The four-day Spring Break kicks off this weekend, with multiple cultural venues in Yunlin County—including the Yunlin Story House, Ershui Story House, and Douliu Picture Book House—hosting family-friendly activities. Parents are welcome to bring their children to enjoy magic shows, challenge games, DIY traditional toys, and sugar-blowing performances.
Douliu Xingqi Memorial Hall will host a music picnic market and concert, along with a hands-on Qingming spring roll-making activity prepared by Sanxiao Market.
Nature and ecology enthusiasts can visit the Golden Bat Eco Museum in Shuilin Township, which is holding four days of environmental education challenges and guided tours. Those born on April 4 can present ID to receive a “Bat Festival Postcard.”
History buffs can head to the Xiluo Yanping Old Street Cultural Center to join a free guided tour titled “Exploring Xiluo’s Historic Architecture.”
The Houbi Puppet Theater features the spectacular 8-meter-tall puppets of Shi Zhenren and Luo Hou from the Taiwan Lantern Festival’s “Puppetry Through the Ages” exhibit, as well as puppet plays such as “The Three Fruit Musketeers,” “Treasure Hunters,” and “Ji Gong Subdues the Fire Dragon.”
The Douliu Official Residence Children’s Museum offers activities like “Let’s Go on a Treasure Hunt” and a second-hand toy house “Sensory Integration Experience Activity”; the Tuku Story House hosts the “New Qi Painting Art Camp Spring Program,” ensuring kids have an arts-filled Children’s Day.
(China Times)