Saturday, May 19

Taste of Tribeca

Photograph: Robert A. Ripps

FREE Enjoy live performances by the Rockdoves, the Fuzzy Lemons and the Amazing Max, get your photo taken at theTime Out Kids photo booth and chow down on snacks from the Treats Truck at Time Out Kids and Madison Square Park's Spring Kids Fest.

Sample treats from Tribeca's best eateries, including Landmarc, Nobu and Baluchi's, then check out the Kids Zone for performances by Story Pirates and Looney Lenny at Taste of Tribeca. $50, in advance $45.

FREE Watch a series of tap, salsa and stilt dancers shimmy through downtown Manhattan in the Dance Parade.

FREE Kids can celebrate NYC’s green spaces by planting bulbs, getting their faces painted and listening to gardening storytimes during It's My Park Day!, held in various parks around the city. 

FREE Use recycled newspaper and other repurposed paper products to build and decorate DIY kites at Socrates Sculpture Park.

FREE Sing along with kid-friendly pop-cabaret trio the Itty Biddies at the Performance Project at University Settlement.

Sail to Lady Liberty and back with Dan Zanes, members of the Berenstain Bears cast, a juggler, a magician and a balloon artist during Circle Line's kids cruise kickoff event. $28, children ages 3–12 $20, children under 3 free.

Let kids wear their dancing shoes and bring along their favorite stuffed animals for Laurie Berkner Band's Animal Party Concert at the Concert Hall, on the Upper West Side. $37.50, kids under 1 free.

FREE Make an Eskimo yo-yo, a story knife and snow goggles, then watch performances by the renowned King Island Dancers and Singers at the National Museum of the American Indian Children’s Festival: Arctic Blast!

Kids can watch sheep get their winter coats shorn, then head to the Lefferts Historic House for a lesson in washing, carding (brushing), spinning and weaving at the Prospect Park Zoo's Fleece Festival. Free with zoo admission.

Check out Stand Up: A Musical About Bullying, performed by tweens and teenagers from Applause New York at the Dicapo Opera Theater. $20. 

Take in a screening of the classic French film The Red Balloon after watching a selection of Popeye and Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons at Canal Park Playhouse. $7.

Discover what it takes to plan a trip to Mars in the Park Avenue Armory's "Tom Sachs' Space Program: Mars." $12, children under 10 free. 

Stroll through scenes from artist Claude Monet's paintings in the New York Botanical Garden's new exhibit, "Monet's Garden." Free with garden admission.

FREE Let your clan work up an appetite with games and activities in the children’s pavilion, then nibble on suckling-pig sandwiches, Thai dumplings, key-lime pie and other goodies at the Ninth Avenue International Food Festival.

See the entire Harry Potter saga condensed into a wacky, family-friendly play, Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Potter, at the Little Shubert Theater. $39.75–$69.75.

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