Last Game Day / Kids Karaoke for 2023 is this Sunday Nov. 19, 11AM-2PM @ The Magical World of Toys, a new toy store in Savannah’s Live Oak neighborhood off Waters Avenue.
Savannah’s new toy store The Magical World of Toys is having a case of the missing cake detective nights throughout the month of November to celebrate Neighborhood Toy Store Month.
This is a free event for kids aged 4 to 10. There is only space for 10 families a night, so RSVP to reserve your spot.
Kick off the holiday season with Telfair’s annual tree lighting celebration sparking joy and bringing the community under one roof.
A hot cocoa bar, delicious cookies, and children’s art activities will take place in the Telfair Academy.
Be sure to pick up holiday gifts in the museum shop—especially brilliantly colored Delftware ornaments representing Telfair’s three sites are waiting to go to good homes.
The holiday tree will be on view until Jan. 8, 2024.
This free event starts @ sunset about 5:45PM and runs from Alder Lane-South Forest Beach to Lowcountry Celebration Park on Hilton Head Is.
The only requirement to participate is having a lantern. Lineup for the parade begins at 5PM at the Alder Lane Beach Access. The parade starts 5:45 PM, right after sunset, and travesl north along South Forest Beach up to Coligny Beach Park.
Spectators can watch along the beach anywhere between Alder Lane and Coligny Beach Park.
Celebrate the Magic of the Season at City Market with special Holiday Nights celebratio, kicking off 6:30-9:30PM Fri. Nov. 24.
City Market transforms into a wonderland filled with holiday music and delights. Throughout the entire month, immerse yourself in the holiday spirit with Holiday Nights in City Market! In conjunction with Old Town Trolley – Holiday Sights and Festive Nights Tour, City Market will host a month long evening event.
Visit with Father Christmas: Bring your little ones for a visit and photo with Father Christmas.
Youth who are blind or visually impaired are invited to the Savannah Cultural Arts Center for a guided tour of the center’s gallery exhibition, Beyond Sight. Beyond Sight is a multisensory exhibition that invites visitors to experience art on a deeper level through touching, hearing, and interacting with the artwork.
Following the tour, there will be an interactive workshop with one of the artists from the exhibition.
Siblings and friends of all abilities are welcome, space permitting.
This free event will take place at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center located at 201 Montgomery St.
Please register online here by 5PM on Thurs. Nov. 9 2023.
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In partnership with Savannah Cultural Arts Center through the Spotlight and Weave-A-Dream Programs, this ballet will be unique and inclusive rendition of the beloved holiday classic, The Nutcracker.
The performance will take place on Nov. 17 2023 at 7PM The Ben Tucker Theater in SCAC at 7PM at no cost to the public!
Seating is limited, but you can reserve your free ticket online here.
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Tybee Ballet will present Land of the Sweets as ticketed events on Sat. Nov. 18 2023 @ Savannah Cultural Arts Center @ 3 & 7PM as well as Sat. Dec. 9 2023 @ 3 & 7PM and Sun. Dec. 10 2023 @ 3PM at The Tybee Post Theater. Purchase online here.
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You love SouthernMamas.com Annual Best Home Holiday Lights Decorations list to ride around looking at lights. Here’s our smaller scale Savannah Halloween-Fall decoration list – by no means the best – just some fun picks from readers & us.
Ardsley Park – especially Abercorn between Victory and 52nd Street and Washington Avenue between Abercorn and Daffin – are teeming with waving skeletons, giant skeletons, dancing in circle ghosts & witches smacking into poles and more. You can even find yellow-raincoat clad Georgie with red balloon from Stephen King’s ‘It.” ( 235 Washington Ave., Ardsley Park)
Please send your additions for the list to anne@southernmamas.com
SEE OUR SAVANNAH HALLOWEEN HOMES INSTAGRAM REEL HERE.
* E. Park Avenue @ Price St., 7-11PM every night.
*45 E. 44th St., Ardsley Park
*3505 Abercorn St., Ardsley Park
*2909 Abercorn St. Ardsley Park
*36 51st St. – giant skeleton & more, Ardsley Park
*235 Washington Ave., Ardsley Park (Georgie with red balloon from Stephen King’s ‘It’)
*Whitaker Street across from Forsyth has a few including 909 Whitaker St. – skeleton porch party
*122 E. 38th St. – witch trio, rocking chair skeletons & more , Starland District
*1002 E. Henry St.
*Store windows at E. Shaver Bookstore, 326 Bull St.
*Various fall-bedecked door steps, porches in Savannah Historic District including The Inn on W. Liberty, 109 W. Liberty St; 106 W.Jones St; 517 & 501 E. Broughton
*5505 Magnolia Ave. Magnolia Park neighborhood, Inflatables.
