Free Family Events This Weekend! (March 2-4)

Yto Barrada and Julie Klear’s “Once Upon a Forest, the Animal Spring” Exhibit opens this Saturday at the FIAF Gallery. Photo via tiltkidsfestival.org.

Have an amazing weekend without opening your wallet! For even more activity inspiration, check out our Weekend Planner.

Friday, March 2

Family Fridays: “Is What You See Really What You Get? The Art of Anamorphosis”
6:30-8pm
National Museum of Mathematics
All Ages
Cathy Wang will teach kids about perspective in this class, where kids will investigate the anamorphoses used in art pieces. Then, using math, they can make a cylindrical mirror anamorphosis of their own. Registration is required.

Beginning Saturday, March 3

Tilt Kids Festival: Yto Barrada & Julie Klear’s “Once Upon a Forest, the Animal Spring” Exhibit
Various times
FIAF Gallery
All Ages
French-Moroccan multimedia artist Yto Barrada and American designer and art educator Julie Klear’s new exhibition invites kids to make art of their own, interacting with animals and landscapes and moving pieces while working together and changing entire worlds. Runs through Friday, April 6.

Saturday, March 3

Compost Mania
12-4pm
Queens Botanical Garden
All Ages
Learn all about composting during Compost Mania at the Queens Botanical Garden! Participants can explore how recycling yard waste and food scraps can create a sustainable environment. Plus, there will be opportunities to interact with worms, mix potting soil, sow seeds, and roll wildflower seed balls. Registration is required.

Tinker Lab: Storytelling Shadow Puppets
1pm
National Museum of the American Indian
Ages 9 and up
This Saturday, the National Museum of the American Indian invites ages 9 and up to create 2-D or-3D shadow puppets based on the artwork of artist Stephen Foster. Inspired by the Museum’s new exhibit Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound, this workshop explores the rich tradition of storytelling through the use of shadow puppetry within Native American society. Registration is required.

Celebrating Puerto Rico
4-6pm
6 River Terrace
All Ages
An interactive drum and dance performance by Legacy Women–an all-female group whose music is rooted in Afro-Dominican and Afro-Puerto Rico traditions–will immerse your kids in a celebratory experience. Listen, dance, and make a mask!

Manhattan Mandarin

Manhattan Mandarin runs the Mandarin after-school programs at over 40 schools nationwide, including St. Bernard's, Chapin, Allen-Stevenson, and Buckley. Whether in schools, students' homes, in the office, online, or on our beloved China trips, our teachers and tutors have helped hundreds of students of all ages master the Mandarin language on their own unique paths to fluency. Our philosophy has always been to make private lessons and classes perfectly tailored for each individual student. We look forward to working with you. - Jamie Keyte, Founder

Music Together

Music Together&reg; is for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their parents/caregiver. The classes include songs, rhythmic rhymes and movement, and instrument play activities that are developmentally appropriate for the children and easy for parents and caregivers, regardless of their own musical ability.

Adventuring Portal

<a name="m_-1473885667065203258__Hlk72147528"></a>Adventuring Portal runs Dungeons and Dragons (D&amp;D) games for kids.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We have created a safe online space for tweens and teens to learn and play D&amp;D. Our D&amp;D Summer Camp session are a one-week experience.&nbsp;&nbsp;Monday &ndash; Friday.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each day will be 3 hours of gaming (with 2 breaks build in).&nbsp;&nbsp;15 total gaming hours for $180.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you have played with us before, you are entitled to 10% off.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Need your kids, nieces or nephews, grand kids or neighbor&rsquo;s kids to be occupied for a bit so you can get work done &amp; take care of your to-do list? Maybe your tween or teen is still a bit isolated and craves connection with their peers? Whether your teen/tween has played D&amp;D before or is brand-new to the experience, this safe space brings players together to have fun and solve problems as a team in ways few other online opportunities do. All our games focus on experiential learning.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Our players leave knowing all the basic game play as well as experiencing: teamwork, bravery, compassion, generosity, negotiation, improvisation, gamer etiquette, strategy, critical thinking, problem solving, cartography and probability - all through online D&amp;D adventuring! We are an inclusive organization and welcome gamers who are LGBTQIA+ and those on any spectrum.&nbsp; All girls&rsquo; groups available.&nbsp; I am a parent, a certified elementary school and middle school math teacher and last summer in the midst of the mess started&nbsp;Adventuring Portal, an&nbsp;online Dungeons &amp; Dragons&nbsp;business&nbsp;for kids. There are so many benefits to playing D&amp;D and I hope you will consider us as a great way for your child to safely socialize, grow as people and have a great time.