Kite Fest

With warm weather on the horizon and the county getting an early taste of the summer heat, what better way to play in The BC than at one of the many fun family parks?

April is kite month and this month, Voice of America Park in West Chester welcomes the WGUC Airwaves Kite Fest. Kite Fest is a free, family friendly event featuring tons of room for flying kites, synchronized kite flying teams, kite making for the kids, Cincinnati Zoo animals, tasty snacks, and more.

Kite Fest, sponsored by WGUC and the Otto M. Budig Family Foundation, celebrates the magic, wonder, and creativity of kites. The festival will feature simple kites, complex kites, and unique kites. This year, show up to Kite Fest in style with your own handmade kite!

Spend some quality time with your kids this season and help them create their very own kite! This fun and educational art project encourages math, creativity, ingenuity, and problem solving.

Crafting your own kite is simple, inexpensive, and requires very little tools. Your basic diamond kite (think Charlie Brown) only requires:

Electrical tape

Scotch tape

Colored plastic bags for making sails

Dark garbage bags for tails

Bamboo BBQ skewers

Flying line

Wood glue

Ruler, pen, and scissors

A smooth flat space to work on

Creativity

With such minimal supplies, your kids will love building a kite they can bring along to this year’s Kite Fest.

You can learn more about building kites at: www.my-best-kite.com. The website features step-by-step instructions on how to craft all kinds of different kites, photo tutorials, how-to’s, and tip and tricks for making your best kite.

Get crafty and build a cute kite with your kids this year. Don’t forget to grab your camera to catch their work of art in action. If you snap a great photo, post on our Facebook page! We’d love to see your handmade kite!

Kite Fest runs April 14 & 15 from noon to 5 p.m. For more information about this year’s WGUC Airwaves Kite Fest, check out our event calendar listing or Kite Fest’s Facebook page and website.

For more kite building tutorials visit:

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We found all these great kite tutorials on Pinterest. Follow the BCVB's pin boards for fun travel ideas, family friendly travel advice, and information on great Butler County destinations.

April Giveaway

It’s that time again! The BC is giving away another awesome prize pack to help you explore Butler County for free this summer.

First off, we want to congratulate Carolyn Sisco, the winner of the BC’s Spring Giveaway package. Carolyn won free admission tickets to Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and the Museum of Ancient History, a free Art Cart rental for cruising around the park in style, a two nights stay at the cozy Presidio Pine’s Bed & Breakfast, and a brand new Sony CyberShot DSC-WX9 digital camera. Congrats Carolyn!

Our next giveaway celebrates the great outdoors. The BC’s Summer Prize Pack is bursting with summer fun. You can have a great outdoor adventure complete with fishing and a backyard BBQ this summer in The BC for…FREE!

The BC Summer Prize Pack includes:

            -A fishing day pass at Voice of America Park in West Chester

-Fishing gear including two brand new fishing poles with a tackle box filled with great fishing accessories

-A table-top charcoal grill for a backyard BBQ

-A $50 Jungle Jim’s gift card for your BBQ ingredients

-BBQ supplies including an apron, grilling tongs, and more!

Voice of America Park

Get out and explore The BC this summer with this jam-packed prize pack. For your chance to win this awesome fishing and grilling prize pack, ‘Like’ the BCVB on Facebook and fill out the sweepstakes entry form. This giveaway runs from April 6 through May 31. Don’t miss out on this fun and delicious giveaway.


You can also enter the sweepstakes through our website.

We’re giving away The BC for FREE this year. Be on the lookout for other awesome giveaways and contests. 

For more information about staying and playing in Butler County, visit our website at www.gettothebc.com

Go Green with Earth Day!

Celebrate Earth Day in April! Earth Day, founded in 1969, is a national holiday designed to raise awareness for the Earth’s natural environment. Promoting conservation, recycling, and all things ‘green’, Earth Day is the perfect time to help teach your family about the importance of taking care of our habitat.

