Cannon Firings & Fort Talk @ Fort Pulaski National Monument
Fort Pulaski National Monument just outside Savannah on the way to Tybee Island has Saturday weekly cannon firings @ 11AM, 1PM and 3PM.
Park staff and volunteers in living history attire conduct a program that concludes with the firing of reproduction cannons. Come learn how Civil War cannons were fired – and why it matters.
Cannon demonstrations last about twenty minutes, with time afterward for visitor questions.
Highlights include a soccer activities with Soccer Shots Savannah and a Teddy bear clinic with stuffed animals with Mercer Medical School. There will also be a dinosaur brushing activity, bike safety information and a fun balance bike obstacle course. A registered dietitian will provide info about healthy lunches and infused water. Savannah Children’s Museum educators will lead health and wellness-themed activities throughout the day.
“Healthy Me!” is included in the cost of Savannah Children’s Museum admission, $10 for all guests 18 months and older. Purchase tickets in advance online here. This event is FREE for Coastal Heritage Society members. Find info on how to become a member here.
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Wag-O-Ween Weekend 2022 is a pet-friendly community event that takes place in downtown Savannah and attracts 1000+ yearly participants.
This year’s event will take place over two days – Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 22-23 2022, from noon-5PM – to allow for a less-crowded trick or treat route and social distancing at treat stops.
The 17th annual Wag-O-Ween pet trick-or-treating fundraising event will feature treat stops between the Savannah River and the Starland District. Humans and dogs alike are encouraged to dress up in Halloween costumes and follow their map to participating local businesses, which will be giving out dog treats and goodies.
2022 swag bags, wristbands, and maps will be available for purchase both Saturday and Sunday at WoW registration booths ands pre-order
A portion of the proceeds will go to the Sara Portman Community Fund for spay/neutering, education, and more. The remaining money raised will continue to support local animal rescues in their mission to place animals in “furever” homes and support community education efforts.
We’re excited to introduce the newest Kindermusik class, starting next week!: Little Stars, meeting Monday evenings at 6:30PM for ages 0-7.
First class is Aug. 1 2022
In this high-energy, fun-filled class for the whole family, you’ll engage in instrument exploration, movement and dancing, keeping a beat, listening activities, musical story time, and more; growing children’s cognitive, physical, and socio-emotional skills in a playful group environment. Make new friends and share sweet family bonding moments as you play, laugh, dance, and sing together.
Dance classes for ages 2 & up are back at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center beginning Aug. 15 2022. Engaging, movement-based classes will develop imagination, memory, and coordination.
A beloved Lucas Theatre summer tradition: classic Disney films.
Share the magic of the big screen with the next generation at these Sunday matinee screenings of classic Disney films featuring themed giveaways, special guests, and other surprises @ Lucas Theatre in Savannah. .
Tickets are $5 for SCAD Card holders, students, seniors, and military; $8 general admission; and FREE for children 12 and younger.
Here’s the Summer 2022 schedule:
Aladdin, 3PM Sun. Aug. 7 2022. Purchase tickets online here.
Encanto, 3PM Sun. Aug. 14 2022. Purchase tickets online here.
Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA 31401
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My First Movie certificates
Disney Summer Classics are the perfect way to introduce little ones to the magic of the movies and we think that’s something worth celebrating. So any child having their first in-theater experience at the Lucas Theatre will receive special recognition and go home with keepsakes remembering their special day.
Join the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn on Hilton Head Is. and its partners in this FREE Family Fun Day 2022 for all ages, 10AM-1PM Tues. Aug. 9.
Come early or stay for lunch at the weekly Farmer’s Market on site between 9AM and 1PM
Visit the Coastal Discovery Museum’s boardwalks, learn about the salt marsh, and walk to the horse barn and pasture to see the marsh tacky horse “Comet” and his companion horse “Hawk”.
