Saturday

Brunch with Ladybug Girl
The Dolphin Café
Port Washington
9:30–10:30am
$20
Ticket includes light fare, storytime, craft, and a meet-and-greet with Ladybug Girl! 

Nature and Craft Fair
Sweetbriar Nature Center
Smithtown
10am–5pm
$10 per family   
Come and enjoy a fun-filled and exciting day at Sweetbriar Nature Center’s Annual Nature and Wildlife Festival. Visitors can enjoy live animal demonstrations: Meet a live arctic wolf! See an enormous alligator from Erik’s Reptile Edventures! Witness Brian Bradley flying his birds of prey. You can also take a walk through Sweetbriar’s beautiful butterfly house filled with more than 250 butterflies ($3). There will also be environmental displays, craft vendors, bird walks, a plant sale, face painting, music, entertainment, and so much more! 

Sensational Strawberries
Benner's Farm
East Setauket
10am–12pm, 12:30–2:30pm
$35
Hike to the strawberry field; pick ripe strawberries; learn about making jam, chocolated berries, ice cream, and more! A day filled with delicious goodies to take home and enjoy.

Saturday and Sunday

Nassau County Strawberry Festival
BOCES
Bellmore
Saturday 12–11pm, Sunday 12–8pm
$2, children under 5 free             
Rides, live entertainment, and lots and lots of fresh strawberries and strawberry concoctions for sale.

Plaza Theatrical Productions presents Blue’s Clues: The Most Spectacular Place
Long Island Children's Museum
Garden City
11am, 1pm, 3pm
$12, members $10          
Join Blue and Steve on an interactive musical adventure based on the popular Nickelodeon television series Blue's Clues. On stage, Blue and Steve lead the audience on a clue-based journey, in search of the most spectacular place of all, taking them through Storybook Forest, where Blue and Steve meet the Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks, the Big Bad Wolf, and other characters from classic fairy tales. Then travel to outer space, discovering planets and other celestial wonders along the way. When they discover the final clue, Blue and Steve learn that aside from the surprise-filled world of theater, home is the most spectacular place of all! To purchase tickets please call Plaza Theatrical Productions at 516-599-6870. Tickets are not available for purchase at LICM.

Brookhaven Fair
Bald Hill
Farmingville
12–10pm
Fair admission $4-$8; POP bracelets $20-$25       
Families can expect amusement rides and attractions as well as shows including “The Lance Gifford Magic & Illusion Show”, “The Great American Frontier Show”, “Wild Wolves Show,” and a “Dog and Pony Show”  at Long Island’s biggest fair. There’s a petting zoo, karaoke, and lots more in store. Buy pay-one-price bracelets here.

Sunday

Summer Celebration!
Long Island Children's Museum
Garden City
2:30–4:30pm
Free with museum admission   
Welcome back the summer season as you explore the flowers and plants—and sometimes, animals!—in our popular “Our Backyard” exhibit. Come listen to a relaxing soundtrack as we create lovely rock paintings inspired by nature. In case of rain, the program will be moved indoors.