FAMILY ActivitiesCENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORYSummer Solstice Tour, an educational stroll w/park historian ...

| 16 Feb 2015 | 05:38

    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY

    Summer Solstice Tour, an educational stroll w/park historian leading up to lakeside sunset?bring flashlights; (midpark at 65th St.), 212-348-4867, reg. req.; Thurs. at 6:30, $10.

     

    FISHING: CATCH & RELEASE

    Central Park Conservancy staff teaches you the proper way to release a fish without hurting yourself or fellow fishermen?like, if you released the fish & flung it at another guy's head?; Dana Discovery Center, Central Park, 110th St. (5th Ave.), 212-860-1370 to reg.; Weds.-Sun. & Tues. 10-5, free. [through 11/31].

     

    MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FOLK ART

    Drop in for a crafts workshop, they change every two weeks so call before you come. 2 Lincoln Sq. (betw. 65th & 66th Sts.), 212-595-9533; Sun. 2-4, $3 material fee.

     

    NEW YORK FAMILY ARTS FESTIVAL

    Month long festival in recognition of family & diversity through various art forms, incl. paintings, dance & workshops; Theater of the Riverside Church; 91 Claremont St. (betw. 120th-122nd Sts.), 212-870-6784; Sun. 1-6, $5. [through 6/24].

     

    SONY WONDER

    This week kiddies create their own "circuit wear" using old computer components, which is what we were supposed to be wearing by 2001 anyway! Sony Plaza, 550 Madison Ave. (55th St.), 212-883-8100 or www.sonywondertechlab.com; Fri. & Sun. 2-5, $10.

     

    SPACE ADVENTURE SWEEPSTAKES

    Enter to win a round-trip all-expenses paid jaunt to the Parent/Child Space Camp in Titusville, Florida, incl. accommodations & spending money; log onto www.nabiscoworld.com for details; contest ends July 14.

     

    Things to See & Hear

    ARTHUR'S WORLD Artist Marc Brown, creator of Arthur series, exhibits his work at the Children's Museum of Manhattan, 212 W. 83rd St. (betw. Amsterdam & B'way), 212-721-1234; call for times, $5 [through 8/31/01].

     

    FRANK GEHRY & FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

    An intro. to architecture for the kiddies without creative parents, call to register; Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave. (88th St.), 212-423-3587; Sat. at 12, free.

     

    GODZILLA 2000 Sony hosts screening of Matthew Brodrick's millennium flop, but be warned?even little kids know that a human pregnancy test wouldn't work for Godzilla; Sony Plaza, 550 Madison Ave. (55th St.), 212-883-8100 or www.sonywondertechlab.com; Thurs. at 6, free.

     

    MAYA THE BEE

    Entertaining families for a year now, the jazz puppet play for kids 3-9 is based on German book about a bee who runs away from her hive; Salon Theater, 45 Bleecker St. (Lafayette St.), 212-539-6644; Sat. at 2, $7-$15.

     

    ONCE ON THIS ISLAND

    Revival of B'way classic presented by the Urban Youth Center; Henry St. Settlement's De Jur Playhouse, Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand St. (Pitt St.), 212-598-0400; Fri. & Sat. at 8, Sun. at 2, $5 [through 7/1].

     

    PICTURE BOOK HOUR Kids age 3-6 come for reading & seeing at the Donnell Library Center Central Children's Room; 20 W. 53rd St. (Madison Ave.), 212-621-0636; Fri. at 4, free. [through 6/29].

     

    STEAL AWAY

    Puppet show performed by Eco Raps & the Urban Park Rangers in celebration of freedom & independence; Riverside Park S., Hudson River (betw. 68th & 72nd St.), 212-408-0219; Thurs. at 1:30, free.

     

    WISEACRE FARM A birthday on the farm at Thirteenth St. Rep, 50 W. 13th St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-675-6677; Sat. at 1, $7.