Things to Do With Kids on Long Island

Things to do with kids on Long Island

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Sunday Sep. 28, 2025

All day

Long Island History Hunt

Ages: 5 and up
Family
Free
History & Culture

Sportime Pickleball YorktownYorktown Heights

Girl Scout Programs

All day

Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum – Girl Scout Programs!

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Classes
Family

Walt Whitman BirthplaceHuntington Station

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Various

Halloween House Long Island

Broadway CommonsHicksville

8:30 am – noon

The Classic Apple Pie 5K

Ages: All
Family

Eisenhower Park – Field 2East Meadow

Firetruck 2024 (1)

9 – 10 am

Tunnel 2 Towers North Shore Kids Walk/Stroller-thon

Ages: 3 – 8
Family
Free
Fundraisers

Gemelli’s North Gourmet Market – Parking Lot Starting LineGlen Head

10 am – noon

Clay Pot Making for Littles

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Classes
Family

The Reboli Center for Art and HistoryStony Brook

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10 am – 4:30 pm

Heritage Farm & Garden 2025 Fall Festival

Heritage Farm & GardenMuttontown

hay Ride

10 am – 4 pm

Hallockville Country Fair

Ages: All
Family
Festivals

Hallockville Museum FarmRiverhead

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10 am – 4 pm

The Great Whale Takeover

Ages: All
Animals
Art
Family

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

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10 am – 5 pm

Hicks Nurseries 50th Annual Fall Festival

Ages: All
Family
Festivals
Free

Hicks NurseriesWestbury

10 – 11 am

CANCELED: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

Ages: All
Family

Hempstead Lake State ParkWest Hempstead

9.28.25 SURVIVAL SCIENCE

10 am – 11:30 pm

Survival Science Family Workshop at SMLI

Ages: 5 and up
Family
Outdoors

Science Museum Of Long IslandManhasset

Legendary Crafts Jelly Fish Wand – Image Only

11 am – 4 pm

Legendary Crafts

Ages: All
Art
Attractions
Family

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

Jolly Roger Flag -Pic Only

11 am – 4 pm

Jolly Roger Scavenger Hunt

Ages: 3 and up
Attractions
Family
Free

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

11 am – 5 pm

Wading River- Shoreham Chamber of Commerce Fall Festival

Ages: All
Family
Festivals
Free

The Shoppes at East WindWading River

Craft Fair 2019

11 am – 5 pm

Wading River Shoreham Chamber Fall Festival at The Shoppes

The Shoppes at East WindWading River

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Noon – 4 pm

Fall Fun Fest at Sands Point Preserve

Ages: 3 and up
Family
Festivals
Outdoors

Sands Point PreserveSands Point

Pokémon TCG Meetup (4)

2 – 4 pm

The Lantern Theatre presents: WHAT A SURPRISE!!!

The Merrick LibraryMerrick

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2 – 3 pm

Tour the Historic Thomas Dodge Homestead, c. 1721

Ages: 5 and up
Family
Free
History & Culture

Create: Thomas Dodge HomesteadPort Washington

7 – 10 pm

Gateway’s Haunted Playhouse

Ages: 13 and up
Art
Attractions
Family

The Gateway PACSCBellport

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