Learn to juggle or just watch the fun, see Irish short films for kids, see a children’s version of the opera Carmen and more all for free with our weekly list of free family activities for New York kids.
NYC 7th Annual Juggling Festival:
JUGGLE THIS! - NYC 2008
Friday March 7-Sunday March 9, 2008
Adults and kids can […]

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[ February 23, 2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. February 25, 2008; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. March 8, 2008 to March 9, 2008. ]

Buster Keaton in One Week
It must be Oscar Season because it seems like there’s an unlimited supply of interesting movie events for parents who are hunting for some high-quality indoor entertainment.

The 10th Annual BAMkids Film Festival is coming up on March 8th and 9th with 50 short and feature length films from 18 countries. In […]

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[ February 29, 2008 to March 16, 2008. ]

The New York International Children’s Film Festival is a two week long event packed with the best film for kids from around the world. Beginning February 29th and running the first two weeks of March, a highly selective collection of animation, live action, documentary, and experimental films created for children 3-18 will be shown. This […]

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[ February 14, 2008; 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm. ] If you need an indoor destination to spend a long, cold or rainy day that won’t tire you out just thinking about it, head to Battery Park City.

The Battery Park Movie Theater is never crowded, always clean and has the benefit of some child friendly restaurants near by, like Lili’s Noodles (my kids love the […]

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[ January 9, 2008; 11:00 am; January 16, 2008; 11:00 am; ] Take your babe baby to the movies.

You may not get out for date night too often any more, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the quiet darkness and a big bucket of popcorn at the movies. Landmark Sunshine Rattle and Reel shows movies just for moms and dads to bring their babies every […]

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Big movies for Little Kids
Playground season is (slowly) winding to a close and it’s time to figure out how to entertain your little New Yorkers during the cold winter days. Fortunately there are free movies for little kids all around New York City.
Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Movies are completely free in the Sony Wonder Labs […]

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BloggyMcBlogBlog has a theory that soon there will be so much scaffolding in Lower Manhattan that they will have to build scaffolding on top of the scaffolding and then there will be a war between the people who live below the scaffolding and those that live above it…
Likewise, I’m beginning to think that soon there […]

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There’s something just totally magical about outdoor movies. Maybe it’s just that we don’t get to go out after dark that much any more since becoming parents, but sitting outside on a summer evening in New York under the stars and relaxing to enjoy a movie is just the kind of old fashioned, yet hip, […]

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