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Free NYC Events and Activities for Kids in April 2025
Big Umbrella Festival at Lincoln Center (not free--choose what you pay)
Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, Upper West Side
Friday, April 3-Sunday, April 20, 2025
The popular Big Umbrella Festival blooms as a free campus takeover at Lincoln Center full of relaxed spaces with multi-sensory experiences, performances, installations, and workshops specifically welcoming neurodivergent audiences and their families. Visit the website here.
Free Things To Do in NYC from Tuesday, April 1-Sunday, April 6, 2025
Spring Opening at the Audubon Center
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Kick off the spring season with fun nature activities at the Prospect Park Audubon Center. Families and children can learn about bird migration through interactive games, join Prospect Park Alliance’s teen naturalists for an animal encounter, and take a hike to identify warblers. Visit the website here.
Koko NYC Makers Workshop in Battery Park City
Battery Park City
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Ages: 6+
Register online in advance.
KoKo NYC leads families in a sustainable makers workshop and inventors lab! Led by teaching artists, kids and their families can hone their skills, use real tools, and experiment with recycled materials, found objects, and textiles to bring their ideas to life. Visit the website here.
BABYTOPIA: A World of Fun for Toddlers & Preschoolers
Atlantic Terminal Mall in Downtown Brooklyn,
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Advance registration is requested.
Get ready for BABYTOPIA, the ultimate world of fun for babies through preschoolers! Bring your littlest New Yorkers for a day packed with FREE activities including musical and theater performances, art activities, and face painting. Let your little ones loose in the play area, try out parent-and-me demo classes, plus enjoy samples and giveaways for the whole family! Visit the website here.
New York Tartan Day Parade
Midtown West
Saturday, April 5, 2025
The NYC Scottish cultural event of the year features thousands of clans, pipers, dancers, and Scottish pups marching up Sixth Avenue. Visit the website here.
Sari-Sari Storytime at the Philippine Center
Midtown East
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Please register in advance.
Authors Hanna Usman and Christina Newhard read from their books, Jalal and the Lake and Kalipay and the Tiniest Tiktik, commemorating the Philippine National Literature Month. Visit the website here.
Skyscraper Pictionary at the Skyscraper Museum
Battery Park
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Register online in advance.
Learn about the artistic side of architecture and discuss sketches, renderings, and all the art architects make before their buildings can be built. Then, play a game of Skyscraper Pictionary with familiar towers in New York and abroad. Visit the website here.
Pipes and Drums on the Fountain Terrace in Bryant Park
Between 40th and 42nd Streets & Fifth and Sixth Avenues., New York, NY,
Saturday, April 5-Sunday, April 6, 2025
The American Scottish Foundation celebrates the 26th anniversary of National Tartan Day with a concert on the Fountain Terrace. Get a leg up on the marching at a pre-New York Tartan Day Parade serenade by some leading pipe bands! Performances are at 10:30am and 12:30pm on Saturday and 12:30pm on Sunday. Visit the website here.
Wrapped Packages Family Program at Lehman College Art Gallery
Bedford Park, the Bronx
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Reserve a spot online, in advance.
Experience an inquiry-based inclusive family tour of the Wrapped Packages: Surprises Unknown exhibition. Create a relief print based on the work of Andy Warhol. Visit the website here.
Easter Egg Hunt at Great Commission Bible Church
Jamaica, Queens
Sunday, April 6, 2025
No registration is required. First come, first served.
Say goodbye to March and hello to April with a free Easter egg hunt! Eggs are filled with small toys and treats, plus there are prizes, snacks, and other surprises! Visit the website here.
Free Things To Do in NYC from Monday, April 7-Sunday, April 13, 2025
After School Art Explorers: Drop-In Programs at the Jewish Museum
Upper East Side
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Register online in advance.
Preschoolers and elementary school-aged children are invited to explore and create during these drop-in Tuesday afternoon sessions at the Jewish Museum. This program is led by a museum educator and assisted by teen interns. Visit the website here.
Easter Egg Hunt in Roger Morris Park
Washington Heights
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Register online in advance.
Stop by the Morris-Jumel Mansion to hunt for eggs, have your face painted, play a game, and enjoy free admission to the museum. Visit the website here.
