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Free Things to Do with Kids in NYC in February 2025
There's so many free things to do in NYC in February, from Lunar New Year to Valentine craft making, to several activities during the midwinter break.
Hands-on Black History: Oysters! at King Manor Museum
Jamaica, Queens
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Dive into the history of Black oystermen and the legacy of Thomas Downing, the oyster King of NY! Participants create crowns that befit a free Black business owner and stop on the underground railroad, practice oyster filtration, and even investigate the habitats of oysters. Visit the website here.
Lunar New Year Family Celebration at Lincoln Center
Upper West Side
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Ring the Year of the Snake with self-discovery, transformation, and connection, including a beloved lion dance performance on Josie Robertson Plaza and storytime with Ashley and Jeff Chang of The ABC Digest. Visit the website here.
Lunar New Year Celebration at City Point Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklyn
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Celebrate Year of the Snake at City Point with traditional lion dances, Lunar New Year-inspired crafts, and more! Families are encouraged to come dressed in red. Stroller parking is available. Visit the website here.
Groundhog Day Hibernation Hike at Clove Lakes Park
Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Did Staten Island Chuck see his shadow this morning? Find out on this hike while learning more about how other animal species spend their winters in New York City parks. Learn how birds, groundhogs, squirrels, chipmunks, and others survive the cold and the snow, and participate in games and activities. Visit the website here.
Wildlife Viewing: Groundhogs in Fort Totten Park
Bay Terrace, Queens
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Learn more about groundhogs and the origins of the holiday that honors them. Groundhogs can be elusive but participants might just get the chance to see one. Visit the website here.
Kindie Rock
Battery Park
Wednesdays February 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2025
Shake all those wiggles out at Battery Park City's weekly kid concerts. Attendance is first-come, first-served, so arrive early for one of the two sessions. Visit the website here.
Lunar New Year at the Queens Botanical Garden
Flushing, Queens
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Celebrate the Year of the Snake at the Queens Botanical Garden with a lion dance, tai chi, kung fu, face changing, folk dance, crafts, story time, and more. Visit the website here.
Fourth Annual Winter Ice Sculpture Show on Governors Island
Governors Island
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Ten artists team up with a professional ice carver from Okamoto Studio for this live ice carving demonstration on Governors Island. Visitors can witness real-time ice carving and vote for their favorite sculpture for the People's Choice Award. Visit the website here.
Greencycle Post-Holiday Swap
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Town Square's popular Greencycle Swap is back, just in time for you to quietly give away those "unexpected" holiday gifts and get a fresh start with your closets. Visit the website here.
Take Two Film Workshop: In Camera Effects
Midtown West
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Don't have that big Hollywood budget for special effects? Learn how to create fun and funky looks with just your camera and household materials. Master the whip pan and make DIY filters. Kids get to take home their creations and a link to a video from the workshop. Visit the website here.
StoryTime on Ice in Bryant Park
Midtown West
Saturdays February 8, 15, and 22, 2025
Start your day with enchanting tales and favorite tunes during Bryant Park's story time held on the Overlook. This program is followed by a StoryTime on Ice performance of The Three Little Pigs by the Bryant Parkettes. This performance can be viewed from around the rink deck or from the Overlook. Visit the website here.
Valentine Making Workshop in Battery Park City
Battery Park City
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Create something special for your valentine using dried flowers, lace, ribbon, and an assortment of papers. Register online in advance. Visit the website here.
92NY Countdown to Camp Open House
Upper East Side
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Get your campers excited for the summer camp season with a day of sports, arts and crafts, and other classic campy activities. Visit the website here.
Miss Sara and the Bodega Cats at Brooklyn Public Library
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Joined by her puppet friend Max and her band, The Bodega Cats, Miss Sara creates a magical, hands-on experience that inspires kiddos and grownups to sing, dance, and connect. Visit the website here.
Drop-In Program: After-School Gallery Explorers at the Jewish Museum
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Preschoolers and elementary school-aged children are invited to explore and create during drop-in Tuesday afternoon sessions at the museum. Visit the website here.
Valentine's Day Craft at Kwame Ture Recreation Center
Morris Heights, the Bronx
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Make unique and heartfelt projects, from handmade cards to sweet decorations. Visit the website here.
Great Backyard Bird Count
Citywide
Friday, February 14-Monday, February 17, 2025
The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are. Visit the website here.
Wish Tree at the Park Avenue Armory
Upper East Side
Friday, February 14-Monday, February 17, 2025
Yoko Ono's largest installation to date, Wish Tree, fills the Wade Thompson Drill Hall with a grove of 92 trees, in honor of the influential artist’s 92nd birthday. Visitors are invited to contribute by tying personal wishes to the trees, creating a large-scale, yet intimate activation of her social practice work. Visit the website here.
