Calling all LEGO enthusiasts! BrickFair, the nation’s largest annual LEGO fan festival, is returning to the area in August, and it’s bigger and better than ever. Filling 130,000 square feet of space, this year’s event will accommodate even more amazing exhibits, vendors, games, and fun. And I have three Family 4-Packs of tickets up for grabs for a few lucky KFDC readers!
With a “Myths & Legends” theme, BrickFair 2016 will bring together LEGO fans from across the country to showcase amazing brick constructions. Over 800 exhibitors will display their designs, from tiny creations to towering cityscapes. There will also be nearly 100 tables of vendors selling all things LEGO — T-shirts, hats, mini figures, models, and more.
It’s not all just looking and buying. Visitors can get hands on in the Stay & Play Area chock full of bricks, so you can build and get creative. There will also be games, bouncy fun, and lots of photo ops. And in keeping with the theme, you can try to spot mythical creatures and characters among the LEGO displays.
This will all take place at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, VA, August 6-7 from 10:30am – 4pm both days. Tickets are $15/ages 4 and up, free for ages 3 and under.
GIVEAWAY: For a chance to win one of the Family 4-Packs of tickets, simply leave a comment below telling me your favorite way or place to stay cool during these hot summer days. To be eligible, you should subscribe to the KFDC blog (see sign-up to the left) and follow KidFriendly DC on Facebook. This giveaway will run through Sunday, July 24, then the winners will be drawn at random and notified shortly thereafter. Good luck!
We have spent many a wonderful afternoon at the Rockville Swim and Fitness Center – many pools (and options), slides and kids areas, and decent snack bar food – and generally not that crowded.
I like to take my daughter to Wegman’s Wonderplace in the National Museum of American History!
We are loving all the water parks
So many!
Yards Park
Georgetown Waterfront Park
Mosaic District Fountain in Falls Church
We either pull out the Slip N Slide in our yard or we go to an indoor gym, like Mobu Kids!
Our favorite way to stay cool is going to the area water spots from pools to waterparks to splashparks all over the DMV. I never knew there was so many water spots.
My daughter and I go to the pool to cool off.
We love to cool off at cheverly swimming pool!
Our family lives going to the fountains near Navy Yard!
We love Canal Park, Yards Park, and Capitol Skyline Pool!
Our favorite place these days is the new Silver Spring library
My favorite place to stay cool is the Chevy Chase library. Sometimes I take the kids there after camp. Even when they are tired, they are never too tired to read!
We have been staying cool at the Six Flags pools, Patapsco State Park river, and local library.
We go to Montgomery Mall and stop by Cold Stone Creamery in the food court area.
Love to hit the pool and splash pads!
Yards park waterfall!
National building museum for our little builders!
Our local pool is great in the early evenings but we prefer to stay inside during the hottest parts of the day!
My family and I stay cool by relaxing by the pool or playing board games or WiiU Lego games.
Our favorite way to cool off is to go to Upton Hill’s swimming pool.
Germantown Splash Park!
We love to go to our neighborhood pool to cool off 🙂 My 3 year old son LOVES legos and we are having a lego themed 4th birthday party for him in August! (at the pool!)
We’re making the rounds of DC public pools, hitting up Yards Park, and backyard slip n’slide!!
My favorite way to keep us all cool is definitely our kiddie pool, hose, and homemade Popsicles. Even I get in the pool
We turned our basement into a sports zone which is helpful in the hot days of Summer and the freezing cold days of Winter. We play football, basketball, soccer, hockey, ping pong and our latest favorite – balloon badmitton! It’s a great space for friends to join in the fun too.
Thanks to Pokemon GO- lots of walking around the neighborhood. We also like the library, Monkey Joe’s and the pool!
our favorite way to stay cool is by watching a movie at Tyson’s! Afterwards, we get ice cream and go to the lego store :).
We love to spend time at our local pool and library.
My daughters and I spend a lot of time in our backyard with water toys, a sprinkler, and an inflatable pool. But every now and then, we’ll drift to the splash pad on base and enjoy staying cool there too.
Our favorite way to stay cool is to indulge in ice cream. The store Nice cream in Arlington is a special treat.
We love the building museum and the natural history museum but our favorite way to stay cool this summer is trying new places for ICE CREAM!
