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  Valentine's Activities For the Kids ? Love and Art - A Valentine Day Tour - Norton Art Gallery ? JC Penney KidZone - Create Panda or Sloth Valentines ? Strides & Valentines - Betty Virginia Park   ? Valentine 4 Course Sweet Heart Dessert Event - Cotton Candy Crush ? JC Penney KidZone - Create Panda or Sloth Valentines ?17th Annual Owl Night - Walter B. Jacobs Memorial Nature Park     Adult Date-Night Activities & Galentine Celebrations ? Artipsy Ladies Night Valentine's Paint Party   ? Artipsy Couples Valentine's Paint Part ..read more

  **FIRST Lesson FREE With Paid Registration & Code MACKID** Celebrating New Year's with the family? We've got you covered whether you're grabbing a sitter and jetting out for a night on the town OR looking for something more family friendly! Here are all the kid friendly happenings and Adult Date-Night fun in the Shreveport - Bossier City and surrounding areas to help you find the best way for you and your family to ring in 2023!  ** Please note this is the information at time of publication - events are subject to change due to weather or other, please double check befo ..read more

What is Cinco de Mayo then? Cinco de Mayo — celebrated the fifth of May, celebrates the Mexican army’s unexpected 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War.  That battle represented a great symbolic victory for Mexico and may well have changed the course of the war. You can read more about it here. In a nutshell, Americans find this a great excuse to recognize and honor the Mexican culture with some amazing traditional Mexican food.  Here are a few local Cinco de Mayo events you can head out and enjoy with your family: Cinco de Mayo - Provenance C ..read more

Celebrated worldwide on April 22, Earth Day is a day all about protecting our environment by thinking globally while acting locally. The Shreveport Bossier City area has several special Earth Day events to celebrate.  Check out these Shreveport Bossier City area Earth Day events below!  Plus find 12 ideas for how your family can celebrate Earth Day April 22nd ... and every day.  Local Community Events Earth Day Event - Shreveport Green Earth Salutation Yoga and Playgroup Brownlee Park Earth Day at JUBILEE ZOO /TODDLER TIME Fridays Outdoor Earth Da ..read more

Valentine's Activities For the Kids ? Ice Skating - George's Pond at Hirsch Coliseum ? ?Friday Night Lock-in - Contender eSports (Shreveport) ? ? Teen Night at Risen Rock ? ? Yeti and Spaghetti Sci-Port - A Sno-Port Meet and Eat Event ?JC Penney KidZone? ? Minnie's Valentine Brunch by Cast My Party ? ? Barnes & Noble Saturday Story-Time: Love Monster? ? RFC Family Matinee: AKEELAH AND THE BEE ? ?17th Annual Owl Night - Walter B. Jacobs Memorial Nature Park ?  ? 318 Climb Open House ? ? Valentine Playgroup - Stroller Strong Moms ? ?  Cirque du Soleil OVO - B ..read more

At our house, St. Patrick's Day has ALWAYS been a big deal. Each year, our home is invaded by the mischievous leprechaun and antics ensue. You can probably guess that my kids want to try and CATCH that poor pesky Leprechaun and see if they can get in on that whole treasure he is said to hoard! Each year, my kids build a leprechaun trap in hope of finally catching that elusive leprechaun (and snagging some of his treasure) on St. Patrick's Day.   This is a fun tradition that my kids LOVE sharing with their friends all over the Shreveport - Bossier area, so every ye ..read more

This week kicks off Girl Scout Cookie Season in the Shreveport - Bossier City area and boy am I ready for some tasty Girl Scout Cookies!  Girl Scout Cookie season starts January 8 and runs through March 6, so mark your calendars! There are several ways to satisfy your Girl Scout Cookie craving during the pandemic. Be sure to keep an eye out for socially distant creative ways to secure your faves- rumor has it, we can expect drive-thru cookie booths in the very near future, squee! In the meantime, here are ways you can get a head start on getting your favorites sooner than later ..read more

  Make a little community magic for your family and friends this St. Patrick's Day with this FREE Printable Lawn Leprechaun Game. Your family will be delighted to wake up to these cute leprechauns out on the front lawn! Be sure to take selfies to document your visit and post them to social media using #MacKidSBMoms to share with everybody! Next, you can either print a new set OR choose to relocate your current set to a friend or neighbor to spread some St. Patrick's Day cheer! Get ready for your sneaky mission to spread some St Patrick's Day cheer! This FREE Printabl ..read more

  Some of you may remember how, back in 1993, the bridge was adorned with neon and lit for the first time in a static design by the late artist Rockne Krebs using neon and glass tubes at a time when even public art wasn't all that common much less the thought or notion of lighting bridges. This catapulted the Texas Street bridge aka "The Neon Bridge" straight into icon-status and temporarily into history as a symbol of unity between the two cities of Shreveport - Bossier at a time when the casinos had yet to even arrive in the area and before the boardwalk was built.  Neon shines ..read more