Weekend Events: Eggs, Eggs & More Eggs, Easter Parade, Passover Dance Party, Matzah Box Art, Goldilocks and Much More!

Hi everyone,

Hope everyone has been able to get out and have some fun during the Spring break.  We are enjoying seeing hyacinths, daffodils and the buds on the trees!

There is so much going on at the moment!  If you didn’t get to participate in the Fabergé Big Egg Hunt then just head over to Rockerfeller Center to see all the eggs in one place!  Also you can head to Brooklyn Bridge Park for the NYF​EST Celebrity Soccer Tournament And Family Fun Day!  The Jewish Museum has Matzah Box Masterpieces and Freedom Art Jam Art & Dance Party for Passover happening this weekend!

Also lots of egg and Easter events happening this weekend like the Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival, The Brooklyn Heights Annual Spring Egg Hunt and an Easter Party at Twinkle Playspace.  There is also still time to enjoy some of the ongoing events like Meet the Makers Festival at Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Spring Break Crafts & Games at Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden and Uncover Civil War History Over Spring Break at DiMenna Children’s History Museum!

So check out the packed calendar for even more egg events and all the other events happening this weekend in Brooklyn & NYC!  Remember to check with the event organizer in case there are any schedule changes.  Don’t forget if you have an event or a drop in class that you would like to have included on our calendar you can use the form on this link to submit it to us!  Also you can like us on Facebook for last minute events and news!

Happy Passover and Happy Easter!  Have a great weekend!

~ Deirdre (mom to O & C)

Friday April 18th

Spring Break Discovery Week: Signs of Spring at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Crown Heights)
Fri April 18th 1030a-1230p.  Free with Garden admission.
Drop by the Fragrance Garden to learn about amazing plants, meet our composting worms, and read garden stories. Kids can pot up a plant to take home.  This week’s theme: Discover Signs of Spring

Music Together of Ft. Greene/Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy Free Trial @ JACK (Clinton Hill)
Friday 11:45 *Babies 0 to 8 months old only
TRIAL CLASS: to sign up for the Babies Only trial class, infants to 8 months old, email us at: brooklynmusictogether@gmail. com mailto:brooklynmusictogether@gmail.com with your child’s name and DOB, your name and number, along with your first and second choice class you’d like to attend as a trial between April 14-18. OR REGISTER NOW TO SECURE YOUR SPOT: simply go to our website and register online here.

Matzah Box Masterpieces at The Jewish Museum (UES)
Friday, April 18 1–4pm.  Free with Museum admission.  Age 3 and up.
Design a colorful box to hold matzah or treasures for the holiday using collage, fabric, buttons, and other materials. While you are here, search the galleries for Passover artifacts in the Museum’s collection.

Easter Party at Twinkle Playspace (Williamsburg)
Friday April 18th 4-6p.  Members: $15 for first child, $5 each additional sibling. Non-members: $25 first child, first adult, $15 each additional sibling, $5 each additional adult.  Tickets on sale now, call 718-349-1300.
Join us for our Easter Party!  Bunny Hop Parade with Easter Bunny, Easter Egg Hunt, Crafts, Sing-Along Performance, Goodies!

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Saturday April 19th

NYF​EST Celebrity Soccer Tournament And Family Fun Day at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Sat April 19th 9a-4p.  Free.  Youth Showcase at Pier 5.
Loads of activities for kids ages 4 – 14, including small-sided futsal games, professional freestyle demos, clinics led by New York City FC coaches, and skills contests like “Crossbar Challenge,” “Powershot” and “Beat the Keeper”  Also a Celebrity Match at 130p.  Stars of screen and sport square off for charity. Lineup TBA.  Food and refreshments by Domo Taco, Snowday, Mudtruck, and Ample Hills Creamery.

The Brooklyn Heights Annual Spring Egg Hunt 2014
Sat April 19th 10A at Pierrepont Playground Columbia Heights and Pierrepont Streets (on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade).  Free.
Every spring, hundreds of little bunnies and their families turn out to participate in our annual Egg Hunt at Pierrepont Playground. Candy, treats, balloons and good friends have made this a holiday tradition for many families!  A bake sale will be held to benefit the Brooklyn Heights Playground Committee.

