Celebrate Fourth of July with Pop Goes The Sandbox! at the Sandbox Children’s Museum on Hilton Head Is.

Wed., July 4th 2018
10AM-2PM (but open til 5PM)

Take part in a special holiday craft, 4th of July Fun Fact Handout and show-your-colors cookie decorating thru 2pm

General Admission is $7 per person, FREE for Members. Military and senior discounts are available.

Details here.

Stay connected by liking The Sandbox on Facebook here.

The Sandbox Children’s Museum, www.thesandbox.org, 18A Pope Ave. (located behind St. Andrew’s By the Sea Methodist Church), Hilton Head Island, SC 29928, Tel: 843-842-7645 The Sandbox is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser

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FIND MORE JULY 4TH EVENTS INCLUDING FIREWORKS HERE. 

KICK-OFF SUMMER 2018 AT THE SANDBOX!

Join The Sandbox Children’s Museum on Hilton Head (about 1 hour drive from Savannah) for the best schools-out-for-summer, kids’ party on the the island, 10AM-2PM Wed. June 13 2018.

Celebrating sun, fun and the beach!

ARTS & CRAFTS • BOUNCE HOUSE
OUTDOOR GAMES & ACTIVITIES
PICNIC LUNCH
Cost: MEMBERS $5 | GUEST $10

Military & senior discounts available. Sorry, coupons not valid for this event.

First come, first serve. Space and activities limited in the event of rain.

The Sandbox Children’s Museum
18A Pope Avenue,
Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
843.842.7645

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June 2018 Museum Hours:
Mon.- Sat. 10AM-5PM

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July 2018 Activities @ The Sandbox

Check out  Parent’s Night Out and Summer Camp on The Sandbox website to learn more!

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Want to give your children the experience of a lifetime?

Consider an Au Pair.

Au Pair in America is the world’s first and most experienced live-in cultural childcare program. The non-profit works with more than 60 countries to bring international students over as caregivers, offering an affordable and flexible childcare experience.

Host families gain peace of mind knowing their children are well loved while gaining a unique experience with cultural exchange.

For more information, visit www.aupairinameria.com or www.facebook.com/APIASAV/.

Use promo code: SAV for $300 off the program fee.

Like adult triathlons, kids’ triathlons incorporate three different disciplines, swimming, biking, and running – with adjustments being made to the distances in each race to suit kids.

Here’s an upcoming 2018 kids’ triathlon for ages 4-14 near the Savannah area:

TD BANK Kids’ Triathlon #1 & #2, Hilton Head Is., SC
Island Recreation Center, Hilton Head Island, SC

Sat. June 30 2018
9AM Start. Race day registration available for no extra fee. No late fee. Details here.

Ages 4-6
Swim 25 Yds | Bike 0.5 Mi | Run 0.33 Mi
Ages 7-10
Swim 75 Yds | Bike 2 Mi | Run 1 Mi
Ages 11-14
Swim 125 Yds | Bike 3 Mi | Run 1.5 Mi

Learn more here.

UPDATE: THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER.
Instead, The Sandbox Children’s Museum on Hilton Head Is. will be open Sun. May 27, 1-5PM & Mon. May 28, 10AM-5PM.

Sandbox at the Stables Memorial Day Celebration, Mon. May 28

Mon. May 28 2018 | 10AM – 2PM @ Lawton Stables in Sea Pines Resort, Hilton Head Is.

7th Annual Sandbox at the Stables Memorial Day Celebration!

7TH ANNUAL SANDBOX AT THE STABLES FUNDRAISER
May 28, 2018

Howdy Partners! Amble on over to the Lawton Stables for a Memorial Day Celebration benefiting The Sandbox!

