Your Weekend: Ideas for Family Fun-August 13, 2020

Virtually shop to help feed families in need, take a date night, play with locally created science and craft kits or explore Hawaiʻi's military history.

August 13, 2020

Christi Young,

Courtesy of hawaiifoodbank.org

Editor’s Note: Whether you go out or stay at home is your choice, so we are making sure we offer fun for both options in our Weekend Guide.

Give Virtually

The Hawaiʻi Foodbank’s annual food drive will not feature smiling volunteers collecting cans and cash curbside this year. But now might be a great time to teach your kids about giving. The food bank’s virtual food drive allows kids, with their parents, to go on an online “shopping trip” to create their own donation and see how many people they can feed with their choices. Let your little one pick from selections including $5 for a 10-pound bag of apples or $7 for ravioli to feed 10 people, meals for 25 people for $10, or just let them fill up their favorites to give to others.

All ages
Saturday, Aug. 15, all day
hawaifoodbank.org/virtual-food-drive

Other virtual fundraisers going on now:

The Oʻahu Heart Walk is on but you’ll have to move quickly. Complete 4 1/2 miles or 9,000 steps by Friday, Aug. 14. www2.heart.org
Instead of the Polar Plunge, where people slide down a giant slide into icy water, families can make a splash in their yard, the ocean, or anywhere to raise money for Special Olympics Hawaiʻi. Record a video and send it in by Aug. 30. sohawaii.org

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Photo: Hawaiʻi Children’s Discovery Center

At-Home Kits

Hawaiʻi Children’s Discovery Center has added more take-home craft kits for August. The recent warm temperatures have had us wistfully gazing at the Snowy Day Treasure Box, which comes with supplies to decorate a little box and instant snow powder. Throw in a cup of frozen hot chocolate for winter weather fun. You can also choose from a make-your-own wind chime, dream catcher and more. All kits are $5 to $8. discoverycenterhawaii.org/events/

Housemart Benjamin Franklin offers its Hardware Science projects, which we loved at the Hawaiʻi Public Library’s summer reading program events, in to-go kits. Kids can do STEM projects launching balloons, creating an infinity mirror, a rocket launcher and more for $20. craftingisfun.com/kidscrafts

Pearlridge’s Keiki Club is on hold for now, but the center is offering free downloads of Highlights for Kids activities including the magazine’s Hidden Picture puzzles and, this week, family-themed bingo cards. kidxclub.com

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Photo: Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum

Explore Pearl Harbor

It’s the last month to take advantage of the Pearl Harbor kamaʻāina pass. The special rate gives you unlimited access to the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Battleship Missouri Memorial, USS Bowfin Submarine and Park and the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center. This means you spend a morning looking at vintage war planes, walking on the deck of a battleship, reading the diaries of World War II sailors or visiting a submarine and go home for nap or lunch time, knowing you can return later. The pass includes admission for two adults and as many as four kids during this time when smaller crowds make it a little easier to navigate through the historic displays.

$79.99 pass is good through Sept. 7. tickets.pearlharborhistoricsites.org/webstore

Parents Night Out

If your kids are bouncing off the walls, a place built specifically for keiki to run around is offering both them, and you, a break. For three hours, My Gym Kailua will host kids for play and pizza while you grab dinner, run errands or just take advantage of the quiet time. The group is limited to just eight kids. When we checked on Wednesday evening, it was half full.