Step Together for fun and adventure

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Published on Friday, September 30, 2016

By Miranda Leybourne

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The Step Together program for children and their caregivers is starting up again next month in Neepawa. 

The program, formerly known as Step 2 and originally run by the Prairie Mountain Health Authority, has been taken on by the Beautiful Plains School Division.

Val LeBoutillier facilitates Step Together, and is very excited for this year’s session. 

“It’s a lot of fun,” she says. “It’s a good way to get to meet people who have kids the same age as your own...and you get to be a kid again!”

Parents or caregivers and children who attend Step Together can expect to take part in many different activities, including singing songs, learning nursery rhymes, playing games and making crafts. They also get to eat a healthy and tasty snack, and it’s completely free.

All of these things put together, LeBoutillier says, are a positive thing for local families.

“We have a good response,” she affirms. “It’s just drop-in, so I think that’s what parents like.”

But it’s not just the kids who get to have all the fun – LeBoutillier notes there are also interesting topics of conversation for the caregivers, recipe swaps and more. Parents are also encouraged to take an active role in what their children are doing, helping them to play, learn and have fun.

The program runs from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month, starting Oct. 5 and running until May. It operates out of the Neepawa United Church hall basement on 475 Mountain Ave.