Celebrate the beginning of spring in the Pearland, Friendswood and Manvel areas with these eight events happening throughout April and May.<\/p>\n
This list is not comprehensive, and details are subject to change.<\/p>\n
Garden Party<\/p>\n
The third annual event is partnering with Keep Manvel Beautiful to offer visitors an inside look at how 500-700 pounds of vegetables are grown every year.<\/p>\n
Berry Sweet Market<\/p>\n
Enjoy a free meet and greet with Strawberry Shortcake as well as local vendors, food, a DJ and a kids zone at the local market at the Pearland Town Center.<\/p>\n
Scoops for Wishes<\/p>\n
Friendswood Scoop Shop is celebrating Make-A-Wish Foundation with an afternoon of princesses, food, face painting and music.<\/p>\n
Flower Power Festival<\/p>\n
Visit the Houston Botanic Garden\u2019s \u201chippest blooms\u201d of the season and experience a day of flower-focused family fun with groovy activities.<\/p>\n
Grand Arts & Eats<\/p>\n
The spring celebration of the Old Townsite district features local artists and their work as well as assorted carnival games, crafts and snow cones.<\/p>\n
Friendswood Dance Festival<\/p>\n
The community event at Centennial Park offers food trucks, vendors and local talent showcasing the performing arts.<\/p>\n
Pearland Latin Jazz Fest<\/p>\n
Celebrate Puerto Rico and Cuba under the stars with live orchestras and a vibrant Afro-Cuban dance production at the Pearland Town Center.<\/p>\n
Youth Fishing Derby<\/p>\n
Participants can compete to catch the largest and smallest fish out of Centennial Park Pond, which will be stocked with more than 600 pounds of catfish for the derby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrate the beginning of spring in the Pearland, Friendswood and Manvel areas with these eight events happening throughout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1604,4282,64,4013,577,47915,11671,56,58,57,66,1454,808,746,69,51],"class_list":["post-218765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-community-impact","tag-crafts","tag-events","tag-family-friendly","tag-festivals","tag-flowers","tag-free","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-near-me","tag-shopping","tag-spring","tag-things-to-do","tag-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}