Monday, May 28th from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at Lawton Stables in Sea Pines Plantation

Activities (some free, some require activity tickets) scheduled include:

Craft projects
Inflatable water slides and bounce houses
Pony rides
Facepainting
Family games and activities
“Island Explorer” Corner: Dino Dig, “I3 (Imagine.Invent.Inspire.) Makerspace”, Mad Scientist and Friends from The Coastal Discovery Museum and The Outside Foundation!
The Cowpoke Caper Parade is back again at High Noon! Come dressed as your favorite cowpoke and bring your cowpoke name – creativity is key! Free bandanas to the first 50 entries!

There will be hot dogs and burgers fresh off the grill, as well as refreshments including sno cones and cotton candy, all available for purchase. Admission is $5 per person; tickets for concessions and activities are $1 each.

$6 per vehicle for entry into Sea Pines Resort gate.

(Members:$5.00/person and you will receive $5 in concession tickets for each paid admission)

Guests will park at the Trolley Stop inside Sea Pines Gate and ride the free trolley to Lawton Stables. (there is NO Event parking at Lawton Stables)

Learn more here. 

The Sandbox Children’s Museum on Pope Avenue will be closed on Memorial Day.

Hosted by Lawton Stables in Sea Pines Resort

Lawton Stables
190 Greenwood Dr.
Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
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UPDATE: THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER.
Instead, The Sandbox Children’s Museum on Hilton Head Is. will be open Sun. May 27, 1-5PM & Mon. May 28, 10AM-5PM.

Bring your kids to a free How Does your Garden Grow? program @ the Morris Center in Ridgeland, SC.

Free & open to the public. For children from kindergarten-2nd grade.

How Does Your Garden Grow?
Tues. April 3, 4:30-6PM
Limit: 15 children (Parents always welcome!)
Morris Center For Lowcountry Heritage
10782 S Jacob Smart Blvd.
Ridgeland, SC 29936
843-284-9227
Email: Info@morrisheritagecenter.org

Director of Programs, Annmarie Reiley-Kay, and retired educator, Leslie Natoli, will guide children through hands-on learning activities.

Children will learn basic parts of the plant and what plants need to grow while painting, coloring, and planting seeds.

Each child will conclude their experience by taking home a decorated flower pot, a seedling ready to plant, and hopefully an enthusiasm for gardening! Children’s “informal wear” strongly encouraged.

Pre-Registration is required. Learn more here.

FREE Family Fun Night
Fri. April 6 2018| 5:30 – 7:30PM
Join The Sandbox Children’s Museum on Hilton Head this Friday for the FREE Family Fun Night.

This is a community event designed to bring families together for a cost-free evening of creativity and play. Weather permitting, the Bounce House and Big Blue Blocks will be available for play outdoors, or you can explore our exhibits and enjoy a craft indoors. Light refreshments will also be served free of charge.

FREE & FUN for all ages.

Upcoming Free Family Fun Nights
Fri. April 6, 5:30-7:30PM
Fri. May 4 5:30-7:30PM

Supported by The Bargain Box
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Happy Plaidurday!
Wed April 11, 2018
10AM-2PM
(celebrating RBC Heritage/Presented by Boeing Golf Week)

Tired of solids, stripes getting you down? Add some plaid, you’ll be glad! Join The Sandbox Children’s Museum on Hilton Head Is. for a family fun day 10AM – 2PM. Let your little firecrackers bounce in the Bounce House, build with the Big Blue Blocks, aim for the cornhole, tug-a-rope-rivalry and more! (weather permitting). Take part in a special spring craft and show-your-colors cookie decorating.

Enjoy hot dogs, chips, lemonade, brownies and watermelon and a scavenger hunt!

Event admission is $5 for members, $10 for non-members.
Military and senior discounts are available.

First come, first serve. Space and activities limited in the event of rain.
(Sorry, coupons not valid for special event)

The Sandbox Children’s Museum
18A Pope Avenue,
Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
843.842.7645

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Easter Egg Hunts & Easter Fun 2018

Visit our annual list of Easter Egg Hunts & kids’ Easter events in Savannah, Hilton Head Is., Richmond Hill (many of which are free).

