Author name: Sophie & Madigan’s Playground

In 2013 our family was struck with an unthinkable tragedy when our home caught fire and we lost our beautiful daughters Sophie & Madigan. Sophie & Madigan’s Playground was formed to keep the girls memory alive through our Play Learn Create programs and the development of a public memorial park.

SaMP Kids ~ Compassionate Kids Club

Last week at SaMP Kids – Compassionate Kids Club, we welcomed Hermine Bernstein to discuss Blessings in a Backpack, Frederick, MD! She read Maddi’s Fridge to the kids and led a discussion on how we can help families in need. We learned that BIAB provides TWO THOUSAND kids in Frederick County with meals on weekends, […]

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Top 10 Reasons to Volunteer!

Thinking of becoming a volunteer with Sophie & Madigan’s Playground? See our top ten reasons to help you make up your mind.   #10: It’s good for you. Volunteering provides physical and mental rewards! Volunteering with a group of people can help you feel supported, helps reduce stress, and ups happy moods and emotions, like

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SaMP Kids are back! 

SaMP Kids will begin again this coming Monday August 28th, 4:30PM at the Common Market community room! We will be choosing our Back to School project and hearing a presentation from our friends at Blessings in a Back Pack.  We are looking forward to all the amazing projects the kids come up and can not

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Eclipse Viewing Party – PLAY Trail end of year party!

Yesterday we hosted our second PLAY Trail End of Year Party with the excitement of the eclipse! We built pinhole viewers, shared some certified eclipse glasses, painted some rocks and just enjoyed each other’s company for this special day. It was so much fun listening to the kids gasps of excitement the first time they

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Build a pinhole viewer for safe eclipse viewing!

Monday, August 21st 2017, people all over North America will be able to see a Solar Eclipse! We wanted to share this fun easy way to create your own viewer to keep every ones eyes safe while you take the kids out to LEARN! You can find out more about the eclipse here thanks to

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Pirate & Princess 5k and fun run!

We’re getting closer to race day! Have you registered? Have you set up your team? Come run with us and support the power of PLAY! Saturday September 30th at Monocacy Village Park 5k, 1k fun run, free trunk or treat, costume contest, lots of laughs and fun! Register here Can’t run but want to help?

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Celebrate PLAY with Laurie Berkner! 

We have just 5 days left until we bring Laurie Berkner and over 250 free Capes for Kids to Children’s National Medical Center for our first Celebrate PLAY event. We are super excited to be able to offer this free PLAY event because of your generosity and support of our mission to help kids and

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SaMP Kids – Bird House Project

Today, we completed our birdhouse project for the month of June by visiting the Catoctin Creek Nature Center in Middletown. We delivered our birdhouses made from recyclable materials that the kids painted last week! They will display our bird houses as well as a note on why our kids chose the project and how they

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Sophie & Madigan’s PLAY Trail! 

Today we had the kick off party for this years PLAY Trail! Have I mentioned how much I love PLAY Trail! We had so much fun today meeting new families – playing cornhole – giant Jenga – and painting rocks to check off #frederickrocks! stop on our PLAY Trail map! Nice to meet all of

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