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On Friday, May 6th 10am – 8pm Kango Play are going to be celebrating turning one and a half by raising money for a great cause.

Admission for the whole day will be $2 per child and no charge for adults.  Your child’s $2 admission includes a slice for pizza.

All admission proceeds will benefit JDRF- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Kango Play Center members will not be charged admission, but are encouraged to donate to JDRF if they come to play.

JDRF is the worldwide leader for research to cure type 1 diabetes. It sets the global agenda for diabetes research, and is the largest charitable funder and advocate of diabetes science worldwide.

We are thrilled that we are turning one and a half, and are happy to be partnering with a great cause.

We hope you come to play on Friday, May 6th, and we look forward to raising money to fight juvenile diabetes.

Kango can be tough to find. We have a great map to help you find us. Click Here.

Check out Less.com for a great deal on admission to The Sandbox in Fairport, NY.

The Sandbox, a family-run business that takes pride in maintaining a safe, clean environment where your kids can have an absolute ball. The open floor plan allows you to watch your children play—on the pirate ship or the rock climbing wall, in the African animal sanctuary or horse barn, or at the Imaginex table. There’s also a puppet theatre, small-fry rollercoasters, an interactive light floor, a sandbox, and an air hockey table.

You can bring in snacks, drinks or even a picnic lunch to enjoy in the enlarged snack area, or if your trip to the Sandbox was slightly more spontaneous, there are healthy snacks and drinks available for purchase. With advance planning, the Sandbox is the perfect location for your child’s birthday celebration, and there are several party packages from which to choose.

Let your kids frolic to their hearts’ content, and stop worrying about whether or not they’re going to shake the pictures off your walls. The Sandbox is 6,000 square feet of childproof fun, and that fun can be half-off with today’s Less Deal.

Limit one certificate per household.  Less.com certificate will be exchanged for one $30 gift certificate to The Sandbox, which can be used in multiple visits.  Certificate good for children ages 1-7 only. Children must be accompanied by an adult (adult admission is free).

Certificate may be redeemed starting on Mon, Jan 24, 2011, and not a minute before! Got it? Good!

Certificate expires on Sun, Jul 24, 2011

ADMISSION

$6.75 / child (12 months to age 7)
3rd & 4th Siblings $5.50 each
Children under 1 – $5.00 w/o paid sibling
Adults are FREE!

MON-FRI 9AM-5PM
SAT  9AM-2PM

1350 Fairport Road (31F)
Fairport, NY 14450

With this coupon you can get into the Jump Club for only $5 admission after 4pm Wednesday-Sunday.

With this coupon you can get $5 admission to the Jump Club in Henrietta Wednesday-Sundays after 4pm.  Expires November 30.

Bounce it Out in Pittsford, NY has a number of HUGE inflatables that your kids can jump on and slide down to their hearts content.  They are available for play whenever their doors are open and you’re welcome to stay as long as you want, admission is for all day, not by the hour.   As always parents, nannies, babysitters and other supervising adults are welcome free of charge.

Bounce it Out wants to offer a buy one admission at regular price and receive the second one for equal or lesser value free mention that you saw it on facebook to get the discount.  And like them on Facebook to get future promotions.  This can be used Monday through Thursday throughout the month of September 2010. Hope to see you all here!!!

Hours
Sunday-Thursday 10-6, Friday & Saturday 10-8
Holiday Hours – We will be closed on the following holidays:
Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving,
Christmas Eve (open from 10 – 3) and Christmas Day, New Years Eve (10-5) and closed on New Years Day

This Sunday from 4-7pm all new customers to Jump Club can get free admission with this coupon.  Or for $5 admission returning or new customers can play all day from 10am-7pm, this Sunday the 26th only.  Just print out the coupon and bring it in.

• Regular Admission is $8.50 for unlimited play.
• Toddlers (2 years old and under) $5.95 with paid sibling.
• No charge for any child not walking and unable to play in Toddler area.
• Parents can always enter free and relax in our exclusive “grown-up friendly” lounge.
• “Don’t forget your socks! They’re required for all who enter facility (Adults and Kids) to help maintain the utmost cleanliness for your children.

