Weekend Happenings

I haven't done this in a while, but here are some things going on this weekend around Orlando. Click on the titles to link to their respective web sites.

1. Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party Select nights - Sep 11 - Nov 2.

2. Central Florida Veg Fest Saturday 10AM - 6PM at the Orlando Festival Park, near Downtown. Free admission. Food preparation demonstrations, a veggie kids zone, a humane education area, an animal haven, an artist corner, music on an acoustic stage and on a band stage, and many veg-friendly vendors.

3. Star Wars Exhibit For a limited time at the Orlando Science Center. A truly incredible exhibit where the real spaceship models are on display. I'll need to post some pics I took while we were there.

Image for #2 via the Veg Fest website.

Weekend Happenings

1. Star Wars Weekends Ends on June 10th — so this is the last weekend — at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Check out the Build a Droid station inside Tatooine Traders, next to Star Tours. We had lots of fun doing that.

2. Remember Dad... Saturday 11AM - 1PM at the Mannello Museum. This is a workshop for kids and families where you'll use printmaking techniques to create special cards. $5 per child.

3. PLAY New touring exhibit at the Orlando Science Center. Giant games! Sounds fun.

Weekend Happenings

1. ROLL IT! Community Printmaking Festival Saturday 10AM - 3PM at the Mannello Museum of American Art, Loch Haven Park. Free admission. I'm so exited about this event. I can't wait to see Owen print with LEGOS. And, I really want to see that Steamroller press a huge print.

2. Great American Pie Fest Saturday 11AM - 7PM and Sunday 12 - 5PM at Lakeside Park in Celebration. Besides your appetite some basic picnic gear will come in handy at this event.

3. Winter Park Paint Out Saturday at the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens. Artists will be cap­tur­ing local land­scapes and land­marks with oils, water­col­ors and pastels.

4. Bob the Builder exhibit  is still up at the Orlando Science Center.

5. Very Fairy Princess Party Saturday at 11AM at the Winter Garden Village Barnes & Noble. Storytime and princess party.

6. 6th Annual Run in the Garden 5k Run/Walk Saturday at 7:30AM. $25 to sign up now, or $30 the day of the race. Kid's Run is free. Sign up day of race at 8:45AM

Magic Wand Image for #5 via here. Image for #3 via here.

Weekend Happenings

I can't believe it's the end of the week already. Here are some of the things going around Orlando this weekend. Click on the titles to find out specific information on each event:

1. Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival Through May 20th. Make sure to check out the pop-up playgrounds around the park.

2. Celebration Spring Art Fest Saturday and Sunday 10AM - 5PM. Paintings, sculptures, photography and jewelry featured along the streets of downtown Celebration. 

3. 3rd Annual Hannibal Square Folk Art and Craft Festival Saturday 10AM - 4PM, at the Hannibal Square Heritage Center in Winter Park. There will be a free children’s folk art painting workshop. Music by The Porch Dogs, and Orisirisi African Folklore (drumming and storytelling.)

4. Bob the Builder exhibit  is still up at the Orlando Science Center.

5. Storytime Adventures with Frances Keiser and Jane R. Wood Sunday 12:30PM - 2PM, at the Orange County Regional History Center.

6. Currents in Contemporary Art Through June 30th, at the Orlando Museum of Art. Owen says he wants to be an artist, so I think a trip to the museum from time to time would be in order. The main thing attracting me to this exhibit is the image of Robert Rauschenberg's piece shown on the museum's website. I love his artwork, and I'm assuming them showing it as the main piece on the page promoting this exhibit means it's there. (Even though his name is not mentioned among the artist represented) We will see.

Images for #2 via here and #3 via here

Weekend Happenings

Some fun things going on in the Orlando area this weekend. Click on the titles to find out specific information on each event:

1. Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. Through May 20th. Make sure to check out the pop-up playgrounds around the park.

2. Celebration Exotic Car Festival. Saturday 10AM - 4PM, and, on Sunday you can see the cars before the 10AM rally. We went to this festival last year and Owen fell in love with Ferraris. He's actually saving for one, one quarter at a time. The Star Wars Landspeeder and some other Hollywood movie cars will be there also.

3. Family Clay Day Workshop. Saturday at 1:30PM, at the Orlando Museum of Art. Advance registration required.

4. Orlando Science Center. The Bob the Builder exhibit is still up.

5. Orlando Society of Model Railroaders Open House. Sunday 10AM - 3PM, at 7208 Aloma Ave. Winter Park. See model trains run on a permanent layout in various stages of completion.  

6. Kidfest 2012. Saturday 11AM - 5PM, Audubon Park. Lots of fun activities provided by local vendors.

Weekend Happenings

I was looking for things to do this weekend and found out that quite a bit is going on in the Orlando area. I collected some of the things that looked interesting to me and decided to do a post about it. Maybe I should do this every Thursday...

Click on the titles to find out specific information on each event:

1. Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. Through May 20th. We havent been this year, but we really enjoyed it last year.

2. Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival. Friday through Sunday. I love the idea of the Children's Workshop Village.

3. Cruz-N-Car Show. Every third Saturday. It says 6PM-9PM, but we went there once at around 4PM and the cars were already there. If you or your kids are into cars, you'll like this.

4. Orlando Science Center. A few things at the Science Center this weekend: Bob the Builder exhibit, St. Patrick's Day Workshop, and Fossil Fest

5. St. Patrick's Day Storytime. Saturday at the Winter Garden Village Barnes and Noble.

6. Lyle the Crocodile. Saturday and Sunday. Orlando Repertory Theatre. (Image via Victor Davila)

Enjoy!