See the 2018 list of Easter Egg Hunts & Festivities here. 

U-pick Daffodils farm in nearby Okatie, SC (near Bluffton)

Hours of operation are dependent upon the weather & availability of flowers.  Check here and on Facebook here for hours  & opening/closing updates.

Farm owners will post if they’re able to be open this weekend as soon as they know. Please call or text 843-368-1998 to make sure the farm still has flowers.

UPickDaffodils.com is family owned and operated on what was once the family dairy farm. Chuck and Diane have planted several varieties of daffodils, not all of which bloom at the same time, according to their Web site.

Cash or check only. Cost is 25 cents per stem.

UPickDaffodils
48 Calhoun Plantation Road
Okatie, SC 29909
843-368-1998
chuck@upickdaffodils.com

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Daytrips

Find more daytrips from the Savannah-area here. 

Free monthly Young Explorers Club 

The Savannah National Wildlife Refuge hosts a preschoolers “Young Explorers Club” on the first Tuesday of each month.

The free, hour-long monthly program for 3-4 year-olds starts at 10AM on the first Tuesday of each month.  There will be story time, crafts, snacks, and take-home activities all about this month’s topic.

The programs are at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center (694 Beech Hill Lane Hardeeville, SC 29927).

Each month, a different animal or method of conservation will be highlighted. Juniors of Girl Scout Troop 30387 have designed the monthly programs as their service project for completing the Bronze Award. The themes are:

April – Recycle
May – Baby Birds
June – Alligators
July – Sea Turtles
August – Spiders
September – Fish
October – Butterflies
November – Turkeys
December – Ducks

For more information, please contact Joel Vos at (843) 784-2468.

Learn more here.

National Wildlife Refuge in Savannah/Hardeeville.
694 Beech Hill Ln
Hardeeville, South Carolina 29927

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Lawton Stables in Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Is. is offering a trail rides deal during February 2018.

Locals of the Lowcountry (yes, that includes Savannah residents, too) get half-off trail rides during February. So instead of being $65, cost is $32.50 per person.

All trail riders must be a minimum of 8 years old. Lawton Stables does not allow ‘double-riding’ with two people sharing a horse.

While at the stables, be sure to visit the free petting farm there. The free animal farm includes goats, sheep, chickens, turtles, alpacas, cows and more.  Kids can also pet a friendly retired Clydesdale, Harley, at the stables. Pony rides available for a fee for children between the ages of 2-7 years old and weighing less than 55 lbs.

There’s a $6 Sea Pines gate fee per auto.

Lawton Stables
190 Greenwood Drive
Hilton Head Island, 29928

Find more to do on Hilton Head Island in our Daytrips page here under Things To Do With Kids on Hilton Head Is.

FREE Family Fun Night
Fri. Feb 2 | 5:30 – 7:30PM
Join The Sandbox Children’s Museum on Hilton Head this Friday for the FREE Family Fun Night.  This is a community event designed to bring families together for a cost-free evening of creativity and play. Weather permitting, the Bounce House and Big Blue Blocks will be available for play outdoors, or you can explore our exhibits and enjoy a craft indoors. Light refreshments will also be served free of charge.

FREE & FUN for all ages.

Supported by The Bargain Box
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The Sandbox Children’s Museum
18A Pope Avenue,
Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
843.842.7645

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Bring your kids to the Taste of Gullah community festival, this Sat. Feb. 3, noon-3PM at Arts Center of Coastal Carolina on Hilton Head Is.

Featuring Native Island heritage & culture at this celebration of all things Gullah. The event features Lowcountry specialties such as barbecue ribs, conch stew, shrimp and grits, rice and beans, and okra gumbo.

Live entertainment, plus children can make their own artistic creations.

Sponsored by SC Arts Commission & Concours d’Elegance.

Admission: Free.

