Family Events
Featured Events
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: YMCA Gym Extravaganza 2020
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.
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Imagination Playground Block Party
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!
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Playgroups (Registration Required)
ASAPC Playgroups are all about building positive relationships, child and child, parent and child, and parent to parent.
“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. Classes Currently Full. Please reach out to your ASAPC provider or FRC to be put on a wait-list for openings.
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Story Alive: Polar Bear Polar Bear
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)
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Story Alive: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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)
Thursday Craft/Activity Giveaway
Join us on Thursdays through the summer for a weekly activity give away while we’re still Social Distancing! and While Supplies Last!
We will be giving away craft packets to create a fun project each week with your children.
This is a drive through event, Teachers Marti & Michele will hand out supplies while they last while you and your family remain in your car!
Stay tuned each week, your providers may pop in for a wave & a smile behind their mask!
Each week we’ll have a different Activity!