Long Island Kids' Activities April 20 & 21: Chick-A-Palooza Festival, Celebrate Earth Day, Build A Biome

4/17/13 - By Jill Wolfson

This weekend, get ready for Earth Day with some great events!  Head on over to the Garden of Eve Organic Farm & Market in Riverhead for their Chick-A-Palooza: Backyard Homesteading Festival, where you’ll partake in workshops on chicken-keeping, beekeeping, and gardening, along with farm tours, fiber arts, sheep shearing, and cooking demos.  The Long Island Children’s Museum in Garden City is presenting Our Changing World - Earth Day Celebration, where you’ll honor and find out how you can help more than 41,000 plants and animals that are on the brink of extinction.  Celebrate Earth Day at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor where you’ll help create a gigantic group sculpture using recycled materials with artists from the NYC based art collective Free Style Arts Association.  Super Science Focus: Build A Biome To Celebrate Earth Day is taking place at the Maritime Explorium in Port Jefferson, where you can create a habitat of your own using recycled water bottles.  Also on tap: Wacky Wednesday and The Diary of Anne Frank at Theatre Three Productions in Port Jefferson.  As always, check out our events calendar every day for fun activities for the family!

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Saturday

Story Time With Princess Delilah Soleil
Delilah Soleil Salon
Baldwin
1:00pm & 4:00pm
Ages 3-8
Free
516-225-7016
Storytime and arts and crafts with Princess Delilah Soleil, who will be reading some of her favorite stories. Reservations are required by email.

Jack & The Giant
Studio Theatre in Lindenhurst
Lindenhurst
2:00pm
All ages
$10
631-226-8400
Musical version of Benjamin Tabart's classic English folk tale, "The History of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean."

Rapunzel
Broadhollow at Elmont
Elmont
2:00pm
All ages
$10
516-775-4420
Rapunzel, her Prince, and the evil witch will be up to hair raising hijinxs!

Sunday

Springtime Craft Event
Safari Adventure
Riverhead
12:00pm - 3:00pm
All ages
Free with admission
631-727-4386
Make spring-themed craft projects to bring home. Also enjoy milk and cookies in the craft room.

Our Changing World - Earth Day Celebration
Long Island Children's Museum
Garden City
12:00pm - 3:00pm
All ages
Free with admission
516-224-5800
Did you know there are more than 41,000 plants and animals in the world listed as vulnerable or endangered and on the brink of extinction? Honor them and find out how you can help! Make earth-friendly resolutions to conserve nature and create reminders of our changing world.

Celebrate Earth Day
Nassau County Museum of Art
Roslyn Harbor
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Ages 5 and up
Museum admission plus $8 per family materials fee
516-484-9337
You are invited to help create a gigantic group sculpture using recycled materials with artists from the NYC based art collective Free Style Arts Association. The Science Museum of Long Island joins in on the fun as everyday materials are transformed into an abstract work of 3-D art using crazy lines, shape, and colors. Then join the Family gallery tours of the museum’s current exhibition, AB-EX / RE-CON: Abstract Expressionism Reconsidered, and check out how artists have been making art in America for 300 years.

Saturday & Sunday

Wacky Wednesday
Theatre Three Productions
Port Jefferson
Saturday at 11:00am; Sunday at 3:00pm
All ages
$10
631-928-9100
Musical where a wild wish sends Amanda and her dad into a crazy cross adventure where they find that they have switched places.

The Diary Of Anne Frank
Theatre Three Productions
Port Jefferson
Saturday at 8:00pm; Sunday at 7:00pm
Ages 5 and up
$23 adults ($30 Saturday night); $15 kids ages 5-12; kids 13 and up 20% off ticket price
631-928-9100
Newly discovered writings from the diary of Anne Frank, as well as survivor accounts, create a story of the lives of people persecuted under Nazi rule.

Chick-A-Palooza: Backyard Homesteading Festival
Garden of Eve Organic Farm & Market
Riverhead
Saturday & Sunday, 10:00am - 5:00pm
All ages
$3 event fee
631-722-8777
Workshops on chicken-keeping, beekeeping, gardening, farm tours, fiber arts, sheep shearing, cooking demos, and more. Rain or shine. Registration suggested.

Super Science Focus: Build A Biome To Celebrate Earth Day
Maritime Explorium
Port Jefferson
Saturday & Sunday, 1:00pm - 5:00 pm
All ages
Free with admission
631-331-3277
Recycle our water bottles to create a habitat of your own.