Posts Tagged ‘family activities’

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]

The Children’s Museum of The Arts is hosting series of special events and performances celebrating cultures from around the world. On Saturday, January 28th from 10AM to 5PM the series will kick-off with a special 1pm performance celebrating the Lunar New Year and exploring the arts and culture of New York’s Chinese community. The festival [Continue]

All week long, all I have wanted to do was wake up Friday morning and surprise my two youngest with a visit to see Santaland in Macy’s Herald Square, an annual holiday tradition for us. I envisioned my boys jumping up and down for joy, except I didn’t realize that Friday’s Pizza Day in school [Continue]

If you’ve read my site long enough then you know that while most New Yorkers run at the sound of holiday bells in all the main sights throughout the city, I gravitate to them like a moth to the light. It remains my absolute favorite time of the year in the city and I am [Continue]

Disney is huge in NYC. I know, you are asking yourself, “What?” But, truth is, Disney was one of the the first major investors in the Times Square area before Times Square was what it is today. Its presence on the then grumbling 42nd street set the tone for what was to come and encouraged [Continue]

My absolute favorite thing to do almost immediately after Thanksgiving is head out to a Christmas tree farm with my entire crew to cut down our tree. We prefer to cut our own when we can, so it is one of the options we look for when deciding what farm we will visit. We also [Continue]

Now through December 4th, kids ages 5-15 will have a chance at chef stardom by participating in the Avocados from Mexico Mini Chef Video Contest. The contest aims to educate parents on the nutritious benefits avocados have on growing children and how easy they can be incorporated into kid-friendly meals due to their versatility and [Continue]

2011 marks 10 years after Harkin-Engel Protocol called for end to the worst forms of child labor in cocoa-producing countries and this Halloween, children, organizations, and businesses across the U.S. will help children forced to labor on African cocoa farms by participating in the 5th annual “Reverse Trick-or-Treating” campaign. By handing [Continue]

It’s that time of the year! This year we discovered a new place to go pumpkin picking in Toano, VA at Pumpkinville and instead of venturing upstate like we have in the past, we decided to discover apple picking in New Jersey. Honestly, as I started writing this post, I realized that I have failed [Continue]