Long Island Kids' Activities April 6 & 7: Zoo Zoo By Imago Theatre, Dora The Explorer, Brady Rymer's Jump Up, It’s a Good Day

4/3/13 - By Jill Wolfson

This weekend is all about shows!  Head on over to the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in Greenvale to see Zoo Zoo Performed By Imago Theatre, a show about penguins playing musical chairs, a cat trapped in a giant paper bag, hippos with insomnia, and anteaters as waiters.  At the Showplace at Bellmore Movies in Bellmore catch Dora the Explorer Live, where you’ll see the Pirate Adventure on stage, and you’ll have the opportunity to meet the cast after the show. In Garden City at the Long Island Children's Museum, you won’t want to miss Brady Rymer Presents Jump Up, It’s a Good Day, where Rymer and the Little Band That Could perform high energy, interactive, and uplifting songs. The Arena Players Repertory Theatre Company Presents Treasure Island at the Vanderbilt Carriage House Theater in Centerport, where you’ll follow the adventures of Jamie who falls heir to a treasure map and sails to Treasure Island. Also on tap: Farmer for a Day at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center in Yaphank, and Ocean Science Sunday: Most EGGS-Cellent Celebration at the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum in Cold Spring Harbor.  As always, check out our events calendar every day for fun activities for the family!

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Saturday

Zoo Zoo Performed by Imago Theatre
Tilles Center for the Performing Arts
Greenvale           
11:00am
Ages 3 and up
$22, $14
516-299-3100
Zoo Zoo is penguins playing musical chairs, a cat trapped in a giant paper bag, hippos with insomnia, anteaters as waiters, and a madcap revue of illusion, comedy, and fun.

Farmer for a Day
Suffolk County Farm and Education Center
Yaphank
11:00am
Ages 3 and up
$8 per person
631-852-4600
Meet animals as you learn to feed and care for them. Make a product from sheep's wool, collect eggs from hens, and learn to make butter. Enjoy a tractor-drawn wagon ride around the farm. Registration required.

Sunday

Ocean Science Sunday: Most EGGS-Cellent Celebration
Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum
Cold Spring Harbor
Ages 3-6 at 1:00 PM. Ages 6-12 at 3:00 PM
$8 per child, $6 accompanying adult
631-367-3418
Learn about egg laying ocean animals, from sharks to whelks. Touch a scrimshawed Ostrich egg and see what you discover on an egg hunt in the museum. Decorate a Faberge egg and hatch your own real eggs that grow into ancient shrimp. RSVP required.

Jim West's Dinosaurs
Landmark on Main Street
Port Washington
2:00pm
All ages
$18
516-767-1384
Puppeteer Jim West mixes dinosaur facts with dino-puppet making ideas, classical music, and lots of silliness.

La Boheme
Madison Theatre, Molloy College
Rockville Centre
3:00pm
All ages
$25 adult; $15 child
516-678-5000
Concert version of Giacomo Puccini’s romance La Boheme. Long Island Opera performs with Madison Theatre’s Children’s Orchestra Society.

Mad Science - Fire & Ice Show
Village Theatre at the Park at East Hills
East Hills
4:00pm
Ages 4-12
Advance tickets - Residents: Child $8, Adult $12. Nonresidents: Child $10, Adult $15. Day of event - Residents: Child $10, Adult $15. Nonresidents: Child $12, Adult $18. Children under 2 free
516-621-5600
Learn about the properties for fire. Watch demonstrations involving dry ice. See the "Big Burp," the "Screwdriver Sizzle," the "Mad Science Shower," and explore the science behind this frozen gas.

Saturday and Sunday

Dora the Explorer Live
The Showplace at Bellmore Movies
Bellmore
Saturday 11:00am, Sunday 1:00pm
All ages
$10
516-599-6870
See the Pirate Adventure on stage. Meet the cast after the show.

Brady Rymer Presents Jump Up, It’s A Good Day
Long Island Children's Museum
Garden City
11:30am
Ages 3 and up
$4 with museum admission, $10 theater only
516-224-5800
Musical artist Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could perform high energy, interactive, and uplifting songs.

Opening Weekend: April Is Poetry Month
Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center
West Hills
11:00am - 4:00pm
All ages
Free with admission
631-427-5240
Using spring themes of bunnies, tulips, chicks, butterflies, and Easter eggs, kids can create their own poems, which can be displayed on the museum's Spring Carousel. Craft supplies will be available. You'll also get to tour the farmhouse in which Walt Whitman was born, along with hearing a recording of his poem, America.

The Arena Players Repertory Theatre Company Presents Treasure Island
The Vanderbilt Carriage House Theater
Centerport
1:00pm
All ages
Adults $10, Children $8, Children under 3 free
516-293-0674
Follow the adventures of Jamie who falls heir to a treasure map and sails with his masters to Treasure Island with a crew of pirates chosen from the audience. Reservations suggested.