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School winter vacation week is winding down, but there is still one more weekend of carefree fun to be had. Channel your inner buccaneer at Everybody Loves Pirates. Solve mysteries at Franklin Park's ZOOdunnit as well as at the Great Chocolate Train Wreck Mystery. Appreciate the winter outdoors in Boston by visiting the Lowell Winterfest, going on a Winter Wander, taking a Winter Harbor Cruise, and being active at the Franklin Park Coalition Winter Games.

Finally, be sure to celebrate diversity with song and stories at the Children's Museum program, Play Songs and Games with Castle of Our Skins. Check out the Children's Museum's sparkling new PlaySpace for babies and toddlers while there!

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Franklin Park Zoo

617-541-LION

One Franklin Park Road, Boston, MA 02121

Charles Playhouse

1-800-BLUEMAN

74 Warrenton Street, Boston, MA 02116

Brattle Theatre

40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Puppet Showplace Theater

617-731-6400

32 Station Street, Brookline, MA 02445

TD Garden

100 Legends Way, Boston, MA 02114

Peddocks Island

Long Wharf North, Boston, MA 02110

Gore Pace

781 894 2798

52 Gore Street, Waltham, MA 02453

Lowell Memorial Auditorium

50 East Merrimack Street, Lowell, MA

Old Schwamb Mill

781-643-0554

17 Mill Lane, Arlington, MA 02476

Franklin Park Golf Clubhouse

617-442-4141

One Circuit Drive , Dorchester , MA 02121

Long Wharf

Long Wharf, Boston, MA 02110

Coolidge Corner Theatre

290 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446

Joppa Flats Education Center

1 Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport, MA 01950

Wegmans - Natick Mall

508-960-0100

1245 Worcester St., Natick, MA 01760

Boston Children's Musem

308 Congress Street, Boston, MA

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