Question About MOPS Playroom

Is this at a church? I have only heard of MOPS at our church and it's HUGE! The kids are broken up by age so they can do age appropriate activities. depedning on the age they do everything from imaginary play, watch vegie tales, have a lesson, color, usually someone will ead a L. lesson about anything like animals and a quick bible verse and meaning. It's always good to have children interact in a safe, friendly environment. I volunteer at my church Wednesday nights and on the weekend, and I know its very structured so that your kids don't just site by themselves or stare at a tv!

Your individual location may vary from others, so I would ask the director. Don't be embarrassed, that's what she's there for.

My MOPS group is at my church. It is a large facility, so we have multiple rooms-infants, crawlers, 18 months-2, and I think 3 and 4 are together. They structure it just like our Sunday school. The very young ones just have toys to play with and an area with cribs to sleep. It is a wonderful place and honestly is why I have stayed so involved with all of my groups because I know my kids enjoy it and feel comfortable there.
If I were you, I would just ask the director your questions. I am sure she doesn't mind, it is her job to make sure your child is in good hands and you have a right to know what goes on there. Our MOPS group asks that each mom volunteer once a semester in the childcare rooms to help off set the fact that free childcare is offered during the meetings. That way you can get a good sense of how things operate.
HTH,
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I have babysat for MOPS for years, not doing it now but have in the past. I did it at our church and also at another church which met on a different day. We divided the kids by age. The younger ones, infant to age 1, are what I had and we had no teaching because of the age. The other ages were by age and had crafts and more appropriate things to do and they even have a class for homeschoolers so they can work on school work or do other things. One of my daughters was with one of the older groups and she did a Bible story or some material that was provided ahead of time, coloring, craft of some kind, etc.. I think it seems to be something the kids enjoy too. I really loved it the years I worked for MOPS. I think I worked for about 7 years with that and other babysitting at church. The classes were fairly large but can be divided and several workers were in each class. That is by church too as for how they do each class size, etc. I thought they were structured and well done.

It probably depends on where it is. Our group was at a church. We had a baby room, toddler room and bigger kids. The baby room and toddler room were a free for all type of setting. The bigs kids actually had a cirriculum to follow and it was pretty structured.
With our group we had to volunteer twice a year (for another groups mops meetings--we had 3 in our church) to keep hired help costs down. Maybe see if you can volunteer in the beginning and that will help you get a better idea.