Stop by the Karen Wertheimer Butterfly Habitat to see the life cycle of native butterflies and learn from museum docents how to plant a butterfly-friendly garden of your own.
Express yourself – artistically – with hands-on activities offered by the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina and The Sandbox. Make a piece of “Tiny Art” to take home or to share with the Tiny Art Galleries around town (sponsored by the Town of Hilton Head Office of Cultural Affairs). Create your own tie dye shirt using real indigo dye or watch sweetgrass basket makers at work.
Sing along with Jevon Daly at one of the two “Kids Concerts” (10:15AM and 11:30AM) in the Birdseye View Theater. Jevon is a local favorite with the young and old alike and is known for his summertime concerts at Coligny Plaza.
Watch and learn about local birds from the Hilton Head Audubon Society. Dive into our local history and environment with the Lowcountry Master Gardeners, the Outside Foundation, Hilton Head Archaeological Society, the Gullah Museum, Heritage Library, Explore Mitchelville, the Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage and others.
Stop in the Discovery House for the “Children’s Book Fair” to purchase signed copies of educational and local children’s books to take home. Authors scheduled to attend include Susan Diamond Riley, Susan McElroy Montanari, Lisa Anne Cullen, Rebecca Chamberlain, Patricia Bee, Donna Brainard, Mary T. Jacobs, Miho Kinnas, Iris Jackson, Robin Prince Monroe, and Antawn Eady. Find out more about our local literary scene with the Pat Conroy Literary Center.
Visit special exhibitions in the Discovery House. “Conservation in the Classroom” (Main Gallery) includes student artwork focused upon the conservation and protection of dolphins, sea turtles, shore birds, and horseshoe crabs. “Nikon Small World” (Sea Island Room) is a traveling exhibition of 20 jaw-dropping, prize-winning photomicrographs (photographs taken through the light of a microscope).
There’s something for everyone at Family Fun Day!
There is no charge for admission on this special Museum Day and reservations are not required.
Please call (843) 689-6767 ext. 223 for details or learn more here.
Coastal Discovery Museum, 70 Honey Horn Drive, Hilton Head Island, SC 29926
Looking for a kid-friendly daytrip destination from Savannah?
We love Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Is. – a roughly 70 minute drive from Savannah. While there be sure to try to catch a sighting of one of the manatees (pictured above in a photo we took in July 2022) that hang out @ Harbour Town Yacht Basin. The manatees sometimes can be seen in the part of the marina near where this sign pictured below is posted, where the arrow points in the photo below.
There’s still time to catch a legendary free Gregg Russell concert outdoors under Liberty Oak in Harbour Town this 2022 summer season. See his Summer 2022 performance schedule here. This beloved family-oriented singer/storyteller performs sing-a-longs, ballads and silly songs with audience participation. Kids often make & bring “pick-me-to sing-with-you” signs to hold up for Gregg to see.
Next time you take the kids to Hilton Head Island, here are two of our favorite playgrounds there.
Adventure Playground @ Lowcountry Celebration Park, Hilton Head Is.
The spacious Adventure Playground features a giant ship complete with mist cannons. located off Pope Avenue near the Coligny Beach parking lot. Adventure Playground is open from sunrise to sunset. Restroom facilities at the park close at 10PM. Parking is available in the Coligny Beach Parking Lot, the parking lot off Nassau Street or onstreet parking on Nassau Street. Details here.
Gregg Russell Playground in Harbour Town (pictured), Sea Pines Resort, Hilton Head Is. The Gregg Russell Playground at Harbour Town is one of the top playgrounds in our area. Fenced, somewhat shaded playground that includes a treehouse; swings; numerous slides; lots of climbing bars, jungle gym bars, monkey bars. Just outside the fenced-playground is a water fountain; picnic tables; bathrooms; and plenty of spots for lunch, drinks or coffee and of course, the famous Harbour Town lighthouse which is open to climb for a fee plus $9 Sea Pines gate fee. Harbour Town, Hilton Head, SC 29928
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Free kids’ games; pumpkins, mums, straw bales available for sale
UPDATE: THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED.
