Owner: Deanna Laws

·        Graduated from Monmouth College in Monmouth Illinois, with a BA in Physical Education.

·        Fully trained by the Red Cross in Infant and Child CPR

·         USA Gymnastics National Safety Certification

·        Site Director/Camp Counselor YMCA, Naperville, Illinois

·        I have been working with children for the past five years from YMCA summer camps to being a full time nanny.

·        It’s a wonderful feeling seeing children learn and grow both physically and emotionally using a hands-on-approach to FITNESS, while making it FUN!

·        “The best part of working with children is seeing their faces after they accomplish a new skill/goal.”

To arrange the FUN BUS to visit a birthday party, special event, day care center
or house of worship contact us today!!
 

IN THE NEWS...

Magic Bus

Max Kouz needs a little help doing the twist.

No matter, help is what the Fun Bus is all about, and Deanna Laws, who is the
franchise owner of the Illinois Fun Bus, is ready to give it.

"My favorite part has definitely been working with the kids," she said.

Laws has owned the mobile gymnasium, the only one in Illinois, for almost a year
now. She graduated college with a physical education major, so a job that makes
fitness fun for kids is a perfect fit. She covers DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will
counties.

The Fun Bus is a renovated school bus. All the seats have been removed, the
walls carpeted and mats installed. Laws' bus has a mini trampoline, a swing
hanging from the ceiling, and a slide that attaches to the back doorway for kids
to exit the bus in an exciting way. Laws' father found out about the Fun Bus
through its Web site, www.funbuses.com. Laws decided this was for her.



'Fitness fun'


"I liked the concept and how it's different," she said. "The concept is that
we're trying to make fitness fun."
The Fun Bus does not move when the kids are in it. Rather, activities change
during the hour the kids are learning to be fit. They tumble, sing songs, jump,
swing and hang. They even get to roll around in a circular mat, something Laws
calls the washing machine.

On Mondays at 1 p.m., the fun bus has been parked in the Renwick Park parking
lot in Plainfield, as kids spend one hour a week playing with a purpose.

Kouz, who is 2½, is one of those children. His mother, Vickie Kouz, of
Plainfield, often takes advantage of the park district program and really liked
the sound of this one.

"It sounded really cute," she said. "He sees the neighborhood kids going on the
bus and he's not of that age yet," she said.



'Bus discovery'


That logic prompted Toni Savic, also of Plainfield, to sign up her daughter
Alexis, 3.
"I go through the district book and I never saw this one before," she said. "She
sees her brothers get on the bus."

Although it is too late to sign up for the current program at Plainfield Park
District, the Fun Bus is available to rent for birthday parties and block
parties. In addition, the Plainfield Park District will offer the multi-week
program again in the fall.

For information on the Fun Bus, visit the Web site, or call Laws at (630)
428-4386. For information on the Plainfield program, visit its Web site at
www.plainfieldparkdistrict.com , or call (815) 436-8812.

Resident registration for fall programs begins Aug. 5.


- Dawn Aulet is a Herald News features reporter who can be reached at
daulet@scn1.com or (815) 729-6085.