar 8 - Marbles & Physics
Mar 1 - Make Real Dream Catchers
Feb 23 - Pirates, Sea Captains &Tall Ships
Feb 16 - Wilderness Survival - guest Speaker
Feb 9 - Anatomy Guts vs Feeling Guts
Feb 2- Gravity Fun Games
Jan 26 - Cement Bridges Part Two
Jan 19 - Kids first Rock & Gem Show
Jan 12 - Global New Years Celebration
Jan 5 - Rockets-Aquarius M&B helped launch
Dec 29 - Cement Construction hand print tile
Dec 22- Kwanza, Hannukah, Bodhi Day stories & games 12/8
Dec 15 - Amy's Anatomy Obstacle Course
Dec 8 - Painting so it POPS! w/ out wind
Dec 1 - Painting so it POPS!
Nov 24 - Happy Thanksgiving - No M&B Parkday
Nov 17 - Fun with Manners & Empowering Etiquette & And 3rd Thurs Potluck (lunchtime)!
Nov 10 - History of Photography - Make Pinhole Cameras
Nov 3 - Butterfly & Bug Faire & Poems & Riddles
Oct 27 - Pumpkin Festival *Dress UP!!
Oct 20 - Empathy & Empowerment
Oct 13 - Braille & Visually Impaired
Oct 6- Atoms & Cool Molecules
Sept 29- Black Bears & Sequoias
Sept 22 - Sequoia Fires & Cones
Sept 15- Clay Creatures & Open-ended ?s
Sept 8- Beat the Heat Beach Day
Sept 1 - Lemonade Stand Commerce
Aug 25 - Back to Homeschool Play
Aug 18 - Saw Safely & make a Jacob's Ladder
Aug 11 - Biomes, Habitats & Soda Bottle Terrarium
Aug 4 - M&B 2Year Anniversary Party
July 28 - Finger Knitting & Natural Fibers
July 21 - Stone Soup Potluck & Storytime
July 14 - CrazyFun ScienceLab Experiments
July 7 - Independence Day Celebration @ Zuma Beach
June 30 - Nocturnal Creatures & Owl Pellets to dissect
June 23 - Book Exchange Circus
June 16 - Lewis & Clark, Quill pens from feathers & Potluck
June 9 ATC- Making Artists' Trading Cards
June 2 Petraglyphs, Pictoglyphs & Rafting the Grand Canyon
May 26 Historical
Figures that changed the World
all Kids Perform
May 19 Pharoahs, Pyramids & Crafts
And Potluck 5pm-sundown
May 12
Mars & Space Travel
May 5
Mother's Day
High Tea
Apr 28
Physics & Imagination=
Future Travel
Apr 21
Mask Making & Storytelling
Apr 14
Sound Waves
Apr 7
Geodesic Dome
Mar 31
Earthquakes & Tectonics
Mar 24
Show & Tell & Games
Mar 17
Family Campout Joshua Tree
Mar 10
Mardi Gras
Mar 3
Africa & Wangari Maathai
Feb 24
Brains: the Inside Story
Feb 3
Chinese New Year
Jan 27
Pioneer Parkday Part 2
Jan 20
Days of Yore
Jan 13
Fun & Safety
with Germs
Jan 6
Chess by Jahan
Dec 31
New Year's FreePlay
Dec 23
Kwanza, Hannukah
& Christmas
Dec 16
Engines & Cars
& Alternative Power
Dec 9
Microscopic World
Dec 2
Cartoon & Collage
Nov 25th
Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov 18th
Nature Crafts & Yoga
Nov 11th
Wind Turbines
Nov 4th
Indian Diwali Celebration
Oct 28th
Spooky Obstacle Course
Oct 21st
How Songs are Born
Oct 14th
Build a
Weather Station
Oct 7th
Prisms, Vision & Zoetropes
Sept 30th
Spanish CultureFest
Sept 23rd
Russian Culture & Potluck
Sept 17
Family Campout @ Sequoia Nat'l Park
Sept 9th
Chemical (molecular) Reactions
Sept 2nd
History of Flight
August 26th
Light, Refraction & Rainbows
Aug 19
Potluck
August 12
Turtles, Tortoises & YOU
August 5th
Honey, Bees & Wasps
July 29th
M&B 1 year anniversary
July 22
Inuit Culture & Games
July 15th
Bastille Day - French Independence
June 17th
Swedish MidSummerFest
June 10th
Catapults & Parachutes
Gravity & Lift
June 3rd
Our BodyGuards
Snot & Scabs
May 27th
Pollination, Fruit & Seeds
May 20th
Hawaii & Potluck Luau!
May 13
Ladybugs, Silkworms & Praying Mantis
May 6th
Knots, Pirates & Explorers
April 29
Earth Day Part 2
April 22
40th anniversary of Earth Day
April 15th
Japanese Girls' & Boy's Day
April 8th
Bridges, Cantilevers & Treehouses
April 1st
Magnetism part II: Physical Force of Nature
March 25
Magnetism part I: I'm attracted!
March 18th
Desert Life
March 11th
Global Timelines
March 4th
Spring Bling:
Worms, Dirt & Seeds