Goldilocks & the 3 Bears at Puppetworks (Park Slope)
Sat April 19th 1230p & 230p.  For 3y+.  Admission for a Child is $8, an Adult $9.  No credit cards accepted.  Reservations are suggested: 718-965-3391 (current day or advance reservations) or e-mail us: puppetworks@twcmetrobiz.com (NO same day e-mail reservations)
Robert Southey’s beloved Folk-Tale from 1837, adapted for Hand Puppets by Jack Kaplan.

Spring School Break! Sharin’ a Ride at NY Transit Museum (Downtown Brooklyn)
Sat & Sun Apr 12th & 13th 130p and 3p, Tue-Fri Apr 15th-18th and Tue Apr 22nd 11a, 130p and 3p, & Sat Apr 19th 130p and 3p.  For 4y+.  Free with paid admission.   Join us during spring break for SHARIN’ A RIDE, an original musical! Carbon Footprint Man and The Professor star in this hysterical, historical tale of public transportation in the Big (Green) Apple. Get ready to sing along—audience participation makes the show!  Program is free with Museum admission.  Performance is approximately 30 minutes.

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Sunday April 20th

2014 Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival in New York City
Sun April 20th 10:00am to 4:00pm , Free.
This has been an annual tradition since Civil War days and features marchers in elaborate Easter finery, including some of the fanciest Easter bonnets imaginable. The parade begins at Fifth Avenue and 49th Street near St. Patrick’s Cathedral and continues up Fifth Avenue to 57th Street.

Play Lab Workshop: Egg-citing Eggs! at Brooklyn Children’s Museum (Crown Heights)
Sun April 20th 1130a & 230p.  For ages 2.5y to 5y.  Free with museum admission.
Explore the egg-citing world of eggs and discover how families around the world celebrate the holiday known as Easter. Learn about animals that come from eggs, and examine a real bird’s nest from the museum’s collection. Make your own nest to take home.

Freedom Art Jam Art & Dance Party for Passover at at The Jewish Museum (UES)
Sun April 20th 12n-4p.  Free with Museum admission.
A Passover celebration with a day of activiies like Drop-in Art Workshop – Collage Instruments, Baby Loves Disco 60’s Dance Party, Reboot’s Beyond Bubbie Project, David Grover & Grover’s Gang Concert, Freedom Sculpture, Giant Word Poem, Holiday Spotlight Tours and all day Self-Guided Gallery Hunts.  See website for all the details.

Easter Festival for Brooklyn! (Williamsburg)
Sunday April 20th 1-3p.  Free.
C3 BROOKLYN PRESENTS: Easter Festival for Brooklyn!  Free event, petting zoo, Easter egg hunt, face painting, Easter Bunny photo booth, live music, free coffee, games, arts & crafts and more!  Also join us on Easter Sunday at C3 Brooklyn for our worship service 10:30am with free kids program.

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All Weekend

Peeps® Brand Presents Dinosaur Eggstravaganza! at the Bronx Zoo
Sat & Sun April 19th & 20th.  Free with zoo admission.
Celebrate the Easter holiday in dino-mite fashion on a search for graphic dinosaur “eggs.” Carefully hidden within the zoos exhibits, it’s sure to be an egg-citing scavenger hunt.

Meet the Makers Festival at Children’s Museum of Manhattan (UWS)
Fri April 18th – Tue April 22nd various times – see website.  Free with museum admission.
CMOM’s first ever Meet the Makers Festival over Spring Break (April 12–22). Visiting scientists, engineers and artists will lead a series of hand-on workshops during the 11-day fest. Plus, join us on Saturday, April 12 at 11am for a special program with eight-year-olds Gabrielle Nafie and Miles Pilchik. The two elementary school students from Manhattan were recently honored by President Obama at the White House for the film Full STEAM Ahead: How Technology Rocks the Classroom in partnership with Sci-Tech Kids. The lineup for Meet the Makers Festival is on the website.

