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What do you want to be when you grow up? In this all new program you will get a taste of some of the world's most exciting jobs from veterinarian to marine biologist to professional basketball player! Start engineering your future today with this STEAMtastic Challenge Island adventure! Please read:  Tuition includes materials. Directions...

Triboro Kickers offers instructional soccer classes in New York neighborhood's park (during the outdoor season) and in gymnasium during the indoor season. Kids will learn the rules of soccer and the fundamental skills like dribbling, passing, heading, shooting, and trapping. They hold soccer activities in quality and fun atmosphere. Their professional...

The sunny borders between woodlands and the parking lot provide prime habitat for various wild herbs and greens. We'll look for sheep sorrel and wood sorrel, with their wonderful lemony flavors, plus goutweed, which tastes like parsley, carrots, and celery. Poor man's pepper, a common, delicious wild mustard, also appears in great abundance in sunny...

Central Park provides a great window into the world of wild foods in  early spring. Making a meal with these plants is simple at this time of the year. For an appetizer, try simmering field garlic bulbs in diluted vinegar with Italian seasonings, to make an outstanding pickle. It's the peak of the season for wild salad greens, and we'll be finding...

Prospect Park provides such a superabundance of wild foods in mid-spring, it's hard to cover them all in just four hours. We begin with spicy hedge mustard, corn-flavored chickweed, and spinach-flavored lamb's quarters, all growing near the park's Grand Army Plaza entrance. Then we move along to goutweed, taking over along the path near the Vale...

Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foraging in late fall. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with wild plants, even in late fall. This is the time to search for roots. Here are some we'll be finding: Burdock, an invasive, Eurasian, expensive, detoxifying herb sold...

Forest Park is one of the best places for foragers in mid-spring. Get lost in this vast park, and you'll have plenty to eat (that is, if you can distinguish the gourmet plants from the deadly ones.) It boasts a large, mature, secondary growth forest, trail edges, thickets, and cultivated areas—all overflowing with wild plants, and Violet Brill,...

This is an outstanding park for foragers in mid-summer. We'll explore cultivated areas, the seashore, and woods, all in one day.  The most spectacular find in this park grows within sight of the ocean. Dozens of blackberry bushes in nearby thickets provide thousands of exquisitely delicious berries. Smaller than their commercial counterparts,...

Our core philosophy is to teach children skills that they can use in their normal everyday life. We help develop a child’s core athleticism and physical skills through basic gymnastics and martial art techniques using music, skill-based activities and games in fun, safe and nurturing environment. Kids are introduced to the basics of karate including...

The extraordinary martial art, Isshinryu, is the basis of the students karate education. This art focuses on using quick and relaxed techniques instead of brute forces. The entire body is part of each technique thereby making it very powerful without putting the strain on the ligaments and joints that is often seen in other martial arts. Everything...

First Brushstrokes for Kids: Everything a Beginner Needs to Know It’s a magical time when your child takes up a brush and uses paint for the first time- Who knows where it will lead ? But we predict great things! Our course curriculum includes everything a beginner needs to know, from how to choose the right brush and employ color, to how to create...

Calling all chefs! Join us for a skill-based culinary program designed for young chefs to chop, mix, swirl and cook their way to a new culinary masterpiece each week. With a focus on exciting culinary techniques, fresh flavors, and activities paired with expert instruction, this class delivers the perfect recipe for hands-on learning and fun while...

New to art? This is the perfect after school opportunity to get started! In this course we will begin with drawing exercises before moving into complete a finished painting. Develop drawing techniques , learn how to achieve proportion, perspective, line, form, shading, rule of thirds, using a combination of pencil,charcoal and inks before moving onto...

Working from still life is the perfect way to hone your painting skills, capturing everyday objects as accurately as possible. Creating from real life is an amazing way to hone observational skills. When you paint from life, you interact with the subject first-handedly. As opposed to using photographs (where visual information is displayed on...

Toddlers learn, laugh, and play en français better in person! Small classes with strict safety guidelines are offered in person at FIAF to meet the needs of parents and children. Offered in the bright and spacious classrooms in FIAF’s beautiful Upper East Side building, the à petits pas program promotes a gentle French immersion experience in...