Community Corner
Grab & Go Planner: Feb. 23-March 1
Join a play group, enjoy a presidential tea or watch funny dinosaur puppets – pick and choose from this week's array of family events.
Family best bets for the week ahead:
Play Groups-Kids Corner
Why go: Kids as young as 9 months can have fun and play with toys and socialize with other children while you meet other adults and carry on adult conversations! It beats staying with your child at home.
Where: , Ferndale
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When: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Mondays-Fridays and 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Saturdays
Cost: $4 a visit for child 9 months or older. Buy passes in the office – five visits for $10, 10 visits for $20
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What else: 248-544-6767
Presidential Tea
Why go: Celebrate President’s Day on the last day of mid-winter break by making it an intergenerational event. Take your pre-teen or teen child with a grandparent to the Presidential Tea. Each of the tables will be set with linens and silver and accented by Presidential china. The menu is yummy, including corn chowder, tea sandwiches, scones, desserts and tea.
Where: Greenmead Historical Park, 20301 Newburgh Road, Livonia
When: 3-5 p.m. Sunday
Cost: $25
What else: Call 248-477-7375 for reservations.
Dinosaurs!
Why go: Puppeteer and puppet maker, Jim West, tells a wacky tale of Fossil, a dinosaur detective. Your little ones will be delighted by the huge dinosaur puppets. The score is all classical musicians, including Mozart, Beethoven and Prokofiev.
Where: Meadow Brook Theatre, Rochester
When: 10 a.m. Saturday
Cost: $15
What else: 248-377-3300
'Under the African Sky'
Why go: If you haven’t seen a Wild Swan Theater performance, you and your kids are in for a treat. Geared to ages 3-9, this is a Black History Month play and is made up of brief, humorous African tales performed through storytelling, acting and drumming. Music, costumes and masks will delight the little ones. Continuous American Sign Language, woven in the middle of the action, will make this performance accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing children as well as give the performance an added dimension for hearing children.
Where: Towsley Auditorium, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor
When: 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. Saturday
Cost: $12 adults, $8 children and seniors
What else: For audio-description tours for blind children, wheelchair seating or for tickets, call 734-995-0530
University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History
Why go: The Exhibit Museum is a repository of dinosaur bones, dinosaur fossils and dinosaur skeletons, as well as Native American stuffed animals. Also, come gaze at the stars in the museum's planetarium for Sky Tonight, a live star talk.
Where: 1109 Geddes, Ann Arbor. Park in the structure on Fletcher Street near the Power Center.
When: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. For Sky Tonight: 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Friday, 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Cost: The museum is free; the planetarium shows are $5
What else: For more information, call 734-764-0478
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