The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt at Rockerfeller Center
Friday April 18th-Friday April 25th all day.  Free.
Rockefeller Center will host a display of unique egg sculptures as the finale of a city-wide egg hunt. From April 18 – 25th, 2014, visitors will have the opportunity to see over 260 egg sculptures, each created by the world’s leading artists, designers, photographers, architects and other creatives, located throughout the plaza.  This art exhibition, including one-of-a-kind sculptures from Jeff Koons, Zaha Hadid, Tracey Emin, Peter Beard, RETNA, Julian Schnabel, and Leo Villareal, among others, is open to the public and free of charge.
Spring Break Crafts & Games at Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden (UES)
April 18- 20, 11 am to 4pm.  Free with Museum admission.
Drop in during regular Museum hours to combine your imagination with common 19th-century materials to make your own creation to take home. Afterward take a tour, explore the Children’s Corner, or play with historic toys and games outside in the garden. Appropriate for all ages.

Bessies’s Big Shot at Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre (Central Park)
Fri 1030a & 12n and Sat & Sun 1p. (also ongoing until June 29th)  Tickets: $7 children under 12y & $10 all others.  For all ages.  Based on the famed PuppetMobile show of the same name, this popular production makes its Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre debut!  Directed by Bruce Cannon and co-written by Douglas Strich, Alexander Bartenieff and Bruce Cannon, this version of the beloved show will feature several new puppets in addition to new and extended scenes.  It’s a bird … it’s a plane … no … it’s Bessie the cow!  CPF’s original production, Bessie’s Big Shot, follows Bessie the cow’s dream of joining the circus.  Can she lift more than Ziegfried, the strongest man in the world? Fly on a trapeze high above the crowd? Train Munson the Monkey?  This variety show cheers Bessie on as she attempts the impossible and searches for her special talents.

Easter Egg Hunt Weekend at  Aviator Sports And Events Center
Thu April 17th-Sun April 20th 11a-5p.  $6
Easter Egg Hunt Weekend presented by Green Meadows Farm.  With hayrides, petting zoo, tiny tractors, corn box & butterfly house.  Contact Green Meadows Farm for details at 718-470-0224 or www.visitgreenmeadowsfarm.com.

Bello Mania at The New Victory Theater (Times Square)
Fri April 18th 2p & Sat-Sun April 19th-20th 12n & 5p.  For ages 4+.  90 minutes including one intermission.  Seats in the Balcony start at $14 ($9 with Member discount)  Nock Nock. Who’s there? Back by popular demand, it’s Demetrius Alexandro Claudio Amadeus Bello Nock, the gravity-defying dude with the foot-high hair. Returning to the New Vic stage (and his 44-foot sway pole) in BELLO MANIA, “America’s Best Clown” (TIME Magazine) delivers brand new wacky antics and favorite daredevil tricks. Whether you’re coming back for more or seeing it for the first time, 2013 Drama Desk nominee BELLO MANIA is bound to be the HIGHlight of your spring break.

Uncover Civil War History Over Spring Break at DiMenna Children’s History Museum (UWS)
Fri April 18th-April 20th (excluding Monday the 21s). All day.  Free with Museum Admission.
Families explore, learn, and compete together in Civil War-themed family programs in conjunction with the New-York Historical Society’s new exhibition Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War.  Search for Civil War clues on a scavenger hunt throughout the museum

Kids’ Week at NYC Park locations in all 5 boroughs
Fri April 18th-Sun April 20th various times
Even when school’s out, our parks are still the city’s natural classroom! Bring your kids to parks throughout the city for Kids’ Week. With programs led by our Urban Park Rangers, kids will get to experience nature in a hands-on and fun way. They may never want to go back to class again!  See website for locations and details.

Culinary Kids Food Festival at The New York Botanical Garden (Bronx)
Fri April 18th– Mon April 21st, 10a–5 p.m. in the the semi-circle area by the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden.  Included in any All-Garden Pass.
As part of the Garden’s Edible Academy initiative, join us for a family-friendly, weeklong food festival celebrating the relationships among plants, farms, and your favorite foods. Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden staff and the culinary team, Growing Chefs, will be on hand offering cooking demonstrations, recipes, and hands-on activities, with plenty of music and tastings to add to the fun. Bring your Festival passport along as you tinker with the science of kitchen chemistry and get to the root of foods from honey to sprouts at a variety of activity stations. The daily 1 p.m. cooking demonstration will feature kid-friendly recipes and tasty samples, while local chefs will share tips and recipes.

