Encourage Us!
Welcome to the Wilmington Kids Club blog - a place for you to learn and exchange ideas with other families who live in and around Wilmington, Delaware. Companion to our web site Wilmington Kids Club we have added this blog as a way to be more interactive with our readers. Please feel free to post here and give us your comments and suggestions. Please help us make this site a resource you refer to often and find amazingly useful.
The Grand's Summer Children's Theater will be going on Tuesday and Thursday mornings for 3 weeks beginning July 22. Shows are at 10am and noon and anyone can attend - no need to purchase tickets in advance, donations are made at the door. Participants who are able to make a suggested donation of $5, or any size donation they feel they can afford - all donations received directly support The Grand Opera House and its arts education programs. Shows this year include Jack and the Beanstalk, The Frog Prince, Ferdinand the Bull, The Gizmo Guys, Peter & the Wolf and Geist.
Click the link for a brochure with all the details: http://www.grandopera.org/education/images/Glyer.pdf
Tower Hill hosted the 2007 Summer Camp Camp again this year. The brochure is an excellent resource for parents and has an extensive list of area camps, overnight and day - coed and not. Here is a link to the 2007 Camp Guide or download the catalog as a pdf file here. If the file does not open you may need to download the Adobe PDF reader program, it is free, click here to download. 
How often has the phone rung and on the other end is a charity request for a donation. In a split second they want you to decide what size donation you are willing to give - assuming you don't just hang up on them. When the Police Protective Fund called this morning I was fortunate to be sitting in front of the computer and put their name in Google. What I found was an amazing site: Charity Navigator, 
that let me know this particular group spends 64 cents of every dollar raising money. It was so easy to tell the caller that only a small percentage of the money raised was actually going to help and therefore I was not going to give. The solicitor actually had nothing to say. Charity Navigator has great information, a nice Donor FAQ for common donation related questions like "is it better to give to many charities or a few?" and "can I deduct the full price of the ticket for a charitable event?" Become a registered user and you can track and compare your chosen charities - we give this site 4-stars for ease of use, reputation and valuable information.
It may be cold now but you know spring can't be far away when Zoobilee comes around again - mark your calendar for March 10th and 11th from 10-4. The annual celebration at the Brandywine Zoo is always fun - there will be live entertainment, spring games and animal arts and crafts among the activities.
Here are the particulars:
Spring Celebration: Zoobilee!
(3/10 and 3/11/2007, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM)
Brandywine Zoo, 1001 North Park Dr Wilmington, DE.
Admission: Free.
For more information, phone (302) 571-7747.
Visit www.brandywinezoo.org.
The 2007 Community Camp Fair at Tower Hill is this Thursday, Feb 1, 2007 from 3:30 to 7pm at the field house - click here for directions. The 2006 Camp Guide is available from last year, we will put up a link when the 2007 guide is available. Enjoy.
Lilypie is a great little web site that has free countdown tickers for your children's birthdays that can fairly easily be added to all your emails, a blog or website. You can personalize them with various pictures and your own line of text.
With their popularity growing, there are now countdowns for due date, adoption date, wedding and anniversary.
Parks to recycle Christmas trees
A Christmas tree recycling program will be offered at seven Delaware State Parks beginning Dec. 26 through Jan. 15, from 8 a.m. to sunset. The trees will be turned into wood chips to benefit soil and plant health and make landscape maintenance easier at the parks. Some chips also will be available to the public. Signs designating the location of the drop-off site within each park will be posted at the following park entrances: Bellevue, Brandywine Creek and Lums Pond. To help defray costs, donations of $2 per tree will be accepted by the Division of Parks and Recreation of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. For more information on Christmas tree recycling, contact Gary Focht, Division of Parks and Recreation, (302) 284-4526.
You would think Santa is really busy this time of year, but your kids may call him any time of day at 1-800-972-6242. There is a new record message from Santa every day from December 13th through the 24th. He reminds the children to be good and thoughtful to others and he sounds very real..... Best of all it is FREE! We will archive this under Christmas and bring it out again next year!
If you haven't been to the Orisinal web site yet, you are in for a treat. 
To test your apple catching skills go to http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g2/applegame.htm. To start getting in the holiday spirit try delivering Santa's packages here http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g2/flight.htm. Enjoy!!
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