Items tagged with 'kids'
The Pottery Place
There's a cat mug in here just waiting to be painted purple and orange.
If you're anything like me, you've been past that pottery place in Stuyvesant Plaza a dozen times and always wondered what it was all about.
Well, wonder no longer. It's The Pottery Place and it's tons of fun. If you loved art in elementary school, it's the perfect place to channel your inner child.
Elmo overload
We were kicking around the Palace's site yesterday when we noticed that "Sesame Street Live -- Elmo Makes Music" is coming there in February -- for seven shows. Yep, there will be seven Elmo performances over the course of three days.
A few thoughts:
1. As we understand it, Elmo is only three-and-a-half-years-old. Seven shows in three days has gotta violate some kind of child monster labor law. (And you don't want to make Elmo angry!)
2. The Capital Region must really love itself some Elmo. And, of course, we can only guess that Elmo LOVE Albany!
The Wiggles are coming!
We'd tell Jeff to wake up, but he looks pretty chipper here.
Consider this your warning! Prepare yourself for herds of stampeding three-year-olds and a mob of parents afflicted with ear worms. The Wiggles will be performing at the TU Center on November 2.
The TU Center site says all the ticket details are currently TBD. But if you dig through the Wiggles own site (we did and we'll never be the same), you'll see that tickets are scheduled to go on sale September 5 at 10 am. It also looks like there's some sort of pre-sale September 3 at 10 am -- the password is "WAGS."
If you're wondering what this is all about... ignorance sometimes truly is bliss.
The Pass It On Summer Sale
That's 20,000 square feet of bargains on kids stuff.
The semi-annual Pass It On Sale at Albany Academy's field house opens to the general public tomorrow (Wednesday). This consignment sale is loaded with good deals on "gently" used kids clothes, toys, furniture and baby items. Seriously, the stuff is cheap.
We got in Tuesday afternoon during the private pre-sale to check out what's available this time around. Pictures, and a rundown of how much some common items are going for, after the jump...
The Butterfly Station
One of the butterfly house's inhabitants.
Here's something different to do if the kids in your life have gotten a little bored with the usual summer lineup of activities. The Butterfly Station at Farnsworth Middle School in Guilderland is a student-run butterfly house, native plant garden, and organic community garden. Here's how the school describes it:
Besides walking among butterflies, visitors can watch how butterflies are raised in the metamorphosis room or make free butterfly projects in the craft room. Community members of all ages will enjoy the many interactive butterfly exhibits in the museum room.
We stopped by last week. We're guessing it's probably good for somewhere between a half-hour and hour with younger kids.
The Butterfly Station is open Monday-Friday 10 am to 1 pm until August 15. It's free.
A few more pics after the jump.
The Albany Art Room
Karen Schupack giving art tips to Cole and his mom.
The Albany Art Room is pretty much what it sounds like. It's a big room (actually 3 rooms) filled with just about anything you can use to make art. There are buckets and boxes of crayons, markers, paper, paint, stencils and brushes. There are beads and strings and easels. There's glitter and paste and a big box filled with pretty purple sand. There's just all kinds of fun stuff.
And for $5 an hour little kids and little kid wannabe's (otherwise known as grown-ups) can play with all of it, and take their creations home.
Karen Schupack says she started The Albany Art Room because she wanted something like it in the world, and she thought other people might like it too. In between coaching
budding young artists and their parents, she told us why.
Capital Region Pools
Doesn't this make you want to take the rest of the day off?
Summer isn't summer without a little pool time. So where can you cool off and get a few laps or a good game of Marco Polo in around the Capital Region? You pack the beach towel and sunscreen, we've got the list:
Testing video games at 1st Playable
Here's something cool for your kids to do now that school's letting out. 1st Playable, a video game developer in Troy that specializes in games for devices such as the Nintendo DS, is looking for kids to try out its games. Not only do the kids get to play the games before they come out, they also get their names in the credits.
The only downside: you have to be 15 or younger, which edges out the AOA editors by, um, just a few years.
More details after the jump...
They Might Be Giants at The Egg: The Swearabration and the other show
TMBG will be playing not one, but two shows at L'Oeuf on Saturday. But check your program-- these shows are very different.
WEXT's Peanut Butter Jam
If your inner child needs to do a little dance, you'll want to check out WEXT (97.7) tomorrow morning at 9:00 for, "The Peanut Butter Jam." It's an hour of eclectic rock and roll music that kids and adults can enjoy together. Think Rockey and Bullwinkle, not Barney.
Want a taste test? Download a sample (mp3).