Happy New Year!!!

Happy 2012 everyone! I hope your new year is off to a wonderful start! We are currently planning some great events for 2012! Our first event in the Piedmont Kite Festival!!! So mark your calendars for March 17, 2012 for the festival! :)

Happy Holidays!!!

MHC CNI wishes everyone the best over the holiday season! Be safe and make sure you enjoy the outdoors!!!!!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving from MHC CNI!!!!
Make sure you try to take advantage of the great fall weather we have been experiencing during your Thanksgiving break! There are many ways you can enjoy the outdoors during the fall. The following are some ideas
Go on a hike and observe the leaves changing colors
Start a pick-up tag football game
Ride your bike on a nature trail instead of a road
Make a nature collage
Jump in some leaves
Look under fallen leaves and discover who lives in them
Feed our bird friends that do not migrate
Build a fort

There are millions of things you can do during this time of year! If you have gone outside and taken part in something cool outdoors please feel free to post it!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!

Screen on the Green

Take A Child Outside week went very well this year! The culminating event that took place was Screen on the Green at Hooker Field. We partnered with YMCA, SEMAA, and Martinsville Parks and Rec to conduct this event. Despite the cold weather we had dozens of excited families participating in this event. A special thank you to everyone who volunteered for this event and all the families that came! Thank YOU!!!

Screen on the Green at Hooker Field!!!

It's almost here! Screen on the Green is TOMORROW!! Yeah!!!

Come out to Hooker Baseball Field to enjoy a wide variety of games and crafts followed by the showing of a box office hit PLANET 51!! Staring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Jessica Biel, and Justin Long! This space themed event will be fun for all ages!! We will have Marty the Mustang on the field and food available for purchase!

Activities start at 7pm and the movie will start at 8pm! :) $2 entry fee.

Activities include:
Relay Races
Races against Marty the Mustang!
YMCA Games
Build-your-own rocket station
Making star finders
Face painting
Baseball accuracy contests
Building gliders
Disc golf
SEMAA Rockets
Games with Parachutes!!!

SEE YOU THERE!! :)

TACO WEEK 2011!!

It's that time again!! Take a Child Outside Week is here!! We will be celebrating this wonderful week September 24-30! We are currently planning the week. The culminating event will be

Screen on the Green! September 30 at Hooker Field. Activities will start at 7:00pm and the movie will start at 8:00pm. We will be working with SEMAA to provide an out of this world event! We will be watching the movie Planet 51 starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, and Seann William Scott!! The activities will include miniature building rockets and other space crafts, relay races, accuracy contests, face painting, and other games! Food will be available for purchase and the admission fee will be $2 at the gate. In the event of inclement weather we will be having this event at VMNH in the Great Hall!

Screen on the Green

The Screen on the Green that was scheduled for July 8, 2011 has been postponed do to inclement weather until September 30 during Take a Child Outside week. See you then!!