Extra-Curricular Activities for BAMBI Kids
By Ruby Washington
BAMBI’s activities section was started on the premise that BAMBI is an organisation that plays an integral role in supporting Bangkok families. For many years, that role focused primarily on the early years as the organization sought to help moms through their pregnancies and offered unstructured playgroups for developing babies.
As BAMBI has grown so has our role in the community and we have been fortunate to be able to offer families a wide variety of services from baby massage to rhyme time to Halloween and Christmas parties. In hopes of building stronger, longer-lasting relationships with our members, we are excited to have ventured into activities for older children, ages 3-5, whose parents seek to further support their development through a wide variety of extra-curricular activities. 
Our activities focus on several areas of development including athletics, creative pursuits and nature activities. In athletics, we seek to help children hone their balance, flexibility, and agility while developing mental and physical discipline through football, dance and Kung Fu.
Simultaneously, we strive to connect children with nature through our nature activities during which children learn how to grow vegetables, create a butterfly farm or watch frogs develop from larvae into adults.
To target children’s creativity, we now offer a structured music class for children ages 1-3. The success of our activities is allowing us to expand and we look forward to adding several new, exciting activities in the coming months including gymnastics, cooking and yoga. All of our activities are taught by professionals in their field and offer children the chance to try new activities in a safe, yet fun environment.
If you would like to know more or to register your child for a BAMBI activity please visit bambiweb.org/activities.
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