What To Do: With the Kids November 2016

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What To Do: With the Kids November 2016

The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze, Van Cortland Manor – 11/3-6, 10-13, 19-20 & 25-26: Walk through a path of 5,000 hand-carved, illuminated jack o’lanterns set against an historic, 18th-century riverside landscape. Highlights include a headless horseman, a working doomsday grandfather clock, and gourd filled jack in the boxes, and dinosaurs from Jurassic Park – all made out of jack-o-lanterns. With sound effects, synchronized lighting and an original soundtrack by recording artist Richard Christy. Advance tickets required. (525 S. Riverside Ave., Croton on Hudson; www.hudsonvalley.org)

Warren Miller’s Here, There and Everywhere,Tarrytown Music Hall – Thurs, 11/3: 8pm. Warren Miller’s 67^th snowsports film takes you on a freeform, freeski adventure. Travel to Crested Butte, tour Greenland by dog sled and take a Swiss Holiday on the Glacier Express. (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

Fantastic Mr. Fox, Jacob Burns – Sat-Sun, 11/19-20: 12pm: Based on Roald Dahl’s children’s book this quirky tale follows the recidivist crimes of the fantastic Mr. Fox. Despite his comfortable family life in the base of a tree, Mr. Fox can’t help stealing chickens. Fed up with the antics of Mr. Fox, the evil farmers—Boggis, Bunce, and Bean—set out to capture him. This comedic stop-motion animation from Wes Anderson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It stars the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray. (Jacob Burns Film Center, 364 Manville Rd., Pleasantville; www.burnsfilmcenter.org)

Local! Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival Story Concert – Sat, 11/19: 3pm: Michael Shapiro conducts music by Chappaqua composer Brad Ross for narrator and orchestra. Paul Shaffer (SNL and Late Show with David Letterman) narrates “A Family for Baby Grand” preceded by Ogden Nash’s “The Tale of Custard the Dragon” sung by Broadway star Timothy Warmen. Children under 4 go free. (Wallace Auditorium, 480 Bedford Rd.; www.chappaquaorchestra.org)

Disney on Ice Follow Your Heart, Barclays Center – Wed-Sun, 11/9-13: Disney’s new e show features characters and stories from some of the latest Disney/Pixar animation films. Including Dory and her new pal Hank from Finding Dory and characters from Inside Out that won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The show then moves through the classics from Frozen to Toy Story to Mickey Mouse and his Disney friends. Also playing at the Prudential Center in Newark on 11/16-20. (Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn; www.barclayscenter.com)

Bubble Time, Tarrytown Music Hall, Sat, 11/12: 2pm. Casey Carle is Yesac Elrac The Bubblemaniac, a bubble artist extraordinaire. Doug Rougeux is Bub, the bumbling, “everyman” character who discovers many ways to turn common and unusual items into amazing manipulators of spherical liquids. Together they share an apartment of inflatable furniture into a soapy circus for all ages. (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

Hatched, Emelin Theatre, Sat, 11/12: 11am & 1:30pm:Treehouse Shakers present this original production about life on the farm for kids 0-6. The story follows a newborn chick emerging from her shell and features handcrafted puppets, storytelling, music and dance. The cast invites audience members onstage where they can give feed the chicks and baby lamb, and get licked by the cow. (Emelin Theatre, 153 Library Ln., Mamaroneck; www.emelin.org)

A Billion Bricks 4, LEGO Super Heroes in Gotham, Stamford Museum, 11/19-2/5: Bring the whole family to this fantastic annual exhibition and be awed by five famous architectural landmarks made completely out of LEGO® bricks. The team from ILUGNY will recreate a fantasy Gotham City featuring some of the most iconic buildings in New York City. LEGO® trains, trams, and subways will travel over, under and around a totally new LEGO landscape where superheroes will save the day! (Stamford Museum & Nature Center, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford; www.stamfordmuseum.org)

WTD Fave Rave: New York Botanical Garden’s Train Show: The New York Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train Show in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory features more than a dozen large scale model train sets (some super-sized) zipping across a quarter mile of track and a landscape of 140 scaled replicas of iconic New York City buildings made of bark, twigs, fruit, seeds and pine cones. Including, the original Penn Station and Yankee Stadium, Radio City Music Hall, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and the Brooklyn Bridge. An absolutely must do event – if you’ve never been. Sat-Sat, 11/21-1/18/2016. (2900 Southern Blvd. Bronx; www.nybg.org)

UBS Parade Spectacular: Skip the Macy’s Day Parade and stay local with one of the largest helium balloon parades in the country. When we were there we saw the Pink Panther, Popeye, Underdog (anyone remember Underdog?) Nemo, Mighty UBS Parade Spectacular Stamford What To Do: With the Kids November 2016 Mouse, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Miss Piggy, Spiderman and Kermit the Frog. Plus marching bands, floats and street food. Sun, 11/20: 12pm. (Stamford Downtown)

Local! Ice Skating at The Harvey School: In cooperation with The Harvey School, Jim Whiting and his staff at Bedford Recreation offers two hours of public skating for all ages at The Harvey School ice rink on the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas. There will be a DJ spinning fave tunes and requests. Admission is just $5 and you must provide your own skates. No hockey playing. Fri, 11/25: 12:45-2:45pm & Wed, 12/28: 12:45-2:45pm. For more info call Bedford Recreation at 914.666.7004 or check you Fall Brochure. (The Harvey School, 260 Jay St., Katonah; www.bedfordny.gov)

Click, Clack, Moo, Emelin Theatre – Sat, 12/3: 11am & 1:30pm: All day long Farmer Brown hears “click clack moo, clickety clackety, moo…” The cows and chickens have joined together in protest and are typing up a list of conditions or they’ll strike! Will Farmer Brown give into the animals’ demands? Will Jenny get her computer back? (You know she will.) Find out in this hilarious musical about negotiation and compromise, based on the Caldecott Honor Book by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. A Theatreworks USA production. Ages 4 and up. (153 Library Ln., Mamaroneck; www.emelin.org)