Activities

June is Pride month, a month where LGBTQ+ rights, culture and stories are in the spotlight. Pride commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan, a turning point in the history of modern LGBTQ+ rights. Celebrating Pride as a family is important, both to show support for friends and community members …

The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited, organized by the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, has made its way to Baltimore’s Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC), where it will stay through December 30 of 2023. Families will no doubt recognize the name Jim Henson as the …

The Planet Fitness Summer Pass program gives high school-aged students the opportunity to work out for free all summer long. Teens in Maryland can choose from multiple locations throughout the state, including areas such as Reisterstown, Towson, Catonsville, Baltimore City, Columbia Westminster and Aberdeen. In addition to the chance to …

What can you pack into a day trip to Baltimore? Families planning Memorial Day outings might be wondering the same thing. A trek into the city for county residents over the last few years might not have included the movies—as there were few theaters in the area, with a limited …

Professor Elizabeth Shrader, advisor for the Environmental Club and Campus Community Garden at the Community College of Baltimore County Essex campus, shares her tips for gardening with your family this season.   BC: How can gardening be a fun activity for families?   Elizabeth Shrader (ES): Gardening can be fun …

Click on the images below to open this Top 10 calendar as a PDF. This roundup of family events appears in the April 2023 issue of Baltimore’s Child.

Now that the weather is getting warmer, it’s time to experience all the beauty and family bonding spring has to offer. The Baltimore area has no shortage of fun family activities to get you and your kids out in the community making memories. This spring, many festivals, fairs and businesses …

Click the images below to open this calendar in our digital magazine. This roundup of family events appears in the March 2023 issue of Baltimore’s Child.

By Stevia Morales, Children’s Instruction & Research Supervisor; and Carmen Jessop, Senior Teens’ Instructor & Research Specialist, at Howard County Library System; all book covers are provided by their publishers. March is here, and with it comes many celebrations. In these books, we honor St. Patrick’s Day and and Irish-American …

I think there’s still glitter on my floor. From five years ago. Arts and crafts have a way of sticking around, and while I want to encourage creativity in my kids, I hate cleaning up the aftermath. Yes, we can make them clean up. I know. But seriously, do they …