Kids Life Skills Classes in NYC, New York

Join 92Y Athletics for a fun-filled, socially distanced evening of fun and plenty of time for unstructured and supervised socialization time! Drop your child off and enjoy a Parents Night Out! Children have access to our state-of-the-art facility for specialized instruction with professional 92Y coaches and much more!  Please ensure that your...

Saxon Woods Park's forested areas grassy habitats, and swamps are excellent places for mid-spring foraging, and we'll be very busy with a variety of common, widespread, renewable native and exotic plant species as we explore these habitats. The sunny borders between woodlands and the parking lot provide prime habitat for various wild herbs and greens....

This class allows students to complete 20 hours of total class preparation before the official exams take place. Course Materials: 1) Students must purchase Curvebreakers' SAT Strategy Book, A New Approach to Deconstruct and Destroy the SAT. Currently, the book is free on Amazon with Kindle Unlimited. The Kindle version can be purchased for $3.99...

This class allows students to complete 20 hours of total class preparation before the official exam takes place. This class includes Curvebreakers' most popular review class - the ACT Crash Course. As their final session of the class, students attend the 2.5-hour Crash Course. Ending with the crash course is the perfect way to recap all...

Come in your favorite pajamas and join us for fun evening activities and stories. We are excited to bring back this popular evening event! Night-Time Animals - Oct 22, 2021 Familes will join staff during an after hours tour of the Zoo. Learn about bats, owls, and other night-time wildlife, and celebrate the evening with snacks, live-animal encounters,...

A great abundance of edible and medicinal wild plants and mushrooms makes this park a great place for edible and medicinal plants and mushrooms in late summer. Burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, abounds in cultivated areas throughout the park. You can also use this invasive species as a superb root vegetable, or even...

This is one of the best places in the world for early spring foraging, with a wide selection of wild herbs, greens, roots, and even some cold-weather mushrooms. Habitats include miles of mature forest, as well as the trail edges, and the disturbed, overgrown, and cultivated habitats that provide homes for all sorts of diverse species. Burdock, a...

Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foragers to search for wild foods in late spring, and you'll get to enjoy dozens of them. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with edible and medicinal wild plants. Red, white, and pink mulberries will be at their peak now. Too perishable...

These fun filled workshops are a great way for your Girl Scouts to earn their badges! This 90 minute program is packed with fun activities, animal meet and greets and exhibit visits, all while completing the steps to earn their badge! Badges are included. Animal Habitats Juniors will earn their Animal Habitats badge by exploring the Central Park...

Saturday, March 6 The 2021 foraging season, the 39th, opens with Central Park, a perennial popular venue for foragers, beginning at 11:45 AM, Saturday, March 6, just inside the park at West 72nd St. This tour will be co-led by "Wildman," and his daughter, Violet Brill, who will be leading some solo tours throughout the Greater NY area again as well....

No School? Come to Zoo camp! Join us for a fun filled one-day Zoo camp full of hands-on activities, animal investigations, and animal encounters. Nature Explorers Attention explorers! At Nature Explorers Camp, we'll get up-close to all the wonders Central Park has to offer, including flora and fauna, exhibit visits, and animal encounters. Warning...

Join Zoo Peeps, a program designed just for 2-3 year olds. This active Caregiver & Me program will get you and your toddler moving around the Zoo and seeing animals up close. This ticket is for one child age 2-3 years and a Caregiver. Additional siblings and adults are not permitted in order to maintain an appropriate and comfortable...

Think you've got what it takes to be a zookeeper? Put your skills to the test during this hands-on, interactive program. Roll up your sleeves and get messy! Keepers-in-Training will get up close to animals, meet zookeepers and see what it takes to care for the animals at the Central Park Zoo. Keeper-in-Training: Tropics - October 24, 2021 Keeper-in-Training:...

Rise and shine at the Aquarium! Enjoy early access to one of our exhibits, meet an ocean invertebrate up close, and explore and play together. Playquarium Join us as we play like otters and explore like scientists in our newest exhibit! Enjoy early access to our PlayQuarium exhibit, meet an ocean invertebrate up close, and explore and play together....

This vastly underappreciated park offers all the best wild foods of the rich seashore habitat. The sandy soil is poor, limiting tree growth but benefiting plants that can take advantage of the unblocked sunlight and nutrient-poor soil. Many species get a head start in late winter and early spring, and the same plants appear in late fall, induced to...