Arlington has some great spraygrounds
We like to cool off at local Arlington, VA pools, Penrose Square spray fountain, indoor movies, bowling and Menchie’s frozen yogurt. And lego play is a favorite as well! Happy summer.
Swimming pool!
We like to go to Purse State Park and look for shark teeth, picnic under the low hanging tree branches and cool in the shallow clear fresh water!
I usually check the KfDC blog weekly to find new cool spots to visit and cool off,and our go-to’s are the Yards Park, Turkey Thicket Pool and Chillum Splash Pool.
We’ve been keeping cool at the bowling alley taking advantage of their summer deal with my girls. They are loving it
Spending a lot of time at museums, libraries and, of course, the pool!
We LOVE to explore ice cream shops around town to stay cool this summer. Nothing helps beat the like a generous scoop of gelato Pitango or The Dairy Godmother.
One of the splash parks in Arlington or blow up pool in the backyard!
Home made water park- slip n slide, sprinkler and a baby pool.
Pool! Thanks for the giveaway!
Blend, blend, and blend! OJ, frozen fruit and a blender, creating lots of fun frozen smoothie concoctions is the way to go (but try to avoid the brain freeze!)
Swimming pool. Any swimming pool at all to dodge the heat!!
Our favorite way to stay cool is at the splash pad. We love Our Special Harbor at Lee District Rec Center!
We love to cool down at our local pool or library.
My family’s way of cooling off for the summer is hitting up all the Spray parks around the DMV. Going to different museums, and of course some pool time. Kid friendly DC always has the best suggestions to go to for my kiddos and the family.
In my AC at home….. Or lately the library is a cool place the kids enjoy.
Splash park, library, movies
My favorite two places to take the kids are the water sprays in nationals park and boher park in Gaithersburg.
We like to go to splash parks or museums.
We always keep cool at the pool.
Movies,puzzles, or reading a book in the air conditioning is my favorite way to beat the heat.
We love to do hands on activities…science Musuem, climbing…and Legos!
My favorite place to stay cool during these hot summer days is at home under the air conditioner.
To stay cool in the summer, we like to ride our bikes to the splash park at Hillcrest Recreation Center.
Going to the pool or splashing around with the kids.
We love visiting DC’s sites! (And going to the pool and beach)!
The way I keep my kids and self cool it at OUR SPECIAL HARBOR in Alexandria, VA.
It’s a Spray park. The kids have fun every time we go.
The pool, library and movie theater.
Pool
At the pool. Julia and I are pool rats!
Lee District spray park is amazing (and free).
Pool 😉
Wrapped around a big bowl of Guacamole at Rosa Mexicano after a day wondering through the city’s museums.
Our favorite place to stay cool is the pool- but we also love the science center at fair oaks and the Udvar-Hazy center after 4! 🙂
We are beating the heat this summer with an awesome inflatable pool and some sprinklers. We just dump the water and refill it nice and cold, sometimes if it’s really hot we even add ice
Water, water, water. No pool? Spray bottles are quite portable.
We love to cool off at the bowling alley!
We have spent an incredible amount of time at splash pads and at the swimming pool. Ice cream consumption is up (for the kids) as well as iced coffee consumption (for me). We also enjoy sitting under the air conditioning and reading books together. 🙂
Thanks for hosting the giveaway, by the way!
We stay cool at the museums!
We spend countless hours at our pool, Tuckahoe Recreation Center, and just love it!
Any of the wonderful museums!
Takoma CC splash pad, or the pool, or library!
If it’s as hot that weekend as it’s expected to be this weekend – driving out to Dulles seems like it’s totally worth it! In the meantime, we’ll stay inside and eat ice cream. 🙂
Museums. And ice cream. Lots of ice cream!
We went last year with our 5 year old and he loved it! We will be there this year! Thanks for the information!!!
Leesylvania State Park, or any of the VA state parks!
Stay inside!
Movies! Otherwise staying at home reading and doing puzzles, or playing with water guns in the yard!
Definitely the pool!
We have a great community pool that we frequent as much as we can. Otherwise, we are enjoying a lot of netflix and movies this summer.
We go to our pool, Ocean Dunes Waterpark or visit the most awesome kids programs at Smithsonian Museums!
We are staying cool at the pool this summer.
The library is our favorite place to stay cool!