Hi everyone
So this is it! One last full week of summer break for children going to NYC public schools and then it is Labor Day Weekend and summer over!
This week make sure to check out Madison Urban Club for Kids (M.U.C.K) and Reading Rangers in Madison Square Park, dance with Mil’s Trills at the Brooklyn Kids Block Party in Albee Square, have a blast at Tuesdays at The Pavilion: Arts & Crafts in Union Square Park, make friends at the Baby Breakfast at Habana Outpost, enjoy Movies @ the Library: Despicable Me 2 at the New Utrecht Brooklyn Public Library and Movies in the Parks: The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie in Maria Hernandez Park.
Also enjoy ongoing events like City Splash at Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Backyard Playtime at Norman & Jules, Jeppe Hein: Please Touch the Art at Brooklyn Bridge Park and Splash Pad at the LeFrak Center at Lakeside in Prospect Park.
There are more events happening this week so check the calendar for everything going on in Brooklyn & NYC! Also remember to like us on Facebook for last minute news and event reminders.
Have an awesome week!
~ Deirdre (mom to O & C)
Monday August 31st
Madison Urban Club for Kids (M.U.C.K) in Madison Square Park (Flatiron)
Monday August 31st 10a-12n. Free. Participate in Madison Urban Club for Kids (M.U.C.K) program led by Gardener Steph for a lesson on horticulture and our environment. M.U.C.K. workshops are held the last Monday each month from June through September from 10am to 12pm in the Police Officer Moira Ann Smith Playground. Become an official member of M.U.C.K by coming to all four workshops with our newly created Club Card. Club Cards will be available and distributed on May 28 during the first Mad. Sq. Kids summer concert. Adult supervision is required. August 31st: Machinery – Kids tool time! Participants will learn about tool uses in the park, how they work, and how tools can help to make any job easier. See websit for future workshop information.
Collaborative Map Project at the Children’s Museum of the Arts (SOHO)
Monday August 31st 12n-5p. Free with museum admission. In conjunction with the exciting exhibition, If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home, opening this September, families are invited to participate in the creation of a mural-sized world map in the CMA Fine Arts Studio on August 27-31 during general hours! Inspired by Aleksandra Mizielinska’s book, MAPS, families will collaborate with CMA Teaching Artists to first outline and then collage to add color, flora, fauna and points of interest to the large-scale world map. Join us to learn scaling techniques, geography as well as about new cultures and places!
Movies in the Parks: Annie (2014) at the Herman Dolgon Playground
Monday August 31st 830-10p. Free. Rated PG. You should come before 8:30 p.m. to get your spot. Join NYC Parks for free, family-friendly movies in our city’s parks! In this contemporary version of Annie, the orphan (Quvenzhané Wallis) has a hard-knock life with her calculating foster mother, Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). However, all that changes when hard-nosed billionaire and mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) takes her in. Stacks believes that he’s Annie’s guardian angel. But, Annie’s confidence and sunny outlook could save Will instead.
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Tuesday September 1st
Baby Breakfast at Habana Outpost (Fort Greene)
Tuesdays 10a-12n. Free. Bring the little ones out to enjoy our courtyard, which will be transformed into a toddler wonderland complete with toys, water table, and supervised art projects geared towards children 4yrs and under. Meet your neighbors and watch your babies make new friends!
Reading Rangers in Madison Square Park (Flatiron)
Tuesdays at 10a until September 29th (also Fridays) in or around the Police Officer Moira Ann Smith Playground. Free. Adult supervision is required. This Friday, Apple Seeds will lead your child on a musical journey based on themes pulled straight from their favorite books. Their songs for seeds musician will captivate the audience with an interactive book reading, followed by a high energy musical performance.
Tuesdays at The Pavilion: Arts & Crafts in Union Square Park
Tuesdays 3-5p until October 13th. Free. Union Square Park’s playground isn’t the only place kids can have fun in the park! Bring your little ones to The Pavilion in the North Plaza every Tuesday at 3 p.m. to explore fun new topics every month through arts and crafts!
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Wednesday September 2nd
Drop in Spanish Sing Along with Esperanza! at ELK (Windsor Terrace)
Wednesdays 1-145p. $10/family. Anza’s Music class! A lot of fun dancing and singing in Spanish with the guitar, flute, maracas, shakers, puppets, scarves, parachute and bubbles!
Movies @ the Library: Despicable Me 2 at the New Utrecht Brooklyn Public Library
Wednesday September 2nd 230-4p. Free. Gru, has been recruited by the Anti Villian League, who sends him on a mission to capture the person(s) of a great heist.
