Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Spring Rituals

My absolute FAVORITE spring activity is Cheekwood's Spring Art Hop which occurs the Saturday before Easter.

The kids get to say hello to the Easter Bunny.


Enjoy face painting (or in this case arm painting)


And arts and crafts (Greyson and his garden bunny pot which hopefully will soon grow into grass)


And of course Easter Egg hunts.


What they do really well here is have multiple Easter Egg hunts (every 30 minutes) on multiple parts of the grounds for every age group. Which means that at each hunt there are a reasonable amount of children not a massive horde of them that we have experienced elsewhere (Nashville Zoo I am talking to you).

But I think what I really love most, is that this is usually our first 'outdoor' event of the year. The flowers are in bloom and it just really, for the first time, feels like spring.

So welcome Spring - please stay around a little while before relinquishing to your sometimes brutal sister Summer.

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