36+ Singles Banana Derby
Schedule
Sat, 24 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
66 Oak Valley Dr, St Peters, MO 63376-3741, United States | Saint Peters, MO
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Who: All 36+ singles in the 5-stake regionWhat: 36+ Singles First Annual Banana Derby!
Where: 66 Oak Valley Drive, St. Peters, MO 63376
When: 5 PM, Saturday, January 24, 2026
We had 22 people come to our Christmas party last Saturday. It was a lot of fun for everyone in attendance and there were some really nice gifts! We are going to have a lot of fun this year! You can be a part of it, but you do have to show up! Our first activity in 2026 is an excellent example:
Did you ever participate in a cub scout pinewood derby? If not, now is your chance to create your own car but with a twist. We'll be having our first annual 36+ Singles Banana Derby on Saturday, January 26. We'll be using the Dardenne Creek Ward's pinewood derby track to race our banana derby cars to see whose car is Top Banana. Barry will be making car frames in advance for all participants to attach their bananas to and Kathy will be painting each frame so you can decorate yours as creatively as possible. In addition to the speed award of Top Banana, there will also be creative awards for Best of the Bunch and Most Apeeling Car. A variety of materials will be provided for you to decorate with, such as yarn, construction paper, cotton balls, feathers, googly eyes, pipe cleaners, markers, as well as a variety of kinds of tape and a hot glue gun. If you have a specific idea you may want to consider bringing a few supplies yourself, or let us know and we'll see about getting it/them.
To help get your creative juices flowing, the picture above on the left shows the car Kathy made of a football banana on a small football field as an example of what you might want to do to decorate your banana car. *You can't actually see the picture here on Facebook, but if you would like to send me your email address I will send it to you! My idea was to make Abe-anana Lincoln including a black top hat. There are so many fun ideas to consider. The picture on the right shows some of the frames Barry made. Again, you can't see this picture on Facebook. Send me an email and I'll send you this pic also. We'll take about 30 minutes to decorate our cars (starting at 5 PM), then we'll eat in the Oak Valley cultural hall on either side of the track while we take turns racing our cars. Please make sure you come at 5 pm to 66 Oak Valley Drive, St. Peters, 63376, instead of to the stake center! After the activity we'll enjoy eating our bananas in banana splits for dessert! If you don't like banana splits, you can make a sundae. There will be no need for anyone to bring any other desserts!
You must register at this link so we can make sure we have enough car frames and bananas available and so you can sign up to bring an item needed for the submarine sandwiches we'll be having. We are trying to reduce the cost of items you bring as your potluck. To that end, please sign up for things on the list. If we run out of items to sign up for because there are so many people coming, you may want to consider bringing another additional type of cheese or meat, or an inexpensive appetizer. Here is the sign up list:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WSY-tx2dHaD5XOKw3XtuTCLa3Vh5sTOjAAbBSbbRHVE/edit?tab=t.3rig0ukn64lw
Come on out and join us for this fun activity and start the year off with a bang!
Questions? Contact Barry: 636-875-4522, [email protected]
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