Richmond Hill Garden Club’s 21st annual Pumpkin Patch will be Sat. Oct.1 2022, 9AM-1PM @ the J. F. Gregory Park Pavilion in Richmond Hill.
Jack-O-Lantern pumpkins, small pumpkins (all sizes for youngsters) will be for sale in the Pumpkin Patch, with giant mums and straw bales (mums and hay bales are for sale also).
Come early for the best selection.
Games for all ages–fish pond, ring the pumpkin, bean bag toss (for little and big kids), pick a pumpkin, CREEPY feels, wheel of fortune, ghost darts, walk the plank, candy corn ring toss.
Fresh, home-baked goods, wreaths, signs, baskets, centerpieces, Halloween kids books, costumes and props–anything you need for decorating your home and yard—will be available for sale.
Pumpkin Patch is a RHGC Fundraiser to fund community projects. Photo opportunities abound, so wearing Halloween costumes is encouraged.
Free admission and parking.
Games, baked goods, raffles $1 per ticket. Pumpkins, hay bales, mums, decor–priced as marked. Cash and credit cards (minimum $10 for credit cards).
Rick Hubbard entertains the whole family with his Kazoobie Kazoo Show at The Sandbox Children’s Museum on Hilton Head Is. on Monday Fundays throughout the summer. All kids join Rick on stage, and everyone gets a FREE Kazoobie Kazoo!
Mondays through Aug. 15 2022
The Sandbox Children’s Museum on Hilton Head Is is a non-profit children’s museum dedicated to the positive development of young children through play.
80 Nassau St Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
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The new park off Pope Avenue near the Coligny Beach parking lot and Coligny Beach Park features: *The Adventure Playground, named after the ship Captain William Hilton was on when he discovered Hilton Head Island. It features a reimagined design of the ship, playground, wading pool and more. *An open pavilion and lawn for events. *A perimeter walk *Two fitness stations *Wi-Fi *The Sandbox Children’s Museum *Public restrooms
Lowcountry Celebration Park 94 Pope Ave. Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
Toddler Tuesday is a program for 1-4 year old children and their caregivers that focuses on one of Oatland’s animals, or a relevant nature theme. The program includes: singing, fingerplay, a story, an encounter with one of our animals, and a take-home craft.
Sessions are offered twice on Tuesdays from 10-10:30AM & 11-11:30AM and registration is required. There are a limited number of spaces so reserve early!
Toddler Tuesday Admission Rates
FOO Member: Adult – Free with Membership ID
Child – $5
Non-Member: Adult – $5
Child – $5
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Registration is made online, but the program fees will be paid at the front booth on the day of, and not in advance, so please, if you know you won’t make your reservation, please call and cancel so organizers can open the space for someone on the waitlist.
* free aerial show featuring performances by Cirque Divina Fri. Sept. 2 & Sat. Sept. 3, 8:30PM in Montgomery Park.
* Movies in the Park series concludes with a free screening of Grease in Martin Luther King, Jr. Park Sun. Sept. 4, 7PM. Lawn chair seating will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Popcorn, snow cones & beverages will also be available for purchase at a concession stand on-site
Labor Day Festivities @ Fort McAllister State Park, Richmond Hill, Fort McAllister State Park 3894 Fort McAllister Road Richmond Hill, GA Tel: 912-727-2339.
Bring your water blaster, super soaker, or entire H20 arsenal to our water fight extravaganza. Play games like fortress destruction, and soak a ranger, and end with free play. Pre-register by calling park office. $2 plus $5 parking. 912-727-2339.
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Fort Morris Historic Site, Midway
Labor Day Commemoration @ Fort Morris Historic Site, Midway, Ga. Saturday, Sep 3, 2022 10AM-4 PM Fort Morris Historic Site – Midway, GA Blacksmithing, woodworking, and other early trade skills will be demonstrated; along with musket and cannon firing demonstrations on the hour. $3- $4.50 912-884-5999. Details here.
