🍀 Happy Newsletter Thursday! 🍀
As always, I'd like to start off by welcoming all of our new subscribers. Thank you for choosing Macaroni Kid Yorkville - Geneva - St. Charles to be your go-to source for all things local and family-friendly fun! Look around and see all of the great things we have to offer in our area via the updated daily calendar (now with tons of virtual options), articles packed full of useful information, and of course local businesses and sponsors that meet the Macaroni Kid Stamp of Approval for being kid- and family-friendly. If you're not a subscriber yet, you can subscribe by clicking HERE!
This week we celebrated St. Patrick's Day. Since we're still in a pandemic and it landed on a Wednesday, it was a little lest festive in our house this year. We did enjoy a great corned beef and cabbage meal from the Yorkville American Legion and it was delicious. This weeks featured articles focus on rainbow activities, celebrating children with Down Syndrome, and a look a Camp Invention (the links to these great articles can be found below). And don't forget to check our local events calendar ... things are starting to open up again and there is lots of family fun to be had. Be sure to subscribe and follow Macaroni Kid Yorkville - Geneva - St. Charles on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for even more ideas to help you find your family fun!
Below are 3 of my favorite featured articles from this week ...
- Easy Rainbow Activities To Do With Kids / Rainbows are awesome! 🌈 ️
- Celebrating Our Children With Down Syndrome / Celebrate differences! 👭🏾
- Recharge Your Child's Summer at Camp Invention! / ️Summer camp rocks! ☀️
New Monthly Giveaway Alert ...
Have you checked out our new monthly giveaway, called "I Spy with My Little Eye Giveaway?" Each week a specific graphic will be hidden in one of the featured articles for the week and once you find it, you can let us know via a Google Form that will be available in each weeks newsletter article (like this one). At the end of each month, we'll draw a name at random and award a small gift or gift card from a local establishment or vendor.
For March, the image below. If you find it, just click on the image and it will take you to the form to fill-out and enter you in the giveaway for a gift card at the end of the month. You must be a Macaroni Kid Yorkville - Geneva - St. Charles subscriber to enter and win. If you aren't a subscriber yet (and are missing out on the scoop for family fun that is available locally 😉), you can subscribe HERE! Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for clues, too!
(Find this shamrock in one of the this weeks articles, come back here to enter by clicking on the image, and wait to see if you are this months winner at the end of the month. Easy peezy, lemon squeezy!)
Did you know?
Macaroni Kid has 4 additional editions in the greater Chicagoland area and they are also here to help you Find Your Family Fun®️ with a free weekly newsletter and local activities calendar. The other local editions are:
And, last but not least, be sure you are following Macaroni Kid Yorkville - Geneva - St. Charles on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. And of course, be sure to share Macaroni Kid will your friends, family, co-workers, and anyone you can think of that does not want to miss out on all of the family-friend events and activities happening in the Yorkville - Geneva - St. Charles area!
That's all for this issue of Newsletter Thursday. Be sure to check the FREE calendar daily ... We're adding new, fun stuff almost daily! Enjoy the new weekly articles that will be added to the website this coming week as well. And, don’t forget, if you know of an event or have an event you are part of that you would like Macaroni Kid Yorkville - Geneva - St. Charles to feature, feel free to contact me via email (brigettes@macaronikid.com) or Amber, our fabulous Assistant Publisher, (amberhogan@macaronikid.com) or by using the Submit Event feature on the website.
Now go out and Find Your Family Fun!
Brigette
