Roanoke Valley Kids March 19

Volume 1 Issue 1 - March 19, 2020

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Restaurants While we shouldn’t eat IN our favorite local restaurants, many have adapted their menu for curbside pick up or delivery! Delivery services like GrubHub or UberEats have lowered or eliminated delivery fees and they have no-contact delivery options.

Need Lunch?

Sometimes when school is out for a long time, kids can go hungry. The following restaurants and businesses have free (or cheap) children’s meals available.

Cheesesteak Factory & Jerk House Evie’s Bistro Wokology Our Daily Bread- Salem Angelle’s Diner Papa’s Pizza El Rio - Rocky Mount Hokie House Burger King Feeding Southwest Virginia Note: ALL public school systems also have lunch programs in place for their students.

The Village Grill

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1802 Memorial Avenue SW, Roanoke (540) 767-0057 Family Style Menu Pick Up Starting 3/21/2020

2123 Crystal Spring Avenue SW, Roanoke (540) 204-3100 Pick Up & At-Home Baking Jars Available

Scratch Biscuit Company

Bobby’s Hot & Cheesy and Bubblecakes

1820 Memorial Avenue SW, Roanoke (540) 855-0882 Pick Up & 5-Mile Radius Delivery Available

Sweet Donkey Coffee 2108 Broadway Avenue SW, Roanoke (540) 491-0004 Pick Up & Cloosiv Delivery

2071 Colonial Avenue, Roanoke (540) 795-4217 Pick Up, DoorDash & Grubhub Delivery Available

Fork in the Alley 2123 Crystal Spring Ave SW, Roanoke (540) 982-3675 Pick-Up Available

Evie’s Bakery & Bistro 1212 4th St SW Roanoke (540) 343-4543 Pick Up Available

New York Pizza 708 Hardy Rd Vinton (540) 342-2933 Pick Up, DoorDash & Grubhub Delivery Available

Wall Street Tavern 32 Market Sq SE Roanoke (540) 342-9555 Take and Bake Kits Available Pick Up, GrubHub Delivery Available

This is not a complete list of every local restaurant in our area- call your family’s favorite and see what options they have available to keep you safe AND fed. Email suggestions to josh@virginiafamily.com.

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At Home Entertainment

Dozens of local and national artists, businesses, libraries, and museums are providing tons of entertainment and educational videos for families to use during this pandemic and time of social distancing. We’ve gathered some of our favorites to share with you.

Morning Story Time with Roanoke Public Library

Join our local librarians as they read children’s books aloud on their Youtube channel, Roanoke Public Libaries, every morning at 10 AM EST!

Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems

kennedy-center.org | Daily, 1 PM EST

Beginner Virtual Karate Class with Super Kicks Karate

Draw with one of our favorite children’s author- of Elephant and Piggie fame! You can send your family’s questions and art to LUNCHDOODLES@kennedy-center.org

Join our local masters as they lead your family through a beginner karate class at home! These classes are a great way for the entire family to get some physical movement during the day.

Join them on Facebook Live every weekday at 4:30 PM EST.

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Dinner with Jim Gaffigan Nightly on Youtube and Instagram @jimgaffigan

We love Jim Gaffigan for his comedy, which often features his large and exciting family!

They’ve invited fans to join them for dinner conversation and charades.

Boredom Busters with Kids Square Children’s Museum One of Roanoke Valley Family’s FAVORITE local museums is going on Facebook Live DAILY (times vary, follow their facebook page for details) and giving families great play-along ideas! Science experiments, pretend-play, story times, puppet shows and more! Not only that, they are giving away boredom buster kits, doing live shout outs to local kids and tons of fun surprises to keep every local family entertained while the museum is closed.

Virtual Zoo Visits Across America Zoos across the country have closed to the public, but the animals are still having lots of fun! The following zoos and aquariums have live stream videos of animal exhibits, up-close animal investigations and even silly videos of penguins touring the zoos themselves! We’ve listed their social media handles and most common hashtags they use to share their videos.

Dallas Zoo | @DallasZoo | #BringTheZooToYou Shedd Aquarium | @Shed_Aquarium Cincinnati Zoo | @CincinnatiZoo | #ZooHomeSafari Oregon Zoo | @OregonZoo San Diego Zoo | @SanDiegoZoo |#AnimalCams As of printing, our local zoo- Mill Mountain Zoo was continuing their regular feed of animal photos and behind the scene videos of their exhibit expansions and animal care!

Virtual Draw Along with BeckaDoodles Love kitties? local artist BeckaDoodles will be livestreaming as she draws her adorable signature kittens! Your family can draw along and share your art with others! Join her on her Facebook page, BeckaDoodles The Art of Cute.

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Awesome March and April Holidays March 22nd – National Goof Off Day March 23rd – National Puppy Day Celebrate National Puppy Day and Learn how to make Paw Print Flowers March 26th – Make up Your Own Holiday Day April 2nd – International Children’s Book Day April 10th – National Siblings Day April 14th – International Moment of Laughter Day April 18th – International Juggler’s Day April 20th – Lookalike Day

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Mother’s Day Gift Idea!

Paw Print Flowers

1. Place your pet’s paw in pet-safe paint.

2. Gently press your pet’s paw onto a piece of paper or canvas.

3. Wash the paint off of your pet’s paw. Give your furbaby a treat and a smooch.

4. Paint some stems, leaves and details in the middle of the paw flower.

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Education Picture Search

Find and circle all the Education pictures

Can you untangle the mess and get the right student to the right school supply?

Find the right circle that finishes the picture!

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Science Eggs-periment

What’s happening?

When the paper is lit and placed inside the bottle, it heats the air, which expands and escapes past the egg (you might even see the egg wiggle a little). When the fire goes out because it has consumed all of the oxygen in the bottle, the air inside the bottle cools down. Cool air takes up less space than hot air. When the experiment began, the air outside had equal pressure to the air inside but when the fire goes out and the air begins to cool and takes up less space, it also is pushing less on the egg. This means that the air outside the egg is pushing down more than the air inside is pushing up so the egg is pushed into the bottle.Â

Supplies

Narrow necked bottle (opening smaller than the egg, preferably glass Pe e l e d h a r d - b o i l e d e g g Matches Long strip of paper (shorter than the bottle) Wa t e r o r v e g e t a b l e o i l

Directions

1. Dip the narrow end of the egg in water or oil and take it out, shaking to free any large droplets.

2. Light the strip of paper and place it, flaming end down, completely inside the bottle.

3. Quickly place the egg, narrow end down, on the mouth of the bottle.

4 . Wa t c h a s t h e e g g i s s u c k e d i n t o t h e bottle when the flame goes out.

Experiment provided by The Science Museum of Western Virginia

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