Just a few more days until summer officially begins! June 21, 2017 is this years summer solstice, but who says to wait ‘till then to enjoy these great events?! Polk County has some fun filled, packed days lined up for you and your family, so take advantage of these extra hours of daylight and check a few of them out!
Public Libraries
are popular spots during summer, due to majority of their events being free, educational and indoors (air conditioning!)Â Lakeland, Auburndale, Fort Meade and Lake Wales have calendars up describing age appropriate events, times and locations.
The Lakeland public library will have 2 outdoor movies during the month of June.
June 15th at 2:30pm outside the library
June 29th at 2:30pm outside the library
Bok Tower Gardens
has ample opportunities to enjoy the long summer days and beautiful central Florida scenery while letting your kids learn through experiential education and outdoor play.
Located at 1151 Tower Blvd, Lake Wales, FL 33853,
Hammock Hollow Children’s Garden has many facets to the garden experience. To learn more, look into their website to plan your trips!
https://boktowergardens.org/tower-gardens/hammock-hollow-childrens-garden/
Take me out to the ballgame! The Lakeland Flying Tigers have games stacking up this summer!
Joker Marchant Stadium
is located at 2301 Lakeland Hills Blvd, Lakeland, FL 33805
Take the older kiddos out for one of America’s favorite past times and enjoy day games or evening games. To find out ticket specials and promotional events, check out the link on the site below.
http://www.milb.com/schedule/index.jsp?sid=t570
As we all know, Florida can have scorching days during the summer. To remedy this, Cobb Lakeside 18 will be providing free movies from June 13th thru August 3rd.
Cobb Lakeside 18
1650 Town Center Drive Lakeland, Fl 33803
Find details of movies and show times by going to this link:
https://www.cobbtheatres.com/pdf/KidsShow-2017/COB_KidsLakeside.pdf
