Week in Preview

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Welcome to the Week in Preview where we highlight weekday family fun opportunities.

spring fun in louisville

Here are our picks for weekday family fun!

Please visit our day trips ideas! Wouldn’t that be fun for a weekday getaway? Also, our Spring Fun Page is packed full of ideas. Like…FULL OF IDEAS. 

Do you have a child age 5 and under? Are you pregnant? Learn more about the Ages & Staged Questionnaire from Metro United Way that can help you learn more about your child’s development!

 

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Join the Louisville Orchastra for their “Music Without Borders” concert. These are free with your registration and are a first come first serve event subject to venue capacity. Thursday, at The Jeffersonian, 7:30pm.

Head to the Highlands-Shelby Park Library on Thursday for their Kid’s Crafternoon! Drop in for their after-school program to make crafts, play board games, and socialize. Ages 4-10.

Giving tastes delicious on March 20th. At participating locations of Dairy Queen’s on Free Cone Day, add a $1 dip to your free small cone and that dollar will benefit your local Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

Forest Homeschool Hikes provide opportunities for families and co-ops to join Bernheim educators for an afternoon of learning, exercising, and adventure. Appropriate for grades K-5, each Forest Homeschool Hike includes a short lesson followed by a hike or activity that brings the lesson to life. This week, they will be exploring Bernheim’s ecosystem, the creatures that inhabit it and more! Tuesday, 1:00-2:00pm.


Join Side by Side Studio on Tuesdays for their Open Studio. Create and explore freely from 10:00-11:00am with their weekly rotating invitations to create in their space inspired by their process based and child led teaching philisophies. 

More than 1,500 bowling centers around the globe provide 2 FREE Games of bowling each day to kids during the Spring and Summer. Kids Bowl Free is a program  designed by bowling centers to give back to the community and provide a safe, secure, and fun way for kids to spend time this summer. Registration is now open and will provide your kids with 2 FREE games of bowling each day at your participating location all summer!

Joe Huber’s Family Farm & Restaurant is open! Hours will be Thursday-Sunday from 11-7pm! Full menu with some new and old items brought back this year!

Get outside this week and take a hike at Jefferson Memorial Forest. This urban forest—located just 15 miles from downtown Louisville—offers city dwellers a wilderness immersion experience and is Louisville’s largest nature preserve.

Louisville Mega Cavern for Dinos Under Louisville is now open! The drive thru experience will take you on a 20 minute expedition through the Louisville Mega Cavern’s underground passageways. Sunday-Thursday: 10am to 8pm, Friday-Saturday: 10am to 10pm.

Louisville’s newest 18-hole disc golf course is now open to the public for play. It’s located at Champions Park at the former River Road Country Club site near the intersection of River Road and Zorn Avenue, approximately two miles from downtown Louisville.

Interested in playing chess or learning more about it? Beechmont Community Center has Chess Club every Tuesday from 6-7 p.m. Bring a friend and come on out! This is a free program!
 

If it’s to cold to have the kids outside this week head over to Mall St Matthews for their Indoor Playground! (Located near the Women’s Dillards wing)
Mall Playground

Tuesday is Kids Eat Free at Back Deck BBQ, 2 kids per adult with adult meal purchase. Kids 10 and under, dine in only. For more kid eat free ideas check our post here!

 
The Louisville Free Public Library has a new tutoring program – Brainfuse HelpNow! This online tutoring service offers access to live tutors, 2–11 p.m., 7 days a week. Students can chat or text with tutors in real-time, get help with math problems, have papers reviewed using the Writing Lab feature, discuss practice test results, and more. HelpNow even offers live FAFSA help and online practice tests.

 

It’s going to be a great week to head up to Marengo Cave to check out the caves! Check out our post for lots of tips for your trip!


Go to the Louisville Nature Center and walk through the native wildflower gardens, seasonal butterflies and dragonflies in our gardens, view the indoor exhibits and mural, observe wildlife up-close in our bird blind, look at books and do activities in our library, or hike in Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve. 3745 Illinois Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky 40213

hiking

Louisville Nature Center


Have you called Teletales lately? Call 502-916-9909 for kid-friendly stories, poems, jokes, and more 24/7. 


 
 
Don’t forget to wash your hands!

 

Take a day trip to Brown County Indiana!

 


Get outside of the house for a nature scavenger hunt….Find the alphabet! There are many places to hike or go fishing. You can compliment these activities with our simple outdoor scavenger hunt. 

Scavenger Hunt

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We hope that you are making the most of your fall family fun. Keep tabs on our page for ideas. We are tracking what is open and always looking for new ideas to share with you for weekday family fun outings. 


So many ways to have fun with the kids this spring. Here are all of our posts that include lots of outdoor ideas. 

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