A fun free activity to do with young kids is catch the FREE Savannah Belles ferry that runs multiple times a day across the Savannah River between River Street and Hutchinson Island.
We typically catch it at City Hall Landing on River Street. Park along Bay Street and take the outside elevator that’s between Savannah City Hall and the Hyatt Regency. There’s a glass window in the elevator with views of Savannah River.
You can take it across the river to the Trade Center and Westin Hotel, maybe walk around the Westin, go to the Midnight Sun Cafe (open during morning hours) or pack snacks to have on the lawn benches outside the Westin.
Or you can take the ferry to Waving Girl Landing by the Marriott on the same side of the river as City Hall Landing.
The Savannah Belles ferry operates daily year round except on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Days.
Kindermusik Savannah’s first-ever evening weekly class, coming Mondays at 6:30PM starting in August!
Kindermusik Savannah is so excited to announce their newest weekly recurring class: “Little Stars!”
This class is for ages 0-7 with their caregivers, and will meet Mondays from 6:30-7:10PM, starting August 1st, 2022. This new class time is so exciting as it’s the perfect option for families who are busier during the day and looking for some quality together time in the evening.
Enroll in the new class hereor text 912-432-5885 for more info.
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July Musical Playdate for ages 0-7
Kindermusik Savannah is also now enrolling for their July “BUGS” monthly musical playdate on Sat. July 23 at 10AM. Spaces are more than half filled – enroll today! All children receive the class, an instrument, and a coupon for future classes.
A beloved Lucas Theatre tradition returns this summer: classic Disney films.
Share the magic of the big screen with the next generation at these Sunday matinee screenings of classic Disney films featuring themed giveaways, special guests, and other surprises @ Lucas Theatre in Savannah. .
Tickets are $5 for SCAD Card holders, students, seniors, and military; $8 general admission; and FREE for children 12 and younger.
Summer 2022 schedule includes:
Aladdin, 3PM Sun. Aug. 7 2022. Purchase tickets online here.
Encanto, 3PM. Sun. Aug. 14 2022. Purchase tickets online here.
Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA 31401
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My First Movie certificates
Disney Summer Classics are the perfect way to introduce little ones to the magic of the movies and we think that’s something worth celebrating. So any child having their first in-theater experience at the Lucas Theatre will receive special recognition and go home with keepsakes remembering their special day.
Parents and children together will engage with instruments, singing, moving, dancing, story time, and more delightful activities in this exciting one-time Kindermusik class. Limited spaces! Claim your child’s spot before it fills! This Sat. July 23 2022 at 10am. Enroll today: kindermusikwith88keys.com
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Once a month, Telfair Museums’ youngest patrons are invited to the Jepson Center for story time, a special tour, and an art activity. Strollers, crying babies, toddlers, and older siblings are all welcome here.
Thurs. Dec. 15 2022 Art Start Stroller & Toddler Tours & Art Activity, 10:30-11:30AM.
Dream up fantastic worlds with your child at SCAD MOA’s Saturday Morning Story Time, 11AM on Sat. July 2 2022 @ SCAD Museum of Art.
Treat the little artist in your life to SCAD MOA Story Time on the first Saturday of each month. Enjoy exciting tales and fun activities as you learn about the work on view.
Story Time is programmed for children ages 3 and older.
For more information, email Kristin Poitras, manager of museum visitation and programming, at kpoitras@scad.edu.
Anyone may enter with a child aged 0-7 years. Limit of 1 child per family; only 1 entry permitted.
Winner must be available to attend on at least one of these days we offer classes. You choose the class of your choice and attend it once per week. Included in the prize is the digital online home materials that correspond with the month of classes.
One winner will be randomly drawn and notified by text and email on June 30th, 2022.
