Community Corner
Family Events and Activities: Dec. 29 -Jan. 2
A stay-at-home dad lists his top 5 activities for the weekend.
As 2011 comes to an end and 2012 begins, it’s the perfect time to determine your New Year’s resolutions. You may want to take some holiday weight off or get control of your finances... One of my resolutions this year is to do more creative things with my family on a regular basis. I’ll have the opportunity to start this weekend with the following events.
5. Excavation Station, , 145 Brooklyn Ave., Dec. 30 at 1:30 pm
This is an opportunity for your children to learn how to use tools to examine fossils. No, they won’t be going through your VHS tape collection to watch your Dad’s videotape of you at prom. They will have the chance to unearth actual fossils (that do not include the baby blue Miami Vice suit with the push up sleeves you wore on that special, special night).
4. Puppetsburg: An Interactive Puppet Show for Babies!, The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave., Dec. 29 at 12:15 pm
Your kids will either be scarred for life or love it. One of the puppets is named bubbles so I’ll lean towards the latter. It may even give you ideas on what to name your next child.
3. Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk - An Introspective, Brooklyn Museum, Dec. 29, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Dec. 30-31, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The museum is closed New Year's Day.
This exhibit offers the chance for you to tackle big topics like racism with your child. Or you can let that one slide and just let your budding art critic appreciate a tree growing through a grand piano. Better the Brooklyn Museum’s piano than yours.
2. Pina in 3-D, BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave., Dec. 29-Jan. 2 at 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7:20 p.m. and 9:40 p.m.
Talking can be so overrated. Let’s see how long your child can sit in silence (make a game of it!). Try Wim Wender's Pina in 3-D for the older kids who love dance.
1. Stutengarten Brooklyn, , 710 Fulton St., Dec 29, 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Every Tuesday and Thursday this beer garden takes mercy on neighborhood parents and opens its doors so that they may enjoy a snack time of their own. $5 gets you passed the “bouncer” and your child onto the play mats.
