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A New Broadway Season for Kids
With new Broadway Musicals like Annie and Bring It On, taking your kids to a Broadway musical is a no-brainer. What could be more of a treat than the excitement of lights going down, the curtain going up and actors performing live onstage?
Apple-Picking Season
This week marks the start of apple-picking season in our area, when dozens of orchards open to the public. A perfect time to take the family and friends to a local orchard.
Seafood Festival
The "Festival of the Sea" is a street fair located in downtown Point Pleasant Beach where visitors sample dishes by area's finest restaurants (from clam chowder to lobster to steak); wine garden, arts & crafts, pony rides, antiques, kiddie games and live entertainment.
Apple Cider Making
Experience the taste of fresh crisp apple cider! Participants will help to make cider using Tenafly Nature Center's apple press and learn about the history of apple cultivation and cider making.
Baby and Tween Yoga, Kid Zumba and Kickboxing
Beginning a healthy discipline while they are children, will follow them into adulthood. Make fitness fun, with Youth Programs at Ethos Fitness for ages 6 months to 15 years. Classes include Kickboxing, Zumba, Tween and Baby Yoga.
Blackboard Style
Chalkboards aren’t just for schoolrooms anymore. Examples of chic, functional chalkboard decor can be found everywhere.
Interior Design Classes and More
Want to go back to school and learn something new? Local Community Schools offer interior design and home classes taught by professionals.
The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze
See more than 5,000 individually hand-carved, illuminated jack o’ lanterns in this elaborate walk-through experience. This event SELLS OUT and has limited capacity. Advance tickets required.
The Best Children’s Museums
Parents are looking for educational but fun places to bring their family. Children's museums are poised to help you meet that need. Inside their doors, play inspires lifelong learning. Here is a list of the ones ranked best in the Northeast.
Open Cockpit Day
The Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of NJ opens the cockpits of many of the museum airplanes, helicopters and a fire truck. Visitors experience real 'hands on' cockpit understanding.