Collaborative Map Project

The Children’s Museum of the Arts is inviting young visitors to go globetrotting — using their fingers — in this group workshop, which heralds the museum’s forthcoming show “If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home,” an exploration of the intersection of cartography and art. Children will work together to create a mural-size world map, first outlining and then filling in details with collage materials. Inspired by the book “Maps,” by Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinska, the project will include introducing flora, fauna and spots of special interest to the map.

Summer Sports Jamboree

It will soon be time to hit the books, but the Department of Parks and Recreation is providing a great opportunity to hit the fields first. This jamboree, geared to ages 6 through 17, welcomes young people to take part in the most popular activities the department includes in its Summer Sports Experience program, which helps develop athletic skills. This free event will offer baseball, basketball, football, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, track and field and volleyball, along with prizes, snacks and a D.J. Those who don’t play can enjoy arts and crafts, face painting and, of course, watching.

Hot Peas ‘N Butter

This serving is the kind that will please musical appetites. A band often seen on Nickelodeon and Noggin, Hot Peas ‘N Butter offers a blend of Latin tunes, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, jazz, folk and rock, sung bilingually and all intended to get children on their feet and dancing. These appearances at the Bronx Zoo will celebrate the group’s new album, “Put Our Heads Together,” to be released in September.

Danny Weinkauf and the Red Pants Band

Danny Weinkauf plays bass and writes music for They Might Be Giants, but he’s something of a giant on his own, too. With his group the Red Pants Band, he recorded “No School Today,” a children’s album that won a Parents’ Choice Award. This weekend he and the band will perform at the Bronx Zoo, right by the grizzly bears. (Do they like music?) Despite his album’s title, don’t be surprised to hear tunes about archaeology and spelling bees.

Living History Weekends

How often do you get to take a selfie with a Revolutionary War soldier? Opportunities abound at the New-York Historical Society, whose Living History Weekends welcome costumed re-enactors to the society’s DiMenna Children’s History Museum. On Saturday, members of the Living History Guild will represent the Fourth New York Regiment, greeting young visitors and lending them 1700s-style clothes and hats for photos. On Sunday, re-enactors will portray the Sheldon’s Horse, Second Continental Light Dragoons, a cavalry unit whose members were Washington’s personal bodyguards. They will perform exercises and lead patriotic children in military drills. Actors playing a surgeon and a spymaster will also discuss their 18th-century careers.

Music in Motion

That motion is the gentle rocking of a boat for this series of family neighborhood concerts presented by Bargemusic, the floating barge at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. As always, the material — announced just before the performance — is chamber music, but these programs differ in important ways from the regular Bargemusic fare: With unreserved seating, they last only an hour, include a post-show question-and-answer session with the musicians and are all free.

‘From Selma to the Black Panthers: Family Conversations in the Gallery’

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Panther Bobby Seale both sought civil rights for African-Americans, but their views of the appropriate means for attaining that goal differed greatly. In this program at the DiMenna Children’s History Museum of the New-York Historical Society, young visitors can reflect on the material presented in the exhibitions “Freedom Journey 1965: Photographs of the Selma to Montgomery March by Stephen Somerstein” and “Art as Activism.” Geared to older children, the program will discuss how the civil rights movement evolved from Dr. King’s espousal of nonviolent protest to the Black Panthers’ advocacy of armed resistance. It is also intended to provide a context for understanding how the struggle for civil rights continues today.

‘Grease’ Singalong

You aren’t supposed to talk in a movie theater, much less sing. But the sponsors of this event will make an exception. Older children who may have encountered “Grease” through a school production can experience the whole musical in this 1978 film, and sing along to every number. The lyrics will be shown on the screen during the movie, which stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John as a sizzling couple in a crowd of 1950s teenagers. Memorable tunes include “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” “You’re the One That I Want” and, appropriately, “Summer Nights.”

Crickets (and Friends!) Weekend

Those “friends” are bound to include children, who can become far more acquainted with crickets, cicadas and katydids as a result of this celebration at Wave Hill, the public garden in the Bronx. The program, part of the series Wings Over Wave Hill, will include “Green Bugs Gathering,” a family art project each day, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., in which young visitors can learn what distinguishes these species and make models of them for a singing insect parade, complete with cicada castanets. On Saturday only, at 1 p.m., children over 10 and accompanying adults are also invited to join a Crickets, Katydids and Cicadas Walk, in which the naturalist Paul Keim will collect the creatures in a sweep net for a close examination and analysis of their songs.

Sunday Story Time in Mr. Morgan’s Library

That Mr. Morgan is none other than Pierpont (1837-1913), whose library is now a cozy museum. Children ages 3 through 6 are invited there every Sunday through Oct. 11 to hear about Alice’s amazing trip to Wonderland and what she found there. The program relates to the museum’s show “Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland,” which includes the book’s original manuscript, along with illustrations and other vintage objects that young visitors can see in a brief visit after the story.

