Things to do with the family this week
Ah, Labor Day weekend. Will you stay or go? If you stay, there are a few more days of the Maryland State Fair at the Timonium Fairgrounds to enjoy, along with the Maryland Renaissance Festival in Crownsville. Or check out these family ideas:
--Our new You & Your Weekend section has a great story on how to take advantage of the last days of summer. Slurp a snow ball, run through the sprinkler with the kids, catch an outdoor movie in Little Italy.
--It's the last weekend to catch Body Worlds, which closes Monday, at the Maryland Science Center.
On Saturday (Aug. 30), you can learn to preserve some of that great summer fruit:
(Photo by Sun photographer Algerina Perna)
--Kids 12 and up (and adults) can learn how to can peaches from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Marshy Point Nature Center, 7130 Marshy Point Road, Middle River, on Saturday. Free. Preregistration required; call 410-887-2817.
Got events to publicize for the weekends to come? E-mail details to me, and please send photos if you've got them.
Comments
I highly recommend the Body Worlds 2 exibit at the MDScience Center. We took our children (5 and 2) there last week, and it was a great learning experience for them. Especially for my son - for years now, we have been emphatically talking to him about not smoking (he has asthma, in addition to us just not wanting him to smoke), but the visual of REAL healthy lungs next to the nasty black lungs was something that made a distinctive visual impact, and he still talks about it.
A friend had expressed concern that the kids were too young for it, but my husband and I approached the exhibit very matter-of-factly, kind of from an educational standpoint. They were not scared or disturbed at all. The exhibit was well done.
Posted by: Annelies | August 28, 2008 10:13 PM
My recommendation would be to steer clear of the Lamb station at the next fair.
Posted by: Bake My Fish | January 25, 2009 12:32 PM