Have your visits with grandkids (or weekends with the ones who live with you) become mostly screen time, television, couches and snacks?
This week, how about getting a bit more active? These options are kid-friendly and require some movement — or at least leaving the house.
They’re so fun the bunch of you may not notice that you haven’t looked at your phone in a couple of hours.
Glow in the Dark dodgeball at George Pierce Park
6:30-8:30 p.m., Friday, March 3, $8 Gwinnett resident, $18 non-Gwinnett resident (only pay for the child participant), George Pierce Park Community Recreation Center, 55 Buford Highway, Suwanee.
You, the grandparents, will be watching in amusement from the sidelines as preregistered grandkids ages 6-11 play glow-in-the-dark dodgeball. Along with being active on a Friday evening (and eating light refreshments), you can check out the offerings at this community rec center, including a shuffleboard, a pond, and an indoor walking track.
Preregister here.
Discovery Saturday at Elachee Nature Science Center
9 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, March 4, $10 per person ages 2 and up includes general admission, 2125 Elachee Drive. Gainesville.
Along with the typical fun browsing of the ecology and live animal exhibits at the nature center, this special event includes a live animal showcase guided by teaching naturalists at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Plus, you can pack a lunch to eat indoors at the reading center.
Calmer atmosphere jumping at Get Air Sports
8-10 a.m. Saturday, March 4, $15.99 Big Air, $10.99 Little Air. Get Air Sports, 2075 W Park Place Blvd. Stone Mountain.
The trampoline venue offers a dedicated calm time for young jumpers with special sensory needs on the first Saturday morning of each month. A grandparent can support the jumper free of charge. And this will be fun for the extended family, too, since siblings are also allowed to jump at the same time as long as they’re quiet and sensitive to the other jumpers.
Boats: Look, Build, Float
1 p.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, March 5, free to attend. Michael C. Carlos Museum, 571 S Kilgo Circle, Atlanta.
Drop by Emory University’s Carlos Museum for some hands-on fun. The theme is ancient Egyptian wooden boat models, and kids and adults can explore both in the museum’s Senusret Collection before moving on to design a floating model of their own from provided materials. This is good for families with fluid schedules: Just show up somewhere in the three-hour window for Sunday FUNday.
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