🎠Commons for kids
Friday, 10 am-1 pm
When it comes to summer fun, kids are all-in. And Columbus Commons is the place to let kids, well, be kids. They get games, inflatables, and face painting. You get happy, worn-out little ones.
Each week, a variety of activities associated with a theme, will keep the kids entertained. From inflatables, face painting, crafts, live music and much more, there’s something for everyone!
Check our website at https://columbuscommons.org/events/family/ for a full list of themes and activities soon.
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📚Powell Storytime @ Adventure Park – Summer Schedule
Friday, June 10: 10:30am – 11:00am
Adventure Park – 260 Village Park Dr, Powell, OH 43065
AGE GROUP: TODDLERS PRESCHOOLERS FAMILIES BABIES
EVENT TYPE: STORYTIME
Join us at the Powell Library for Storytimes at Adventure Park! Storytimes feature books, rhymes, and songs! Storytimes are for newborns up to six-year-old children, and their caregivers!
🐥Chick Hatching – Bring the Farm to You – Summer Reading Challenge
Friday, June 10: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Main Library – Children’s Area
AGE GROUP: K – 12TH GRADE, FAMILIES
EVENT TYPE: SUMMER READING CHALLENGE SCHOOL AGE FAMILIES
Take part in an incubation adventure! Over a period of three weeks, kids can watch eggs hatch right in the library and learn about the life cycle of a chick. Groups call ahead.
🌊Cool as a Sea Cucumber: Calming Skills 101 – with Syntero
Friday, June 10: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Orange Branch Library – Orange Programming Room
AGE GROUP: TWEENS
EVENT TYPE: WELLNESS, LIFE SKILLS, ANIMALS
Do tough situations and emotions make you blow up like a pufferfish or sting like a jellyfish? If so, come check out tips and tricks for getting those feelings under control. For ages 8-12!
Friday, June 10: 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Tremont Road Library – Youth Activity Space
AGE GROUP: KIDS
EVENT TYPE: INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY
Experiment with the library’s coolest tech! Code a robot, complete a circuit, draw with a 3D pen (keep your creations), and more.
📖Storybook Village
@Ohio History Connection
June 11th and 12th
Bring your little-ones to meet celebrated characters from popular fairy tales as they roam Ohio Village and interact with visitors. Ask Rapunzel to let down her hair, help Prince Charming in his quest, and visit with Cinderella! Come and cultivate a love of learning by listening to read-alouds and storytelling, participating in hands-on activities, and meeting the characters that make Storybook Village special.
https://www.ohiohistory.org/events/storybook-village/
🖼Columbus Arts Festival
Friday-Sunday
The Columbus Arts Festival, presented by the American Electric Power Foundation, returns in 2022 to the downtown riverfront. The Arts Festival kicks off summer with more than 200+ professional, juried visual artists; three performing art stages; hands-on activities; local artists; dozens scores of food vendors including popular local food trucks; and local craft brews.
A complete listing of artists, performances and other activities will be updated at http://www.columbusartsfestival.org
As always, the festival is free and family friendly.
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🐓Sweet Grass Family Farm Day
Sweet Grass Farm Field Day!
Friday, 4-8 pm
Come experience farm animals up close and join Farmer Jake on a walking tour discussing the science of Regenerative Agriculture.
Chef Meagan will be serving up meals with Sweet Grass meats and all her other great ingredients.
This is a time to breath fresh air and enjoy the beauty of Sweet Grass!
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✨Twilight Tram Tour @Sharon Woods
Friday, 8 pm
We’ll enjoy a magic hour ride through the park as we learn about nature’s night shift and the animals that are just getting ready to begin their day.
Meet at the Apple Ridge Picnic Shelter.
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🎥Movie Night
Load up the family and head out to Huber Park for Movie Night! Bring all your favorite snacks and enjoy a summer movie under the stars.
Movie Night in Huber Park, 1640 Davidson Dr.
Movie feature: Space Jam A New Legacy
Friday June 10
Movie will begin at Dusk
🎥Movie Night on the Green in Powell
Friday, 8:30 pm
Please join us for Movie Night on the Green at 8:30pm on Friday, June 10, for a free screening of animated feature film, SING (Rated PG)! Food trucks from Pablo’s Havana Café and Columbus Coffee Co. will also be on site.
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🎥Outdoor Movie Night @ Hilliard Church of Christ
Friday, 9pm
Join us outside on the lawn for a presentation of Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove! We will provide drinks and snacks! Bring a blanket!
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🎈Hickory Woods Park Dedication
Start time:
Saturday 06/11/2022 10:00 AM
End time:
Saturday 06/11/2022 12:00 PM
Where:
Let’s make the opening of Hickory Woods Park official! Join us for a morning of family activities and enjoy a hike on the trails as we dedicate our newest location, Hickory Woods Park, 1271 Pollock Road, Delaware, on SATURDAY, JUNE 11 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. A ribbon cutting is planned for 10 a.m.
Saturday, June 11: 10:30am – 12:00pm
Tremont Road Library – Friends Theater,Youth Activity Space
AGE GROUP: KIDS
EVENT TYPE: STORYTIME, CRAFTS
Listen to shark stories, make shark puppets, walk the plank, and dance along to your favorite tune – Baby Shark! Storytime will be presented in the Friends Theater at 10:30 am and 11:15 am.
🎷Ohio Brass Arts Festival
@Creekside Rotary Stage
11am-5:30 pm
Free entry.