Woodlawn Family Fun Day in Van Cortlandt Park
Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Register online in advance.
Get a head start on Earth Day with tons of natural fun in Van Cortlandt Park. Visit the website here.
Eggstravaganza Concert and Egg Hunt at Shore Road Park
Shore Road and 79th Street, Brooklyn
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Crossroads Christian Church hosts a fun afternoon on the lawn of Shore Road Park with egg hunts for kids ages 10 and under, yard games for adults, and a concert hosted by Crossroads Worship. Visit the website here.
Spotted Lanternfly Egg Hunt on Randall's Island
Randall's Island
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Learn how to identify and remove spotted lanternfly egg masses, and help squash as many eggs as possible. Unwind with a bonfire and games between squish sessions! Visit the website here.
NYSoM Easter Eggstravaganza in Sherman Creek Park
Sherman Creek Pop-up Park, Inwood
Saturday, April 12, 2025
First come, first served.
NYSoM hosts an Easter party that includes an egg hunt, an Easter activity village with painted Easter eggs, Easter crafts, and appearances by the Easter Bunny and friends. Visit the website here.
Gladiators NYC in Central Park
Central Park behind the Met Miuseum
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Knights in full armor battle on the grass in Central Park behind The Met. Bring a blanket and a picnic. Visit the website here.
Indieplaza Fest
30 Rockefeller Center, Midtown West
Saturday, April 12, 2025
RSVP in advance, online.
A big celebration of independent music, merchandise, and workshops stretches across Rock Center's expansive outdoor plazas. Swedish rock icons The Hives headline, followed by live performances from Scowl, experimental hip-hop group Clipping, reggae/dub artist Pachyman, singer-songwriter Zsela, Chicago post-punk outfit Lifeguard, indie newcomers Slippers, and DJ sets from Chanel Beads, Yuno, and Confines + Ohaileigh (Saint Vitus). Visit the website here.
The East Midtown Easter Egg Hunt
Midtown East
Saturday, April 12- Saturday, April 19, 2025
Hunt for candy-stuffed eggs and special golden eggs at participating East Midtown Partnership businesses. One egg per child per location. Visit the website here.
Free Things To Do in NYC from Monday, April 14-Sunday, April 20
Spring Break in Prospect Park
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Monday, April 14-Friday, April 18, 2025
FREE (unless otherwise noted)
Join the Prospect Park Alliance during Spring Break for family-friendly activities at the Prospect Park Audubon Center and the Carousel. Visit the website here.
Free Kids Week Programming in NYC Parks
Citywide
Monday, April 14-Friday, April 18, 2025
Spend Midwinter Break exploring NYC Parks with the help of the Urban Park Rangers FREE programming series. Visit the website here.
Jackie Robinson Day at the Jackie Robinson Museum
Tribeca
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Reserve tickets online
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier in modern Major League Baseball. Commemorate Robinson’s enduring legacy on and off the baseball diamond with fun-filled events for fans of all ages. Visit the website here.
Earth Day 2025 in Union Square
Union Square
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Union Square's annual Earth Day New York event is a fantastic way to connect to environmental campaigns, green lifestyle products, and interesting people doing great green work! Visit the website here.
Nature Story Time in Brooklyn Bridge Park
Dumbo, Brooklyn
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Brooklyn Bridge Park Environmental Education Center
Librarians from Brooklyn Public Library Adams Street location lead an exciting and engaging storytime session, along with singing and rhymes. Each month they select a book to pair with the Education Center’s monthly nature theme. Visit the website here.
Queens Easter Festival in Gantry State Park
Long Island City, Queens
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Gantry Park's annual Easter Fest includes age-specific Easter egg hunts, live entertainment, and carnival games. NO registration is required for the festival, everyone is welcome to participate. However, for the egg hunts, each child participating needs to register. PRE-REGISTRATION is required for a TICKET. No walk-up registration. Tickets must be presented for each child in order to participate for the egg hunts. Visit the website here.
Harlem Grown's Earth Day Celebration
Harlem Grown's 134th Street Farm
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Register online in advance to help organizers plan.
Celebrate the resilience of our planet and learn how to live more sustainably. Stop by for food tastings, music, dance, movement, and more. Visit the website here.
