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Bug Fest Returns to Cincinnati Museum Center (Giveaway Closed)

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Congratulations to FFC reader, Chad Showalter! Chad’s name was drawn as the winner of the 4-pack of passes to Bug Fest! Thank you to everyone who entered!

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Their creepy and their crawly and kids LOVE ‘EM. What else could we be talking about but Bugs!

Cincinnati Museum Center’s 8th annual BugFest is back June 4th from 10am – 3pm and organizers are ready to help your budding entomologist (I had to look that up… it’s a person who studies bugs) to get up close and personal with some creepy-crawly creatures.

Bug Fest will be jammed packed with activities and have a fun variety of bugs for young participants to get to know. They’ll have hissing cockroach races in their  L.I.T.E. lab, insecto-o-vision where you can see the way that insects see when you put on some “bug” glasses, you can meet the Museum Center’s trantula, Cricket and you can even create your own insect to take home.

Sounds fun right?  There’s more — There’ll be insect tasting with ants on a log, chocolate covered scorpions, cricket jambalaya, chocolate cirp brownies….. Ummm. They’ll also have activity/informational tables in the Rotunda with people from the Hamilton County Park District, Recyclebank, UC Department of Biological Sciences, the WAVE Foundation at the Newport Aquarium and tons of more fun activities!

We’re excited to share that the Museum Center has given us a 4-pack of passes to giveaway to one lucky Family Friendly Cincinnati reader!

Here’s the scoop on entering:

1) Tell us which tasty treat from the insect tasting you’d try, if you had to 😉
2) Subscribe to our eNewsletter (top right sidebar) & leave a comment on this post saying you did so
3) Hang with us over on Facebook and leave a comment on this post saying you did so
4) Become a Fan of the Cincinnati Museum Center on Facebook and leave a comment on this post saying you did soGiveaway ends Tuesday, May 31st at 3pm. Winners will have 24-hours to respond.

Good luck!

Comments

  6. Patty Brueneman says

    I’d try chocolate cirp brownies, already a subscribe to your eNewsletter, joined you on Facebook and Cincinnati Museum Center. This sounds like a great exhibit to take the kids

  12. Gretchen says

    I am now a fan of the Cincy Museum Center on FB – we love that place!

    Thanks for the giveaway!

  28. Mary Geretz says

    WHOAH! Could I make myself try chocalate chirp brownies? Heck yeah, especially if I win tickets to take my two grandsons, 4 & 5, to watch. Wouldn’t I just be the COOLEST grandma ever? Bug Fest is a fantastic idea; the boys are fascinated by them! LOVE following Family Friendly Cincinnati on Facebook. Keep offering fun activities for me to keep the grandkids off their video games and road tripping to Cinci instead!

  30. Dianna P. says

    I don’t know if I could eat a bug, but if I had to eat something it would be something small like an ant….covered in chocolate of course! 🙂

  34. Sara T. says

    I would try the chocolate chirp brownies if I had to try something. I subscribed to the newsletter and I am already a fan of both on FB.

  35. Stacey Karlosky says

    I would not try anything on that list but my 6 year old would try them all! She is in love with bugs! This sounds like an event that she would love!

  39. Patty says

    Mmmm. Chocolate Chirp Brownies! (Okay, eww, but all brownies are good brownies, right?)

  48. Chad Showalter says

    We “LIKE” The Museum Center and FamilyFriendly Cincinnati on Facebook, and if we HAD to, we’d try the chocolate covered scorpions……(Actually, doesn’t chocolate make everything taste better?)

  63. Andrea V. says

    My 4 year old loves bugs! Although when he sees them inside he screams just like I do. Then he laughs (unlike me). We’d love the tickets! I guess if I had to maybe the chocolate chirp brownies :0. I’m subscribed to the newsletter and a fan of the museum.

  64. brandy purdon says

    I would love tickets, my 3 year old son is a bug fanatic. He spends his day, from sun rise to sun down searching for bugs. My 1 year old daughter is following in his footsteps 🙂 I have to say I would try the ants on a log.. and I signed up for the newsletter and became a fan of Cincinnati museum center. I’m already a Facebook fan of this site 🙂 thank you!

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