Celebrate Spring with LightHouse Little Learners! Families who have a young child experiencing blindness, low vision, or disabilities including visual impairment are invited to join us for a fun afternoon of activities at Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) in San Rafael.
The event takes place at the GDB campus at 350 Los Ranchitos Rd., San Rafael on Saturday, March 25 from 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm.
Our Co-Masters of Ceremonies for the event will be Bop-It toy inventor Dan Klitsner and his wife Alicia Alexander.
For the beeping egg hunts, children will search for the beeping eggs and then trade them for plastic eggs filled with treats (chocolates, stickers, etc.). We will also have tactile eggs in the hunts as well. For children who use wheelchairs, we will have a pop-up tent with baskets hanging by ribbons/strings that are filled with beeping eggs and tactile eggs for children to hunt for as well.
The timeline for the day will look something like this:
1:30 pm to 2:00 pm: Arrival and check-in
2:00 pm: Welcome Remarks
2:30 pm: Egg Hunt #1 (babies 0-2)
2:45 pm: Egg Hunt #2 (toddlers 3-5)
3:00 pm: Egg Hunt #3 (young children 6-8)
3:15 pm: Egg Hunt #4 (children 9+)
3:30 pm: Closing Remarks
Additionally, children’s activity stations will be running throughout the event and will include:
- Arts and crafts station: making origami dogs
- Flower-planting station
- Cookie-decorating station
- Bag-decorating (for holding the eggs and treats)
- Bubbles station
- Musical instruments station
- Fingerpainting station
- Making a piggy bank/bunny bank station
- Bop-It toy station
- Braille activities table (bookmark-decorating and bookmarks will have kids’ names in Braille)
Attendees will also get to meet a dog guide puppy-in-training, too!
Please RSVP by March 17. Register online for Beeping Egg Hunts and More! You may also contact Karen Thompson at KThompson@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7695 to RSVP or with questions.
