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Our philosophy is to enhance learning already going on inside the classrooms, using a hands-on-approach to fitness, while making it FUN!

We currently have taken over the Fun Bus as new owners. Shelley has been with the Fun Bus for three years and Michelle has been a teacher for over seven years. We do our best to accommodate each individual's needs whether we are at a school, party or event. Our goal is provide experiences that make learning fun.

The FUN BUS is a full-sized school bus equipped with tumbling equipment to provide children (ages 18 months to 7 years) with FITNESS FUN at day cares and preschools. The FUN BUS never moves with children on board. It is climate controlled (Heat and A/C) to ensure a comfortable environment year around. Our 30-minute classes bring an interactive and FUN approach to improving the following:

A safe and clean environment where children can reach their potential is of utmost importance on the FUN BUS of Ocean County!

Contact us today to schedule your School, Camp, Party or Special Event.

A session on the FUN BUS includes a warm-up period, then our FUN onboard obstacle course featuring a parallel bar, trampoline, tumble mats & shapes, rock wall, basketball hoop, swings, rings, punching bag, buoy ball, and more. Then we do SUPER cool down games and end each session by sliding out the back of the bus on a giant banana slide (weather permitting)! Games & equipment vary each session and FUN age appropriate music is always played. We are fully climate controlled in any weather.

So hop aboard the FUN BUS Fitness FUN on Wheels

We bring the FUN right to you...

Schools, Preschools, Camps & Organizations? Please contact us for our special event pricing and information on our fantastic weekly programs.

We appreciate your business!

Posted by the Times-Beacon Newspapers on 1-25-07

by Paula Scully, Staff Writer

TUCKERTON Serenity liked playing and singing "George of the Jungle."

Layla loved the flips.

Korral loved the trapeze and Dylan loved the activity called the washing machine, a doughnut-shaped activity in which the children sing about one of their friends being "in the washing machine, washing machine" and push until they all laugh.

The children were excited Thursday, when the Fun Bus pulled into the Kangaroo Kourt Preschool parking lot for some fitness on wheels.

Karen Wilson, the owner of Kangaroo Kourt Preschool, saw the colorful green bus at a Manahawkin fall festival and arranged to bring it to the children.

"I took the 2- and 3-year-olds out," she said. "At first, they were a little "stand-offish.' Once they were able to play with the basketball net, they loved it. They attach a little circle swing to the bus, a trapeze, rings. They put them one at a time in a thing called a doughnut and pretended they were in a washing machine."

The bus was originally a Little Egg Harbor school bus. The company is franchised and buys the buses, which are then completely refurbished inside and out. The seats are removed, the floors carpeted, walls paded, and gym mats, gym equipment and sound equipment are brought in.

"We'll be working with the county-run program in summer," Leiter said, "where they will have me at several different locations. One of them is Little Egg Harbor. I think most of the programs are in Toms River but the county is trying to change that and offer some things down here as well.

"I'm from Barnegat and the bus is parked in Manahawkin, so we're local," she added.

Leiter and an assistant are Fun Bus certified and show the children how to use the equipment.

"They just love that," she said.

"If they find a program that really gets them excited about fitness, our hope is that they will continue that when they get older all their lives, rather than sitting inside," Leiter said. "It also helps with their self-esteem. A lot of times I hear on the bus, "No, I can't do that,' and then when they "do that,' they are so excited.

"And it helps with their motor skills, coordination and social skills," she said.

Lisa Cirillo, a teacher at Kangaroo Kourt, said the children are still talking about the fun they had.

"They're talking about it now," she said. "It's cute because one of them still has the stickers on."