3450 Winton Place, Rochester, NY 14623 — (585) 730-8900

I don’t know if you’ve heard of Groupon.com but it offers some fantastic deals. It’s free to join and they offer loads of different coupons, usually a new one every 1-2 days. You have to buy the coupon during the 24-72 hrs that the coupon is offered and then you usually have a few months to use the coupon. So like last month we bought half price coupons to Long Acre Farms for their corn maze and back 40 activities. Today til midnight they are offering 50% admission to Stokoe Farms pumpkin patch in Scottsville. I just love Stokoe Farms. They have all sorts of activities, including petting zoo animals, hay rides, zip line, huge slides, and corn maze. Check out groupon.

Here’s a special limited-time offer for Facebook fans and Club Seabreeze members of all ages. It’s good this Saturday & Sunday Sept. 4 – 5 only. Ride & Slide all day for just $17.99 +tax when you buy your tickets online and use Promo Code 2461. To get the deal, go to the park website’s Online Ticket Center and to the Group / Special Events page. Buy “Club Seabreeze Last Splash” tickets and enter promo code 2461.

Looking for affordable hot weather activities the whole family can enjoy? Visit MAG and our neighbor, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. At the admission desk, request a half-off coupon (available with paid or member’s free admission). Then present the coupon at the Eastman House within seven days for half-price admission. Eastman House visitors heading to MAG will receive the same courtesy.

MAG Offers Free Admission to Military Personnel and Families

The Memorial Art Gallery is pleased to be part of BLUE STAR MUSEUMS, a summer-long partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and more than 600 museums across the country. Blue Star Museums, including MAG, are extending free admission to active duty military personnel and families from Tuesday, June 1 through Sunday, September 5, 2010.

Half-Price Thursdays

Looking for things to do that won’t break the bank? Journey through 5,000 years of human creativity at MAG, which now offers half-price Thursday evening admission. The reduced admission, in effect every Thursday from 5 to 9 pm, is $5; senior citizens $3; college students with ID $2.50; and children 6-18 $2.50. Admission is always free to MAG members, University of Rochester students, and children 5 and under.

I love to travel, anywhere and everywhere, so I don’t need much excuse to take a daytrip with my girls.  We’ve been so busy with vacation bible schools that we haven’t made any trips in a while so this being their first week with no VBS we had a whole day free so we decided to drive off to Buffalo to visit their zoo.  We went there once last fall and had a good time and figured it was about time to go again.  From our house there it takes just over an hour to get there and they have nice zoo, we spent almost 4 hours there.  One of the reasons we chose to go there is with our Seneca Park Zoo membership we get a 50% off discount on the admission there making it a cheap day out. 

It’s a really nice zoo, not a really big zoo, but it does have a number of animals that we don’t have at the Rochester zoo like zebras, giraffes, and lions, among others.  The zoo is laid out in a circular pattern so you don’t have to travel back and forth to make sure you see all the animals.  And most of the animal habits are fairly small so you get a better chance of seeing the animals then in some larger more modern zoos where the animals have plenty of room to hide.

Some of our favorite things were the Wings & Things bird show, the carousel, feeding the Lorikeets, and the tropical rainforest building which is beautiful.  There are various animal encounters that they charge extra fees for, and a few tours that are free, along with the sea lion demonstration and bird show.  Katrina loved the bird show it was her favorite thing seeing the smallest owl(weighs the equivilent of 100 paperclips), miniature ducks and chickens.  Feeding the Lorikeets costs $1 per person who’s feeding the birds and is well worth the money if your kids are patient enough to wait for the birds to come out of hiding.  They limit the feedings to 3 times a day so that the birds will be hungry when it’s time.

I say to be appropriately prepared to visit this zoo you should bring along lots of $1 bills because your kids will want to ride the carousel, train, and feed the birds.  The carousel and train each cost $1 per kid per ride and you have to buy tokens from a machine which only takes either $1 or $5 bills and doesn’t give you change.  At the birds you can pay cash and get change from a person so that’s easier.  Of course all three of these things are seasonal, feeding the Lorikeets runs through Sept 6.  Also they do charge $3.25 to park your car in their parking lot but there is plenty of free parking in the surrounding area, in both my trips there I haven’t paid for parking yet.

Located just a few minutes from the thruway at: