Learn how to use Soundtrap to record your own voice and create digital music! Class size is limited. First come, firstserved.
Time: 4:00pm
Location: 175 North End Avenue – Battery Park City Library
Fee: Free
Age(s): 6 — 12 years old. A caregiver’s help may be needed for younger grades.
For more information visit their website HERE
Join us at the library and build Legos with other kids! Explore what you can build with LEGOs and more! Limited to first 20 school age children. First come, first served.
When: Wednesday, January 9th & 23rd
Time: 4:00pm
Location: 175 North End Avenue (Battery Park City Library)
Age: For grade K-6
Cost: Free
For more information visit their website HERE!
Downtown Dance Factory is one of NYC’s most loved dance studios. The studio has announced that their free StoryDance Playgroup returns for another season. The StoryDance program includes story time, a craft, dance-themed games, activities and general playtime. It’s a perfect way for parents to introduce their children to the wonderful world of performing arts in a nurturing, supportive, creative and professional environment.
FiDi Families Insiders: Space is limited so be sure to RSVP. DDF requests that the RSVP includes the child’s name and date of birth.
Date: Thursday, January 3rd (Recurring first Thursday of every month)
Time: 9:30 am – 10:15 am
Location: 291 Broadway – 4th Floor
Fee: Free
Age: 1 – 4 years
For more information and to RSVP 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. Today’s feature is the Sphero Maze Challenge. Kids will explore coding with Sphero robots by programming simple movements, loops, and more. Then they’ll design a maze and navigate their robot through the obstacles. Kids can bring their own iPad and Sphero Sprk+ robot, or borrow one from the Apple Store. Kids Hour is designed to spark imagination and creativity through fun, hands-on projects.
Date: Saturday, December 29th (Usually recurring Saturday & Sundays)
Time: 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Location: 185 Greenwich Street – Apple World Trade Center
Fee: Free
Age(s): Recommended for ages 6 to 12, but my 5 and 2 year olds enjoyed it.
For more information please visit their website HERE
The classic Dickens tale A Christmas Carol has been transformed into a thrilling new music theatre piece—Scrooge & Gilbert & Sullivan—featuring a new book and lyrics by Nathan Hull. A holiday tradition begun last year, this limited-run production will include musical highlights from 11 works by Gilbert & Sullivan, including the beloved Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, and H.M.S. Pinafore. Performances, which will take place in the well-appointed and intimate 200-seat Riverside Theatre, worth the train ride out of the neighborhood!
Date + Time:
Thursday evening, December 27, 2018, 7:30 pm
Friday afternoon, December 28, 2018, 2:30 pm
Saturday evening, December 29, 2018, 7:30 pm
Sunday afternoon, December 30, 2018, 2:30 pm.
Location: Riverside Theatre at Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Avenue (near 121st Street,) New York, NY 10027
Fee: For tickets at $45 adults; $35 seniors/students/children under 12; $35 – $25 partial view.
Please visit www.amoreopera.org or call 1 866-811-4111.
Age(s): All ages, especially for older kids
For more information visit their website HERE
FiDi Families Insiders: There will be toys afterward for playtime with attendees and the Librarian
Time: 3:00pm
Location: 175 North End Avenue – Battery Park City Library
Fee: Free
Age(s): Infants — 6 years old
For more information visit their website HERE
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.
