EXCITING NEWS: National author and former Parent’s Magazine lifestyle director Amanda Kingloff will visit Scribble Art Studio in Savannah for a book signing/art show May 30th, 5-7pm as she releases her new book “Project Kid: 100 Ingenious Crafts for Family Fun”.

View the Scribble Art Show “Mouse Portraits” and create a masterpiece with Amanda Kingloff! This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

To learn more about Scribble’s art classes & children’s birthdays in Pooler & Savannah, click here or call 912-713-7376 or email info@thescribbleartstudio.com

Scribble Art Studio in Savannah & Pooler also offers private & group art classes, summer art camps, adult art parties & children’s birthday parties, both in the studio & at-home DIY art birthday kits. For gifts, Scribble as art kits & gift certificates. For more information, contact artist Carrie Christian at (912) 713-7376 or email info@thescribbleartstudio.com  . Click here for more info. Scribble Art Studio is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser

Kindermusik May themes are under way in Savannah, but it’s not too late to join in the musical fun!

Ages 0’s and 1’s: Meet at 9:30am on Mondays for “MAMA GOOSE” to celebrate the joys, rhymes and rhythms of all your favorite nursery rhymes.

Ages: 2’s and 3’s: Meet at 10:20am on Mondays for “Colors and Shapes on the Farm”.

Ongoing online registration is available ANYTIME from www.88keysga.com (click on the Kindermusik tab) or call 912.988.KEYS (5397).

May 19 Playdate

There’s still room for you at Kindermusik’s May playdate: May 19, 11:10am. Playdate is open to children ages 0-7 Theme will be “Trains, Brains and Musical Strains” and will be centered around a train theme. ALL ABOARD!

FREE CLASSES FOR CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

88 KEYS PIANO is offering a FREE SCHOLARSHIP for the month of June to attend Kindermusik classes.

One winner will be selected for this scholarship for a child with special needs, which includes TOTALLY free tuition and materials for June’s classes. If you have or know a child with special needs that you think would benefit from Kindermusik classes, please email music@88keysga.com and ask for a scholarship application. Deadline: Friday, May 30. Child must be ages 0-3 and must be able to attend classes on Mondays beginning June 9. Any special needs will be considered (learning, hearing, physical disability, etc.).

Kindermusik Savannah, email music@88keysga.com, 912.988.KEYS (5397), www.88keysga.com then click on Kindermusik link. Kindermusik is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser

UPDATE: Winner is Becky Hicks Boyd. Congratulations Becky! 

SouthernMamas.com Giveaway: This week a lucky SouthernMamas.com reader will win two small cheese fondues from The Melting Pot of Savannah.

To enter to win, all you need to do is “like” The Melting Pot of Savannah on Facebook by clicking here. Then on the Melting Pot of Savannah’s FB wall, share what you love most about The Melting Pot or, in celebration of the Mother’s Day lunch & dinner specials @ The Melting Pot on May 11, share what you love most about being a mom.

PLEASE SAY SOUTHERNMAMAS.COM SENT YOU!

Deadline to enter is noon this Fri. May 9. We’ll announce the winner here & on our Facebook page.

Click here for details about The Melting Pot’s Mother’s Day specials.

The Melting Pot, 232 E. Broughton St. Savannah, Ga 31401 tel: 912-349-5676 for reservations, www.meltingpot.com/savannah  The Melting Pot of Savannah is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser.

Mother’s Day @ The Melting Pot of Savannah
$29.99 per person

Having a tough time coming up with new Mother’s Day ideas? Are you stressing trying to find the perfect Mother’s Day restaurant? Why not surprise Mom this year with something a little different? Give her a Mother’s Day dinner she’ll want to tell all her friends about – a Mother’s Day lunch or dinner at The Melting Pot of Savannah.

This year The Melting Pot of Savannah has created a special 4-course lunch / dinner for mom for $29.99 per person*.

Now that’s definitely something special. And after all she’s done for you, doesn’t Mom deserve something a little more special every now and then, especially on the day devoted specifically to her?

Click here for The Melting Pot’s complete Mother’s Day menu.

Open noon – 10:00pm for reservations on Mother’s Day.

*price doesn’t include tax or gratuity

Make reservations by calling The Melting Pot of Savannah (912) 349-5676

The Melting Pot, 232 E. Broughton St. Savannah, Ga 31401 tel: 912-349-5676 for reservations, www.meltingpot.com/savannah  The Melting Pot of Savannah is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser.