👧🏼Sidewalk Games – Cecilia Martyna – Summer Reading Challenge
Saturday, June 11: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Hilliard
AGE GROUP: 7 – 11 YEARS
EVENT TYPE: SUMMER READING CHALLENGE SCHOOL AGE
Watch Cecilia create some fun sidewalk games for you to enjoy outside our branch. Enjoy games and story building with these interactive chalk drawings.
🌽Child’s Homestead – Bring the Farm to You – Summer Reading Challenge
Saturday, June 11: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Main Library – Auditorium
AGE GROUP: K – 12TH GRADE, FAMILIES
EVENT TYPE: SUMMER READING CHALLENGE SCHOOL AGE FAMILIES
Bring history to life! Explore the homesteading life with over 20 hands-on activities: grind and sift grain, roll dough, comb wool, use washboards, walk on wooden stilts and more! Groups call ahead.
🏒Get out and Learn
Saturday, 11:30-12, 12:15-12:45, 1-1:30 pm
Columbus Blue Jackets Get Out And Learn presented by Safelite is back for 2022! Get Out And Learn provides first-time participants, boys and girls ages 5 to 9, the opportunity to try hockey for free. All a kid needs is a pair of sneakers to experience the excitement of hockey! Participants receive a stick, ball, and t-shirt to keep. Spots will fill up fast, register today! www.bluejackets.com/goal
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🎺PBJ & Jazz Concert – Summer Reading Challenge
Saturday, June 11: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Main Library
AGE GROUP: 7 – 11 YEARS, 3 – 6 YEARS
EVENT TYPE: SUMMER READING CHALLENGE FAMILIES
A lively outdoor jazz concert for families! Be sure to bring your lunch and a blanket.
🐚Crafty Saturday-Express Yourself with Shells
Saturday, 1-3:30 pm
Are you missing the beach? Us too!
Join us in a shell crafting event and express your ‘shell’f! Join us for a beginner’s class and learn from an experienced crafter how to make your own shell craft. Your imagination is the limit! Open to families.
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🔎Gotta’ Find them All @Blendon Woods
Saturday, 2-3 pm
Have fun learning about bugs with this interactive Pokémon themed program! Learn about a new group of insects Saturday June 11, 18, and 25.
https://facebook.com/events/s/gotta-find-em-all/301041855440710/
🪘West African Rhythm – Sogbety Diomande – Summer Reading Challenge
Saturday, June 11: 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Whetstone – Meeting Room
AGE GROUP: FAMILIES, 7 – 11 YEARS
EVENT TYPE: SUMMER READING CHALLENGE SCHOOL AGE FAMILIES
Get a glimpse of West Africa through drumming, dance, colorful costumes, musical instruments, rhythms and songs. Groups call ahead.
🍦Ice Cream witha Farmer @Pastime Park
Saturday, 2-4 pm
Interact with farmers while enjoying a day at Pastime Park! We are celebrating Ohio agriculture, so come out and visit with farmers and enjoy fun agriculture activities. Butter making, ice cream cone bird feeder, plant a flower, photo opts, goodie bags and so much more!
FREE Miller’s Olde Fashioned Ice Cream for the first 300 guests!
Questions? Call the county Farm Bureau office at 800-451-8908 or email [email protected].
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🌞Shale Hollow Park – “Climate Connection”
Start time:
Sunday 06/12/2022 10:00 AM
End time:
Sunday 06/12/2022 4:00 PM
Where:
Shale Hollow Park meeting room
Monday – Closed Tuesday – Sunday – 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. No umbrellas or snow boots needed, just bring your curiosity about weather with you this summer. Explore various hands-on displays related to weather phenomena including tornados, microbursts, hot air/cool air dynamics, air pressure, and thunder and lightning. Also learn how the earth is affected by climate and weather changes, and how each of us impacts the climate on a daily basis.
🌳Creature Feature
Sunday, 2-3 pm
Learn about a different animal featured every week!
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🎥Sunday at the Movies: Paddington
Sunday, June 12: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Tremont Road Library – Friends Theater
AGE GROUP: KIDS ALL AGES
EVENT TYPE: FILM AND MUSIC
Enjoy a family favorite film in our Friends Theater. Films will be rated G or PG.
🎈Sprouts Night Out
Sunday, 4-6 pm
Join us at both of these family events this summer. Sprouts Night Out features free live music and activities for kids!
June12
Circus Theme!
• Bring the Farm to You Animals
• Cotton Candy
• DJ
• Inflatable Slide
• Stilt Walker
• Balloon Twisters
• Juggler
• Large Yard Games
• Craft
• Splash Pad Fountains
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🎶Sounds of the Summer Concert Series
Sunday, 6:30-8 pm
End your summer weekends on a high note with the free “Sounds of Summer” concert series at the Alum Creek Park North Amphitheater (221 W. Main St.) beginning at 6:30 p.m. Sundays from June 12-Aug. 21.
SCHEDULE:
June 12 – Sweet Adelines
June 19 – Westerville Concert Band
June 26 – Brett Newski
July 3 – Westerville Symphony
July 10 – British Invasion
July 17 – Innervision
July 24 – Swagg
July 31 – Lords of Literature
Aug. 7 – Singing Buckeyes
Aug. 14 – Conspiracy Band
Aug. 21 – Divas’
Bring chairs and blankets (and your friends and family)!
Check back or follow Westerville Parks & Recreation on Twitter (www.twitter.com/westervillepark) for weather delay/cancellation information.
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