Puppetmobile Comes to Queens This Summer
May 17, 2013 – 3:16 pm | No Comment

The City Parks’ Mobile Marionette Puppetmobile travels the city throughout the summer giving children free performances of their beautifully crafted marionettes and talented performers. This season they will be bringing a new performance to a …

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Brooklyn Forest School Spring Classes
February 25, 20139:30 am
Brooklyn Forest School Spring Classes

If you are looking for something engaging, hands-on, and off-the-beaten path that you can do with your toddler this Spring, then check out this outdoor class offered by  the Forest School, which takes place in …

Embark on a Winter Scavenger Hunt this Weekend
February 22, 20132:42 pm
Embark on a Winter Scavenger Hunt this Weekend

With no snow and endless days of bitter cold, it becomes more and more difficult to find interesting and fun things to do with kids. This weekend, thanks to our friends at Tinkergarten, you can …

Dads – Lovable Buffoons or Total Deadbeats?
February 20, 20136:06 am
Dads – Lovable Buffoons or Total Deadbeats?

Yes, this website is called Queens “Mamas”. Yes, our primary readership are mothers but it is time for a change. The extraordinary population that we have been leaving out for quite some time are Dads. …

Opportunity for Public School Parents to Serve on Community Educational Councils
February 19, 20138:30 am

With the seemingly never-ending budget cuts that continue to plague our city’s public schools and the almost unrealistic demands placed on teachers from high-ranking officials, the need for parental involvement in the future of public …

15 Awesome Facebook Pages to Like Now
February 19, 20136:30 am

Tired of seeing the same old internet memes and game requests on your faceboook page? Make your social experience…well….a little more social with our top picks for your page. Facebook can be a very valuable …

Outdoor Shadow Play with Kids
February 18, 201312:05 pm
Outdoor Shadow Play with Kids

Making shadow creatures is a fabulous way to develop creativity and imagination. As they create creatures real and imagined, they get a chance to draw on stories they’ve read or heard, making important mental connections. …

Music Together Long Island and Queens 25th Anniversary Concerts
February 18, 201311:16 am
Music Together Long Island and Queens 25th Anniversary Concerts

Yes, 25 years have passed since the first Music Together class was offered, and to celebrate this milestone, Music Together is presenting three 25th Anniversary Concerts, two in Long Island and one at our Mamas …

A Mamas Interview With Bill Cosby
February 11, 20131:05 pm
A Mamas Interview With Bill Cosby

We recently had the opportunity to interview the great Bill Cosby, and we asked him about his upcoming show at Kupferberg Center for the Arts in April, why he has had such a successful and …

3 Best Ways To Get Your Child Into Music
February 11, 20138:41 am
3 Best Ways To Get Your Child Into Music

If you were to jump into a supersonic aircraft to hop the globe, there are a few things you will find almost everywhere you go. Those three things are children,language and music. If you were …

Winter Seasonal Produce in New York – Buy Locally and Responsibly
February 11, 20137:55 am
Winter Seasonal Produce in New York – Buy Locally and Responsibly

In order to buy an orange in New York in the middle of winter, your food will travel thousands of miles, using hundreds of gallons of gas to get you your home. In many European …