Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Children's City organizes summer activities


The Children's City has lined up an array of activities for children and visitors to the emirate of Dubai during the summer holidays. The activities, which will be conducted during 28 June to 20 August, include summer camp for children of different age groups and a variety of edutainment programmes.

Under the theme, "Special Summer," the summer activities are being conducted with the cooperation of Wyeth, Al Mutanabbi Bookshop and Malik Burger.

Naila Al Mansouri, Head of Children's City said the activities are arranged to be conducted during the Dubai Summer Surprises 2009. "Dubai Municipality is keen to provide programmes beneficial for children during this period so that they can utilize their holidays usefully in an excellent recreational, cultural and informational environment, managed by supervisors with high calibre and competency," she said.

Al Mansouri said the programmes charted out by the Children's City are quite different from other summer programmes as the families can leave their children at the Children's City without any worries.

Among the activities are the Group Birthday parties for children in the age group of 3-12 years, whose birthdays fall between July 28 and August 20, 2009. The parties, organized in coordination with Wyeth, will include many enjoyable activities such as contests and games. Children will be given surprise gifts and birthday cakes and the birthday child will be given free entrance to the Children's City.

There will be face painting every day except Thursdays and Fridays between 5pm-7pm. Make and Learn art and craft workshops will be held everyday except Thursdays and Fridays from 5.30pm-7pm. Both these activities will be held in the multi-purpose area.

Other activities include "Play with us" competition, which will be held at the theatre on Thursdays from 5pm-7pm and "Story Telling" on Mondays and Wednesdays from 5.30pm-6.15pm, which will be held in the Resource Centre. The Summer Camp held from 28 June to 20 August from 8.15am to 1.45pm from Sunday to Thursday for children in the age group of 3-12 years. The camp also include outdoor recreational trips to different places, film shows, painting sessions, computer games, contests and live shows.
Other programmes during summer include "My Little Library," which will be held at the Resources Centre on Saturdays and Tuesdays from 5.30pm-7pm, "Hag El Lailah," a traditional event, which will be held on Wednesday, 5 August and "Talents Day," which will be held on Friday, 7 August. In addition to that the planetarium shows will be held every day from 10am to 1pm and from 5pm to 7pm.
For more information on programmes and registration public can access the Children's City website, http://www.childrencity.ae/ or email at childcity@dm.gov.ae or call 04-3340808.

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