This weekend is Easter and there is a lot to do with your kids to celebrate. First on Saturday, from 10am-noon is the Easter Egg Decorating at the Sam Bell Maxey House, 812 S. Church Street. This free event includes egg decorating, lawn games, decorating Easter Bonnets and Hats as well as an egg roll at 10:30am and 11:30am. There will also be a 188th birthday celebration of the historic home at 11am.
Also on Saturday, if you want to take a drive down south about 20 miles to Cooper Lake State park, they are having an Easter Egg Hunt at 1:30pm at the South Sulphur Unit. Kids will be grouped into two ages 1-5 and 6-10. More than 1,500 candy filled eggs and special prizes. This is also a free event (no park entry and no cost to participate), but you need to bring your own basket. Call 903-945-5256 for more information.
Older kids will enjoy “Driving Miss Daisy” at the Paris Community Theatre. Or bring your own parents who will enjoy the show and make it a multi-generational event. This wonderful production, is Thursday-Saturday evening at 7:30pm and a Sunday matinee at 2:30pm (long after Easter Sunday lunch). Tickets are only $10 and can be reserved by calling 903-784-0250.
You can also stay inside with your family (rain is predicted) and watch “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown” – a total classic and one of the few decent Easter holiday kids’ movies.
Linus: Every Easter the Easter Beagle comes dancing along with his basket full of eggs, which he hands out to all the good little children.
Sally: That sounds faintly familiar. I remember sitting out in a stupid pumpkin patch all night waiting for The Great Pumpkin to come. That was the worst night of my life.
Linus: But this is different. That was Halloween. This is Easter.
From one mommy to another,
Jenny Wilson
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Jenny Wilson is a mother of three. She teaches a Mommy & Me class at Central Presbyterian Day School, is a member of the Paris ISD school board and serves on the board of Paris Community Theatre and Children’s Advocacy Center. She also is on the PCT Children/Teen Theatre Advisory Committee, the Aiken Parent Association Board, the PJH Parent Association and is a Sunday school teacher at Holy Cross Episcopal Church. She also is a certified yoga instructor and owner of Everyday Yoga.