Welcome to AroundTownKids Allen
Welcome to AroundTownKids Allen
This event occurs Daily from 02/10/2021 to 02/28/2021
Description: Celebrate Black History Month with art that highlights the diverse experiences, expertise, and talents of artists from America, Africa, and the diaspora. Explore this virtual scavenger hunt using artworks on view at the DMA
Click here for more informationThis event occurs Daily from 02/01/2021 to 02/28/2021
Ages: Recommended for grades 4 - 6
Location Name: Allen Public Library
Location Address: 300 N Allen Dr, Allen, TX 75013 Click for Google Map
Description: Virtual Activity: Put your puzzle caps on and answer the questions to solve the hunt and to learn some awesome facts about Black History.
Click here for more informationDate of event: 02/01/2021
Event Time: 10:00:00 AM till 08:00:00 PM
Cost: Free
Ages: Grades 4-6
Location Name: Online via the Library Website
Description: Put your puzzle caps on and answer the questions to solve the hunt and to learn some awesome new facts about Black History.
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Event Time: 07:00:00 AM till 06:00:00 PM
Location Name: Dallas Farmers Market
Location Address: 1010 South Pearl Street
Description: Closed on special holidays. Local farmers display fresh produce, herbs, plants etc.
This event occurs every day.
Location Name: African-American Museum
Location Address: 3536 Grand Ave, Dallas, TX 75210-1005 Click for Google Map
Description: Facing The Rising Sun presents the remnants of a once thriving North Dallas Community. Facing the Rising Sun contains photographs, found objects, and historical documents that provide an insight into a community called Freedman's Town and later known as short North Dallas and now known as Uptown. Interactive video kiosks allow visitors to see and hear from the people who knew Freedman's Town first-hand.
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Event Time: 10:00:00 AM till 01:00:00 AM
Cost: Free, donations accepted
Ages: All Ages
Location Name: Crow Collection of Asian Art
Location Address: 2010 Flora Street Dallas, Texas 75201 Click for Google Map
Description: Enjoy a look at the museum’s new, pedestrian-friendly entrance, lobby and street-level galleries and a stunning Japanese exhibition. Fierce Loyalty: A Samurai Complete showcases the Crow Collection’s most spectacular acquisition to date – a suit of Samurai armor from the Edo period (1603-1868).
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Location Name: Fort Worth Stockyards
Location Address: 121 E Exchange Ave, Fort Worth
Description: At 11:30am & 4pm (subject to weather and the longhorns' dispositions) the world's only daily cattle drive clip-clops its way over the brick-paved streets of the Historic Fort Worth Stockyards. Starting at the Livestock Exchange Building, the trail boss and his cowhands on horseback lead a couple dozen Texas longhorns almost single file down Exchange Avenue and back to their holding pens behind the Exchange Building.
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Location Name: Fort Worth Omni Theater
Location Address: 1600 Gendy St., Fort Worth, TX 76107 Click for Google Map
Description: The first original large-format dinosaur film in over a decade, Dinosaurs of Antarctica will introduce you to the amazing and bizarre prehistoric creatures that inhabited Antarctic forests and swamps hundreds of millions of years ago. With major support provided by the National Science Foundation, the film follows a team of paleoecologists on a quest to understand the southern continent’s profound transformation, from a warm and bio-diverse Mesozoic to the frozen desert we know today.
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Location Name: Fort Worth Omni Theater
Location Address: 1600 Gendy St., Fort Worth, TX 76107 Click for Google Map
Description: The first original large-format dinosaur film in over a decade, Dinosaurs of Antarctica will introduce you to the amazing and bizarre prehistoric creatures that inhabited Antarctic forests and swamps hundreds of millions of years ago. With major support provided by the National Science Foundation, the film follows a team of paleoecologists on a quest to understand the southern continent’s profound transformation, from a warm and bio-diverse Mesozoic to the frozen desert we know today.
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Cost: $20/Adults; $17/Students & Seniors; $10/Kids
Ages: Family friendly
Location Name: Cowtown Winery
Location Address: 112 W. Exchange Ave, Fort Worth TX Click for Google Map
Description: Real hauntings, real history! The paranormal activity in the stockyards is one of the most active & written about in the US. Tours leave from the winery. The Ghost Tour guide will lead you through the streets of the historic Fort Worth Stockyards. The tour is a 90 minute walking tour.The Ghost Tour is family friendly & is great fun for all ages. Reservations recommended. Tours run Thurs - Sat.
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Event Time: 09:00:00 AM till 05:00:00 PM
Cost: $10.00 Adults (age 12-64); $7.00 Children (age 3-11); $7.00 Seniors (age 65 up); FREE Children (age
Location Name: The Dallas Zoo
Location Address: 650 South R.L. Thornton Freeway (I-35E), Dallas, TX 75203
Description: The legendary white creature with piercing pink eyes rising from the new swamp in the Pierre A. Fontaine Bird & Reptile Building is not a ghost. That fact becomes obvious when 9-foot Boudreaux opens his massive jaws to take a fish or piece of chicken from his keeper. The male albino American alligator joins two traditionally pigmented female alligators and other swamp residents in the new Ghosts from the Bayou habitat at the Dallas Zoo.
