This community events calendar is the place to find fun activities and things to do throughout Lewis County, including Centralia, Chehalis and beyond.
Each February we promote healthy smiles by joining with our dental community to offer free dental screenings right inside the Museum! Kids can pretend to be the dentist in our Puget Sound Dental Office exhibit and meet special guests like Amazon of Olympia, Batman in Seattle, and Tinker Fairy. Fun, engaging activities are offered all month long. Presenting Sponsor, Westside Dental.
• Explore the Puget Sound Dental Office in the Emergency! Gallery, open every day
• Greet Tinker Fairy and take a photo Feb. 18, 12–4 p.m.
• Make tiny teeth necklaces
• See some of the biggest teeth (elephants, mammoths, mastodons)
• Explore maritime mouths (narwhals, whales, sharks & more!)
• Sew a monster mouth or tooth fairy pillow
• Practice drilling for food like moon snails & mollusks
• Use tools to craft your own toothy charms & trinkets
• Meet and get your photo taken with Amazon of Olympia (Captain Carter) Feb. 3, 5–7 p.m. Amazon of Olympia (Wonder Woman) will be here Feb. 11 & 25, 2–4 p.m. Batman in Seattle will also be here on Feb. 25, 2–4 p.m.
• Free Dental Screenings for kids every Saturday in Feb. from 2–4 p.m. & First Friday Night Feb. 3 from 6–8 p.m. Museum admission is also free with your screening. Reservations required. Call (360) 956-0818 ext 0. Screening Sponsor, Small to Tall Pediatric Dentistry.
Check out our Dental Health Month page for more information and a complete list of sponsors.
Pilot Your Spring Break Adventure!
Enjoy a spring break packed with awesome activities that launch, fly, and soar up in the air. Pilot a real Huey Helicopter. Make your own wearable wings. Command a mission to the red planet and create a Mars rover. Meet the Raptor Ambassadors and learn about birds of prey. Engineer and launch paper airplanes, make your own airship, and more!
Special events and activities vary daily. See dates and times below. Make your reservations online and save $2!
March 24–April 2
• Make your own wearable wings (March 24–30)
• Design pinwheels & propellers (March 24–30)
• Learn how seeds travel through the air (March 24–30)
• Create a salad spinner nebula print (March 24–26)
• Meet Alice in Wonderland ballerinas from Studio West Dance Academy (March 26, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
• Make and launch paper airplanes (March 27–30, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
• Design your own airship (March 31–April 6)
• Create a Mars rover (March 31–April 6)
• Learn about cockroaches and other winged insects (March 31–April 6)
• Build Kites & Flyers (March 31–April 6)
• Learn about birds, bugs, and blimps (March 31–April 6)
• Pilot a Huey Helicopter with the Olympic Flight Museum (March 31–April 7)
April 3–April 16
• Design your own airship (March 31–April 6)
• Create a Mars rover (March 31–April 6)
• Learn about cockroaches and other winged insects (March 31–April 6)
• Build Kites & Flyers (March 31–April 6)
• Learn about birds, bugs, and blimps (March 31–April 6)
• Pilot a Huey Helicopter with the Olympic Flight Museum (March 31–April 7)
• Learn about animals that defy gravity (April 3–8)
• Meet Raptor Ambassadors with the Falconer (April 8, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
• Paint colorful planets (April 7–13)
• Craft with recycled materials and send it down a zip line (April 7 & 8, 11–13)
• Create a motorized scribble bot satellite (April 14–16)
• Chop, grate, and grind a space diet (April 14–16)
Pilot Your Spring Break Adventure!
Enjoy a spring break packed with awesome activities that launch, fly, and soar up in the air. Pilot a real Huey Helicopter. Make your own wearable wings. Command a mission to the red planet and create a Mars rover. Meet the Raptor Ambassadors and learn about birds of prey. Engineer and launch paper airplanes, make your own airship, and more!
Special events and activities vary daily. See dates and times below. Make your reservations online and save $2!
March 24–April 2
• Make your own wearable wings (March 24–30)
• Design pinwheels & propellers (March 24–30)
• Learn how seeds travel through the air (March 24–30)
• Create a salad spinner nebula print (March 24–26)
• Meet Alice in Wonderland ballerinas from Studio West Dance Academy (March 26, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
• Make and launch paper airplanes (March 27–30, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
• Design your own airship (March 31–April 6)
• Create a Mars rover (March 31–April 6)
• Learn about cockroaches and other winged insects (March 31–April 6)
• Build Kites & Flyers (March 31–April 6)
• Learn about birds, bugs, and blimps (March 31–April 6)
• Pilot a Huey Helicopter with the Olympic Flight Museum (March 31–April 7)
April 3–April 16
• Design your own airship (March 31–April 6)
• Create a Mars rover (March 31–April 6)
• Learn about cockroaches and other winged insects (March 31–April 6)
• Build Kites & Flyers (March 31–April 6)
• Learn about birds, bugs, and blimps (March 31–April 6)
• Pilot a Huey Helicopter with the Olympic Flight Museum (March 31–April 7)
• Learn about animals that defy gravity (April 3–8)
• Meet Raptor Ambassadors with the Falconer (April 8, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
• Paint colorful planets (April 7–13)
• Craft with recycled materials and send it down a zip line (April 7 & 8, 11–13)
• Create a motorized scribble bot satellite (April 14–16)
• Chop, grate, and grind a space diet (April 14–16)
Meet the ballerinas from Studio West Dance Academy’s Alice in Wonderland!
Free with admission or membership. Online reservations recommended.
Meet the raptor ambassadors and learn about prey and predators with The Falconer John Prucich!
Free with admission or membership. Online reservations recommended.
Join us from 6-10PM at the Spring Night Market at the Juice Box to enjoy live music, local artists, and good food and drink! Free event and families are welcome.
Join us for local art, live music, great beer, and food! Family friendly and free event.
Master Gardeners will be in the Gardens sharing how to start gardening … Gardening Made Simple. Anyone can garden, almost anywhere. The site buildings are Open 1:30 til 3:30 with our Talk at 2 pm for 30 mins. As will our Living Historians to visit about our history and gardening then and now. Some things have changed, but not. George Washington was practicing Garden Rotation 250 years ago. It is still a wise practice. He used “Organic Gardening” also, though they didn’t give it such a fancy catch phrase.
Join us for an evening of live gospel music performed by Kevin Mills & The Mark Dubbeld Family.
Kevin Mills is an accomplished singer who sang several years nationally and internationally with the group “Keepers Of The Faith”. Kevin has a beautiful bass voice and has done several solo CDs. After Kevin retired from Keepers Of The Faith, Kevin and his family settled in Rochester WA.
The Mark Dubbeld Family is from Moneta, Virginia. The performers are Mark, Janene, Elena and Britton Dubbeld. They are known for their originally penned songs and family harmony. They sing at churches and venues of every size across the United States.
Both groups have been featured singers at the National Quartet Convention (NQC) in Tennessee which is the largest southern gospel event in the US.
Winlock will be The Dubbeld’s first stop on their west-coast tour this summer. It’s a rare opportunity to get to see them in person in this part of the country and a huge bonus to get to see/hear Kevin at the same concert!
Please bring your family, friends and neighbors and come to Winlock to enjoy the concert!