A Taste of Magic

Would you like a side of sleight of hand with that burger? This show, developed by Magnets, a collective of local magicians, brings wizardry to the dinner table. Taking place at various restaurants, the presentation includes acts like mind reading and card tricks, which professionals perform close-up for guests in between courses; there’s also a cabaret-style show. And the admission price includes a full meal.

‘Brooklyn Sewers: What’s Up Down There?’

When it comes to subterranean infrastructure projects, New York City’s subway system seems to get all the attention. But a group of teenage curators at the Brooklyn Historical Society would like to introduce you to another underground marvel: Brooklyn’s sewer system, one of the city’s oldest and most extensive infrastructure projects. This exhibition explores engineering conundrums and courtroom battles and tells the story of the sewer system through photographs, drawings and maps.

‘Rad American Women A-Z’: Readings

Books about the movers and shakers in our nation’s past still tend to be filled with white men, so the author Kate Schatz and the artist Miriam Klein Stahl decided to fill theirs with women of all colors. The result is “Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History … and Our Future!” (City Lights), a volume for ages 8 and older that spent eight weeks this year on the New York Times best-seller list for middle-grade children. Ms. Schatz and Ms. Stahl are making free appearances at bookstores this weekend to read from and discuss their work, which includes illustrated short biographies of figures like the activist Angela Davis, the labor leader Dolores Huerta and the author Zora Neale Hurston.

‘Rad American Women A-Z’: Readings

Books about the movers and shakers in our nation’s past still tend to be filled with white men, so the author Kate Schatz and the artist Miriam Klein Stahl decided to fill theirs with women of all colors. The result is “Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History … and Our Future!” (City Lights), a volume for ages 8 and older that spent eight weeks this year on the New York Times best-seller list for middle-grade children. Ms. Schatz and Ms. Stahl are making free appearances at bookstores this weekend to read from and discuss their work, which includes illustrated short biographies of figures like the activist Angela Davis, the labor leader Dolores Huerta and the author Zora Neale Hurston.

‘Rad American Women A-Z’: Readings

Books about the movers and shakers in our nation’s past still tend to be filled with white men, so the author Kate Schatz and the artist Miriam Klein Stahl decided to fill theirs with women of all colors. The result is “Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History … and Our Future!” (City Lights), a volume for ages 8 and older that spent eight weeks this year on the New York Times best-seller list for middle-grade children. Ms. Schatz and Ms. Stahl are making free appearances at bookstores this weekend to read from and discuss their work, which includes illustrated short biographies of figures like the activist Angela Davis, the labor leader Dolores Huerta and the author Zora Neale Hurston.

Dumbo Family Fest

Brooklyn Bridge Park has grown bigger, so why not celebrate in a really big way? This free event focuses on the park’s John Street section, which has new waterfront space and pedestrian bridges, and the Main Street section, which has been renovated to include an expanded lawn, a climbing wall and an elevated granite plaza. The fun there, presented by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy and the development One John Street, will include arts and crafts; face painting;  activities from the Brooklyn Children’s Museum; music from the Hungry March Band; and a performance of “The Izzy & Ooli Dream-a-Long,” an interactive puppet musical.

‘Frida’s Flora and Fauna’ and ‘Cooking With Frida’

It’s time to say “Olé!” to all kinds of fun: The New York Botanical Garden is honoring the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) in its exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life,” and it offers more than one program to introduce its youngest visitors to this famous Latina. In “Frida’s Flora and Fauna,” through Sept. 27 at the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, they can go on a plant scavenger hunt; make self-portraits, as Kahlo often did; play inside la Casita Azul, a model of her blue house; and put on shows at Frida’s Puppet Theater, with puppets representing her many pets. In “Cooking With Frida,” at the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden through Nov. 1, children can explore the raw ingredients of Mexican cuisine and enjoy cooking demonstrations inspired by Kahlo’s entertaining.

‘Goldilocks & the 3 Bears’

Yes, it’s that unwelcome blond visitor again, stirring things up at the bears’ house and trying out chairs, bowls of porridge and beds. Robert Southey’s folk tale is told in an updated version by Jack Kaplan, with hand puppets by Nicolas Coppola, artistic director of Puppetworks. (Reservations advised.)

‘Skippyjon Jones Snow What’

Skippyjon Jones, a Siamese cat, has always thought that he’s really a Chihuahua; the question this time is whether he can also convince himself that he’s a fairy tale prince. This production, part of Theatreworks USA’s annual free summer theater program, adapts the latest entry in Judy Schachner’s book series about the conflicted Skippyjon into an hourlong musical for children 4 and older. A wry sendup of the “Snow White” fairy tale by Kevin Del Aguila and Eli Bolin, who did Theatreworks’s first Skippyjon adaptation, this production is every bit as clever, comical and boisterous.