Want some assist figuring what to do with the youngsters throughout winter break?
Listed below are our high picks for household enjoyable within the Granite State:
Loads of flight time at Aviation Museum of NH
Log some additional time on the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, 27 Navigator Highway, Londonderry.
The museum has added a number of weekdays to its common lineup — Tuesday, Feb. 28, Wednesday, March 1, and Thursday, March 2.
An teacher guides a youth by way of a digital journey on an Elite Flight Simulator on the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. It’s one in every of many options on show on the Londonderry museum throughout prolonged hours all through faculty trip week.
Common hours apply for Fridays and Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Sundays, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Future pilots can try an Embraer 110 cockpit, attempt some scavenger hunts, and play with aviation-themed toys.
The Elite Flight Simulator will probably be up and working Tuesday, Feb. 28, and Thursday, March 2, for ages 12 and older. Simulator operators will probably be on responsibility for first-come, first-served classes from 1 to 4 p.m. each days.
Kids 12 and youthful are invited to listen to aviation-theme tales Wednesday, March 1, at 10 a.m.
Admission is free for these 5 and youthful and $5 for these 6 to 12, in addition to veterans, and $10 for ages 13 and older.
Cupcake battle rises within the north
A Cupcake Battle is rising within the Mount Washington Valley, the place professionals, dwelling bakers and youth beneath 16 will sq. off Sunday afternoon on the North Conway Group Heart, 2628 White Mountain Freeway.
Every competitor has to provide at the least 220 mini cupcakes for tastings that may run till 3:30 p.m.
Occasion-goers should purchase a $12 ticket to pattern one cupcake from every competitor and forged votes for his or her favorites.
The Peking Acrobats, that includes the Shanghai Circus, will carry out on the Stockbridge Theatre at Pinkerton Academy in Derry.
It’s showtime for gravity-defying Peking Acrobats
Carry the entire household to Stockbridge Theatre at Pinkerton Academy in Derry to observe the Peking Acrobats defy gravity in tumbling, juggling, contorting and somersaulting feats at 7 p.m. Thursday.
The touring troupe through the years has been featured on tv exhibits together with “Ellen’s Actually Massive Present”(hosted by Ellen DeGeneres), “The Wayne Brady Present,” “That’s Unbelievable,” “ABC’s Large World of Sports activities” and NBC’s “Ring In The New 12 months Vacation Particular.”
Get out on the slopes
Pat’s Peak Ski Space in Henniker is POP-ping with concepts for winter break, together with day and evening snowboarding and snowboarding, classes for tykes and older children, and plenty of snow-tubing adventures.
Saturday nights beneath the lights have a pay-one-price choice (POP) that features snowboarding, snowboarding, snowtubing, rental gear and ideas. Tubing hours are from 5 to 10 p.m.
POP pricing additionally extends by way of trip weeks by way of Saturday, March 4, except for Sunday, Feb. 26.
Even the dinosaurs are feeling frisky throughout school-vacation play on the Cheshire Kids’s Museum in Keene.
Two weeks of enjoyable at Cheshire Kids’s Museum
The Cheshire Kids’s Museum, 149 Emerald St., Keene, is open from 9 a.m., to five p.m. Fridays and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays each this and subsequent week.
Displays are sponsored by native companies, so there’s some real-life themes — a grocery store, meals truck, publish workplace, recycling heart, development zone and a farm.
There’s additionally an area for toddlers beneath 3, who can try a transportation heart with a practice, boat, automotive and aircraft.
Admission is free for members and youngsters beneath 12 months, $5 for these ages 60 and older and $10 for others.
SEE one thing cool within the Queen Metropolis
The SEE Science Heart, 200 Bedford Highway, Manchester, is giving guests an additional day to take a look at displays subsequent week.
The museum is opening its doorways Monday, Feb. 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., along with common hours Tuesday, Feb. 28, by way of Friday, March 3, and Saturday and Sunday, March 4-5, from 10 a.m. to five p.m.
Take a look at a bunch of displays on gentle, electrical energy, forces and momentum. Plus, discover the “BiologYou! Exhibit in addition to the sprawling LEGO Millyard Mission, constructed with greater than 3 million LEGO items.
Mr. Aaron takes the highlight in NH
Folks-pop kids’s performer Mr. Aaron performs a Cookies and Live performance sequence present from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Bedford Household Library, 3 Meetinghouse Highway.
The multi-instrumentalist additionally plans to do an album-release get together for his fifth recording, “Get Aquatic,” at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 11, on the Financial institution of New Hampshire Stage, 16 S. Predominant St., Harmony. Tickets are $13.75.
There’s outside enjoyable and critter sightings
Discover trails, see what resident critters are as much as and check out some winter video games at Prescott Farm Environmental Schooling Heart, 928 White Oaks Highway, Laconia.
WildQuest 2023 Winter Camp runs Monday, Feb. 27, by way of Friday, March 3, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day.
Tuition for ages 6 to 12 are $255 for members and $305 for non members. There’s prolonged care out there between 8 and 9 a.m. and 4 to five:30 p.m. for added charges.
Winter Carnival is a family-friendly good time
The Park and Recreation Division’s thirty first annual Winter Carnival runs from midday to three p.m. Saturday at Wasserman Park in Merrimack.
Greater than two dozen teams will serve up free video games, crafts, drawings and different family-oriented actions.
Meals will probably be out there for buy.
Hold a watch out for Mack, Merrimack Police Division consolation canine, in addition to the long-lasting Oscar Meyer Wienermobile, a hot-dog formed car.
Hey children, welcome to the highlight
Kids are invited to take their turns within the highlight with a Jaffrey theater workshop that features video games, work on performing abilities and a efficiency in entrance of a stay viewers.
Park Arts presents this system Monday, Feb. 27, by way of Friday, March 3, on the Park Theatre, 19 Predominant St.
On Saturday, individuals in grades 3 to five will hit heart stage in “The Elves and the Shoemaker” and college students in grades 6 to eight current “Thriller Anybody?”
Weekly charge is $90, with the choice of a T-shirt for a further $12.