| YOUR EVV FAMILY FUN GUIDE | JUL 27 – AUG 2 · 2026 |
| 🐝 EVANSVILLE BUZZ’S LIL’ BEES ⌁ your weekly family fun report ⌁ an evansville buzz production | | 🐝 | 🍯 THE HIVE CHECK Summer’s Taking Its Last Lap Evansville, this is the week summer starts clearing its throat. The $2 movies wrap Thursday. The sidewalk chalk crew at Oaklyn does its final masterpiece Wednesday. The library summer reading programs go out the way any respectable summer should go out: in a foam pit at Willard on Saturday. And then Thursday, two enormous things land at once. A real B-29 Superfortress parks at the Wartime Museum for four days, and the zoo flips on more than a mile of glowing lanterns after dark. Back-to-school haircut lines start forming Saturday. We see them. We are choosing joy first. Let’s get buzzin’. |
|  | 🐝 THE HIVE FIVE The big ones for
little wings.Worth the car seat wrestling match. Worth the snack bag. Worth being home by naptime. | | |  | AVIATION ALL AGESThu, Jul 30 – Sun, Aug 2 · 11 AM–4 PM daily · Evansville Wartime Museum “DOC” is one of only two airworthy B-29 Superfortresses left on the entire planet, and it is sitting on a runway in Evansville for four days. A P-51 Mustang comes with it. Ground tours of both planes run all four days. Your kid will talk about this in October. 🎒 Parent Survival Tip: Special event pricing, not regular admission: $20 per person 16+, $10 for ages 5–15, free under 5, or $60 for a family of four. P-51 rides run all four days, but B-29 rides are Saturday and Sunday only and sell separately through b29doc.com. It is a runway in July, so hats and water are not optional. |
| | |  | ANIMALS ALL AGESThu, Jul 30 – Sun, Aug 2 · 6–10 PM · Mesker Park Zoo The zoo after dark, wrapped in more than a mile of giant illuminated Chinese lanterns, plus live local music and a rotating food truck lineup every night. This is opening weekend, which means you get to be the family that saw it first. Special event tickets required. 🎒 Parent Survival Tip: Sunday, August 2 is Accessibility Night, built for sensory-sensitive visitors. If bright and loud is a hard no in your house, that is your night. For everyone else: it does not get dark here until well past 9 in July, so the little ones may hit the wall before the lights fully pop. |
| | |  | MOVIES ALL AGESTue, Jul 28 · Wed, Jul 29 · Thu, Jul 30 · 9:30 AM · Showplace Cinemas Eight weeks of two-dollar movie mornings end Thursday. Tuesday is Newburgh, Henderson, and Princeton. Wednesday is Showplace East. Thursday is Showplace North, Jasper, and Harrisburg. Two bucks a ticket, four bucks for the kids tray with popcorn and a drink. 🎒 Parent Survival Tip: This is the cheapest two hours of air conditioning in the Tri-State and it disappears Thursday. Doors at 9:30 AM means you are home before lunch with the morning already won. Check your closest location’s day, because they rotate and showing up Wednesday in Newburgh gets you a locked lobby. |
| | |  | PLAY ALL AGESSat, Aug 1 · 1 PM · Willard Public Library Willard closes out its entire summer reading season by filling the park with foam. There is also a grand prize drawing, and you do not have to be present to win, but come on. You are not going to miss the foam. Outdoor program, weather permitting. 🎒 Parent Survival Tip: Swimsuit or clothes you have already made peace with. Bring a full change plus a towel, because foam-soaked kids and car upholstery have a famously bad relationship. Willard’s park has real shade, which in August is basically a luxury amenity. |
| | |  | ANIMALS ALL AGESSun, Aug 2 · 12–3 PM · Myriad Brewing Co., Newburgh Goats. Pigs. Chickens. Puppy snuggles. Face painting, glitter tattoos, live music from Between The Frets, and Mother Truckers Pizzeria donating a slice of every pie. Entry is by donation and all of it goes to Warrick Humane Society shelter pets. 🎒 Parent Survival Tip: Bring small bills. Feed cups are $2 per animal type, goat glamour shots are $10 with a digital download, and face paint starts at $10. Entry itself is whatever you can give, so the honest budget here is roughly “one pizza plus however many goats your kid negotiates.” |
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| | 📋 THE FAMILY GAME PLAN What’s on, day by day.Every kid-friendly event this week by day and start time. Screenshot it, send it to the family group chat. The County Fair runs all week too (details up top in the Hive Five). | MONJul 27 📚 10:00a EVPL Oaklyn STORYTIME Storytime · songs, rhymes, activity stations AGES 2-5 | 🧸 11:30a EVPL Stringtown PLAY | 🎨 4:00p EVPL McCollough TEENS | 🐕 4:30p EVPL Central READING | 👮 5:00p Barnes & Noble READING |
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| TUEJul 28 🎬 9:30a Showplace Newburgh, Henderson, Princeton MOVIES | 👶 10:00a EVPL North Park STORYTIME Baby & Me · bonding time for the tiniest bees 0-24 MO | 🔬 10:00a EVPL McCollough SCIENCE Pre-K Science · hands-on stations, tiny lab coats optional AGES 2-5 | 🎵 10:00a EVPL Stringtown MUSIC | 📚 10:00a EVPL Central STORYTIME | 💃 10:00a EVPL Oaklyn DANCE | 🗑️ 1:00p Bell Road Library, Newburgh TEENS | ✂️ 4:00p EVPL West CRAFTS | 🕷️ 5:45p EVPL McCollough MOVIES | 🃏 6:00p EVPL Central ART | ⚾ 6:35p Bosse Field SPORTS |
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| WEDJul 29 🖍️ 9:30a EVPL Oaklyn ART | 🎬 9:30a Showplace East MOVIES | 🐶 10:00a EVPL North Park MOVIES | 🧸 10:00a EVPL Central PLAY | 🧸 10:00a EVPL McCollough PLAY | 🍦 10:00a Cooper’s Cones, Mt. Vernon CRAFTS | ⚾ 12:05p Bosse Field SPORTS | 🦕 1:00p Willard Library SCIENCE | 🎨 4:00p EVPL Stringtown CRAFTS | 🦁 6:00p EVPL Oaklyn ANIMALS | 🧸 6:00p Bell Road Library, Newburgh PLAY |
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