Family Events

Join us for a YMCA Gym Play Experience at Mel Korum YMCA.  All Ages & Siblings Welcome to Age 5.  Have fun in a giant obstacle course, jump into the giant foam filled pool, hop on a room length trampoline.  We’ll have ride toys, push toys, balance beams, balls and more.  Separate zone for babies.  Music & Movement, Snacks & Water Provided.  Click on the Download Button Below, or Ask your provider or FRC, or call our office at 253.471.2727 for the YMCA Application to fill out in advance of your arrival to speed up the registration process.  No Registration Fee.

Join us for our continuing field trip at the Pierce County Library where we have a blast building with the Imagination Playground Blocks and having a grand time playing with friends!

“Play is children’s work.  Play builds an essential foundation for understanding the world.  Discoveries learned in play enhance critical thinking and future learning.  Play is the highest form of research”  –Albert Einstein.

Registration Required. Both Classes Currently Full. Please reach out to your ASAPC provider or FRC to be put on a wait-list for openings.

Join us for an interactive story event present by A Step Ahead, Children’s Museum of Tacoma & The Tacoma School of Arts with Loraine Maida.  Watch & Hear the story performed & sung by Tacoma School of Arts students.  Enjoy interactive displays inspired by the story including Ice Encased story animals to explore, passport booklets with Seek & Find story animals & stickers, animal costumes, hats & face painting, animal sound switches, animal habitats, place & watch animals fly through compressed air chutes, make polar bear art, go down the giant animal slide and participate in Zookeeper activities like scat scooping.
Free Copy of the Book by Eric Carle while supplies last (One Copy Per Family Please)

Join us for an interactive story event present by A Step Ahead, Children’s Museum of Tacoma & The Tacoma School of Arts with Loraine Maida.  Watch & Hear the story performed & sung by Tacoma School of Arts students.  Enjoy interactive displays inspired by the story including climbing through the story and counting what The Very Hungry Caterpillar ate, then emerge wearing butterfly wings, go inside a life sized Butterfly Terrarium where children can dance with scarves and act like butterflies, go down the Very Hungry Caterpillar slide, where children can feed the giant caterpillar foods from the book and then slide through, face painting and personalized butterfly necklaces, create your own butterflies with watercolors & pipettes.  Free Copy of the Book by Eric Carle while supplies last (One Copy Per Family Please)