This weekend marks the official end of the summer as kids gear up to get ready for school next week. We’ve come up with ideas to get them out and have some fun this Labor Day Weekend.
- Gills, Fins and Scales: A Fish Dissection
Where/When: Theodore Roosevelt Nature Center, Jones Beach State Park, 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh, 516-780-3295, Saturday September 3 @ 10:30 a.m.-noon
Why Go: Children ages 7 and older can explore the internal and external anatomy of a fish, register.
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Pricing: $4.00 per person
2. Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body Where/When: Long Island Children’s Museum, 11 Davis Parkway, Garden City, 516-224-5800, through September 4.
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Why Go: The final weekend of this exhibit, where kids can explore why your body produces mushy, oozy, crusty and stink gunk
Pricing: $10.00
3. Family Sunday at the Museum
Where/When: Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor, 516-484-9337, weekly Sunday @ 1-3 p.m. through September 25 (excludes September 11)
Why Go: Enjoy a family walk-through of the exhibition with supervised craft activities. There are special family guides of the main exhibition available in the galleries.
Pricing: Free
4. Disney’s Camp Rock
Where/When: CM Performing Arts Center, 931 Montauk Hwy., Oakdale, 631-218-2810, Saturday September 3 @ 2 p.m. and Sunday September 4 @ 7 p.m.
Why Go: See the Disney musical about summer at camp that was supposed to be all about the music and having the time of their lives. But the new, flashy Camp Star across the lake now threatens Camp Rock’s very existence. To keep the doors open, Mitchie steps up, rallies her fellow Camp Rockers, and gets them into top shape for the ultimate showdown! This new musical based on the hit Disney Channel Original Movies.
Pricing: $12.00
5. Movie: Spy Kids: All The Time in the World
Where/When: Hicksville Movie Theater, 995 Broadway Mall, Hicksville NY, (800) 315-4000, Friday and Saturday, September 2 and 3rd, @ 11:50am 2:00 4:20 6:30 8:55pm
Why Go: See the adventures of Marissa Cortez Wilson who has it all. She's married to a famous television reporter, has a new baby and intelligent twin step kids. However, her world turns upside down when the Timekeeper threatens to take over the planet and she -- once a top agent -- is called back into action . Rated PG
Pricing: $8.50 children
