By Patricia Hall, Fairfax Family Fun With the COVID-19 coronavirus and now a stay-at-home order from the Virginia governor until June 10, 2020, it's becoming more difficult to find fun things for families to do. But we're not giving up! Even being homebound, we all should continue to celebrate life's everyday moments and special events. One easy way to do that is on April 1, with fun, safe, and innocent pranks you can pull on family Continue Reading...
Wrap up summer at the Herndon Labor Day Festival
The unofficial end to summer is coming soon, and the Town of Herndon will wrap up the season with its annual food, drink, and music festival. The Herndon Labor Day Festival, this year on Monday, September 2, 2019, is the biggest event in our area for that holiday. The outdoor celebration on the Town Green, at 777 Lynn Street downtown, features music, a craft show, food vendors, and samplings from Virginia wineries and local micro Continue Reading...
See the world at embassy open house day!
By Patricia Hall, Fairfax Family Fun Living so close to the nation's capital has some distinct advantages, one of them being the ability to meet people truly from all over the world. And there is no better time to do this than during the annual "Around the World Embassy Tour" (AWET). This festival, which happens each spring, is open to the public, highly educational and fun, and completely free. AWET happens this year on Saturday, May 4, Continue Reading...
Herndon Festival: Four days of free fun
By Patricia Hall, FairfaxFamilyFun.com One of Northern Virginia's biggest community festivals is this weekend: the Herndon Festival! This four-day event, celebrating its 38th year, combines a carnival with music, art, fireworks, and more. The Herndon Festival takes place Thursday through Sunday, May 31-June 3, 2018, in downtown Herndon. The festival includes carnival rides, live entertainment on multiple stages, an arts and crafts show, Continue Reading...
How to view the eclipse without special glasses
It's almost here! For the first time in nearly 100 years, a total solar eclipse will be visible coast-to-coast in the United States. This rare event is coming up Aug. 21, 2017, and eclipse-mania has taken over, with events popping up (including some in Northern Virginia), hotels in the "path of totality" (areas that will experience a total eclipse) getting fully booked, and now special eclipse-viewing glasses being sold out in many places Continue Reading...
How to make a family vacation journal
By Maggie Miller, Family Finds Fun Summertime is upon us and that means lots of family time and lots of fun activities to do together. What does your family have planned this summer? I've never been one of those moms that can't wait for the kids to get back in a school routine. I feel like summer is the time we get to play, have fun, and just be a family without having to rush here and there! Will you take a few long weekends to get away Continue Reading...
STEM fun rules at Maker Faire NoVa
By Patricia Hall, FairfaxFamilyFun.com Who didn't love "show and tell" as a kid? If you especially liked presentations that involved something someone conceived and created, you'll love the grown-up version of show-and-tell: the Maker Faire that returns to Northern Virginia later this month. Whether it involves technology or textiles, computers or crafts, if it's something you can think of and something you can make you probably will find it Continue Reading...
Lowes Build and Grow program ends
By Patricia Hall, Fairfax Family Fun Sad news: The Lowes Build and Grow program is no more! As parents of young children may know, Lowes, the large chain of hardware stores, has run a monthly program, Lowes Build and Grow, to give kids a chance to construct items under the direction and guidance of a store employee. The sessions, offered monthly, would give kids a chance to make a do-it-yourself (DIY) project such as a planter, race car, Continue Reading...
Christmas and Holiday fun with Oriental Trading Company
Thanks to Oriental Trading Company for inviting us to review its holiday products. By Amy Holmes for Fairfax Family Fun I love Christmas! The gifts, the parties, the holiday shows and great anticipation. Each year, I place an order with Oriental Trading Company to help me decorate for the holiday! Here are some of the things I ordered and recommend this year. Gift bags and small gifts My daughters, ages 11 and 10, are active members in Continue Reading...
DIY: Portable party chandelier using a Chick-fil-A salad container
By Patricia Hall, FairfaxFamilyFun.com I’m always up for a creative challenge and it had been some time since I did something crafty. So when Chick-fil-A suggested creating something fun out of one of its salad containers, I jumped in. For Mother’s Day, Chick-fil-A had sent me gift cards to try a new Spicy Southwest salad and a Frosted Coffee, with a nice card and a challenge to “upcycle” the salad container. Enjoying the salad and frosted Continue Reading...