Pre-Ballet at the Stomping Ground (Crown Heights)
Wednesdays 415-515p. Drop if spots available $15 member/$20 non-members. Pre-Ballet is an exciting beginning ballet class for children who are ready to dance without caregiver assistance. This 45 minute class teaches the fundamentals of ballet movement, with an emphasis on correct terminology and heightened body and rhythm awareness. Students will participate in both structured dance lessons and imaginative dancing to foster creative expression. Caregivers must remain inside The Stomping Ground for the duration of the class. Ages 3-4yrs. Any color leotard and tights is appropriate. No socks or cloth ballet slippers – only leather ballet shoes. Please email tsgdanceclass@gmail.com to check if room for drop-ins.
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Thursday September 3rd
Brooklyn Kids Block Party with Mil’s Trills at Albee Square (Downtown Brooklyn)
Thursday September 3rd 10a-12n. Free. Kids rule at Albee Square with special events, live music, and fun for the whole family. September 3rd: Mil’s Trills: Discover a world of instruments and explore musical sounds through lively, interactive performances and original tunes.
Backyard Sing-a-Long with Lloyd H. Miller at Norman & Jules (Park Slope)
Thursdays 4-445p through October. $12 for first child and $3 for additional child. For infants to 4yrs. Caregivers must be with their children at all times. Singalong with Lloyd (From The Deedle Deedle Dees!
Movies in the Parks: The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie at Maria Hernandez Park (Bushwick)
Thursday September 3rd 830-1030p. Free. You should come before 830p to get your spot. Join NYC Parks for free, family-friendly movies in our city’s parks! Rated PG. In The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie, Mr. Krabs is accused of stealing King Neptune’s crown – but SpongeBob refuses to believe it. He sets off on a mission to Shell City to exonerate him. Tagging along: his friend Patrick.
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Ongoing
City Splash at Children’s Museum of Manhattan (UWS)
Open every day weather permitting until Labor day. For all ages. Free with museum admission. Sunday – Friday 10a-5p & Saturday 10a-7p. Really make a splash at CMOM! When the weather turns warm, our City Splash exhibit encourages children of all ages to explore and learn more about our environment and the unique properties of water in a fun, hands-on setting. Launch boats down a winding stream. Don’t miss the puddle patch, where you can investigate tubs filled with water to learn which objects float and which ones sink. Learn about evaporation as you paint with water on slate. Experiment with sand to create rivers and lakes at our new Erosion Table. Regardless of what you choose to do, you’re in for a day of wet and wonderful fun and learning at City Splash!
Splash Pad at the LeFrak Center at Lakeside in Prospect Park
Mon-Sat: 10a-7p & Sun: 10a-6p. Free. Open Memorial Day through Labor Day, weather permitting. The Splash Pad, officially known as the Matilda Raffa Cuomo Water Playground, is the LeFrak Center’s free water play area for kids 12 and under. Open from Memorial Day to Labor Day, the water feature welcomed over 30,000 visitors last summer. Featuring 47 water spray jets and covering 16,000 square feet, Splash Pad is largest water play area in Prospect Park. In addition, the LeFrak Center offers roller skating, the Bluestone Café, and surrounding landscapes for picnicking and relaxation.
Playtimes at Norman & Jules (Park Slope)
Mondays 930-530p & Tuesday-Fridays 930a-3p September & October. $12/first child, additional child $6. Package 10 for $108. Our backyard is intended for ages 6m to 5y. We do not offer drop-offs. Caregivers must be with their children at all times.
Art in the Park in Madison Square Park (Flatiron)
Mondays & Wednesdays 10a-2p until September 30th. No sessions on the last Monday of each month (7/27, 8/31 & 8/28). Free. The Mad. Sq. Park Teaching Artist can be found in the Moira Ann Smith Playground each Monday and Wednesday from June 1 – September 30 with free hands-on creative arts activities at 10am and 2pm. Children are encouraged to participate in free flowing art-based activities. Adult supervision is required.
Jeppe Hein: Please Touch the Art at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Open daily 6a-1a until April 17, 2016. Free. Visitors entering the park at Pier 1 will encounter Hein’s iconic water sculpture, Appearing Rooms installed on the Bridge View Lawn. Vertical jets of water will gradually appear forming seven-foot-tall “walls”, which moments later will disappear, enabling visitors to move to different “rooms”, all without touching a drop of water. Systematically, these “walls” appear and disappear through a timed cycle, enticing visitors to step onto the gridded platform and move from space to space within the sculpture. The cycle of changing walls may also be observed from outside the piece as a dynamic and perceptually engaging work of art. The second major component of the exhibition is a newly conceived, large-scale Mirror Labyrinth to be installed at the Pier 3 Greenway Terrace. The third body of work, Modified Social Benches, will be on view throughout the park,surprising visitors with each chance encounter. See website fore the full descriptions of the art.
To see all the events click here for the calendar!