Will you be in or near Atlanta, Georgia this weekend? Stop by Fernbank Museum of Natural History for their Bug Out Festival on Sunday, July 18 from noon to 3:30 p.m.
Join Fernbank for a variety of games, treats and bug-themed activities during the Bug Out Festival (inspired by the IMAX® film Bugs! A Rainforest Adventure, now showing through September 30, 2010).
Scheduled Activities Include:
Entomology Lab (Noon to 4 p.m., the Naturalist Center)
Radio Disney Street Team (12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Great Hall)
UGA Insect Zoo (12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Great Hall)
Insect Encounters (12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Great Hall)
Bunch o’ Bugs Counting Contest (12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Great Hall)
Spider Web Toss Game and Coloring Corner (12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Great Hall)
Free Ice Cream, courtesy of Bruster’s Real Ice Cream (12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Great Hall…Line closes at 3 p.m.)
BUZZ Photo Opportunities (1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Museum-wide)
All Bug Out Festival activities are included with Museum admission and are free for Museum Members. (IMAX® films require a separate ticket.) Museum ticket prices are $13-$15 or free for Museum Members. Value Pass admission, which includes both Museum and IMAX admission are $19-$23 or $8 for Museum Members. Children ages 2 and younger receive free admission on a space-available basis.
Want to win two tickets to this weekend’s Bug Out Festival? Fernbank Museum has generously offered two tickets to one lucky Pit Stops for Kids reader! Just leave a comment below to enter!
Winner will be selected on Saturday, July 17th (and tickets in your name will be left at the will call ticket window at Fernbank.)
Giveaway Ended: Congratulations to winner Dave Gibson, determined by random number generator!
Mark your calendars for other upcoming 97 Days (and Ways) to Play events, including more Bug Out Festivals on August 14, August 29 and September 4, Show & Tail Weekends on Saturday, July 24 and Sunday, July 25, and the Dinosaur Birthday Bash on August 21. Game Day Wednesdays feature a variety of games every Wednesday through August 18. A free hot dog is offered with Museum admission every Wednesday through August 25.
Thanks for the giveaway! Sue gave us a heads up! I, personally, cannot stand creepy crawlers. But it is right up my kids alley.
My 6 year old would love to do this!
We would love tickets to the Bug Out event!
Thank you
I would love to go with my daughter!
Please enter me to win the tickets! I’ve got a little boy that’s gone bug crazy!
my daughter loves Fernbank ~ we’d love to go to the “Bug Out Festival”
Sounds like a fun event…hope I win!
Fernbank would be a great getaway for my 3 year old son, and my 10 year old daughter.
I’d love to take my daughter to Fernbank!
Very fun! My son loves bugs and my daughter has never been.
Would love to be able to take my son (age 7) – he would have such a good time!
My daughter loves the movies bugs, and she watches cartoons about or with bugs. She respects them and finds them interesting, I am a little grossed out by most bugs, but want to overcome my fear for her sake, would love to go and learn all about bugs
I follow you guys on Facebook, I have never been to Fernbank and this seems like it would be a great first time. It’s so great for you to be offerign something educational in the summer, aka brain drain
My daughter loves bugs and we have never been there, woudl love to go!
What a great event! I hope to bring my son.
This sounds great! What kid doesn’t love bugs? My boys would love this. Maybe then they would stop catching bugs and bringing them to me:-)
I’d love to go with my kids, what a great exhibit
My grandchildren are here for the summer, I’d love to take them!
My boys would love to go and discover the bugs at fernbank!
Thanks for the offer……kids recently studied bugs at summer camp. Would love to take them.
It would be an educational as well as an entertaining staycation experience. I’d love to check out the Geckos!
Sounds wonderful, the kids will love it