Join in the collective effort to help conserve our beautiful planet. Get involved in your communities Earth Day celebrations by participating in one of the upcoming conservation efforts:

The Great American Clean Up, held at Sunset Park on April 21 in Middletown.

The Great Miami River Clean Up, held on May 5, throughout Hamilton.

Inspire your family to appreciate the beauty and wonder of the Earth through a variety of fun and creative crafts aimed at teaching environmental education. We’ve collected a few educational and fun Earth Day projects from across the web that you can do with your kids:

Your little scientist will love learning about the layers of the earth from this cool play dough Earth Day project. 

A collection of fun Earth Day ideas that promote educational outdoor exploration and play. 

Your little miss Patty Cake will fall in love with these super easy Earth Day themed cupcakes, rice treat pops, and Earth cake! 

Paper beads! Recycle left over scraps of scrapbook paper, newspaper, or even wrapping paper. A great Earth Day activity for the older kids.

Playing with the kids is fun and all, but what about you? There are tons of easy and creative upcycle crafts for adults. Here’s the short list of our favorites:

Create your own colorful lightweight scarf out of all those old t-shirts you have lying around. 

Accidently shrunk your husband’s favorite winter sweater? Turn it into a cute tote bag! 

Create rustic and romantic floral vases out of recycled mason jars. 


We found all these great Earth Day craft ideas on Pinterest. Are you on Pinterest? Follow the BCVB's boards for fun travel friendly advice, creative travel ideas, and information on the Butler County attractions!

Create fun and unique crafts and spend quality time with your family all while learning about environmental conservation and protection. Celebrate Earth Day this year by participating in a Butler County clean up, crafting with your kids, and upcycling something old into something new fabulous for you!

Adventurous April

April is filled with fun springtime adventures for the whole family. From adrenaline pumping paintball to inspiring musical musings, The BC is the place to be this month.

Delve into a nail biting murder mystery with the Middletown Lyric Theatre’s Deadly Murder. This thrilling theatre performance, written by David Foley, runs from April 12 through April 14.

Get your adrenaline pumping at the Transformers Memorial paintball game. This action packed scenario paint ball adventure is in honor of Bob Niederman, the man behind The BC’s Niederman Family Farm, and Paintball Country. Registration is required for this event. Transformers Memorial Game will be held on April 14 at Paintball Country in Hamilton.

Experience musical musings with One Stage Series: Ball in the House at the Fairfield Community Arts Center. Following in the path of classic harmony groups like Boyz II Men and The Temptations, this five-member vocal band brilliantly blends the sounds of classic R&B to pop, hip-hop, and gospel into one inspiring musical performance. Ball in the House performs on April 24.

Watch the top Trap & Skeet competitors in the nation during the Mid-American Trap Tournament at the Middletown Sportsman Club. Competitors will be shooting for the national title during the five-day competition. The Mid-American Trap Tournament starts on April 25 and runs through April 29.

Get your toes tapping during the Oxford Community Band’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Spring Concert. The band is celebrating 25 years of performing great music for the oxford community. The celebration performance will be held on April 29 at the Oxford Community Arts Center.

For more April adventures in The BC, visit our event calendar.

May Preview

The BC is the hostess with the mostess in May. May is the best time of the year to explore all that The BC has to offer.

May 7-13 is National Tourism Week! Here at the BCVB, we’ll be celebrating all things travel. Take a tourism adventure this week to a great BC spot and tell us all about your adventures on Twitter!

 

May 9 through the 13, enjoy a performance, Mad Anthony: Elephant Sighs, at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts.

May 18 through the 20, catch a performance by local favorites, the Fairfield Footlighters, at the Fairfield Community Arts Center.

May 19 and 20, enjoy a full bodied glass of wine and sample wines from all over the world at the Oxford Art & Wine Affair.

May 20, experience history at it’s finest during the Dayton Lane Promenade.

For more Butler County events in May, visit our events page.