Another offering for Family Portrait Day with Orit Harpaz in time for Father’s Day prints: Sunday 6/6 at Coldwater Park. Great gifts for dads and grandfathers…
Sorry everyone for the inconvenience. We had some technical difficulties with out site but now we are all sorted out. More posts about what to do in LA with your kids to come soon. For now here’s a short notice item:
JPL is holding their yearly open house. We highly recommend it.
The 2010 JPL Open House will take place on Saturday and Sunday, May 15 and 16, 2010, 9am-5pm both days.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Open House
This popular event celebrates JPL’s accomplishments with exhibits and demonstrations about the Laboratory’s ongoing research and space exploration. Many of the Lab’s scientists and engineers are on hand to answer questions about how spacecraft are sent to other planets, how scientists utilize space technologies to explore Earth and how researchers are searching for planets beyond the solar system.
JPL is located at 4800 Oak Grove Drive in Pasadena, off the 210 (Foothill) Freeway at the Berkshire Avenue/Oak Grove Drive exit. Parking is available near the Oak Grove main gate and the eastern boundary of JPL, accessible from Windsor Avenue via the Arroyo Boulevard exit off the 210 Freeway.
Check out previous open houses
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We recently were contacted by Orit Harpaz about two events that are going on in the Southland. Please see below for more info.
Adopt a Butterfly at Kidspace
Caterpillar Adoption Days start on March 17
Butterfly Release Day: April 17
Kidspace Children’s Museum
480 North Arroyo Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91103
(626) 449-9144
Time Allotment: a month in duration
Age Recommendation: all ages
This should be fun. Looks like it happens in 3 stages:
1 Caterpillar Adoption Days start March 17: You can pick up a kit for caterpillar adoption starting on March 17 for $5. In it you’ll have everything you need to watch the metamorphosis process. If your butterfly releases within 3 days of April 17th then you can bring it to Kidspace for a communal release celebration. (www.kidspacemuseum.org) Parents don’t let your little ones hold on to the butterfly for more than 3 days- they don’t do well.
Butterfly Release Day: If your butterfly emerges within a few days of April 17, bring it to the communal release. The museum will be releasing between 500 and 1000 butterflies. In addition, families can enjoy art activities, a performance at 1:30 by EGG and the magic of the grand release at 2:00pm.
Museum Hours and Website: Click here for more details on the Kidspace website. Museum is open Tuesday through Friday, 9:30am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 5p.
This place looks really neat. My bean isn’t old enough to go there yet. If I did take her I can envision her running from hole to hole stealing everyone’s golf balls. I’m not planning a visit for a while with her, although my husband is dying to go- maybe I’ll take him instead.
Picture is from Roman T. from Yelp. Read his review.
The glow in the dark mini golf is by the Putting Edge company.
6081 Center Drive Los Angeles, CA 90045
Phone : (310) 348-9770
Fax : (310) 348-9771
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CHANGE IS GOOD…
BUT THE CARD IS BETTER!
If you’ve always wanted to park at 
parking meters without worrying about the amount of change in your pocket, we have the card for you. The SantaMoniCard can be used at all city parking meters (except multi-bay meters), and is reloadable so you can use it over and over again.
For more information, please call the
parking office at (310) 458-8295.Santa
Dates: Saturdays and Sundays, May 23–September 6, 2009
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Getty Center, Museum galleries
Admission: Free; sign-up required.
Get creative with Art Adventures, a one-hour gallery program that’s part tour, part art lesson, and part family teamwork. You’ll join a small group led by a gallery teacher, who will introduce you to a handful of artworks revolving around a theme, such as portraits or artists as storytellers.
Working as a team, your family will use what you see to tackle fun, hands-on drawing, writing, or drama projects that help you look closely and think creatively about works of art. Whether you sketch royalty or script your own dramatic performances, you’ll come away with your own artistic treasure.
How to Participate
Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 1:30 p.m. on the day you’d like to participate. The program is geared for families with children ages 5 and up.
Toys R Us has Return and Exchange policy lets you return or exchange items within 90 days. (for Online purchases it’s 30 day return policy) This is extremely unreasonable for a new parent. I received bunch of diapers and baby bottle accessories such as replacement nipples at my baby shower, which I had about a month and a half before the due date. My little bean ignored the due date and was born two weeks after. By the time I knew how much my baby bean weighed I only had one month to figure out when my little one would grow out of the newborn size diaper.
By the time I was ready to exchange unopened newborn diapers and first stage bottle accessories for more appropriate sizes because my little one out grew them so fast, toys r us refused to even exchange the item for a bigger size for me. It created so much waste and now I am stuck with unopened unused baby items that I cannot use!
Toys r us should have better exchange policy for newborn items letting you at least exchange items for bigger size for unopened items.
If anyone is planning to create a registry do not create one at Toys R us, you might be stuck with boxes of unused baby items.
Cinderella
Santa Monica Playhouse
Saturdays and Sundays at 12:30 and 3:00 pm
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the internationally acclaimed Rudie-DeCarlo musical – the single most requested Santa Monica Playhouse Family Theatre musical on all three continents upon which they perform and voted Playhouse audience favorite for the thirteenth year in a row. This delightfully romantic original production features a handsome prince, a zany fairy godmother, 2 silly stepsisters, a zealously well-meaning stepmother and an enchanting Cinderella! Original cast members, joined by alumni and guest performers will sing and dance their way into your hearts.
Call for reservations 310-394-9779
Theatre for Kids
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May 2009
LA Kids Spotlight: May ’09
Family fare this month includes Beyond the Beanstalk (The Jack Tales), presented by New York’s Das Puppenspiel Puppet Theater (Orange County Performing Arts Center, May1-3), expands upon the classic fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk. Santa Monica Playhouse offers Mother’s Day Enchanted Lunchtime Theatre on May 5, including ensemble play development for youngsters, as well as a lunchtime meal.