North Pole - various times
North Pole - various times
North Pole - various times
North Pole - various times
North Pole - various times
North Pole - various times
North Pole - various times
Free Fun Summer: A free activity a day for the entire summer
Summer days are long, it's hot, and you can't just send your kids out to play in the streets. You need help. You need distractions. You need our Free Fun Summer Activity Planner. With a free activity for every single day of summer in July and August, it's like a do-it-yourself camp for New York City parents.
Free concerts, outdoor movies, museum programs, classes and workshops, story times, festivals, performances, events—the following list isn't just 62 activities, many of these events are recurring, so look out for the stars—which indicate an event occurs on additional dates.
*recurring daily
**recurring weekly
***Check for other dates
And don't forget to check out our Summer Fun Guide for more ideas on the best stuff to do in and around New York this summer.
JULY
July 1 Visit the Science Barge *
July 2 Free Wednesdays NY Botanical Garden **
July 3 Union Square Summer in the Square**—Astrograss
July 4 International African Arts Festival, July 3-6
July 5 Free First Saturday Programs Brooklyn Museum and New Museum
July 6 Central Park Clearing in the Forest Series**—The Dancing Bahilla, Middle Eastern dance performance and workshop
July 7 Lower Manhattan River to River Festival *— Sitelines Interactive Environmental Dance
July 8 Tragedy of MacBeth Performance and Family Workshop ***— Battery Park
July 9 Carroll Park Concert Series ***— Lloyd Miller and The Brooklyn Phone Book
July 10 Washington Market Park Concert Series **— Uncle Rock
July 11 NY Philharmonic Concert in the Park ***
July 12 City Parks Dance***—Rennie Harris Puremovement Ballet Int'l Africans
July 13 SummerStage ***— Global Family Day
July 14 The Paper Bag Players: On Top of Spaghetti — Bronx Library Center
July 15 Madison Square Kids Concert**— Audra Rox Concert
July 16 Stuyvesant Town Music on the Oval**— DJ Duane Harriot & Easy Star All-Stars
July 17 MoMA Sculpture Garden Story Time**
July18 Bryant Park Good Morning America Concert Series **— Miley Cyrus
July 19 Macy's Fishing Contest * — Prospect Park
July 20 daydream***— A Midsummer Night's Dream specially adapted for children and performed in Imagination Playground, Prospect Park
July 21 La Caperucita Roja*** — Bi-lingual, revisionist Little Red Riding Hood in Red Hook
July 22 Lucy Lortel Theater***—The Plant That Ate the Dirty Socks
July 23 Laura Vila at Book Culture —Interactive Book event
July 24 Movies with a View** — Curse of the Were Rabbit
July 25 Prospect Park Audubon Center Nestlings Nature Classes**
July 26 Solar One Family Day Environmental Festival
July 27 MoMA Family Program**—Closer Look for Kids
July 28 Kayaking on the Hudson*
July 29 Shakespeare in the Park*—Hair
July 30 Central Park Sandbox Series *— Music Performances, Art Classes, Story-Telling and Music Classes
July 31 Jefferson Market Library Toddler Time**
AUGUST
August 1 Children's Museum of Manhattan — Free First Friday
August 2 Celebrate Brooklyn* — Family Concert
August 3 Queens Museum of Art — Free First Sunday
August 4 Storytime at Babylicious **
August 5 Family Programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art**— Start With Art
August 6 Outdoor Cinema Socrates Sculpture Park**— The Red Balloon and Persepolis
August 7 Summer on the Hudson*—Billy B., the Natural Science Song and Dance Man
August 8 SummerStarz**—Crafts, Music and Film in McCarren Park
August 9 International YoYo Open and Contest
August 10 Lefferts Historic House**— Early American Crafts
August 11 Rubin Museum of Art Museum Program*—Word Play (free with admission)
August 12 Story time at Giggle**
August 13 Plant 'N Play at Umoja Garden
August 14 CInderella Samba Riverside Park
August 15 RiverFlicks for Kids **— Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
August 16 Lincoln Center Out of Doors* — Family Day
August 17 Barnes and Noble Union Square Story Time**
August 18 Bryant Park Summer Film Festival** — Superman
August 19 Tales on Tuesdays Carl Shurz Park
August 20 Wednesdays in Teardrop Park
August 21 Preschool Art Rockefeller Park **
August 22 RiverFlicks for Kids **—Shrek
August 23 Walk, bike or roll up car-free Summer Streets**
August 24 Blues and BBQ Festival Hudson River Park
August 25 Moxie Spot Story Time **
August 26 Discovery Tuesdays at Brooklyn Botanic Garden**
August 27 Free Story Time Yoga at Karma Kids **
August 28 Broadway in Bryant Park **
August 29 McNally Rand Baby Storytime **
August 30 Free Bike Rental in Manhattan*
August 31 Books of Wonder Story Time **
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