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Summer Fun Guide

May 21, 2017


Free movies, free bowling, fairs, festivals, local playgrounds, pools, farmers markets, summer camps, VBS... all in the Tippecanoe County and Surrounding Areas!  This is just another way to make sure you're in-the-know for the best ways to entertain and exhaust your Mini Macaronis.  Keep up with all of the best that the Greater Lafayette Area has to offer for families with weekly updates & don't forget to check the calendar!

Enjoy the air conditioning while the kids skate at Great United Skates!

✿ Rent some fun with Gus's Back Yard Party Rentals

Kids Bowl Free at Purdue's Rack & Roll and/or Arrowhead Bowling

✿ The Farm at Prophetstown is full of fun family events 

✿ Have a new experience at the Linden Depot Museum

✿ Visit the Fort Ouiatenon Blockhouse Museum Open on Saturdays and Sundays

✿ Check out the growing list of Summer Camps

✿ Go to a concert at the Lafayette Citizens Band Concert

✿ Have a ball at one of the Lafayette Aviators Baseball Games

Take a little drive north to Deep River Water Park

Wolf Park is a neat experience for the whole family

✿ Go to one of the Wednesdays in the Wild!

✿ The Farmer's Markets are a fun experience for the kids

✿ Check out the art exhibits at the Tippecanoe Arts Federation Galllery Exhibits and Art Museum of the Greater Lafayette Exhibits

✿ Enjoy one of the fun summer days at your local Lafayette, West Lafayette, and Prophetstown pools. 

✿ The Tippecanoe Battlefield has picnic areas, nature center, pioneer chapel and historic and scenic hiking trails.

✿ Tippecanoe 4-H Fair 

✿ Prophetstown State Park offers camping, swimming at the aquatic center, hiking, biking, birding, wildlife observation, and more.

✿ Check out a movie from your library for a family movie night or enjoy one of their many story times.  The story times are pretty much daily events.

✿ Visit the farm petting zoo, butterfly garden, and over 190 animals at the Columbian Park Zoo.

✿ Lafayette & West Lafayette community and neighborhood parks

✿ Malone's Gym Open Gym times & Kid's Night Out 

✿ Sign up for Girl Scouts of Central Indiana

✿ Watch out for the Kona Ice of Tippecanoe County to reach your neighborhood.  My boys love to run out of the house to get a sweet treat when they hear the music!

✿ Imagination Station is Open 5 Days a Week!

✿ $5 Days at the Indy Children's Museum the first Thursday of each month

✿ Free Super Summer Community Bowl

✿ Vacation Bible Schools

✿ Free Movies

✿ Kids Eat Free (or almost Free)

✿ Art in the Park

✿ Summer Reading Program 

✿ Indiana Festivals

✿ Final Friday Movie Night

If you have a great idea for Summer Fun, feel free to share with bethc@macaronikid.com

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