This Week: Free & Cheap Summer Camps, Best March Events for Kids in the Tri-State Area, Family Travel Ideas for Spring Break

3/6/14 - By Raven Snook

Get out your family calendar: This week has been about planning ahead across all of our sites. Our carefully curated March Go Lists are up for NYC, New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester and beyond so you can find out the absolute best things to do with kids throughout the month.

If you're looking ahead to summer, we continued our overhaul of our Camp Guide by updating our free and cheap camps post, and highlighting all of the improvements to our Camp Directory, including the ability to leave reviews and ratings for the programs you love.

And if spring break is on your mind (it's coming up this month for private school students and in April for public school kids), you can find destination inspiration on our Travel site, in our NYC Family Getaways Guide and on all of our regional sites. Connecticut just wrote a post about the awesome Catamount Aerial Adventure Park and Rockwell Museum in Great Barrington, MA, Westchester has a list of the best things to do with kids in Mount Kisco and New Jersey has a wonderful series on great small towns worth discovering.

Here's what else we covered on the NYC site this week:

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Although the festive Jewish holiday of Purim officially takes place next weekend, the family celebrations kick off this Sunday.

Another fun weekend event? The all-ages BRIC House Party in Fort Greene featuring funky creative activities.

We're really proud of our greatly improved Camp Guide. In addition to an overhauled Camp Directory, we also updated one of our most popular annual posts this week: our roundup of free and cheap camps.

A new Brooklyn play space with babysitting, FREE theater classes for kids and a furniture shop with Lego tables are just a few of the cool things we covered in our latest news post.

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we rounded up family-friendly Irish pubs where you can get a taste of Irish culture year-round.

This week's WeeWork posts include adorable pom-pom creatures and ice suncatchers.

Best bets for the weekend include the opening weekend of the month-long New York International Children's Film Festival, multiple Purim celebrations and the Irish Art Center's annual St. Patrick's Day open house.