Food & beverages for sale

Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
14 Shelter Cove Lane
Hilton Head Island, SC 29928

Free Family Fun Night Fri. Jan. 12
5:30–7:30PM | AT THE SANDBOX

(This event was rescheduled from Fri. Jan. 5 to Jan. 12)

Kick-off the new year with free fun & friends this Friday Jan. 12 2018 @ The Sandbox Children’s Museum  on Hilton Head Is.

Family Fun Nights are designed to bring community & families together by offering free admission to all Sandbox guests — neighbors, island visitors & members.

Spend an evening exploring the museum, playing with family & visiting with new friends. Come see what The Sandbox is all about!

In addition to a craft activity, the Sandbox will also have outdoor activities (weather permitting) & light refreshments.

First come, first serve. Space & activities limited in the event of rain.

Cost: FREE!

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The Sandbox
18A Pope Avenue,
Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
843.842.7645

January 2018 Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday, 10AM-5PM
EXCEPTIONS: The Sandbox will be open Mon. Jan 15 (MLK Jr. Day)

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The clear sign that your kids liked the musical you took them to: they add the cast recording to their Christmas list the next day.

That’s what happened after my children – ages 11 & 9 – saw Disney’s Newsies @ Arts Center of Coastal Carolina on Hilton Head Is. They loved it and so did I.

Newsies is onstage through Dec. 31. Based on the 1992 Disney film starring Christian Bale, Newsies the musical is appropriate for elementary-age children and older, who are old enough to sit through a two-hour production (there is an intermission.)

Packed with so much talented tap-dancing, acrobatics, tumbling throughout the entire production – not just the show-stopping number “Seize the Day” – this musical is the perfect high-energy, spirited show to take the kids to over holiday break.

For those who live in the Savannah area, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina is located mid-island near Palmetto Dunes and Shelter Cove Towne Center – making it about an hour drive from Savannah. (Stop by ‘Tis the Season holiday lights & entertainment @ Shelter Cove Towne Center. Lights are on nightly until Dec. 30, 5:30-9PM)

Buy tickets at the Box Office 843-842-2787 or online here.

Tickets are $59 for adults and $46 for children.

Fresh off its First National Tour, the Arts Center is thrilled to produce the Carolinas’ premiere of Newsies, with jubilant music by Alan Menken and book by Harvey Fierstein, features high-flying dance with everything from tumbling to tap. Set in New York City at the turn of the century and inspired by the real-life Newsboys strike of 1899, Newsies is about a charismatic newsboy who dreams of a better life far from the streets.

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Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
14 Shelter Cove Lane (located mid-Island)
843-842-ARTS (2787)
www.artshhi.com

The Holidays 2017 are a great time to take the kids to The Sandbox Children’s Museum  on Hilton Head Is.

Below are some upcoming special events. Or visit during regular museum hours.

December Hours:
Regular Hours: Dec 1-16, 18-23, 26-29
Tuesday- Sunday, 10AM-5PM
Special Hours
Dec 24 12-3PM Visit from Santa 1-2PM!
Dec 25 | CLOSED Merry Christmas!
Dec 30 10AM – 2PM | “NOON Year’s Eve EVE”
Dec 31 1-5PM | Special NYE Hours

Noon Year’s Eve @ The Sandbox

10AM-2PM Sat. Dec. 30| AT THE SANDBOX
The Sandbox is ringing in the new year a little early this year to accommodate church service on 12/31 at the adjacent church. So join The Sandbox prior to New Year’s Eve and celebrate with your little ones without staying up to midnight.

Festivities include special games and activities both indoors and outdoors. In addition to scavenger hunts, games, fun arts & crafts and a picnic lunch, attendees will ring in 2018 with party favors and a balloon drop at 12 noon.

COST: Special Event Admission: $5 for members, $10 for non-members.
Military and senior discounts are available.

First come, first serve. Space and activities limited in the event of rain
(Sorry, coupons not valid for special event)

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The Sandbox
18A Pope Avenue,
Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
843.842.7645

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