We've compiled all the info you need to know for summer fun in one place! Know of someting we left off? Comment below or email the details to catherinef@macaronikid.com. Have a GREAT summer!
✿See what's going on today on our calender of family-friedly events
✿Summer camps ~ see our summer camp guide
✿Check out library books a local library
✿Hillsborough County Summer Reading Programs & Shows
NOTE: These are the days and times these events are generally scheduled. Some weeks this may change. There are also MANY other programs occurring at the libraries this summer. Check our calendar or the HCPLC website for more info.
NOTE: These are the days and times these events are generally scheduled. Some weeks this may change. There are also MANY other programs occurring at the libraries this summer. Check our calendar or the HCPLC website for more info.
★Shows and entertainers for kids, most are recommended for K-5
- Bloomingdale: most Wednesdays at 1pm (sometimes second show at 3pm)
- Brandon: most Mondays at 3pm
- Bruton/Plant City: most Mondays at 3 pm
- Riverview: most Wednesdays at 2:30
- Seffner-Mango: most Tuesdays at 3pm
- SouthShore: most Tuesdays 1pm & 2:15pm
- Brandon: most Wednesdays at 3pm
- Bruton/Plant City: most Thursdays at 3 pm
- Riverview: most Thursdays at 2:30
- Seffner-Mango: most Tuesdays at 3pm
- SouthShore: most Tuesdays 1pm & 2:15pm
- Bloomingdale: most Thursdays at 5pm (Summer Teen Tech,) some additional programs at 2pm
- Brandon: most Thursdays at 6pm
- Bruton/Plant City: most Mondays at 3 pm
- Riverview: most Thursdays at 2:30
- Seffner-Mango: most Mondays at 3pm
- SouthShore: most Wednesdays at 2pm
✿FREE & Cheap Summer Movies ~ see complete schedule and details here
- Chick-fil-A Lake Brandon Village Summer Fun Flicks: Tuesdays at 10am
- FREE Summer Movies at Centro Ybor 20: Wednesdays & Thursdays at 10am
- Cheap Summer Movies at Palm Cinema 3 Lakeland: Thursdays at 10am
- Cobb FREE Summer Kids Shows: Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays at 10am
- FREE Summer Movies at Local Libraries: movies for kids, tweens & teens hosted by local libraries, more info on our summer calendar
✿Go to Vacation Bible School ~ see a list of local programs here. Most are free!
✿Places to Cool Off ~ see article for more details
- Free community hours at the Campo YMCA's splash park: Wednesdays and Fridays from 5-7pm
- Park Square Fountains
- Lithia Springs Regional Park
- Rotary's All Person's Playground ~ Splash Pad Coming Soon!
- Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park (Downtown Tampa)
★Smaller Local Beaches
- Little Harbor
- EG Simmons Park
- Clearwater Pier 60
- St Pete Beach
- Anna Mari aIsland
- Ft. DeSoto
- Siesta Key
- Venice
- Rotary's All Person's Playground
- Paul Sanders Park
- Davis Park
- Alderman's Ford
- Medard Park
- Saladino Park
- Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park (Downtown Tampa)
- Commom Ground ~ a little further away, but worth the drive
- Playtime
- Pump It Up
- Boing
- Glazer Children’s Museum
- Lowry Park Zoo
- Busch Gardens
- The Florida Aquarium
- MOSI
- Dinosaur World
- Explorations V
- Tampa Museum of Art
- Tampa Bay History Center
- The Dali Museum (St Petersburg)
- The Clearwater Marine Aquarium ~ Visit Winter the dolphin!
- LEGOLAND
- Walt Disney World
- Universal Studios
- Kennedy Space Center
- Gatorland
- Sea World
✿Celebrate the 4th of July
✿Pick up some Report Card Freebies
✿Summer Play Days at The Disney Store
✿Give the kids a few dollars and let them pick something out at the dollar store, or have your kids hide a few dollars in the dollar store as a random act of kindness
✿Go Garage sale-ing ~$1 goes a long way!
✿Go Fishing
✿Bowling
✿Visit a pet store
✿Host a movie night with friends
✿Host a toy swap or book swap with friend
✿Host a sleepover or a backyard camp-out
✿Go to a Rays game
✿Go to a Tampa Yankees game
✿Make Homemade Ice Cream in a Baggie
✿Have an Ice Block Treasure Hunt
✿Make Your Own Slime Putty
✿Take A Colorful Nature Walk
✿Make Some Fruit Water
✿Reycle some old crayons
✿Have a fun Flower & Bug Lunch
✿Play in the Rain! (unless there's thunder & lightning)
✿Make a Bird Feeder
✿Make some Newspaper Seed Planters
✿Make some Snow Dough
✿Family Night Fun! Stories by the Candle-fire
✿Look for even MORE ideas in next week's edition of Macaroni Kid Brandon!
✿Host a movie night with friends
✿Host a toy swap or book swap with friend
✿Host a sleepover or a backyard camp-out
✿Go to a Rays game
✿Go to a Tampa Yankees game
✿Make Homemade Ice Cream in a Baggie
✿Have an Ice Block Treasure Hunt
✿Make Your Own Slime Putty
✿Take A Colorful Nature Walk
✿Make Some Fruit Water
✿Reycle some old crayons
✿Have a fun Flower & Bug Lunch
✿Play in the Rain! (unless there's thunder & lightning)
✿Make a Bird Feeder
✿Make some Newspaper Seed Planters
✿Make some Snow Dough
✿Family Night Fun! Stories by the Candle-fire
✿Look for even MORE ideas in next week's edition of Macaroni Kid Brandon!
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