Monarch Landing Spreads the Volunteer Spirit and Welcomes in the New Year With the DuPage Children’s Museum
By Melissa Borgerding
THE ERICKSON TRIBUNE
On Saturday, December 31, Monarch Landing helped ring in the New Year with the DuPage Children’s Museum—twelve hours early!
Noon was the magic hour at the museum’s fourth annual Bubble Bash. Sure it wasn’t quite midnight when revelers welcomed in 2006, but try telling that to the eager children who celebrated the New Year with fun games, activities, and lots and lots of bubbles.
The fun-filled day kicked off at 9 a.m. with bubble picture frames to make, a LEGO® city to build from 1,000,000 blocks, cookies to nibble, and a bubble ballroom where children and their families danced surrounded by beautiful, floating bubbles. A spectacular countdown to noon capped off the party.
A Party to Remember . . . And All for a Great Cause
According to Loreal Sanders, the museum’s interim marketing and membership manager, the bubble theme originated with the museum’s most popular exhibit—the bubble room. Children and their families loved the interactive exhibit so much that the museum made it the focal point for their New Year’s Eve party. The bubble theme stuck. “Now, the Bubble Bash is our most popular event,” Sanders says.
Best of all, proceeds from the event go right to the museum to help further its mission to inspire curiosity and a love of learning in children. This year, Monarch Landing was proud to lend its support to help make this Bubble Bash the best yet!
Spreading the Volunteer Spirit
The Chicago area certainly doesn’t lack for wonderful museums, but none are quite as fun and familyfriendly as the DuPage Children’s Museum in Naperville. To help preserve this cultural gem located right in Monarch Landing’s backyard, Erickson recently gave the museum a generous gift of $100,000. “I’m so excited by our partnership with Monarch Landing,” Sanders says. “The community comes out to events and really lends its help.”