Attention Pooler parents: Savannah Yoga Center’s new Pooler location now offers an infant & me yoga class for pre-crawlers, 1:30-2:30 PM Tuesdays. Details here.

Savannah Yoga Center also has two Baby and Me Yoga classes on Monday mornings at the Savannah location. Toddlers & Me Yoga is 10-11:15 AM; Infant & Me (pre-crawlers) Yoga is 11:30 AM-12:45 PM

Savannah Yoga Center – now in Savannah & Pooler

Parent & Me Yoga Classes

Mondays – Savannah
10 AM-11:15AM Toddlers & Me Yoga
11:30 AM-12:45PM Infant & Me (Pre-Crawlers)

Tuesdays- Pooler
1:30-2:30 PM Infant & Me (Pre-Crawlers)

Pregnancy Yoga

Pregnancy Yoga Rolling Series (start anytime!)
Savannah, 6-7:15pm Thursdays Pregnancy Yoga Series (sign up online) Details here.

Yoga & Art Classes at the same time with SYC Pooler and Scribble Arts Pooler!

Details at www.thescribbleartstudio.com

Pregnancy Yoga

Pregnancy Yoga Workshops
Pooler Saturday 1-3 PM. Details here.
Sept. 20
Nov. 1

Teacher Training

Savannah location
Kid’s Yoga Teacher Training
Aug. 22-24

Details, Pricing & Registration for all of the above classes: www.savannahyoga.com (912) 232-2994

Savannah Yoga Center, 1319 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401 & 111 Canal St. #101, Pooler, GA 31322
Email info@savannahyoga.com and be sure to mention the POOLER location! (912) 232-2994, email savannahyoga@gmail.com , www.savannahyoga.com Savannah Yoga Center is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser.

This summer Kids Stay Free at Palace Resorts in Mexico. Plus, you’ll also receive a $1,500 resort credit!

Choose from four kid-friendly, all-inclusive resorts with tons of exciting entertainment, great beaches, and luxurious amenities. Everyone will enjoy a vacation at a Palace Resort.

Children will enjoy the water slides and Kids Club complete with activities, arts & crafts, video games, and more! Teens and tweens will enjoy the Flowrider Surf Simulator and the Wired Lounge, a space just for young adults! Parents can even enjoy relaxing at the full-service spa or a round of golf at a Jack Nicklaus signature course.

And everyone will enjoy swimming with the dolphins at the Dolphinarium at Moon Palace Resort!

Prices from $559 per person for 5 nights! Get your no-obligation quote today  at Two Sisters Travel

Tara McCoy, Vacation Specialist at Two Sisters Travel
843.284.3241
Become a Facebook fan here.

Tara McCoy is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser

On Saturday, May 10, the Skidaway Island Rotary Club and The Village Library will present the 10th annual Spring Fling at The Village on Skidaway Island from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The free event includes kids’ activities, a massive book sale by the Library, over 60 vintage cars, an art show, live music and lunch featuring barbecued beer brats and hamburgers. The event is family friendly with an inflatable play area from Moon Bounces, a train ride for children and live music from The Rogues near Smith’s. There will be face painting, helium balloons, crayons and coloring books and noted author and illustrator, Phyllis Tildes, near the Library. Southern Motors will exhibit a selection of new cars.

For more information, visit http://songofthesouth.mysocialsplash.com/skidaway-island-rotary-club-and-the-village-library-will-present-the-10th-annual-spring-fling-at-the-village/

FOR MORE LOCAL FREE KIDS’ EVENTS, CLICK HERE.

The 38th Annual Savannah Scottish Games
Saturday, May 10th, 2014
Bethesda Academy
9520 Ferguson Avenue, Savannah, GA 31406

The 2014 Savannah Games will be held at a new location on the Bethesda Academy’s Campus this year. Bynuh’s’ Field, about a half-mile north of the Bethesda Arch, is an extraordinary venue with canopies of live oaks and vistas across the marshes of Savannah’s Moon river. Ample space for a glorious Savannah Scottish Games.

From Whitfield Avenue / Diamond Causeway, turn northeast on Ferguson Avenue toward Skidaway Road, pass the Bethesda Arch and look for the new entrance to our games on the right, on Ferguson Avenue.

For a schedule of events & more info, click here.

Looking for an active Savannah moms group?

