Sometimes when school is out for a long time, kids can go hungry. The following restaurants and businesses have free (or cheap) children’s meals available.
Cheesesteak Factory & Jerk House
Evie’s Bistro
Wokology
Our Daily Bread- Salem
Angelle’s Diner
Papa’s Pizza
El Rio - Rocky Mount
Hokie House
Burger King
Feeding Southwest Virginia
Note: ALL public school systems also have lunch programs in place for their students.
While we shouldn’t eat IN our favorite local restaurants, many have adapted their menu for curbside pick up or delivery! Delivery services like GrubHub or UberEats have lowered or eliminated delivery fees and they have no-contact delivery options.
The Village Grill
1802 Memorial Avenue SW, Roanoke (540) 767-0057
Family Style Menu Pick Up Starting 3/21/2020
Scratch Biscuit Company
1820 Memorial Avenue SW, Roanoke (540) 855-0882
Pick Up & 5-Mile Radius Delivery Available
Sweet Donkey Coffee
2108 Broadway Avenue SW, Roanoke (540) 491-0004
Pick Up & Cloosiv Delivery
Pastel
2123 Crystal Spring Avenue SW, Roanoke (540) 204-3100
Pick Up & At-Home Baking Jars Available
Bobby’s Hot & Cheesy and Bubblecakes
2071 Colonial Avenue, Roanoke (540) 795-4217
Pick Up, DoorDash & Grubhub Delivery Available
Fork in the Alley
2123 Crystal Spring Ave SW, Roanoke (540) 982-3675
Pick-Up Available
Evie’s Bakery & Bistro
1212 4th St SW Roanoke (540) 343-4543 Pick Up Available
New York Pizza 708 Hardy Rd Vinton (540) 342-2933
Pick Up, DoorDash & Grubhub Delivery Available Wall Street Tavern
32 Market Sq SE Roanoke (540) 342-9555
Take and Bake Kits Available Pick Up, GrubHub Delivery Available
This is not a complete list of every local restaurant in our area- call your family’s favorite and see what options they have available to keep you safe AND fed. Email suggestions to josh@virginiafamily.com.
Dozens of local and national artists, businesses, libraries, and museums are providing tons of entertainment and educational videos for families to use during this pandemic and time of social distancing. We’ve gathered some of our favorites to share with you.
Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems kennedy-center.org | Daily, 1 PM EST
Draw with one of our favorite children’s author- of Elephant and Piggie fame! You can send your family’s questions and art to LUNCHDOODLES@kennedy-center.org
Beginner Virtual Karate Class with Super Kicks Karate
Join our local masters as they lead your family through a beginner karate class at home! These classes are a great way for the entire family to get some physical movement during the day.
Join them on Facebook Live every weekday at 4:30 PM EST.
One of Roanoke Valley Family’s FAVORITE local museums is going on Facebook Live DAILY (times vary, follow their facebook page for details) and giving families great play-along ideas! Science experiments, pretend-play, story times, puppet shows and more! Not only that, they are giving away boredom buster kits, doing live shout outs to local kids and tons of fun surprises to keep every local family entertained while the museum is closed.
Love kitties? local artist BeckaDoodles will be livestreaming as she draws her adorable signature kittens! Your family can draw along and share your art with others! Join her on her Facebook page, BeckaDoodles The Art of Cute.
Nightly on Youtube and Instagram @jimgaffigan
We love Jim Gaffigan for his comedy, which often features his large and exciting family! They’ve invited fans to join them for dinner conversation and charades.
Zoos across the country have closed to the public, but the animals are still having lots of fun! The following zoos and aquariums have live stream videos of animal exhibits, up-close animal investigations and even silly videos of penguins touring the zoos themselves! We’ve listed their social media handles and most common hashtags they use to share their videos.
Dallas Zoo | @DallasZoo | #BringTheZooToYou Shedd Aquarium | @Shed_Aquarium
Cincinnati Zoo | @CincinnatiZoo | #ZooHomeSafari
Oregon Zoo | @OregonZoo
San Diego Zoo | @SanDiegoZoo |#AnimalCams
As of printing, our local zoo- Mill Mountain Zoo was continuing their regular feed of animal photos and behind the scene videos of their exhibit expansions and animal care!
March 22nd – National Goof Off Day
March 23rd – National Puppy Day
Celebrate National Puppy Day and Learn how to make Paw Print Flowers
March 26th – Make up Your Own Holiday Day
April 2nd – International Children’s Book Day
April 10th – National Siblings Day
April 14th – International Moment of Laughter Day
April 18th – International Juggler’s Day
April 20th – Lookalike Day
1. Place your pet’s paw in pet-safe paint.
2. Gently press your pet’s paw onto a piece of paper or canvas.
3. Wash the paint off of your pet’s paw. Give your furbaby a treat and a smooch.
4. Paint some stems, leaves and details in the middle of the paw flower.
Find and circle all the Education pictures
Can you untangle the mess and get the right student to the right school supply?
Find the right circle that finishes the picture!
Narrow necked bottle (opening smaller than the egg, preferably glass Peeled hard-boiled egg Matches
Long strip of paper (shorter than the bottle)
Water or vegetable oil
Directions
1. Dip the narrow end of the egg in water or oil and take it out, shaking to free any large droplets.
2. Light the strip of paper and place it, flaming end down, completely inside the bottle.
3. Quickly place the egg, narrow end down, on the mouth of the bottle.
4. Watch as the egg is sucked into the bottle when the flame goes out.
When the paper is lit and placed inside the bottle, it heats the air, which expands and escapes past the egg (you might even see the egg wiggle a little). When the fire goes out because it has consumed all of the oxygen in the bottle, the air inside the bottle cools down. Cool air takes up less space than hot air. When the experiment began, the air outside had equal pressure to the air inside but when the fire goes out and the air begins to cool and takes up less space, it also is pushing less on the egg. This means that the air outside the egg is pushing down more than the air inside is pushing up so the egg is pushed into the bottle.
Experiment provided by The Science Museum of Western Virginia
