March 2022 Programs

The March 2022 program schedule and registration is available on online at gigisplayhouse.org/hillsborough/calendar. Friends, Fun, & Fitness, Saturday, March 5, 10- 11AM (ages 10+) Join Miss Virginia for Zumba! Art Explosion, Saturday, March 5, 11AM- 12PM (ages 10+) Creative, play-based, arts and crafts activities, will be offered with the goal of helping them to learn…

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January 2022 Programs

The January 2022 program schedule and registration is available on online at gigisplayhouse.org/hillsborough/calendar. Friends, Fun, & Fitness, Saturday, January 8, 10- 11AM (ages 10+) Join Miss Virginia for Zumba! Art Explosion, Saturday, January 8, 11AM- 12PM (ages 10+) Creative, play-based, arts and crafts activities, will be offered with the goal of helping them to learn…

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A Day in the Life of a Parent Homeschooling

GiGi’s Playhouse Hillsborough Parent and Board Secretary Andrea Maio shares her adventures in homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic.  How to survive home-schooling, please don’t give up your loved one with Down syndrome needs you more than ever! Day 1: 8:00 am= How difficult would this be? Let me go over the homework folder (100 papers?)…

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Bringing Parents Together at GiGi’s Playhouse

Have you heard about the GiGi’s Playhouse Hillsborough Parent Group? For our blog this month, we sat down with Parent Group Program Leader Jessica McMullen to learn more about this important forum and what the group hopes to accomplish. Q: What is the purpose of the GiGi’s Playhouse Hillsborough Parent Group? JM:   The parents group is a…

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Bringing GiGi U to Hillsborough

“When is GiGi U starting? Our daughter needs it.” “There isn’t anything challenging him anymore, GiGi U will be so great for my son!” “What exactly is GiGi U?” These are the three most common responses that I get about GiGi U when talking about it around the Playhouse. The Board of Managers and I are working…

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