Tu BiShvat is the Jewish holiday that celebrates the new year of the trees. To celebrate, the Brooklyn Children's Museum partners with The Neighborhood for a day of live performances, interactive planting workshops, and storytelling highlighting nature and traditions of the holiday.

Book tickets in advance.

SCHEDULE:

Stories and Sensory Exploration
 10:30am–11:30am, 1:30pm–2:30pm, and 3:45pm–4:30pm
An interactive reading of the PJ Library book, Trees Make Good Pets, helps kids discover the many ways in which trees can become humans' best friends! Families also plant seeds that will grow into tasty vegetables in the summer.

Maple Tree Pinball
11:30am–12:15pm, 12:45pm–1:30pm, 2:45pm–3:30pm
Can you help a maple tree make sweet sap that turns into syrup? This physical obstacle course invites you to “step inside the tree” to discover how water moves up and through a tree’s trunk, branches, and leaves. Anyone who makes it to the end of the course will win the grand prize of a maple candy!

Tree Fruit Tasting
11am–12pm, 2pm–3pm
What better way to celebrate trees than a snack of fruit and nuts? Enjoy a bite of fruit, taste a crunchy nut, and offer some gratitude for the bounty trees offer.

Fruit Prints
11am–12pm, 2:30pm–3:30pm
A drop-in printmaking art workshop invites kids to create a design or pattern made with fruit.

Tree Detective Bingo 
All Day
Find five or more specific Brooklyn trees as you walk around the park or on your way home. Use a bingo card to compete with your family.