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Your weekend plans begin here, with a couple of dozen FREE and cheap things to do this first weekend of October, including the Little Red Lighthouse Festival,  the Amazing Maize Maize at the Queens County Farm Museum, the world’s largest display of LEGO art, and FREE museum admission.

We’re exhausted already, and the weekend hasn’t even started yet!

There’s so much to see and do in NYC and never enough time to see and do it all.

All events are FREE and family-friendly, unless otherwise noted.

The NYC on the Cheap motto is get more NYC for less money.

Let’s hope the weather cooperates with outdoor events, but if it doesn’t, here are some rainy day activities in NYC, besides re-arranging your sock drawer.

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NYC Museum Mile festivalFREE Museum Admission First Weekend of the Month

Take advantage of FREE museum admission on the first full weekend of each month and on the first Thursday, Friday and Saturday of each month.

Add these “firsts” to add to your monthly NYC “to do” list, and enjoy FREE museum admission this first full weekend of the new month in New York City. 

See the full list here.

 

best halloween events for kids nycThe Amazing Maize Maize

Enjoy getting lost in NYC’s only corn maze. The adventure begins with a stalk talk to prepare you for the 3-acre challenge of finding clues, solving puzzles and making your way out of this interactive maze.

Feel up to the challenge? Maybe the kids will lead you out.

There’s also a Maize by Moonlight evening event in October.

  • Every weekend through Oct. 26th, plus on Mon., October 14, 2019
  • 11:00 am–4:30 pm (last ticket sold at 4:30)
  • Advance Tickets: $10; $5 (ages 4-11), Door Tickets: $15; $8 (ages 4-11), Free for ages 3 & under
  • Queens Farmhouse Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Floral Park
  • Click here for directions, including by MTA subway and bus and LIRR

what to do with kids in new york city this weekendArt of the Brick

Experience The Art of the Brick the world’s largest display of LEGO® art.

Artist Nathan Sawaya created more than 100 pieces for this exhibition using only LEGO bricks. The collection features original pieces, as well as re-imagined versions of some of the world’s most famous art masterpieces, including the famous painting known as Scream.

More than one million LEGO bricks were used to create Sawaya’s sculptures.

In addition to the LEGO artworks on display, there are activity stations where kids of all ages can create and design their own.

  • Art & Architecture – Recreate famous building, bridges and structures using LEGO bricks.
  • Hidden Hands – Build a mystery object inside a covered box using only your sense of touch.
  • Assistive Devices – Design a tool that will allow you to pick up an object on a post through a series of various sized windows.
  • Describe It – Build a simple object out of view and describes the object to your friend. Then, see if your friend can build the same object based only on the description.
  • Six Bricks – Find out how many different things you can build using only six LEGO Duplo bricks.
  • LEGO Drag Race – Build a LEGO brick car and test it out on ramps of different inclines.
  • Tilt Maze – Rearrange straight LEGO “bar” bricks to create a maze for a wooden ball to navigate through on a tilt-table.
  • LEGO Music Box – Create your own unique song using a special LEGO baseplate. On the baseplate, horizontal lines represent different “tracks,” and vertical columns represent the eight “beats.” Use different colored LEGO bricks as instruments or notes/pitches to create your song. Then put the visual representation of your song under a camera, where simple image processing algorithms will turn it into music.

Art of the Brick is at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadow Park.$7 per person, plus NYSCI admission.

  • $7 per person, plus NYSCI admission.
  • Take the 7 train to the 111th St. station.

Last Chance

cycling in new york city

Cycling in the City 

This exhibit traces the bike’s transformation of urban transportation and leisure and explores the extraordinary diversity of cycling cultures in the city, past and present.

The exhibition explores the complex, creative, and often contentious relationship between New York City and the bicycle over the last 200+ years, while underscoring the importance of cycling as the city confronts the present and future of climate change, energy scarcity, and population growth.

  • At the Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Ave. at 103rd St.
  • Through Sunday Oct. 13.

 

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Posted by Evelyn Kanter on October 4, 2019 | Updated October 6, 2019 Filed Under: Autumn in New York · Family Fun · NYC Cheap Weekend · NYC for Visitors · NYC Free

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