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🧢 Folk Arts Fair 🌌 Mia Star Wars 🍜 Restaurant Week St. Cloud ⭐ NewFreebies & Deals!

Published 5 days agoΒ β€’Β 3 min read

TGIF! The weekend is here and it looks like a nice one. I'm glad it looks to be warming up a little bit as we're going to head to opening weekend of Valleyfair for my nephew's birthday. They have new owners and I'm interested to see the changes. The big one will be the remodeling of the waterpark, opening Memorial Day weekend.

If you missed our Wednesday email, check it out HERE for more about big plant sales happening this week and next, Doors Open Minneapolis and the Springtime and Sunshine Festival.

Besides those and the weekend events shared below, one more we didn't get on the website is the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Art Fair both Saturday and Sunday. You can also find more things coming up to do and see on our Events and Attractions pages.

Of course you can opt to go garage saling with over 30 citywide and neighborhood wide sales on our list here. It's also Take a Mom Fishing Weekend May 9 – 10, which means Minnesota resident moms fish free.

Have a great weekend however you spend and I'll see you again Monday for the next newsletter! Until then you can keep up with anything new at ThriftyMinnesota.com or on the Facebook page. Thanks for being a subscriber! I appreciate it.

Big Red Barn Spring Folk Arts and Crafters Fair

A great chance for finding a Mother's Day gift or something special for yourself is at the Big Red Barn in Maplewood for the Spring Folk Arts and Crafters Fair.

This event, happening Saturday May 9th, is the area’s largest folk arts gathering with over 100 booths and they typically see 2500 or more attendees. It's all a fundraiser to support the Maplewood Historical Society.

At the fair you can browse local artists, crafters, farmers, makers, vendors, food trucks, & more among the historic buildings & landscape of the Bruentrup Heritage Farm.

Free Star Wars Family Day at Minneapolis Institute of Art

Each month, your family can join Minneapolis Institute of Art for a free event for families, kids, and the young at heart. Sunday is one of these days!

For these events, the museum is filled with hands-on art activities, storytelling, artist demonstrations, gallery hunts, self-guided tours and more β€” all inspired by the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s incredible collection.

This month the theme is Star Wars! Discover how this fun film saga relates to the Mia collection and the arts. There’ll be a costume contest, Star Wars crafts, and maybe a few familiar characters roaming around the museum.

St. Cloud Area Restaurant Week

This coming week is Restaurant Week in the St. Cloud area - filled with great food and some fun "extras"!

The weeklong celebration has a different theme each day with culinary categories like "Cheese, Please", "Coffee Lovers" and "Nostalgic" served at restaurants all around the area.

The fun "extras" to the week are a chance for everyone to enter to win one of 7 $50 gift cards being given away throughout the week - one each day. (You can go enter right now.) The other is that you can earn a FREE Restaurant Week T-Shirt by using their digital passport to check in as you dine. 7 visits will get you there.

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Get the details for these deals and more on the Current Great Deals Page.

You have about 3 weeks left to make your reservation NOW for the Crayola Experience National Crayon Day Giveaway! Through 5/29 you can create your own free 32 crayon box for FREE by making your choice of colors on their Pick Your Pack wall.

There's a new FREE 8x10 Walgreens photo print offer valid through Sunday. Stick this in an inexpensive or thrifted frame for a nice Mother's Day gift!

Office Depot/OfficeMax is offering 5 pounds of paper shredding for FREE through 5/23.

Today and each Friday through May 29, save 20Β’ off per gallon at BP, Amoco and AMPM stations if you have an active Amazon Prime membership linked to FREE Earnify account.

Museum of Illusions at Mall of America is offering teachers free admission through today, high school students a special $10 admission through May 15th, and Mom's a free gift with their visit through this weekend.

It might be too late for this today, but get a FREE Mini Bucket if you're one of the first 48 customers to shop at your local participating Ace Hardware on May 8th for Hometown Days. They're also offering FREE Yard Bags with a purchase of $40 or more and you should find a Mystery Offer in your Ace Rewards app.

Lowe’s stores are offering the first 200 myLowe’s Rewards members at each store location a FREE Spring Flower tomorrow, May 9th, starting at 10 am.

See the details for the things above plus lots more over on the deals page. If you ever spot a good freebie we need to include, please send it over. We all love those!

Just click on a photo to see where we found it!

You can also see them all here.

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