Isnt it the best when your kids want to get creative and do some messy art projects? Isnt it even better when its not at your house?

Spare your slipcovers from yet another dousing of Goo Gone and take your kids to Play Cafe in Los Angeles (a few blocks east of the Grove) for a morning of MESSY ART.

Kids put on smocks, grab a paintbrush, and have their own easels to create to their hearts content. After they have finished their masterpieces, they can munch on an organic snack in the community area. Then they can play with some great wooden toys in the community play area - my son has to be dragged away from the train table. Stay for a Storytime or snuggle up and read to them yourselves. They have a lovely collection of classic childrens books.

Started by a local Mom and Dad, of course, Play Cafe was designed to be a local hang-out for families with young children. MESSY ART is just one of their terrific offerings. You can subscribe to a monthly membership for their community play area, or just drop in and pay a $7.00 fee for messy art. You can also sign up for an on-going Music Together Series, Sign Language Classes, or a Mixed Media Art Class. Play Cafe also can put together a fabulous birthday party for your little ones. And for the holidays, they are currently taking reservations for a CD recording workshop where for $25.00 your child will be professionally recorded and mixed singing three of their favorite songs. If your child singing their own rendition of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is not the perfect gift for Nana, I dont know what is.

So go, play, hang out, and let them get messy, really really messy.

Messy Art: Suggested age: 14mos. to 5 years. $7 per child. Smocks and all materials included. Mondays 10:45-12; Thursdays 11:30-12:30 & 2-4.

Stories at Play Cafe, A storytime for youngest bookworms. Babies-age 5. Free to members or with $5 Play Cafe admission. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 10:30.

Play Cafe
5814 West Third Street
Los Angeles, CA 90036
www.LAplaycafe.com

323.988.1189

Lee Rose Emery freelance writer, and mom, lives in the Hollywood Hills with her husband and two kids. Lee grew up on the East Coast where she feels LA is given a very bum wrap. She is thrilled to be the LA City Guide Editor, and able to highlight some of the many wonderful things LA has to offer Modern Moms and their families.