Siouxland Families

Get ready for the biggest block party in the country! On Tuesday, August  1, 2017 communities across the US are planning fun get togethers for National Night Out. Sioux City In Sioux City, there are 8 different locations, which will have free food and activities like bounce houses, games and prizes. In past years there have also been opportunities for kids to check out the vehicles of the Sioux City Fire Rescue heroes who come join in the fun! Here are the participating locations in Sioux City: Cook Park Grandma Moos Park Latham Park Lief Erickson Park Mid-City Park Riverside Lutheran Church Siouxland Youth for Christ St. Mark Lutheran Church You can find more info about the Sioux City events by checking out the  Sioux City National Night Out 2017 Facebook event Surrounding areas South Sioux City National Night Out will be at College Center from 6-8pm North Sioux City will celebrate National Night out from 6-8pm at Dakota Valley Elementary school with fo

Much like Sioux City's Tourist in Your Town program , the State of Nebraska has an annual tourism Nebraska Passport and fun prizes for participating travelers. Here is how you can participate! Get a passport You can order a paper passport online to be mailed to your house, or you can pick it up at your first stop! They are much bigger and prettier than I expected: You can also use a digital passport by downloading the free Nebraska Passport android app or Apple ios app . Visit fun places There are 80 places you can visit to get stamps on your passport, all across Nebraska. The closest to Sioux City is the Main Street Thriftique in Pender, Nebraska. At each stop you need to get a stamp in your paper passport, or login with the app. The Nebraska Passport website also says you may take a selfie at an attraction as another type of entry and then send it to them to be counted with you other stops! Win Prizes! Everyone who turns in a passport with at least

The City of Lawton, just a few minutes East of Sioux City is hosting Lawton Fest this weekend and you will want to be part of the fun! Here are a few of the fun activities happening: Thursday A kids royalty contest will be held at 6pm at the Friendship Center (participants must register by 7/12) and at 6:30pm there will be sidewalk chalk fun at the Lawton Memorial Park. Friday The Parade is at Friday night at 6pm and leaves from the high school, then goes west to Elm Street, north on Elm to East Maple, then back down to the high school. After the parade, there will be  a bounce house and lots of other fun at Tara Way Park including a pie eating contest at 8pm. Then at 8:30pm the movie Boss Baby will be projected at the park! Saturday Saturday of Lawton Fest kicks off with circus tent raising at 9:30am at The Old School Site Then from 10:30-1:30 shop the vendor park at Tara Way Park, buy BBQ at the park from Killer B's, and at 11 am, join in free yoga in front of

A solar eclipse is coming! On Monday, August 21st a solar eclipse will be crossing the US. In a strip crossing sort of diagonally from Oregon to South Carolina the eclipse will be a total solar eclipse, and in most of the rest of the country a partial eclipse will be visible. This is the first solar eclipse visible from the entire contiguous US since 1918! I talked to Morningside Astronomy and Physics Professor Laura Kinnaman to find out more about what a solar eclipse is and what Sioux City kids, teens, and parents should know about watching the 2017 eclipse. Here's what I found out : What is an eclipse? A solar eclipse happens when the moon gets directly between the earth and the sun. (A lunar eclipse, which is much more common, happens when the earth gets directly between the moon and the sun. The sun never gets directly between the earth and the moon, which is good because we’d all die!) A solar eclipse can only happen when the moon is new—a new moon is when the

Each month we will bring you info on events for kids in the Siouxland Area. If you know of one we have missed, please leave us a comment or send us an email. We will update our lists throughout the month as we hear of new events, so check back often for the latest scoop! We also recommend checking out  our  Event Lists tab   to find our lists for  other   months . Free Events in August Tues 8/1 11am: Library storytime at Perry Creek branch library Tues 8/1 6pm: Night of Fun at South Sioux City Library Tues 8/1 6-8pm: National Night Out including food and fun with Sioux City Fire and Rescue, several Siouxland locations, more info here !   Weds 8/2, 10:30am Library storytime at Morningside branch library Thurs 8/3 10am: Pat-a-Cake-Pals at South Sioux City Library Thurs 8/3 10am: Kid Thursdays: Dino Days at Sioux City Public Museum, $1 Fri 8/4 10am: Toddler Time at South Sioux City Library Fri 8/4 2:30pm: Boss Baby movie at Sloan Public Library Fri 8/4 7-9pm: Free Fri

Sioux City residents can now use Walmart.com grocery ordering and pickup! Walmart rolled out online grocery ordering with free local pickup in other parts of the country recently, and it is now available in Sioux City! I tried it out with my kids and here is how it went: Ordering First, you have to create a Walmart.com login ID if you don't have one yet. This is a pretty standard online account creation process so I won't really waste your time explaining it. E-mail, address, etc. Next, fill your cart! I checked and was able to find all the groceries I wanted pretty easily. One feature I wish they had was to sort by price. Like I needed tortilla chips but didn't really care which brand. If I could sort by price (or even better, price per oz!) it would have made it a lot easier to make my decision. I did really love that they show the price per ounce though. It can be hard to find on the store labels sometimes, and hard to wrangle kids and compare, but on the