Spring Break Roller Rink Hours at LeFrak Center at Lakeside in Prospect Park
Fri-Sat 10a-10p, Sun 10a-8p April 18th-20th  Admission $8 on weekends, $6 for skate rental.
Time to swap those ice skates for quads.  Lakeside offers public skating seven days a week and features a spectacular 16,000 square foot covered rink overlooking Prospect Park Lake with ample open spaces for those not quite ready to lace up their skates.  With skate rentals ranging from a children’s size 9 to an adult size 13, Lakeside makes it easy for people of all ages to enjoy getting some fun healthy outdoor action. If you have never set foot on a rink or are looking to take your skills to the next level Lakeside’s offers beginner skating and roller hockey classes.

Prospect Park Alliance Spring Break Programming
Mon April 14th-Tue April 22nd 12n-4p.  Free.
Spend Spring Break in Prospect Park!  Blooming Naturalists at the Audubon Center!  History in Your Hands: Spring Sprouts at the Lefferts Historic House and the Carousel is also open during Spring Break too! (12n-5p/$2 a ride).  See website for all the details.

Celebrate Earth Week! at Brooklyn Children’s Museum (Crown Heights)
Friday April 18th – Tuesday, April 22nd 10a-5p.  Free with museum admission.
Spring is finally here! Spend your spring break week at BCM for our festival celebrating all things green and sustainable. Make an Eco Art project, meet and touch sea creatures threatened by warming seas, or plant seeds in an old boot to add to our shoe garden! We’re jam packed with programs and community partners, so check out our full schedule for details.

Dinosaur Safari: Mysteries Revealed! at  the Bronx Zoo
Now until November 2nd 10a-5p.  Admission included in total experience ticket price.  Dinosaur Safari: Mysteries Revealed!  Nine new dinosaur species have been added this year including the deinonychus, prodohadros, stegosaurus, and edmontonia. Returning for the Dinosaur Safari: Mysteries Revealed, the ever-popular 40-foot long tyrannosaurus rex will send chills up the spines of Bronx Zoo adventurers.  At the end of the experience, there is a field site that includes a fossil dig for children; a Tyrannosaurus rex photo-op; a paleontologist’s tent that includes a fossil museum; and an interactive robotic dinosaur that illustrates how the animatronics work.

Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History (UWS)
Now until January 4th 10a-545p.  Free with General Admission Plus One
In the new exhibition Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, rare fossils, life-size models, and hands-on interactives bring these ancient animals to life.  Step back in time to see pterosaurs, including giants such as Tropeognathus mesembrinus,with a wingspan of more than 25 feet, and find out how they moved on land and in the air. Get a first-hand look at the rare pterosaur fossils that have helped paleontologists learn all that we know about these animals. In a virtual flight lab, use your body to pilot a pterosaur over a prehistoric landscape. Encounter the exceptional creatures that flew in the age of dinosaurs.

Prospect Park Carousel Spring Hours
Now until June 29, 2014 Thu–Sun: 12n–5p.  $2 per ride, $9 for a book of 5 tickets.
Kick off spring with a ride on the Park’s beautiful 102 year-old carousel.  Located in the Park’s “Children’s Corner,” the Carousel features 51 magnificently carved horses, a lion, a giraffe, a deer, and two dragon-pulled chariots. Carved in 1912 by Charles Carmel, one of the foremost carousel designers of the time, and restored by the Prospect Park Alliance in 1990, the Carousel promises that classic summertime amusement will be available for generations of fun. In addition, the Prospect Park Carousel is one of the few in the world that is wheelchair accessible.

Pop-Up Audubon in Prospect Park
Saturdays & Sundays until  October 19, 2014: 12n–5p (except April 19, 20, 26 & 27)  Free.
The Prospect Park Alliance presents Pop-Up Audubon, now in its second season, which invites families to directly engage with nature through outdoor learning in locations around the Park.  APRIL: Leaf Litter Critters Location: Binnen Bridge (April 5, 6, 12, 13)Audubon Center at the Boathouse (April 19 & 20, 27) Bandshell (April 26)

Peace, Love And Cupcakes: The Musical at Vital Theatre Company (UWS)
Fridays and Saturdays at 7p now through April 26th and additional shows during Spring Break.  See website for details.  Tickets $30.  In PEACE, LOVE, AND CUPCAKES THE MUSICAL, Kylie Carson has a problem. She loves monster movies, zombie thrillers, and vampire sagas but her classmates at her new school avoid her like the Creature from the Black Lagoon! To sweeten up her image, Kylie starts a Cupcake Club. With the help of her new friends they begin spinning out tasty treats. But when Meredith, the most popular girl in school, tries to sabotage the big cupcake party, it may spell the end of the Cupcake Club.

