Classes Registration required Nature, Mom and Me Hands-on activities, stories, crafts and hikes. Dress for the weather, including sturdy shoes. Ages 3 to 6 with adult. Wednesdays, Sept. 14 to Nov. 9, 10:30 a.m. Reservations required. $15 members, $20 non-members for all 6 sessions. Willow Grove Nature Education Center, Cromwell Valley Park. Tagalong Time Three [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Classes & support groups in October
Friday, September 30th, 2011Events, parent groups and story times in October
Friday, September 30th, 2011For additional events click here. Key: AA Anne Arundel County B Baltimore City BC Baltimore County CC Carroll County FC Frederick County HR Harford County HC Howard County MC Montgomery County PG Prince George’s County (for library locations and information see Story Times) Events 1 Saturday BC | Animal Tales Learn about a wide variety [...]
The ban on bumpers
Friday, September 30th, 2011All three of my kids slept with a crib bumper. The one I remember was soft and cute with animals in squares surrounded by gingham. Their cribs looked so cozy and inviting and … deadly? If you’re behind the eight ball, then you haven’t heard that crib bumpers are on the banning block in Maryland. [...]
Oregon Ridge holds annual Honey Harvest Festival
Friday, September 30th, 2011Check out a beehive, watch honey being taken from a hive and catch many other activities including a petting zoo at Oregon Ridge Nature Center’s Annual Honey Harvest Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be candle dipping, mead making, Civil War reenactments and early American craft demonstrations of wool spinning [...]
Picnic in the Park at Patapsco Female Insitute
Friday, September 30th, 2011Bring a picnic to the Patapsco Female Institute in Ellicott City for a free afternoon of activities for the family including an archaeology dig. The event runs noon to 3 p.m. Oct. 1 and will include docent tours, a hands-on archaeology lab, music and activities for children and adults. The institute is located at the [...]
Sugarloaf Craft Festival this weekend at Fairgrounds
Thursday, September 29th, 2011Family entertainment is on the agenda for this year’s Sugarloaf Craft Festival Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium. Along with artisans showing contemporary crafts and fine art, there will be interactive demonstrations such as iron forging, paper making and other ways kids can see how things are made. There [...]
Great Snipe Hunt planned for Saturday at Rockburn Branch Park
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011What’s a Snipe? Come hunt one and see if you can find out! “Thre Great Snipe Hunt” presented by Howard County Recreation and Parks is being held Saturday at 7 p.m. at Rockburn Branch Park in Elkridge. There will be crafts, a campfire, songs, s’mores, hayride, prizes and the snipe hunt in the woods. Activities [...]
Quick trip to the mall takes me back in time
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011I had to go to the mall yesterday morning to get my laptop fixed. Walking in, I caught sight of a woman and her child on the merry-go-round and it took me back. Not so very long ago, I spent a lot of time at the mall — just killing time with my toddlers. Long [...]
Maryland proposes ban on crib bumpers
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011Maryland health officials proposed Tuesday a ban on the sale of crib bumpers, which have been linked to the asphyxiation of at least two dozen infants across the country — a move that would make it the first state to prohibit the bumpers. The pads have little safety benefit and pose a small, but potentially [...]
Time to get the family flu shots
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011All kids should get flu shots, even if they got them last year, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The 2011-2012 flu vaccine protects against the same three influenza strains as last year’s vaccine, according a guidelines released by the AAP called “Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Influenza in Children, 2011-2012,” published in [...]