*5708 Colonial Dr., Magnolia Park neighborhood
Please send your additions for the list to anne@southernmamas.com
It’s the Savannah Music Festival’s Community Family Jam presented by SMF Jazz Academy!
FREE and OPEN to the Public
Saturday, Oct. 21 2023, Noon-4 pm
Bring a comfy chair or picnic blanket to join us for a fun-filled day of music and family-friendly activities at Daffin Park. SMF Jazz Academy is bringing together talented musicians from the community for a jam session like no other.
Bring your family and friends to enjoy live performances by slam poetry and local jazz bands featuring toe-tapping rhythms and soulful melodies. Get ready to dance, tap along, and let loose!
Telfair Museums will celebrate the conclusion of the Community in Conversation: Legacy of Slavery in Savannah initiative with a Free Family Day on Sat. Oct. 14 2023 from 10AM to 5PM,
Visitors can enjoy free admission to all three of Telfair Museums’ sites (Jepson Center, Telfair Academy, and the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters) as well as special programs and activities at the Jepson Center.
The festivities will include live local performances, engagement with community partner organizations, and curator-led tours of the art exhibitions Richmond Barthé: Harlem Renaissance Sculptor, Created Beasts: Sculpture by Ulysses Davis, and the Telfair Academy. Art activities for all ages will take place from 1-4pM along with treats provided by Savannah Square Pops.
The day of fun will conclude with a family-friendly puppet parade around Telfair Square.
Free Halloween games, kids’ karaoke dance party @ The Magical World of Toys, Savannah
Bring your kids to this free Halloween-themed event this Sun. Oct. 15, 11AM-3PM @ The Magical World of Toys, a new toy store in Savannah’s Live Oak neighborhood off Waters Avenue:
Halloween-edition game time, Halloween kids karaoke dance party.
Come in costume. Bring a pumpkin to paint.
Toy store owner Dante Pierson plans to host regular community kids’ events at the store.
On Saturday, October 7, Plant Riverside District will host the 2023 Savannah Wiener Dog Races, organized by Savannah’s Waterfront.
Registration begins at 9AM with races starting at 11AM in Martin Luther King, Jr. Park.
Race heats are open to Dachshunds as well as “Almost Wiener Dogs,” with proceeds benefiting Savannah’s Waterfront.
Apart from the fastest run awards in all categories and weights, there will be exciting contests such as best dressed dog, best-dressed dog owner, and more. Entry cost is $25. The grand prize winner will receive a special trophy as well as a $100 credit for Yappy Hour at Electric Moon.
Click here to submit your dog’s online entry form.
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Music, food, art, kid zone and games for all @ Hull Park Fall Festival 2023, 1-6PM Sat. Oct. 21 @ Hull Park in Savannah (55th Street & Atlantic Avenue)
Please reserve your free tickets through EventBrite so organizers can plan, all are welcome to attend!
Come donate some new or gently used books, then pick up a few new ones @ the Savannah Children’s Book Drive & Local Author Fair, 10AM-2PM Sat. Oct. 7 in Johnson Square in downtown Savannah.
Savannah authors, representing a variety of genres, will do book signings and sales while Book Nation of Dreamers collects book donations. The event is free and open to all ages.
Oct. 14 2023, noon – 4PM @ UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium on Skidaway Island, Savannah
Free and open to the public
Come to Skidaway Marine Science Day, a popular, annual can’t-miss event for all ages, on Sat. Oct. 14, from noon to 4PM on the UGA Skidaway Marine Science campus, located on the north end of the island. The campus-wide open house will be presented by UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary.
As part of Skidaway Marine Science Day, the UGA Aquarium will be open to visitors with no admission fee. Aquarium educators will offer an afternoon full of activities, including a hands-on reptile exhibit, behind-the-scenes peeks of the aquarium and lab studies on the dock behind the facility.
Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant’s Shellfish Research Lab will provide behind-the-scenes tours of Georgia’s only oyster hatchery and share efforts by researchers to make oyster aquaculture a more durable and sustainable coastal industry.
In addition, environmental organizations and researchers studying important coastal issues will have tables with a variety of exhibits and hands-on activities for people of all ages.
All activities at Skidaway Marine Science Day are free. Food will be available for purchase.
Questions? Contact Cindy Lingebach at calingeb@uga.edu.
Check out the new toys, the stage, dress-up gear and puppets at this new toy store in Savannah’s Live Oak neighborhood off Waters Avenue: The Magical World of Toys.
You’re invited: Family Game Night, Puppets & Kids Karaoke, 6-8PM on Thurs. Sept. 21 @ The Magical World of Toys. Plus, live kids’ music.
Toy store owner Dante Pierson plans to host regular community kids’ events at the store.