Date of event: 02/11/2021
Event Time: 01:00:00 AM till 01:00:00 AM
Location Name: Fairview Youth Theatre
Location Address: 302 Town Place Fairview, TX 75069 Click for Google Map
Description: This is an in-person ticket. After purchase, you will receive a confirmation email with your ticket attached. Synopsis: Join Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the hip hip Hippo and, of course, those hilarious, plotting penguins as they bound onto your stage in the musical adventure of a lifetime. Based on the smash DreamWorks animated motion picture, Madagascar – A Musical Adventure JR. follows all of your favorite crack-a-lackin’ friends as they escape from their home in New York’s Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien’s Madagascar. There is also a virtual show.
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Event Begins at: 10:00:00AM
Cost: $8/Adults; $6/Children 4-12 yrs
Location Name: National Scouting Museum
Location Address: 1329 West Walnut Hill Lane Irving, TX 75038-3085 Click for Google Map
Description: The National Scouting Museum is home to one of the world's largest collections of original Norman Rockwell art. Showcasing the work of Rockwell, Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Howard Chandler Christy, Dean Cornwell, and Joseph Csatari, this exhibition takes a look at the artists behind America's largest youth organization.
Click here for more informationThis event occurs Daily from 01/01/2021 to 02/28/2021
Event Time: 09:00:00 AM till 04:00:00 PM
Cost: $8 ages 3 and up, free ages 2 and under
Ages: all ages
Location Name: The Dallas Zoo
Location Address: 650 R. L. Thornton Fwy. Dallas, TX 75203 Click for Google Map
Description: Penguin Days are back! The temperature AND the admission price may be dropping, but the fun is not stopping! Penguin Days are back again!
Click here for more informationThis event occurs Daily from 02/15/2021 to 02/20/2021
Ages: For grades 4 - 6
Location Name: Allen Public Library
Description: Make your own tiny robot.
Click here for more informationThis event occurs Daily from 02/06/2021 to 09/06/2021
Location Name: Perot Museum
Location Address: 2201 N. Field Street, Dallas, Texas Click for Google Map
Description: How does one develop the ability to do 36 consecutive pull-ups using only their pinky fingers? What does it take for someone to create the world’s smallest stop-motion film? And what motivates someone to learn how to solve three Rubik’s Cubes simultaneously … whilst juggling? Discover the marvels of GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS attempts and the science (and secrets) behind their triumphs when The Science of Guinness World Records™ exhibition, presented by Highland Capital Philanthropies, makes its U.S. debut at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science on March 6, running through Sept. 6, 2021. Guests will learn what it takes to crash through these seemingly impossible ceilings, the physical and mental thresholds humans possess, and the scientific principles that explain their awe-inspiring feats. Dozens of engaging exhibits – from the largest Pac-Man videogame, to reaction competitions, speed drumming and a dance-a-thon – will challenge and encourage all ages to go behind the scenes and discover the discipline driving these fascinating accomplishments.
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Location Name: African-American Museum
Location Address: 3536 Grand Ave, Dallas, TX 75210-1005 Click for Google Map
Description: The AAM, Dallas has one of the largest collections of African American folk art in the country. The Billy R. Allen Folk Art Collection, named for a founding board member, has grown to include more than 500 objects. Dr. Warren and Sylvia Lowe of Lafayette, Louisiana, Sally Griffiths and Dr. Bobby Alexander of Dallas, Texas have been major contributors. Pieces from the collection are rotated, twice each year, in the Sam and Ruth Bussey Gallery. Artists include Clementine Hunter, Mose Tolliver, Reverend Johnnie Swearingen, David Butler, Sister Gertrude Morgan, and Isaac Smith to name a few.
Click here for more informationThis event occurs each Week on Tuesday
Event Time: 10:00:00 AM till 02:00:00 PM
Cost: All included in garden admission except Photography
Location Name: Dallas Arboretum
Location Address: 8525 Garland Rd Dallas, TX
Description: For moms, grandparents, caregivers and their children, these special days include a petting zoo, nature art, face painting and Kindermusik.
This event occurs each Week on Tuesday from 02/02/2021 to 04/26/2021
Event Time: 10:15:00 AM till 10:45:00 AM
Cost: Free
Ages: Ages 3-5
Location Name: Online via Facebook @allenpubliclibrary
Description: Join us for fun literacy based activities that incorporate reading, talking, singing and writing, especially for families with toddlers and preschoolers.
Click here for more informationThis event occurs each Week on Tuesday from 02/02/2021 to 04/27/2021
Event Time: 10:15:00 AM till 10:30:00 AM
Cost: Free
Ages: Ages 0-122
Location Name: Online via Facebook @allenpubliclibrary
Description: Join us for 5-10 minute literacy based activities that incorporate reading, talking, playing, singing and writing, especially for families with toddlers and preschoolers. This Story Time is primarily for parents.
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