Madison Area Weekend Frugal Family Fun

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Saturday, November 17th

Sun Prairie Holiday Craft Fair St Albert's Church, 8am-2pm, St Albert The Great Drive

Waunakee Friends of the Library Holiday Craft and Bake Sale
Waunakee High School Commons

Bales of Fun on Madison Parks Hayrides
6:30-8:30, Olin Park - $2/person hayrides for families. The Festival Of Lights is set up so this should be WAAAAY cool!
No reservations necessary.
Enjoy a crisp fall evening with a hayride in Madison Parks. Madison Parks is offering hayrides in Warner, Elver, Olin Parks and Cherokee Marsh this September, October and November. The booked rides are perfect for scout troops, church groups, or birthday parties - Madison Parks hayrides will treat your group to a tour of a beautiful park and enjoy friendly campfire with 'smores. Once a month we are hosting $2/person hayrides. No reservation is necessary for these rides, and they are perfect for family outings. See More HERE

Fitchburg Library Movie Time!


Kids In The Rotunda
NO shows this week because of the art fair. {sigh}

Your local library!
Check with them for their fall programs - they are FREE and usually super fun!

Visit the UW Geology Museum
1215 W. Dayton St., 262-2399,http://www.geologymuseum.org/ (Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free.) —Besides its extensive mineral, rock and fossil collections behind glass, kids can touch rocks from a time when there were volcanoes in Wisconsin, see rocks and minerals that glow, and stand under huge mastodon tusks. Great for those like my daughter who want to be a Paleontologist!

Chemistry Fun at UW Space Place
Space Place family workshops are offered every Saturday at 10 a.m. for children ages 6-10 and their parents. The workshops are free and open to the public. No registration is required for any of the workshops but attendance is LIMITED to the first 50 people.

Sunday, November 18th

The Waisman Center!
David Stokes - 1:00PM only
HELLO FALL—join the naturalist/educator for an afternoon of stories and songs about nature and animals with a fall flair. Live critter companions and hands-on fun for all ages.
Admission: $2.00, Adults; $1.00, Children. Tickets: Advance tickets for any show in the entire series can be purchased at the ticket table beginning on the first performance date and then throughout the series. The ticket table opens at NOON and is only open on days when there is a performance. Sign Interpreters: All shows sign interpreted. Location: Friends of the Waisman Center Auditorium, 1500 Highland Avenue Directions: Turn North from University Ave at the intersection of University Bay Dr. and Farley Ave; continue over the hill onto Highland Ave. The Waisman Center is down the hill on the left. Enter parking lot by athletic fields. Parking: Free. Park in far end of lot 82. Overflow parking available in lots 60 and 76. Questions?: Call Teresa at 263-5837 weekdays or palumbo@waisman.wisc.edu


The Memorial Union Terrace
They always seem to have something fun going on there - music, Babcock ice cream, etc and there is no charge!
Last time we went there were FREE crafts, a GIANT inflatable Bucky, Balloon animals and an outdoor brat stand (not FREE).
Look for the big orange chair (although, it might have been packe4d away for winter with the other chairs...) and turn it into a photo-op like we did with Miss Sarah and the peanut of Ashely from Coupons for Wisconsin already this summer!
:)

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