Spring calendar lights up with children’s festivals
This spring, Houston will offer a range of events where families can play, eat, dance, socialize and celebrate. From exciting festivals to show-stopping live concerts, the city has options to make sure your family finds something enjoyable to do together.
Biorhythm: Music and The Body
The Health Museum’s newest exhibit, Biorhythm: Music and The Body, explores the relationship between music and the body, using art and science to discover what makes us dance and why we sing. The exhibit’s components unique sonic experiences, performances, installations and experiments put together will engage visitors of all
ages. Outside food and drinks are not permitted, but strollers are allowed.
Now through July 31 at 1515 Hermann Drive. Adult admission $10; children 3-12 $8; children under 3 admitted free. For more information, visit biohythm.thehealthmuseum.org.
Hermann Park Conservancy Kite Festival
The fifth annual Hermann Park Kite Festival is a familyfriendly event of fun. Kites of all shapes, sizes and colors drift over Miller Hill and the Jones Reflection Pool as kite-flyers and spectators alike enjoy the scene. The festival also offers entertaining activities for kids, such as kite making, kite flying and face painting, as well as an incredible aerial acrobatic kite-flying show. Festival attendees can enter a kite flying contest. Guests are welcome to bring a picnic, though concessions will be available. Glass and Styrofoam containers are prohibited for safety reasons.
March 25 at 6100 Hermann Park Drive. Admission is free. For more information, visit hermannpark.org.
2018 McDonald’s Houston Children’s Festival
This year, the McDonald’s Houston Children’s Festival is celebrating 30 years of providing a venue for a very special family outing. During this year’s event, more than 50,000 families, friends, volunteers and sponsor partners will gather together in beautiful downtown Houston to play, create, explore and learn. The event has also always served as a vehicle to educate the public about child abuse and the mission of Child Advocates.
“The McDonald’s Houston Children’s Festival has raised over $5.5 million for Child Advocates over the past 29 years with over 1 million festival patrons. The future plans of the McDonald’s Houston Children’s Festival is to always offer the most popular celebrity or entertainment possible,” said Tony Terwilliger, festival director.
The entertainment at the Houston Children’s Festival over the years has ranged from Bozo the Clown and Ralph the Swimming Pig to Animal Planet superstar Jeff Corwin.
Because this is a fund-raising event, outside food and drinks are not allowed with the exception of foodstuffs for toddlers and infants; however, all areas of the McDonald’s Houston Children’s Festival are accessible for strollers, wagons and wheelchairs.
April 7-8 at 901 Bagby St. Online admission $10; kids 3 and under admitted free. For more information, visit online at houstonchildrensfestival.com.