Posts Tagged ‘family activities’

If you are looking for something fun to do this summer, but don’t want to have to take the family too far away, than you might want to consider adding the 26th anniversary of the Stoweflake Hot-Air Balloon Festival on July 6-8, 2012 to your calendar. The event will take place at Stoweflake Mountain Resort [Continue]

Circle Line is kicking off a series of kid-friendly cruises starting this Saturday, May 19, 2012 and followed by every first Saturday of the month throughout the summer. The Kids Cruise Series Saturday dates include June 2nd, July 7th and August 4th. Boarding for the Kids Cruise will begin at 9:30am, sailing from 10:00-11:15am. Pricing [Continue]

I recently made my way over to Hershey’s Chocolate World in Times Square to celebrate 10 years of sweetness. Right from the moment I entered the store, I could tell that changes had been made, beginning with the overall look of the place. The displays seemed bigger, more fun, and interactive. Diane Bondareff/AP Images for [Continue]

The Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair will take place this year on April 28 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day will take place on April 28 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. This year’s Street Fair will feature dancers, stilt walkers, Broadway performances, arts and crafts, face painters, puppet shows, music, games and much more. [Continue]

I’ve blogged about the Scholastic Store so many times now that it’s not secret I love that place. But it’s been a bit since, and I just wanted to put a little reminder out there to everyone looking for fun, free events for their little ones and family in the city that the Scholastic Store [Continue]

It’s funny for a writer in the family space to admit this, but the two words “family fun” sometimes inspire a gnarly knot in my stomach. It’s the knot that braces me for something cheesy and and something not so fun. But if there’s anyone who can deliver, it would be Disney—and the kids spaces [Continue]

The 2012 Nuclear Cowboyz tour returns with the best cast of freestyle motocross, trials and quad riders ever assembled including recent X Games 17 medalists Mike Mason, New Jersey’s Ronnie Faisst and Adam Jones with Taka Higashino, Beau Bamburg, Derek Garland, Nixey Danielson, Brody Wilson, Jimmy Fitzpatrick, Dustin Miller, Wes Agee, Geoff [Continue]

The first time I heard about Finger Lakes in upstate New York was while sipping on one of their delicious red wines and laughing it up with one of their lovely tourism representatives – the ladies are indeed lovely, but the wine definitely helped bring on the laughter. At first I thought it was no [Continue]

This past weekend Bryant Park hosted its very first Kids Food Festival at Citi Pond. Despite the snow and cold weather families came out, and it’s no surprise as more and more of us have a growing concern about the nutritional items available for our families. But the event’s purpose was even bigger than that; [Continue]

The first-ever Kids Food Festival will take place on January 21st and 22nd at Citi Pond in Bryant Park. The festival’s mission is to fight childhood obesity through fun and flavorful activities around balanced food choices. The Kids Food Festival gets cooking on January 21st and 22nd, 2012, from 10 am to 6pm.  General admission [Continue]