Five Highlights for Kids at LaughFest 2016
LaughFest 2016 runs March 10 - 20. The event offers a wide variety of entertainment options including many opportunities for children and families.
View the best bets for kids at LaughFest 2016!
The sixth annual event will raise money for Gilda's Club of Grand Rapids to help provide free emotional healthcare programs for children and adults living with cancer and grief.
During the first five years, LaughFest has raised enough money to account for approximately ten percent of Gilda’s Club’s annual budget.
LaughFest is all for a good cause and it is a lot of fun for families too!
- Gene Parker, Townsquare Media
Gene Parker, Townsquare Media 1Largest Rubber Chicken Toss
This is one event your kids will never forget.
The world record for "largest rubber chicken toss" was set at LaughFest in 2011 with a total of 925 rubber chickens. Later that same year, Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, broke the record with 999 rubber chickens. It is time to reclaim the record!
The chicken toss will take place on Thursday, March 10, at 5:30PM at Calder Plaza in Grand Rapids. The first 1,200 participants will be provided with rubber chickens to toss. For a $5 "high five" donation, you will be allowed to keep the chicken so your kids can toss them at each other for weeks!
- Matt Milhouse, Townsquare Media
Matt Milhouse, Townsquare Media 2Kids Joke Time
Kids get on stage and tell jokes!
From knock-knock jokes and other classics to new jokes and jokes written by the kids themselves, this event is fun for kids to watch or participate in.
Any child can get on stage, no preregistration is required. There are three separate events:
Lowell - Tuesday, 3/15 at 6PM at Kent District Library Englehardt Branch.
Grand Rapids - Thursday, 3/17 at 6PM at Grand Rapids Public Library.
Holland - Saturday, 3/19 at 11AM at Herrick District Library.
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Townsquare Media Boise 3Super Saturday Kids Zone
Super Saturday is a themed kids carnival with inflatables, dancing, kids music, games and other activities.
It's an opportunity for kids to work some of their energy off and have fun too!
It's on Saturday, 3/12 from 11AM - 3PM at GRCC Ford Fieldhouse. Cost is $7 a person. Children under 12 months do not need a ticket.
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Purestock, ThinkStock 4Family Improv
Kids appreciate comedy even more when they can be a part of it. Family Improv is open to all ages!
Family Improv will cover the basics of improv with improvisatlionalist, Bart Sumner. Active participation is encouraged.
Family Improv will hold two separate sessions at Dog Story Theater:
Saturday, 3/12 at 10:30AM
and
Saturday, 3/19 at 10:30AM
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alexaldo, ThinkStock 5Baby Loves Disco
Baby Loves Disco is a child-proof disco for toddlers, preschoolers and parents. You'll hear music from the 70s, 80s and today.
LaughFest says "Barney is banned" at this disco which also features bubble machines, a chill out room, diaper changing stations and tons of dancing!
Baby Loves Disco will take place twice on Saturday, 3/19 at Home inside The B.O.B. The first session is at 11AM. The second session is at 2PM.
Cost is $7. Children under 12 months do not need a ticket.
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