Disclosure: This post uses affiliate links. This site is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. Summer will be here soon, and in a sure sign of that, Regal Cinemas has announced its line-up for the annual discounted summer movies series. Summer Movie Express offers tickets for Continue Reading...
8 new attractions in Northern Virginia for family fun
By Patricia Hall, Fairfax Family Fun Lucky us! As if the Northern Virginia (and metropolitan Washington, DC, area in general) didn’t already have enough fun offerings, more new and expanded attractions continue to spring up. Not even four full months into the year, 2017 is, as the past few years have been, brining new attractions for all ages to enjoy. Below are eight of the new family-friendly new attractions in Northern Virginia that opened Continue Reading...
Roanoke hosting Harry Potter festival this spring
Disclosure: This site is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. Fans of the Harry Potter series may want to start planning a road trip to Roanoke: the city in southwest Virginia (about three and a half hours from the DC suburbs) is hosting a daylong celebrations in honor of the kid Continue Reading...
Lightning McQueen and Cars 3 stars coming to Maryland
By Patricia Hall, Fairfax Family Fun We know that many of our readers are looking forward to "Cars 3" when the movie is out in June 2017 (we want to see it, too!). If you can't wait for the movie, here's something to give you a little taste: Lightning McQueen and some of the other stars from Cars 3 are coming to town. Yup, the cars themselves will be near us! Life-size lookalikes of Lightning McQueen, Cruz Ramirez, and Jackson Storm Continue Reading...
Love marshmallow Peeps? Clear your calendars for April 8
By Patricia Hall, FairfaxFamilyFun.com Sure, you can pretty much get marshmallow Peeps all year 'round now, but spring, the traditional "season" for these treats, is when the candies get the most attention, bringing up that all-important question: Peeps -- love 'em, or hate 'em? This can be a "divisive" issue, although for those in the pro-Peep camp (full disclosure: I love them!) it seems crazy. How can anyone NOT love these fluffy, Continue Reading...
Review: Disney on Ice presents Dream Big
Guest post by Colleen Levine, family food and travel blogger at Foodie Tots If the street vendors hawking light-up Mickey Mouse ears didn’t alert you to something different than a Capitals game at the Verizon Center on Wednesday night, the glittery princess dresses peaking out from under winter coats should do it. That’s right, Disney on Ice is back in DC. The show opened on February 15 and runs through Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. After clearing Continue Reading...
Talent and costumes make The Little Mermaid a standout show
By Amy J. Holmes for Fairfax Family Fun I absolutely love community theater and think it's important to introduce kids to the theater at a young age. I really love children's theater as it's for children by children. It's also a great time to completely unplug and enter a different space. My daughters and I had the pleasure of seeing Mount Vernon Community Children's Theatre's (MCVVT) latest production, Disney's The Little Mermaid. I've seen Continue Reading...
MVCCT presents The Little Mermaid
Fall is here and that means another production by Mount Vernon Community Children's Theatre (MVCCT)! This local theatre group puts on entertaining shows for all ages a few times each year. One unique aspect is that it features all-student casts for each show with children from area schools, so attending a performance is a great way to support not just local arts but budding actors. Its next production is Disney's "The Little Mermaid," November Continue Reading...
Review: Disney on Ice presents Follow Your Heart
By Amy Holmes for Fairfax Family Fun I had the pleasure of going to the Disney on Ice presents Follow Your Heart on opening night at the Eagle Bank Arena in Fairfax Virginia this past Wednesday. I've enjoyed going to several Disney on Ice shows over the past 10 years with my daughters and I have to say, this was one of the very best Disney on Ice shows I've seen. Nana came along with me and my daughters aged 11 and 10. We all truly enjoyed Continue Reading...
Follow your heart to Disney on Ice at EagleBank Arena
Love Disney characters and movies? Then "follow your heart" to EagleBank Arena October 19-23, 2016. That's when Disney On Ice presents Follow Your Heart, takes place! This year's tour of the hugely popular ice-skating spectacular features classic Disney friends along with characters from recent movies. As we mentioned in an earlier post, this production brings Disney•Pixar’s Inside Out to the show for the first time, together with princesses Continue Reading...