Tall Building Scavenger Hunt at the Skyscraper Museum
Battery Park
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Register online in advance. Space is limited.
Young architects work together to solve clues using the museum space! Can you identify which tower in the museum's current exhibition is the oldest? Can you find out what year a photographer used the unfinished Brooklyn Bridge to take a photo of the Manhattan skyline? Put your sleuthing skills to the test in this scavenger hunt for kids of all ages. Visit the website here.
WBO Spring Egg Hunt at Williamsbridge Oval
Williamsbridge Oval Recreation Center, Bronx
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Register online in advance. Space is limited.
Stop by Williamsbridge Oval for an egg hunt, sack races, arts and crafts, and more! Visit the website here.
BKLYN Easter Fest at CityPoint
Downtown, Brooklyn
Saturday, April 19, 2025
City Point and Brooklyn Bridge Parents present an Easter Fest with kids DIY spring crafts, Easter Bunny #selfies, cookie decorating, and games. Find it on the ground floor next to and opposite Rumi at City Point. Stroller parking is available. Visit the website here.
Lenfest Kids: Big and Small
Lenfest Center For the Arts, Columbia University, Upper Westside
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Thinking about small perspectives isn’t just a way of understanding cinema. It’s a way of understanding the world. Shrink down and journey inside the human body in Fantastic Voyage and Osmosis Jones. Follow the adventures of mice (Stuart Little), frogs (The Princess and the Frog), miniature people (Secret World of Arrietty), and even shells (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On). Visit the website here.
Free Entrance Days in the National Parks
National Parks - Multiple Locations
Saturday, April 19, 2025
On select days throughout the year, including January 20, all national parks are open to the public with no admission fee. Visit the website here.
Hands-on History: Gardening Day at King Manor Museum
Jamaica, Queens
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Reserve a spot online in advance.
Help plant the first round of crops and flowers in King Manor’s raised bed gardens to welcome in the spring! Learn about the plants historically grown on Rufus King’s farm and even create your own illustrated map! Visit the website here.
Spring Festival at St. James Park
Kingsbridge Heights, Bronx
Saturday, April 19, 2025
NYC Parks and Council Member Pierina Sanchez host a spring festival event at St. James Park with family games, sports, arts and crafts, and more. Visit the website here.
Spring Family Day at Carnegie Hall
Midtown West
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Entry is first come, first served.
Carnegie Hall celebrates families with FREE, interactive, and fun musical activities at its Spring Family Day. Enjoy a spring sing, watch main stage performances, participate in a collective art project, and more. Visit the website here.
Poetry in the Park in Fort Greene Park
Fort Greene Park Monument Steps
Myrtle Avenue Hill, Brooklyn
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Rain date is Saturday, May 3.
RSVP is encouraged.
Celebrate National Poetry Month with Poetry in the Park, a family-friendly event featuring workshops, history, performances, and, of course, poetry! Visit the website here.
Earth Day in Prospect Park
Audubon Center, Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Reserve a spot online in advance.
Prospect Park Alliance hosts family-friendly nature activities at the Audubon Center in celebration of Earth Day. Visit the website here.
Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival on Fifth Avenue
Midtown East
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Each year on Easter, the best of the bonnets are showcased along Fifth Avenue as New Yorkers celebrate the holiday by roaming the streets in their most festive spring gear. Starting at about 10am and continuing until 4pm, the parade marches north on Fifth Avenue, from 49th Street to 57th Street. Visit the website here.
Easter Sunday Service and Easter Egg Hunt at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery
Lower East Side
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Reserve a spot online in advance.
St. Mark's hosts a festive Easter service, followed by an Easter egg hunt for children in the church garden. Visit the website here.
Free Things To Do in NYC from Monday, April 21-Wednesday, April 30, 2025
City Nature Challenge: Bioblitz at Belvedere Plaza
Battery Park City
Friday, April 25, 2025
Help conduct a bioblitz—where professional and citizen scientists work together to identify all the plant and animal specials in a specific area—and contribute to building a catalog of Battery Park City’s biodiversity. Visit the website here.