You’re invited to check out “Me and Mommy”, which will meet on Tuesday, May 13th at 10:30AM. The group will be celebrating moms!

There will be songs, a craft and a snack. This is a free event for infants through pre-school age children and their moms.

Come for a fun time to New Life Fellowship, 12915 White Bluff Rd., Savannah, GA.

For more information call Judy at 912-961-0069 or e-mail at judethr@aol.com

Sign-up at “Me and Mommy in Savannah, GA” on Facebook here.

Yoga Fest — 2 Days of Free Yoga Classes
Saturday, May 31, 2014 – Sunday, June 1, 2014
Savannah Yoga Center,
1319 Bull St.
Savannah, 31401
912.232.2994

Come sample Savannah Yoga Center’s excellent teachers. No registration necessary, Just Show Up!

Twice a year, Savannah Yoga Center offers Yoga Fest to celebrate and give back to the Savannah Community. These 40 minute sample classes are FREE and open to the public and current students, allowing everyone to try out different teachers and styles of yoga. This is a wonderful opportunity to try yoga, change up your personal practice, and become involved in this beautiful community!

Click here for the schedule of classes.

Savannah Yoga Center, 1319 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401 & 111 Canal St. #101, Pooler, GA 31322
Email info@savannahyoga.com (912) 232-2994, email savannahyoga@gmail.com , www.savannahyoga.com Savannah Yoga Center is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser

Fight summer boredom by learning a new instrument!

Take advantage of the extra time during the summer and sign up for piano/violin lessons! Space is limited so reserve your slot today!

Contact Lydia Rabon at LydiaAsmith1@gmail.com or (843)819-5022.

Learn more by “liking” Music Lessons by Lydia on Facebook here.

With over ten years of teaching experience, Lydia has a passion for seeing students succeed in music. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Therapy from Charleston Southern University. Experience coupled with knowledge makes her the best fit for your child’s needs!

Music is a wonderful tool in a child’s development. It provides a creative outlet while addressing other goal areas such as fine motor skills.

Enroll your children in piano/violin lessons today. Lessons are given out of her home in downtown Savannah. Ages 3 and up.

Call or email today to schedule a lesson: LydiaAsmith1@gmail.com or (843)819-5022.

30 minute lessons: $25
45 minute lessons: $38

Lydia Rabon, MT-BC, Board Certified Music Therapist, Piano/Violin Instructor, (843) 819-5022, email LydiaAsmith1@gmail.com On Facebook here. Lydia Rabon is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser

Bring that special lady who gave you life to a yoga class on May 11th for FREE at Savannah Yoga Center!

Click here to see a schedule of classes.

Savannah Yoga Center, 1319 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401 & 111 Canal St. #101, Pooler, GA 31322
Email info@savannahyoga.com and be sure to mention the POOLER location! (912) 232-2994, email savannahyoga@gmail.com , www.savannahyoga.com Savannah Yoga Center is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser.

Celebrate Memorial Day with a reflection on American battles, touring historic sites.

Below are Georgia forts, museums and battlefields near Savannah. For directions and admission fees, visit GeorgiaStateParks.org.

·Fort King George State Historic Site, Darien
From 1721 until 1736, this fort was the southern outpost of the British empire in North America. Climb into the reconstructed cypress blockhouse, explore the palisaded earthen fort and tabby ruins, tour the museum. Be sure to hike the pretty nature trail following the river and marsh. For those wishing to take a mini staycation while in the area, campsites and cabins are nearby at Fort McAllister and Skidaway Island state parks.

·Fort Morris State Historic Site, Midway
This earthen fort on the Medway River protected Georgia against the British in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. A museum describes the colonial port of Sunbury, and a nature trail and picnic sites are available. For a holiday getaway, cabins and campsites are found nearby at Fort McAllister and Skidaway Island state parks.

·Fort McAllister State Park, Richmond Hill
This beautiful park south of Savannah marked the end of General Sherman’s March to the Sea and is the best-preserved earthwork fortification of the Confederacy. On Saturday, May 24, watch a program about Civil War soldiers, as well as musket and cannon firings. Nestled among giant live oaks and Spanish moss, this park is also a great place for camping, hiking, fishing and boating. Cabins overlook the forest and marsh.

Kids can earn a limited edition Civil War badge. Details here.

Georgia State Park now offers gift cards. Think perfect gift for golfers, hikers, anglers, campers, history buffs or anyone who enjoys being outdoors. Details here.