Dino Day is coming to Downtown Monroe Saturday

Downtown Monroe will transform into a prehistoric playground from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19 for it annual Dino Day.

Visitors can explore participating downtown businesses for dinosaur-themed games, treats and trivia. Dinosaur costumes are encouraged, and visitors may even find themselves featured on social media.

Dino Day highlights include:

• 🦖 Dinosaur fun downtown: Participating businesses will offer dinosaur-themed activities and goodies for children and adults.
• 🛍️ Monroe Farmers Market: The market will feature a lineup of vendors during the event.
• 🎨 Monroe-Walton Center for the Arts: The center will offer a variety of dinosaur-themed art activities throughout the day.
• 🦕 Rinse Bath and Body: Stop by the store to adopt a mini dinosaur. The tiny prehistoric creatures will be available for visitors to take home — no feeding required.
• 🎨 Paint a Dino with Donna — $15: Create a colorful mosaic-style background and paint your own dinosaur masterpiece.
• 🦖 Paint a Dino Ceramic — $8–$12: Choose from a large selection of dinosaur ceramics and paint your favorite using acrylics.
• 🦕 Make a Clay Dino Footprint Tray with LydiaKay — $10: Create a hand-built clay tray featuring a dinosaur footprint. Choose from several colors, and the finished piece will be fired and ready for pickup about a week later.
• 🦖 Make a Dino Puppet — $3: Available 10 a.m. to noon only, participants can create a colorful dinosaur puppet to take home.
• 🎭 Face Painting — $5 and up: Choose from sweet, silly, colorful or scary designs.
• 💚 Something for everyone: Visitors can choose one activity or make a whole day of dinosaurs, art, face painting and downtown shopping.

“Get ready to RAWR, learn, and explore,” organizers said, with fun planned for dinosaur lovers of all ages.