North Shore Kid Stories, Events, Activities, Camps and Recipes

Joppa Flats Education Center offers April vacation programs offering a wide variety of indoor and outdoor activities - keeping minds active and hands busy during school break! Come all day or as your schedule allows! This Vacation Week Flyby will focus on the birds and Spring buds.

Come to a Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team presentation of 'Snakes of New England' at the The Open Door meeting space on Emerson Avenue! At this Pathways for Children hosted event, kids will learn all about the habitat and lives of snakes from New England from Rick Roth, Executive Director of the Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team . Live local and exotic animals will be presented, and those who attend will have the opportunity to see these creatures close up! This is a great chance to see and learn more of the fascinating reptiles. Please RSVP to Haily Granger [info below] at Pathways for Children if you plan to attend!

Maritime Gloucester and Cape Ann Art Haven team up to invite kids ages 6-10 to a vacation week session where they will learn about science through making art - part of a week full of educational sessions during April vacation! Check in at Cape Ann Art Haven (180B Main Street, Gloucester) and we will go together to Maritime Gloucester for a sea adventure. After lunch we will make our own sea creatures at Art Haven.

Maritime Gloucester invites kids in pre-k through first grade to a vacation week session about crustaceans and hermit crabs - part of a week full of educational sessions during April vacation! Did you know that hermit crabs decorate their shells?  

Are snakes actually slimy? Why do snapping turtles snap? What makes a reptile a reptile? Together we will answer these questions and many more while we become acquainted with some incredible animals from the Museum's Live Animal Center.  This program has been cooperatively sponsored by the Museum of Science and the Friends of the Hamilton-Wenham Library.

Dads & Donuts is a story time designed especially for dads and children ages 2 and up. You don't have to be a dad either.  Moms, grandparents, or partners - everyone is welcome to attend and eat delicious sticky donuts. The event will be held in the children's room. Snacks will follow 30 minutes of stories based around the theme of Fractured Fairytales! Enjoy stories with donuts, juice and coloring to follow.

Mass Audubon's Joppa Flats Education Center in Newburyport will be busy with lots of different outdoor/indoor activities this April school vacation. Our three days of Vacation Week Flybys feature activities, games, experiments, and more. Children ages 2 to 12 are invited to drop in anytime with their families for indoor and outdoor fun that will keep minds active and hands busy during school break!

Wenham Museum invites you to come in costume, as a monster, dragon or dinosaur and hear frightfully fun stories, create monster print art and play silly monster games. Explore Wenham Museum’s spring exhibits: 'Draw Me a Story: Paper Monsters' with Ed and Rebecca Emberley a display of lively monster art and 'Pop Goes the Book!' an exhibit of engaging pop-up books.  All Ages.

Robotics programs and teams from all over the Seacoast will converge on the Children's Museum of New Hampshire for an afternoon of fun with robots. See local FIRST LEGO League, FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics Competition robots in action along with SeaPerch underwater remote operated vehicles. Robotics programs like these offer an exciting blend of tech education and innovation. If you've never seen these student-built robots before, now is your big chance to check it out.

NOTE: Due to the events of the massive manhunt in the Cambridge Area and shooting of an MIT police office over the past few days, all events and activities for the Cambridge Science Festival have bee postponed for Friday April, 19 and Saturday April 20, 2013!

The Cambridge Science Festival is the first of its kind in the United States. It is a fun and enagaging celebration showcasing  the leading edge in science, technology, engineering, and math in our region. The Cambridge Science Festival makes science accessible, interactive and fun with hundreds of events taking place in and around Cambridge, MA each spring.  For ten days, Cambridge will come alive with science and offer exhibits, activities, fairs, demonstrations, lectures, debates, concerts, plays, workshops and all kinds of interactive events for kids, families and curious individuals!

Come to Joppa Flats after school to learn about song birds! Our afternoon starts off with self-guided activities, challenges, or puzzles that lead us to our topic for the day. As a group, we'll observe, investigate, and compare wildlife, their adaptations, and the changes that they undergo each season. Participants may play the role of a zoologist, a naturalist, or even an Arctic explorer throughout this series. Each experience will leave your young scientist eager for the next session.

Manchester Athletic Club is please to offer Dance Jam, a new 6 week class for kids ages 4-6 to have fun learning new dances and playing musical games.

Dance Jam for Kids is a 6 week program starting on Wednesdays from 4:00-4:45 p.m.

Taught by Lindsay Mzaouakk, Director of Group Fitness. Lindsay is a professional ballroom dancer and travels extensively competing and performing nationally. She's a great instructor and the kids love her!

Call 978-526-8900 to register.