All tours for children include a backpack, disposable camera and notebook. While lunch is optional, it is recommended, as we understand how particular young connoisseurs can be.

* indicates participation activities.

Day includes minivan and driver, tour director, admissions, taxes and gratuities. Appropriate lunch and carriage ride optional. Half-days available.

A Midtown Dream

• The morning begins with a private visit with a personal shopper to the incredible Times Square Toys-R-Us store or the newly reopened FAO Schwarz before public store hours. Then will follow an introduction to Central Park, with the specific sites visited in the park coordinated with the children’s ages, interests, and activity levels. A hansom carriage ride in the park is optional. A visit to the Central Park Zoo rounds out the morning.
  
• The afternoon continues at the American Museum of Natural History including the dinosaur halls, the butterfly exhibit (in season) and galleries that support the interests of our children, and includes a visit to the Rose Center for Earth and Science space show.

I Know How They Make That

• The art of making paper by hand is demonstrated, and we participate in designing and making our  own paper. *
• A well-known children’s book illustrator shows us how to become an author.
• A glassmaker reveals the whole craft and art of creative glassmaking in his workshop.
• A chocolatier lets us in on some secrets of the world’s greatest taste.
• An award-winning fragrance designer can help us create a perfume of our own - Eau de Bubble Gum perhaps?

Day includes minivan and driver, tour director, appropriate lunch, taxes and gratuities. Half-days available.

The World's Biggest Dress-Up Box

• The morning tour centers on costumes: their design and creation, fitting and transformation of a character on the stage. It’s an opportunity to try on a real Broadway costume and to be that character for a while. *
• In the afternoon, we focus on the face, and work with a stage make-up artist to create unique characters for ourselves. Learn how stage make-up will completely alter the appearance of an actor and create a whole new character. *

A matinee performance of a Broadway show can be substituted for the make-up activity on Wednesdays. Day includes minivan and driver, tour director, admissions, taxes and gratuities.
Appropriate lunch optional. Half-days available.

Just a Few Minutes from Broadway

These sessions are particularly intended for older children: pre-teens and teenagers who have an expressed interest in performing arts, who may be a participant in local theatrical productions.

* In the morning activity, we will meet a?professional theater director and musical director to learn     warm- ups and exercises, breathing techniques that professionals use for improving vocalization and     movement.
*  Lunch in a Times Square restaurant.
* In the afternoon, we focus on movement. We will meet professional Broadway dancers, learn some    warm-up techniques and rehearsal routines for the stage and explore the ins and outs of going after a    role in an audition.

Day includes transportation by minivan with driver as required, tour director, taxes and gratuities. Appropriate lunch optional. Half-days available.



Creatures Great and Small


From professionals at one of the wildlife conservation centers, we will learn about the care of some of the most fascinating creatures, the creation of suitable artificial environments for them, and the preservation of their natural habitats. Visit a polar environment, a tropical rainforest or the African plains.