Recommended Field Trips:
Holiday Family Field Trips for December 2014

• Matisse! Henri Matisse Cutouts, through Feb. 8, 2015 Experience spring in the middle of winter by visiting the Matisse Cut-Outs exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Then make your own cut-out art. See also Make a cut-out collage.
  • Henri Matisse: The Cut-outs, with Exhibition details
  • Family Art Workshops include "Drawing With Scissors" for ages 8-10 and for ages 11-14.
    
    
• Picturing Sound: at the Metropolitan Museum, through Dec. 14, 2014
  
  
• At the New York Public Library:
  • Illuminated Paint
  • Sesame St. at Lincoln Center
    
    
• Trains! My kids loved the annual train show at the Bronx Botanical Gardens so much that we tried to go every year. You won't just enjoy the toy trains, but also the amazing historic miniature replicas of buildings and landmarks, and the creative use of the natural materials. Through Jan. 19.
  
  
• Check the NYC Parks Events Calendar for many activities
  
  
• Paper Arts & Crafts Activities for Kids in NYC, Nov-Dec. 2014
  • Rubin Museum Family Art Labs, second Saturday of each month
    
    
  • Origami at the American Museum of Natural History: Origami holiday tree; Dec. 7 special folding session; Folding Sundays 1 - 4 pm
    Also at the AMNH Dec. 15 telescope party and Dec 27 Kwanzaa.
    
    
  • Links to origami by and for children: Origami by Children, photographed by Mary Gordon; Folded Forms and the Surface to Structure Gallery
    
    
• The Jewish Museum holds drop-in art workshops Sundays 1 - 4 pm. Hanukkah Day is Dec. 14, 12-4 pm — Make a menorah with found objects
  
  
• Scandinavia House: Dec. 6, 1-3 pm, Swedish Christmas Children's Workshop
  
  
• Paper Quilting, Nov. 29, 2014 at Lefferts House in Brooklyn
  
  
• Thanksgiving Day Weekend in Prospect Park
  
  
• Holiday Happening in Queens Dec. 6
  
  
• Paper Arts and Crafts at the Poe House in the Bronx, Nov. 29, Dec. 12, Dec. 19 and 20, 2014
  
  
• At Wave Hill in the Bronx (Saturday morning admission is free, workshop included). Make holiday pop-up cards: December 6 and December 7. Make Lino-cut cards (ages 8 and up) December 6 and December 7. Make candles with winter berries December 13
  
  
• Holiday Craft Workshop in Staten Island on Dec. 6