Take part in YMCA’s Healthy Kids Day

Submitted by Prairie Valley Family YMCA

The Prairie Valley Family YMCA invites you to Healthy Kids Day from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 27, at Taylor Family Branch YMCA, 50 N. McLean Blvd., Elgin.

The free community event will help families find fun through active play and educational opportunities to improve health and well-being. This year’s event will feature swim games and pool relay races from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Swim suits are required; no street clothes in pool.

There will be dance and kyuki-do demonstrations from 10:15 to 11:45 a.m. Join in tricycle races at 10:15 and 11:15 a.m., or the three-legged races at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. There will be a “Fruit Toss” at 10:45 and 11:45 a.m., and Sack Race at 11 a.m.

Additionally, there will be face painting, nail decorating, fun food, pictures with walking vegetables, goody bags for all children and door/raffle prizes, as well as more than a dozen different vendor tables. There will also be information about YMCA Summer Day Camp and Summer Resident Camp opportunities for 2013.

All activities are free. For details, call Laura Rudie, operations executive at Taylor Family Y, at (847) 888-7410, ext. 17, or visit www.pvfymca.org.