NYC Indoor Play and Rainy Day Activity Guide
Too cold, too rainy or too hot to play outside? Don't sweat it. Our Indoor Activity Guide has over 45 articles, each jam-packed with ideas for where to go and what to do when the weather outside is frightful. You'll find loads of free places to play, story times all over the city, drop-in play spaces, mommy and me classes, tons of off-the-beaten track museums and free museum programs, and even some crafts and activity ideas to help fill those days when you do stay home. Rainy days might just become your favorite days with all these options.
Free Indoor Play Areas
Battery Park City
The Secret Glass Garden
Lefferts Historic House
5 Free Indoor Fun Spots
The Scholastic Store
Children's Center at 42nd St Library
The Early Childhood Resource and Information Center
More Public Libraries with Free Play Areas and Storytimes
New York City Stores to Play Indoors for Free
Indoor Playspaces
Drop-In Indoor Play Spaces for Toddlers and Kids
Discover Five Great Indoor Activities for NYC Kids
Parents' Night Out: Drop Off Play Spaces
Tribeca Playgarden
The Art Farm
Mommy and Me Classes
Mommy and Me Swim Classes in NYC
5 Mommy and Me Classes on Saturdays
5 Cool NYC Mommy and Me Classes
NYC Mommy and Me Music Classes
Baby Sign Language Classes
Foreign Language Play Groups
Music for Aardvarks Rocks
Little Maestros is Music to Moms Ears
Check out the Mommy Poppins Classes Guide for more classes.
Museums and Museum Programs
Children's Museum of Manhattan
Brooklyn Children's Museum
The Skyscraper Museum
MoMA's free programs are great for mommas (and daddas) too
How to get more out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Kids
The Rubin Museum of Art Takes Kids to the Far-Far East Side
Free Family Programs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
9 More Free Museum Programs in All 5 Boroughs
5 Museums You've Never Heard of
New Free Shuttle to Brooklyn Attractions Make Them Even More Attractive
Visiting the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in NYC with Kids
15 Best Places to Get Scientific with Kids in NYC
Free Times at NYC Museums
Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunts
Story Times
Read your way around NYC story hours
Barnes and Noble Storytimes
More Public Libraries with Free Play Areas and Storytimes
Mommy and Me and Kids Movies
Landmark Sunshine Rattle and Reel
Free Movies for Little Kids
Crafts and Projects For Rainy Days
50 Indoor Activities for a Rainy Day
Have a Dress-Up Fashion Show
Recycled Packing Peanuts Animals Craft
Green Building: Toy castle recycled craft project
Make a Beanbag Chair Reusing Packing Peanuts
Make a Fairy or Dragon Garden
Play Forts
Plant Some Garbage