Invoke at Lincoln Center
Upper West Side
Saturday, February 15, 2025
The multi-instrumental quartet, Invoke, encompasses traditions from across America, including bluegrass, Appalachian fiddle tunes, jazz, and minimalism. Visit the website here.
Baby Dunk All-Star Weekend at Hunts Point Recreation Center
Hunts Point, the Bronx
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Hunts Point Recreation Center hosts a day of games, dunk and shootout contests, and more. Visit the website here.
Celebration of Blackness at Harlem School of the Arts
Harlem
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Celebrate Black Excellence at a powerful showcase honoring the impact of Black artists who have shaped and inspired generations. This multi-disciplinary collection of performances features HSA students from dance, music, theater, and visual arts. Visit the website here.
Winter StoryTime with Cali Co Cat in Bryant Park
Midtown West
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Cali Co Cat brings meow-sic and purr-cussion to Winter StoryTime in the park! Bring your imagination and storytelling skills to enjoy some tales with your favorite feline. Visit the website here.
27th Annual New York City Lunar New Year Parade & Festival in Chinatown
Chinatown
Sunday, February 16, 2025
A half-million spectators line the streets of Chinatown for this colorful pan-Asian procession, which includes Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Malaysian, and even Hispanic floats and cultural performances. Visit the website here.
Mid-Winter Family Fun Hike in Van Cortlandt Park
Fieldston, the Bronx
Monday, February 17, 2025
Start your family's midwinter recess off with a walk through Van Cortlandt Park. In this free guided hike, families hit the trails to learn about amazing local plants and animals, and how the park changes in the colder weather. Visit the website here.
Midwinter Recess in Prospect Park
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Monday, February 17-Friday, February 21, 2025
The Prospect Park Alliance offers family-friendly programming every day during midwinter recess. Visit the website here.
Free Kids Week Programming in NYC Parks
Citywide
Monday, February 17-Friday, February 21, 2025
Spend spring break exploring NYC Parks with the help of the Urban Park Rangers FREE programming series. Visit the website here.
Arctic Architecture at the Skyscraper Museum
Battery Park City
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
From the Russian izba to the Alaskan Inuit igloos, learn how Arctic homes are built. Then create mini-models of houses built for the frigid north. Visit the website here.
Freezin' Season Winter Break Workshops for Kids at King Manor Museum
Jamaica, Queens
Tuesday, February 18-February 21, 2025
King Manor invites kids inside for Freezin’ Season, an activity series to help keep kids busy during winter break that includes creating snow globes, solving Black History puzzles, standing on the shoulders of Black inventors to create a new invention, and completing challenges related to designing a plane. Visit the website here.
Family Fridays: King Kong Rearranges the Skyline at the Museum of Mathematics
Gramercy
Friday, February 21, 2025
King Kong looks at a collection of buildings and rearranges them by swiping the bottom floor out of each one and stacking them up into a new building. He enjoys that so much that he decides to do it again, and again, and again. What happens to the heights of the buildings in the long run? Join mathemagician Josh Zucker for a night of interactive fun and explore the math of directed graphs. Visit the website here.
Winter Carnival in Soundview Park
Soundview, the Bronx
Friday, February 21, 2025
Soundview Park's Winter Carnival promises games, winter sports, and more. Visit the website here.
Black History Month Celebration: Architecture of the Harlem Renaissance at the Skyscraper Museum
Battery Park City
Saturday, February 22, 2025
The Harlem Renaissance gave rise to literary, artistic, and social movements that advocated for challenging segregation and adopting Civil Rights. Learn how these developments, including jazz, poetry, and musical theater, were reflected by Harlem’s architecture then and now. Then, create collages using cutouts of New York buildings, art pieces, and literature from the renaissance. Visit the website here.
90-Second Newbery Film Festival 2025 at the Brooklyn Central Library - Dweck Center
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Check out the 14th annual 90-Second Newbery Film Festival—a yearly video contest in which kid filmmakers create weird, short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery award-winning books in about 90 seconds. Visit the website here.
Lenfest Kids: Big and Small
Lenfest Center For the Arts, Columbia University
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Thinking about small perspectives isn’t just a way of understanding cinema. It’s a way of understanding the world. Shrink down and journey inside the human body in Fantastic Voyage and Osmosis Jones. Follow the adventures of mice (Stuart Little), frogs (The Princess and the Frog), miniature people (Secret World of Arrietty), and even shells (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On). Visit the website here.
Create-athon: Gong Ensembles at Lincoln Center
Upper West Side
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Creative duo elekhlekha, made up of Lincoln Center Collider Fellow Kengchakaj Kengkarnka and interdisciplinary artist Nitcha Tothong, lead the first spring Create-athon, guiding participants in making their own gong instruments. Visit the website here.
Stomp, Clap and Sing with Conroy at Brooklyn Public Library
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
With his djembe and his guitar, Conroy Warren sings and plasy calypso, reggae, jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and children's favorites. Visit the website here.
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