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5k & Family Fun Day

Please join Crowne Plaza Resort Asheville and Sleep Tight Kids for our family fun day & 5K. Inflatables, face painting, games and food will be avaialbe while helping a great local non-profit. 5K pricing ($45) includes a T-shirt (while supplies last), Box lunch for one, and games for children. For non runners, $10 will cover the entire family so they can enjoy the inflatables and games. All proceeds will go to Sleep Tight Kids, a local non profit that promotes the feelings of hope and comfort in children as they lay their heads to rest each night.

10:00 AM- Registration Begins
10:30-1:00PM- Inflatables & Games avaialbe (Lunch avaialbe for purchase)
11:00AM- Race begins

Glo/Black Light Night BJJ-Open Roll

Come one, come ALL!! Lights OFF, Music ON, Black-lights and Lasers only for GI or No-Gi Brazilian JiuJitsu Open Roll.

This event is open to ANYONE!! Whether you train @Fighterwithin Mixed Martial Arts, Another dojo or gym, or don’t train at all- Join us for this Party! Most certainly everyone is welcome. Bring your buddies and have some fun!

I want this to be one hopping, crazy, JiuJitsu lovin madness that everyone will see from Four Seasons BVLD. All ages welcome. All levels welcome

$10 mat fee (Mat fee is going into a collection pot to restore our current mat)

The Sensational Child Workshop – Creating with our Senses (4-7yrs)

Children experience the gift of giving through:
– designing floral suncatchers
– concoting a unique bath soak
– planting local succulents

This experience also includes:
– organic, nut & gluten free snack
-all materials included
-community playground access
20% off “Works + Wonder” booth at The Garage

Limited seating for children ages 4 – 7
Reserve a seat today
Three handmade Mother’s Day Gifts!
Cost: $55

To register, call or email The Garage on 25, or sign up online.
To sign-up online: Click on Buy Tickets and it will take you to a paypal link.

We will send you an email confirmation!

Spring Forest Explorers Nature Program (3-6yrs)

Spring Forest Explorers is a 3-6 year old nature program with Sara Henry. It’s a drop in class on Tuesdays from 10-2 and is $25 for the day, or equal trade. Come for any number of our meetings! Parents are welcome to drop their child off or stay and play with us. We focus on campfire cooking, wild edible plants, natural paints and dyes, music, building fairy houses and holding a safe container for imaginative play in nature. Come on out anytime! Private message me for the address!

This class will run these days:

May 1st – Spring Forest Explorers

May 8th – Spring Forest Explorers

May 15th – Spring Forest Explorers

May 22nd – Spring Forest Explorers

May 29th – Break for MAPS Meet Mid Atlantic Primitive Skills Gathering

June 5th – Spring Forest Explorers

 

Please send your child with:

– A backpack – Lunch and snacks – A sun hat – A change of clothes or bathing suit under their clothes, to ensure that they are comfortable after playing in the cool creek Also useful but not required: – Sunscreen – Water shoes – Rain boots – Natural insect repellant – Binoculars – Magnifying glass

Asheville Outdoor Families – WNC Nature Center Bird Scavenger Hunt

Join us at the WNC Nature Center while we search for backyard and forest birds along the Trillium Trail. Admission to the Nature Center is FREE for the day when your family registers for this event!

Discover the wonders in your own backyard with FREE guided events & activities. Brought to you by the Western North Carolina Nature Center.

Email ashevilleoutdoorfamilies@gmail.com to register your family!

Asheville Outdoor Families – Search for Blue Ghost Fireflies

Once a year for a short duration, blue ghost fireflies hover the forest floor with a lingering bluish glow. Seek alongside naturalists on paved trails as to why this small firefly has been the focus of generations worth of folklore and myths.

If you register through Asheville Outdoor Families, the admission is FREE! Email ashevilleoutdoorfamilies@gmail.com to register your family!

Asheville Outdoor Families – Nature Art

Come enjoy a day of play and creating unique art with nature! Discover the wonders in your own backyard with FREE guided events & activities.

Brought to you by the Western North Carolina Nature Center.

Email ashevilleoutdoorfamilies@gmail.com to register your family!

UGrow Community Dig Day Fundraiser

Save the Date for Bounty & Soul’s second annual UGrow Community Dig Day Fundraiser, taking place at the Swannanoa Valley Medical Center on Saturday, May 25. Enjoy an afternoon outdoors at this fun, family-friendly celebration centered around growing LOCAL, organic food, in partnership with Sow True Seed, Banner Greenhouses and Eat Smart Black Mountain.

Dig in and get inspired by taking part in interactive, educational gardening workshops and demos for adults and kids while enjoying local music and food all while raising funds to support the growth and expansion of Bounty & Soul’s unique, whole-person wellness programming.

Asheville Adventure Play will be onsite with their pop-up playground as well as a variety of earth-friendly vendors. Event is 11am-5pm with $10 admission (includes access to all workshops, demonstrations and 3 organic plant starts). Kids 12 and under FREE. Stay tuned for more details! To learn more or get involved contact info@bountyandsoul.org.

Babysitter’s Training Course (11+yrs)

BABYSITTER TRAINING!
May 5th 8:00am-3:30pm – Babysitter’s Training Course at the Woodfin YMCA with YMCA of Western North Carolina. “Designed primarily for youth ages 11 and older, this course will prepare students to be better babysitters. Topics include how to provide care for infants and children, how to stay safe, what to do in an emergency, how to choose age-appropriate activities, and how torecognize and handle a variety of behaviors. First aid and choking prevention skills included.”

The class is generally held once a month, if this one doesn’t fit your schedule!

Learn more and register HERE: https://bit.ly/2rgNIqv

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