Family Fridays: Flexagon Secrets and Puzzles with MoMath
National Museum of Mathematics Pop Up, Gramercy
Friday, April 25, 2025
Newbies make and flex hexaflexagons, fascinating folded puzzles, while “old hands” learn how the solid-colored triangles on a flexagon can be shuffled and solved like a Rubik’s cube and how to create their own puzzles from blank flexagons. Visit the website here.
Car-Free Earth Day
Citywide
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Open Streets: Car-Free Earth Day is an annual car-free event hosted by NYC DOT. Programming is presented at signature locations citywide to promote activism and education surrounding climate change, sustainability, and other relevant topics. Visit the website here.
Broadway Celebrates Earth Day 2025
Midtown West
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Times Square Pedestrian Plaza
The Broadway Celebrates Earth Day concert returns for the fourth year, serving as a marquee event for the NYC Department of Transportation’s city wide “Car-Free Earth Day” and featuring live performances from Broadway stars, including hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley (Stars in the House), Tony Award Winner Shaina Taub (Suffs), Tony Award Nominee Stark Sands (Kinky Boots), and Grammy Award nominee Merle Dandridge (Hadestown). Visit the website here.
Earth Day Festival on Randall's Island
Randall's Island Park Urban Farm
Saturday, April 26, 2025
RIPA’s Earth Day Festival ushers in the warmer months, celebrates the earth, and gives visitors the opportunity to appreciate the park’s spring beauty—especially the cherry blossoms. Visit the website here.
Earth Day in Carl Schurz Park
Upper East Side
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Carl Schurz showcases its work to create a more diverse, resilient, and healthy Park ecosystem. Visit seven topical panels throughout the Park, talk with experts about birds, bees, butterflies, fungi and oysters, and don't miss the Earth Day-themed children's arts and crafts activities and interactive puppet show. Visit the website here.
Arbor Day at the Audubon Center
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Join the Prospect Park Alliance this Arbor Day and spend some quality time with the park's gentle giants—the trees. Visit the website here.
Earth Day Festival in Fort Greene Park
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Rain date in April 27.
Fort Greene Park's Earth Day Festival 2025 features family-friendly activity stations and sustainable swaps. Visit the website here.
Earth Day: S.T.E.A.M Dream in Battery Park City
Battery Park City - Rockefeller Basketball Court
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Register online in advance.
Kids are invited to pick up S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) at this special Earth Month-themed open air fair featuring a variety of engaging activities and a pop up lab with BioBus to help K-12 and college students discover, explore, and pursue science. Visit the website here.
Downtown Brooklyn Car-Free Earth Day at Albee Square
Downtown Brooklyn
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Reserve a spot online in advance.
Earth-friendly fun is guaranteed at Albee Square Plaza and Albee Square West, which is closed to traffic all day. Bring your bikes, roller skates, and beach chairs to enjoy a car-free street. Visit the website here.
Terrible Tales from the Troubled Titanic with Science Teacher Sarah
Science Adventure Kids, Chelsea
Saturday, April 26-Sunday, April 27, 2025
The most famous shipwreck in history! Kids love to ask questions about the maiden voyage of the Titanic. What went wrong? What is the myth, the legend, and the truth? How did the Unsinkable ship land on the bottom of the icy Atlantic? Get the answer to these inquiries while exploring icebergs, building a penny boat, and more! Visit the website here.
DUMBO Open Studios
Dumbo, Brooklyn
Saturday, April 26-Sunday, April 27, 2025
Over 150 artists and arts organizations open their doors to the public, including artists in residence at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Triangle Arts, the New York Studio School, BRIClab, and Smack Mellon! Visit the website here.
Green Adventure For Families in Green-Wood Cemetery
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Registration recommended.
Green-Wood hosts a day of family-friendly nature adventures! Expert naturalists lead walks to collect data on birds, insects, fungi, and plants at the Cemetery for the City Nature Challenge, and Genspace, New York’s community bio lab, brings the fun of science exploration through interactive performances. Visit the website here.
Macy's Herald Square Annual Flower Show
Midtown West
Sunday, April 27-Sunday, May 11, 2025
Macy's annual ode to springtime is in full bloom, with thousands of stunning flowers and lush plants transforming the flagship store into one of the most colorful destinations in NYC. Visit the website here.