Buzz on Bees
Celebrate our winged aviators at this family-friendly workshop! Take a tour of QBG’s Bee Garden, learn about these amazing insects, sample local honey, and make a beeswax candle to take home.
High Line Honey Day
Treat yourself to a sweet snack featuring local honey from the High Line’s acclaimed food vendors, including L’arte del Gelato, People’s Pops, and Melt Bakery, located on the High Line at West 16th Street.
Plant-Based/Raw Food Demo
During our class, you will discover how to prepare Healthy, Delicious and well-balanced Plant based meals that will bring mealtime enjoyment and may add years to your life ! Starts June 26th then every second Sunday until December 11th, 2016 !
Holiday Train Show
For the 25th anniversary of NYC’s favorite winter tradition, enchanting model trains zip through a display of 150 landmarks, each re-created with bark, leaves, and other natural materials under the twinkling glow of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.
Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas
Experience the horticultural inspiration behind American Impressionism.
GrowNYC Create Fair
Calling all DIY lovers! Come to GrowNYC’s Create Fair to enjoy fun, hands-on activities including cooking demos, recycling games, nutrition education workshops, and making DIY seed planters.
Pop Up Maker Space at Pier 25
Calling all Makers! Join us at our outdoor Maker Space for weekly workshops challenging participants to design and construct solutions to real-world problems. Guided Maker workshops challenge participants to design and construct projects inspired by science and river concepts. Learn about the Hudson River through an engineering scope. Come tinker, test and build!
City of Water Day; Free Family Festival
Mark your calendars to celebrate the biggest harbor festival of the metropolitan region on Saturday, July 16, on Governors Island, New York; at Maxwell Place Park, Hoboken, New Jersey; and at dozens of In Your Neighborhood locations around New York Harbor.
Family Nature Exploration with the Prospect Park Alliance
Join the Prospect Park Alliance for nature education programs at the Prospect Park Audubon Center, the first urban Audubon Center in the nation.
Make it Sweet!
Families create together on the High Line! In July, in conjunction with High Line Honey Day, we’ll learn about bees, taste sweet plants, and more.
Wilderness Survival Skills with Destination Backcountry Adventures
Join Destination Backcountry Adventures to learn the essential skills & philosophy of survival to be prepared for the worst case scenario on your next adventure or just to gain a new perspective in your everyday life.
Living Water Explorations at Prospect Park
Come join us for this all-age-friendly hands-on activity pond-dipping for snails, leeches and dragon fly nymphs !
Earth Day with Mud Coffee and Exit9 Gift Emporium
Prepare to get dirty! Mud Coffee is teaming up with Exit9 Gift Emporium and the NYC Compost Project hosted by LES Ecology Center to bring you an afternoon of Earth Day activities, for families with kids ages 4-10 !
NYSoM Green Day in Harlem
Family friendly event filled with arts & crafts, plant pot painting and many more activities in honor of Earth Day !
Flushing Meadows Corona Park Volunteer Day
On April 17th, welcome back spring and celebrate Earth Week with us! Help us give back to Flushing Meadows Corona Park on a not-so-lazy Sunday afternoon.
Sketching New York Lives
Learn about notable New Yorkers through their portraits , explore the art of silhouette portraits, and make a silhouette portrait of yourself!
Teddy Bears for Teddy Roosevelt
Celebrate President’s Day by making your own teddy bear and learn about President Roosevelt’s impact on NYC as Police Commissioner.
A is for Activist: New York City Tots
A special program for children ages 2-4 years old. Explore objects, stories, and songs in the exhibition ‘Activist New York’, design your own flower pot, and plant a seed to take home.