Arts & Crafts

When the temperature starts to rise and you feel like it's just too hot to be walking around the zoo, Safari Nights starts at the Palm Beach Zoo.  The zoo closes and then re-opens to welcome families to a fun, cooler, less sunny experience with the animals.  Friday evenings from 4:30 to 9 pm the zoo will offer discounted admission, free carousel rides and special programming.  Each Friday will offer different animal encounters, wildlife shows, live music and giveaways (like a zoo prize pack worth $150).

Breakfast with the Bunny at the Palm Beach Zoo will be held on 3 dates, 8:30am seatings on April 8th, 9th & 15th .  Admission to the event includes access to all of the wonderful exhibits and shows at the zoo for the day as well.  Enjoy a hot breakfast in the Tropics Cafe followed by an exciting EGG HUNT approximately 50 minutes after your breakfast seating.  The egg hunt is divided into age groups to make it fair for all.

The Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society hosts a Green Market on select Saturdays within the zoo.  The event is now called the "Palm Beach Zoo Produce Stand". The vendors offer farm fresh produce and sustainably collected items for sale near the exit gate.  Learn about how buying local helps to protect wildlife. See all that Florida has to offer from eggplants, green beans, and beets to zucchini as well as the ever famous citrus! Now you can pick up CSA boxes or see a sample of what is included in their produce boxes.

Boomers in Boca Raton will be hosting it's Annual Egg Hunt for FREE.  Starting at 9:00, come out for music, games, crafts and prizes.  If you'd like to have breakfast with the Easter Bunny, come an hour earlier and buy tickets online for about $13 (2016 prices). Tickets must be purchased in advance for the breakfast! Come for this Easter Sunday event and stay to play.  Purchase in advance online.  Pre register for the egg hunts from 8:30-10am.  

Breakfast at 9am  

The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum will be hosting a 7,000+ egg hunt on their lawns with festivities starting at 9am.  Crafts, face painting, balloon sculpting, and games will be available when the gates open at 9 until the big hunt at 10am.  The egg hunt will be held on the southest and southern lawns of the museum and be divided by age group. At 10:00am the children under age 4 will hunt for 3,000 eggs on the southeast lawn.  Look for the golden egg to win a special prize.

Key Largo Merchants Association hosts this WACKY Anything that Floats Race every year at Blackwater Sound, mile marker 104, bayside in Key Largo, Florida Keys.  This family-friendly event encourages participants to create some sort of craft made from materials found around the house.  You can't use actual parts of boats, motors, foam or pool toys.  Watch what people's imaginations can come up with.  Teams are encouraged to dress up as they navigate their "boats" on the race course.

Jupiter Seafood Festival at CARLIN PARK (new location) in Jupiter is a 2 day event featuring 9 different live entertainers and oodles of delicious seafood.  This is the 4th Annual Seafood Festival with last year's event bringing in over 14,000 people.  Bring your chairs or blankets and some sunblock then enjoy the live music and delectable seafood. There will be a Children's Area with activities for the little ones who are admitted free.

Celebrate Mexican culture and heritage this year on May 2nd in Delray Beach at the "Cinco De Mayo" festival at the Old School Square Pavilion. The event is hosted by the Hispano-Latino Cultural Alliance.  This Saturday Fiesta (the 5th of May is on a Tuesday this year) will include folk dances, Flamenco, Square dancers, Latino bands, Mariachi performances and games.  

Take an evening stroll down Artists' Alley and visit all the open studios and galleries in the area.  Artists' Alley is located in Delray Beach's newest hot spot neighborhood of Pineapple Grove Arts District. Artists have taken up residence in garages located east of 3rd street and west of the train tracks.  The strip runs north and south.  It is all an easy leisurely walk with lots to see.  Some of the galleries will offer free light refreshments or wine.

“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.” 

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream