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Print this Bird Book and keep track of which birds you see

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Print this Bird Book and keep track of which birds you see

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Fill out some workbook pages based on what's in your neighborhood. 

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Fill out some workbook pages based on what's in your neighborhood. 

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Plant Part Experiment: Watch Leaves Breathe!

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GrowNYC has built more than 125 new gardens, including GreenThumb community gardens; gardens in public housing developments, daycares, and senior centers; and our urban farm on Governors Island. We build about 10 new gardens a year and do renovation projects at an additional 25.

New Yorkers can find out more information about the community gardens that we've built in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, or Staten Island.

Interested in joining one of NYC's 600 community gardens? Find one on OASIS map or on Green Thumb's website.

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GrowNYC has built more than 125 new gardens, including GreenThumb community gardens; gardens in public housing developments, daycares, and senior centers; and our urban farm on Governors Island. We build about 10 new gardens a year and do renovation projects at an additional 25.

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Ask your guardian to help you sign up!

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Explore Central Park with your family by joining our Discovery Club!

Participate in our free family programs to learn about nature and the history of Central Park and collect exploration tools along the way-a richer experience of the Park for your whole family!

To join the club, get your activity card at one of our visitor centers, at an eligible program, or by filling out the form to have your card mailed to you. Earn a punch on your card each time you:

Collect five punches to receive a free Discovery Notebook. Young Central Park explorers can jot down findings and observations.

Collect 10 punches to receive a free Discovery Club bandana. Kids can wear it with pride as an official Central Park explorer and steward!

Rewards are available at all visitor center locations.
Mail me my Discovery Club Activity Card!

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Explore Central Park with your family by joining our Discovery Club! Participate in our free family programs to learn about nature and the history of Central Park and collect exploration tools along the way-a richer experience of the Park for your whole family!

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Important Service Changes

NYC Parks is making important service changes. Find out more about our additional safety precautions, program cancellations, and potential closures before you head to a park or recreation center.

For more information, please visit our Service Announcements page.

Official Website of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation

Things to Do > Events Calendar

Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.

Viewing 1-10 out of 37 events
from November 28, 2020 to September 10, 2022
in Best for Kids category

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Get information on upcoming events directly in your inbox by signing up for our Email Newsletters.

Know about an event that's not on the calendar? Send us a tip!

Planning an event and considering hosting it in a park? Make sure to read our Planning an Event page.

Sunday, December 6, 2020

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Thursday, December 10, 2020

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NYC Parks is making important service changes. Find out more about our additional safety precautions, program cancellations, and potential closures before you head to a park or recreation center. For more information, please visit our Service Announcements page.

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Important Service Changes

NYC Parks is making important service changes. Find out more about our additional safety precautions, program cancellations, and potential closures before you head to a park or recreation center.

For more information, please visit our Service Announcements page.

Official Website of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation

Things to Do > Events Calendar

Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.

Viewing 1-10 out of 52 events
from November 28, 2020 to September 10, 2022
in Virtual/Online Events & Best for Kids categories

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Get information on upcoming events directly in your inbox by signing up for our Email Newsletters.

Know about an event that's not on the calendar? Send us a tip!

Planning an event and considering hosting it in a park? Make sure to read our Planning an Event page.

Related Information

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NYC Parks is making important service changes. Find out more about our additional safety precautions, program cancellations, and potential closures before you head to a park or recreation center. For more information, please visit our Service Announcements page.

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Learn to craft by up-cycling what would otherwise be household trash.

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Planting trees, flowers and even crops can be very beneficial for everyone.

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Saving Tomato Seeds: How to Prepare and Store Seeds from Your Tomato Plants

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The most common to take action to protect Green areas is by voting. By electing leaders that care and understand the importance of protecting the environment. But voting is not the only option.

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Learn about some insects you might see near you

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BEES! WASPS! SPIDERS! What insects can be found in the flowers? - Bees in the Garden

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Kids Environment Kids Health - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

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Your job is to write and design a poster to get people interested in helping the environment. Pick a topic-see below for some suggestions. Decide who the poster is for-is it for kids, parents, grow-ups?

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Green spaces in highly populated areas are exposed to high levels of pollution because of bad air quality and very hot weather.

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Learn about Pollution | Environment Defilement | Cartoon

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One of the main causes of green space removal/destruction is the construction of projects such as parking lots, buildings, among others.

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Make a plan to build or go to a community garden if possible with your neighbors. Click to find a green space near you!

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Imagine the city you really want to live in. Verdant, tree-lined streets accompany your walk to work. Weekends include picnics or playtime in a beautiful green space nearby. Your neighborhood is filled with the familiar faces of people you've come to know at community gatherings.

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With a piece of paper, a crayon, and a leaf from your neighborhood you can create leaf rubbings!

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There are many ways we as humans can intervene to protect Green Spaces.

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Green Spaces help keep the atmosphere fresh and reduce these hot temperatures.

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Green spaces also help reduce water pollution by keeping stormwater away from potable/drinkable water, they also help get rid of contaminants in our water.

Click to watch Parth Sharma conduct a science experiment to show how the earth cleans our water!

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How to make water filter at home | Easy tutorial | Whizz Kid

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Another very curious way Green Spaces benefit our mental health is through soil. Mycobacterium vaccae is a bacteria found in soil (dirt) that stimulates serotonin production. Serotonin is the hormone that makes us feel happier.

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Green spaces provide a safe habitat for many insects, plants and even birds.

Click to play and search for life in the city!

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Games : Wild City Search . PLUM LANDING | PBS KIDS

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They reduce risk of flooding by storing water. They also help us filtrate water.

Click to learn more about how the water gets stored!

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Who Needs Dirt?: Crash Course Kids #27.1

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Green spaces improve the air quality by proving a clean and fresh air quality environment.

Click to learn more about air quality!

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Yoga For Kids   |   Play In The Park   |   Yoga With Adriene

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We can start by educating ourselves and others on the importance of environmental problems and find ways to help solve these problems

A great way to start is by getting outside!
Post a photo of a tree near you!

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These are some specific examples of the many benefits Green Spaces provide for humans.

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Green Spaces provide all kinds of benefits. Physical, mental health, and economic benefits among many others.

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Click to plant flowers with Curious George!

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Click to plant flowers with Curious George!

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Curious George . Flower Garden | PBS KIDS

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Count flowers in George's flower garden, and learn numbers up to 20!

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Green spaces are a great help at reducing pollution but what happens when pollution is too much for our local green spaces?

Cick to play Recycle City!

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Welcome to
Recycle City!

There's lots to do here - people and places to visit and plenty of ways to explore how the city's residents recycle, reduce, and reuse waste.

To get started, just click on any section of Recycle City that you want to tour. You can create your own Recycle City scavenger hunt or go to the Activities area for other ways you can explore. Or try one of our cool games!

When you leave this place, you'll know much more about what you can do to help protect the environment. Have fun!

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There's lots to do here - people and places to visit and plenty of ways to explore how the city's residents recycle, reduce, and reuse waste. To get started, just click on any section of Recycle City that you want to tour.

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Green spaces help us reduce the high levels of both air and water pollution.
They help regulate the Urban Heat Island Effect, which occurs when cities with many citizens experience very high temperatures.

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Green Spaces improve our health by providing a space to exercise and maybe even grow our own organic food, such as vegetables.

Click to play and farm your own food!

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Ready Jet Go! . Games . Space Scout: Food Farmer | PBS KIDS

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Jet and friends are planting a garden in on Earth and in greenhouses on Mars and Mercury for astronauts to eat. Jet shrinks everyone with his Shrink Ray so they can observe close up growing conditions and tend the gardens so that plants grow strong and healthy.

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Lola's garden is a green space!

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Volunteer to take care of local Green Spaces (scrubbing the pavement, picking up garbage). Even without signing up for volunteer work you can still take action and make sure these areas are well taken care of.

Click to watch how Curious George volunteers by planting trees!

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Green Spaces reduce the cost of municipal services. Some municipal services include, street cleaning, transportation (buses and trains), water services (the water we use to shower and brush our teeth), among others.

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A green space near you!

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The Dorothy Streslin Memorial Community Garden in New York City

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The Dorothy Streslin Memorial Community Garden in New York City

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