Things to do in Lower Manhattan
Join us to make your own Easter craft. All materials will be provided.
Date: Wednesday, April 17th
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 175 North End Avenue — Battery Park City Library
Age(s): Best for ages 3+
Cost: Free
For more information visit their website HERE
There are a few more spots for the last 2 sessions of the winter season.
No one to watch your baby while you exercise? Come join us for some yoga with your baby! The majority of the time is regular yoga while your child watches and interacts with other babies. And the last portion of the class is yoga catered to your baby!
Battery Park City Authority is now starting the registration process for their popular FREE Parent and Baby Yoga for the Winter 2019 cycle. The Program will take place Mondays, January 7 to April 29. Registration for this free program is done through Eventbrite. Please see the links below for the session you are interested in. Please note that you must register for each date/time you are interested in.
Date: Recurring Mondays, January 7th through April 29th
Time:
Sessions 1: 1:00pm — 2:15pm. Register HERE.
Sessions 2: 2:30pm — 3:45pm. Register HERE.
Location: 6 River Terrace (at the south end of River Terrace by the Irish Hunger Memorial)
Cost: Free, registration is required.
Sign up now in TriBeCa and get 20% off! Flexible registration: by the day or by the week! Brooklyn Game Lab unplugs your kids (ages 6 – 13) for awesome gameplay and more! Guided by caring staff, kids play chess, cooperative, and strategy board games. They create new games. They analyze game structure, tinker with rules, and collaborate with new friends. They play our live-action role play game for an hour outside! Kids receive merits for design, problem-solving, and other skills. Summer Lab runs from 9 am – 3 pm; extra hours available!
FiDi Families get 20% off until 4/30/19. Use promo code: fidi20
Summer Sessions at Brooklyn Robot Foundry are a fun way for kids to learn engineering, coding, and circuitry through hands-on building and design. We have single, full-day sessions from June 17th-July 3rd for K-5th graders and our full week sessions run from July 8th through August 30th, featuring a variety of programs for rising K-7th graders! Choose from our Robot Building program, our Coding workshop, or our Inventors lab. Plus Girls Week returns! Hours: 9 AM – 3 PM, with an optional extended day until 6 PM daily. Address: 200 Church Street, Tribeca + UES & Brooklyn locations! Phone: 347-762-6840. Email: contact@brooklynrobotfoundry.com.
Calling all kids ages 5 to 15! Join Cinemakidz this summer and become a Filmmaker, Animator, Movie-star, and Adventurer. Campers explore media and technology as they learn the fundamentals of storytelling, cinematography, video production, and editing, in a hands-on creative environment. Projects are completely kid-made from start to finish. Cinemakidz encourages experimentation, risk-taking, and collaboration. Located at Pine Street School, June 24th – August 23rd, 9 am -4 pm. Offering 9 themes include: basic to advanced filmmaking, computer and stop-motion animation, YouTube series production, and classes with a twist like skateboard filmmaking and NYC Movie Adventurers. Email: info@CinemaKidz.com,
Exclusive Promo: “fidi2019” for $50 off each camp week.
Curious Jane camp is for girls who like to make things! We offer weekly sessions with project-packed themes revolving around science + engineering + design. This summer, find us at Pine Street from July 8 to August 2. Cool classes for K-2nd-grade girls: Ooey Gooey Science, Game Time, Spa Science and Miniature. Awesome options for 3rd-6th-grade girls: Spy Science, Design Studio, Stop Motion and Wired 101.The day runs from 9am – 3:30pm, with extended care options from 8am – 5:30pm. $675/week.
Use special discount code CITY75 for $75-off each week.
Join us for Downtown Dance Factory’s highly acclaimed Summer Program! Six 1-week sessions filled with all styles of dance – jazz, lyrical, modern, tap, musical theater, hip hop, and breaking. Fun themes, Arts & Crafts – the fun is endless! Half-day program for preschoolers aged 3-5. Full-day program for kids entering kindergarten and up. We even have weekly TutuTots classes for kids from 18 months – 3 years. Full Day parents enjoy an end of the week mini-recital, and they always leave amazed! Book for 1 week, 6 weeks, or anything in between.
Summer is the season of imagination, creativity, laughter and play. It is also the ideal time for children to take risks that build confidence, develop skills and enhance learning. At Camp Léman, we are experts at making summers both meaningful and memorable. At Lower Manhattan’s premiere day camp children 3 years old to 5th grade enjoy swim lessons, outdoor play, visual and performing arts, soccer, tennis, basketball, golf, karate, yoga, cooking, Silly Science, woodworking, Animal Adventures and more. Theme weeks, special events, unique outings and the full use of Léman Manhattan’s state-of-the-art facilities make your child’s summer an unforgettable experience
“Operation Optimist” is a weekly sailing day camp (M-F, 9-5) run by the New York Harbor Sailing Foundation. Learning to sail in an Opti is an amazing and unique experience for kids! Kids 8 to 13 years of age learn all the basics of sailing and build tremendous confidence throughout the week. Many sign up for multiple weeks. The camp picks up kids at both the WFC Ferry Terminal in Manhattan and the Manhattan Yacht Club in Jersey City. They are then transported by motorboat to the optimist docks in the protected waters SW of the Statue of Liberty.
The Complete Camp Experience Since 1992. Aquatics, Athletics, Arts & Sciences. 2 – 8 week flexible sessions from June 27th – August 23rd. Our private Tribeca facilities include a 75-foot pool, outdoor ball fields, arts and dance studios, gyms, and more. Supervised by experienced professionals, we offer the widest variety of activities around including: Swim Lessons, Field Sport Instruction, P.E. Class, Pier 25 Mini-Golf, Ooey Gooey Science, Craft Making, Visual Arts, Lego Construction, Movement/Dance, Animal Hour, Karate, Tennis, Music/Drumming, Weekly Trips, Crazy Hat Day & More! Bus Service Available. Book a Private Tour! Email: camp@manhattanyouth.org. Phone: 212-766-1104 ext. 1250.
It’s time to explore the power of Artificial Intelligence! During our one-week camp, students will journey into the world of AI and machine learning while building an awareness of how AI affects our lives and creates a world of possibilities. Our lead instructor, Stefania Druga, is a graduate student in the Personal Robots research group at MIT. Ages 7-11 ￨ July 15 – July 19 ￨Tuition $700 ￨Portfolio School, 27 North Moore. Close to major subway lines: 1, A, C, E, N, Q, R, 6
Receive the 15% Early Bird discount before April 15th!
Just a few more Monday’s of Bach + One (originally Bach at One) featuring one Bach cantata each week paired with a complementary work from early to modern composers. Trinity’s presentation of Bach’s entire monumental output of vocal sacred music has been praised by The New York Times for its “dramatic vigor.”
Dates: Recurring Mondays until May 20th (excluding April 22nd)
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: 209 Broadway and Fulton Street (St. Paul’s Chapel of Trinity Church Wall Street)
Age: Best for adults, but children welcome
Cost: Free
For more information, please visit their website HERE!
Every weekend, the Apple store at the World Trade Center’s Oculus has a 1-2 programs per day specifically catered for kids to celebrate creativity. We have attended various sessions, including coding with Sphero, Music Lab, and Art Lab. Kids Hour is designed to spark imagination and creativity through fun, hands-on projects.
Date: Sunday, April 14th (Usually recurring Saturday & Sundays)
Time: 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm
Location: 185 Greenwich Street – Apple World Trade Center
Fee: Free
Age(s): Recommended for ages 6 to 12, but my 5 and 3 year olds enjoyed it.
For more information please visit their website HERE