All Weekend

Asbury Park Oysterfest (Asbury Park, NJ)
If you’re still in a summer frame of mind, look no further than the Asbury Park Oyserfest! A 3-day family event that promises to be the ultimate end-of-summer experience for oysters, festival food, cooking demos, live music, children's amusements and over 75 crafters and vendors.

Greek Festival (Union, NJ)
Enjoy the foods and sounds of Greece at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church’s 37th Annual Greek Festival. Indulge in homemade, authentic Greek food, including moussaka, pastitsio, souvlaki and gyro – yum! Watch (or take part in!) Greek folk dancing, browse the many booths and let the kiddos burn off some energy on the rides and games.

Saturday, September 6th

Monarch Festival (Montville, NJ)
Head to Pyramid Mountain National Historic Park and learn about the beautiful monarch butterflies that migrate in the early autumn. Tour the butterfly garden and look for live monarchs from egg to adult, then travel through the lifecycle stations and experience the metamorphosis of an adult monarch. Throw in live music and crafts for a perfect September afternoon.

Pond Study (Jersey City, NJ)
Here’s your chance to get muddy before the warm weather is through! Sign up for the Pond Study class at Liberty State Park’s Nature Interpretive Center and roll up your sleeves to explore all kinds of creatures in their freshwater pond. Make a day of it and pack a picnic lunch to enjoy while you take in awesome views of the Statue of Liberty.

Explore the Farm (Morris Township, NJ)
For a real blast from the past, check out the monthly Explore the Farm event at Fosterfields Living Historical Farm. With an emphasis on sustainability, this horse-drawn interpretive wagon ride explores the methods, equipment, crops and enterprises of Fosterfields in the early 1900s.

The Mystery of the Passenger Pigeon (Tenafly, NJ)
Join a Tenafly Nature Center Environmental Educator in exploring the centennial of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. Passenger pigeons were once the most abundant bird on the continent and became extinct in September of 1914. Learn more of their story and construct a passenger pigeon totem pole for exhibit in the Nature Center Museum.

Sunday, September 7th

High Holiday Family Event (Jersey City, NJ)
The PJ Library of Hudson County is hosting a Pre-High Holiday kick off at Liberty Science Center. This event is for any family raising Jewish children between the ages of 6 months and 8 years. Activities include: apple & honey tasting, make your own Shofar, hear the Shofar, card making, Jewish holiday sing-a-long, story telling, fun facts about bees and honey and more.

Morey’s Pier Goes to the Dogs (Wildwood, NJ)
How much do we love Morey's Pier Raging Waters Water Park for opening its doors to the canines? Morey’s Piers ends its water park season with a tail-wagging celebration with 100% of proceeds benefiting both the new Wildwood Dog Beach and New Jersey SPCA.

Apple Pancake Breakfast (Chester, NJ)
Apple lovers rejoice! It’s the beginning of the season for this red, delicious fruit and Alstede Farms is celebrating with their annual Apple Pancake Breakfast. It begins with a scenic hayride to Harvest Hall, where you’ll enjoy an all-you-can-eat-breakfast (including pancakes with apple topping and applewood smoked bacon!) before venturing out to the fields to pick a bushel of apples to take home.

Check out our GO NJ List, with our top picks of awesome things to do for kids in the upcoming month; GO SEPTEMBER is hot off the presses!

And don't forget: We have additional activity listings in our Event Calendar. And if you are heading into NYC for the weekend make sure you visit the New York City Mommy Poppins events calendar to get the latest on all the fun to be had NYC-style.