Community Corner
Grab & Go Kids Planner
This weekend is looney tunes. Grab the kids and head out for Dr Suess's Birthday, circus science with Barnum & Bailey and Alice in Wonderland at Puppetworks.
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We've assembled a weekly calendar of kid-friendly activities and new places to try out with children. Each week, we'll give you the info on the five best family activities or events for the week.
You're time-pressed enough, so we're happy to do the research and find the best things to do and places to go, both locally and within reasonable striking distance.
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Where/When: MS 113, 300 Adelphi St, Brooklyn, Saturday, February 26, 11am to 2pm.
Why Go: Community swaps are increasingly popular. As more families adopt the "nothing new" rule, it teaches everyone to recycle and reuse, preventing more waste from entering the environment. Plus, kids can learn to swap out for other toys, books and clothes, while your pocketbook stays closed. So, clean out the closets and recycle, you never know what is waiting for you and the kids.
Price: Free
Where/When:The Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, Saturday February 26, 11am to 6pm.
Why Go: Help your kids broaden their cultural focus by exploring the exhibit, Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains. Looking closely at the Tipi as an architectural art form expressed on the Plains by Native Americans. Kids will see their cultural identity and the sacred art and designs of their habitat.
Price: Suggested contribution for adults is $10, kids are free
Where/When: Fort Greene Visitor Center in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn-718-722-3218-Sunday, February 27, storytelling starts at 11am.
Why Go: You and the kids will have a magical time celebrating the birthday of Dr. Seuss and kids get to take home their very own Seussical character.
4. Story Time: Skit-Skat Raggedy Cat
Where/When: Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, Saturday February 26, at 11am.
Why Go: This book reading promises to delight and educate your kids and give you an hour of down time. Author Roxane Orgill and Illustrator Sean Qualls present their book Skit-Skat Raggedy Cat a biography of Ella Fitzgerald's life as a young person. Greenlight books is hosting this story-time to celebrate Black History month.
Price: Free
Where/When: The Brooklyn Children's Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue
Brooklyn, Saturday, February 26, starting at 1pm
Why Go: The kids get to learn about physics while watching the awesome performances of Barnum and Baily circus performers. Experience gravity in a whole new way.
Where/When: Puppetworks, 338 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn-718-965-3391- Saturday 26, 12:30 and 2:30
Why Go: To experience the delightful puppeteers operate their marionettes as they preform the childhood classic, Alice in Wonderland.
Price: Adults $8, Kids $7