The Art of the Brick at Discovery Times Square (Hell’s Kitchen, Midtown West)
Now until May 11th.  Sun-Tues 10a-7p, Wed & Thur 10a-8p, Fri & Sat 10a-9p.  Tickets:  $19.50/adult, $16.50 kids age 4-12y.  The return of The Art of Brick!RT OF THE BRICK, and will feature a newly introduced gallery that showcases artist Nathan Sawaya’s In Pieces collection, a multimedia collaboration produced in tandem with award-winning photographer Dean West.
Sawaya’s original Art of the Brick exhibition is a critically acclaimed collection of intriguing and inspiring works of art made exclusively from one of the most recognizable toys in the world — LEGO® bricks. The Discovery Times Square exhibit will be the world’s biggest and most elaborate display of LEGO® art ever and will feature brand-new, never-before-seen pieces by Sawaya. Don’t miss the show named one of CNN’s Top 10 ‘Global Must-See Exhibitions.’

The Little Prince: A New York Story at The Morgan Library And Museum (Midtown East)
Now through April 27, 2014.  Tu-Th 1030a-5p, Fri 1030a-9p, Sat 10a-6p, Sun 11a-6p.  Free with paid admission.
Readers throughout the world have embraced The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint–Exupéry’s tale of an interstellar traveler who comes to Earth in search of friendship and understanding. Saint–Exupéry wrote and illustrated the story in New York during World War II and it was first published here, in English and French. This exhibition of the original manuscript and watercolor drawings—the most comprehensive ever mounted—explores the American origins of a story that reminds us that what matters most can only be seen with the heart.

Angelina Ballerina The Musical at Vital Theatre Company (UWS)
Sat & Sun now until April 27th 11a & 330p.  General tickets $39.50 & premium $59.50.  Performances run 1 hour and are appropriate for children between 2 and 10 years old.  In ANGELINA BALLERINA THE MUSICAL, Angelina and her friends, Alice, Gracie, AZ, Viki, and even their teacher, Ms. Mimi, are all aflutter because a special guest is coming to visit Camembert Academy! Angelina and her friends will perform all types of dance, including hip-hop, modern dance, the Irish jig and of course, ballet, and they are excited to show off their skills to their famous visitor. Angelina is the most excited of all, but will she get the starring moment she hopes for? Based on the CG-animated series, Angelina Ballerina The Next Steps on PBS KIDS®, ANGELINA BALLERINA THE MUSICAL is a family-friendly show that will have the entire audience dancing in the aisles.

Bessies’s Big Shot at Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre (Central Park)
Now until June 29th Tue- Fri 1030a & 12n and Sat & Sun 1p.  Tickets: $7 children under 12y & $10 all others.  For all ages.
Based on the famed PuppetMobile show of the same name, this popular production makes its Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre debut!  Directed by Bruce Cannon and co-written by Douglas Strich, Alexander Bartenieff and Bruce Cannon, this version of the beloved show will feature several new puppets in addition to new and extended scenes.  It’s a bird … it’s a plane … no … it’s Bessie the cow!  CPF’s original production, Bessie’s Big Shot, follows Bessie the cow’s dream of joining the circus.  Can she lift more than Ziegfried, the strongest man in the world? Fly on a trapeze high above the crowd? Train Munson the Monkey?  This variety show cheers Bessie on as she attempts the impossible and searches for her special talents.

Mysteries of the Unseen World at the American Museum of Natural History (UWS)
Now until Monday, June 30, 2014.  Free with Admission: Adults: $27 & children (2-12y): $16.  Member tickets are $13.50 adults; $8.50 children. Free for Voyager-level Members and above.  Mysteries of the Unseen World will transport audiences to places on this planet that they have never been before, to see things that are beyond their normal vision, yet literally right in front of their eyes.  Mysteries of the Unseen World will be shown in 3D digital and 2D film. (See website for more details & showtimes.)

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