Local events and things to do for families and kids around Louisville, Kentucky
Weekend Picks
Weekend Family Events for Louisville parents! Fun things to do with kids this weekend.
Here, you can find your weekend family fun and weekend events around Louisville!
Spring is almost here and this page will focus on recommendations for weekend family fun. We encourage you to also explore other pages and post on our websites for festivals, free fun, holiday fun, and more.
Weekend fun around Louisville is here! Especially heading into spring, there are many things to do with your kids inside and outside depending on the weather. We found many fun options for you.
Join Audubon Park for the 55th Annual Dogwood Festival! Live music by Frankie Moody, drinks from West Sixth Brewery, an appearance by Farmer Steve, local craft vendors, food trucks and more! 5-10pm
Back in action and back at home. Celebrate Girls and Women in Sports this Friday as Racing Louisville takes on the Orlando Pride — featuring an extended happy hour, friendship bracelet exchange and more! Game time is 5:30pm, happy hour starts at 4pm.
Saturday
The Cherokee Triangle Art Fair is a juried fair with more than 200 artists’ booths featuring a variety of artistic mediums and hand-crafted wares. The two-day event is free to attend and open to the public. In addition to a high-quality and diverse selection of arts and crafts, patrons of the fair can enjoy food, drink, and entertainment. Saturday from 10am-6pm, Sunday from 10am-6pm.
Spring is here and it’s time to grow, cook, and learn at the library! Join the Southwest Regional Library and their community partners for this family-friendly event celebrating home gardening, native flowers and plants, healthy cooking, and sustainable agriculture. 10am-1pm
Join in for the first Movie Night of the season at Alberta O. Jones Park! They’ll be showing Encanto for a fun, family-friendly evening under the stars. Pre-movie activities will begin at 5:30 PM in partnership with Bernheim Forest & Arboretum’s Children at Play Network, followed by the movie at 7:00 PM.
Sunday
Louisville Hindi Paathshaala welcomes you to join them again this year to celebrate Holi Mela – The Festival of Colors. Holi is celebrated across India to signify the end of winter, the onset of spring, victory of good over evil, and simply a day to meet others, play, enjoy, laugh, forgive and forget. 12-6pm
The Fleur De Flea is hosting over 200 vendors selling antiques, vintage, collectables, vinyl, funk, junk, vintage clothes and more for a day full of Pickin and Grinnin! Food trucks, popup bar and coffee truck! 10am-5pm, admission is $5 at the gate, kids are free.
Bernheim is a beautiful and accessible forest, with 40 miles of trails, natural playgrounds, picnic areas, lakes, gardens, art, and more! Dress for the weather and get out to explore.
READ! There is always a good book to check out at your local library branch and today would be a great day to spend some time relaxing with a good book with your family!
Extras
The Main Library and Highlands-Shelby Park Library join South Central Regional with their newly established collection of board games and puzzles now available for checkout! Iroquois Library also has games now to checkout. Puzzles can be checked out for 21 days, and renewed 3 times. Board games can be checked out for 7 days (no renewals). These puzzles and games do not float, so please return them to the Library where they were checked out.
