Grab & Go Kids Planner

Here is another edition of BaysidePatch's Grab & Go Kids Planner, the perfect guide to events and activities for your family.

Check out upcoming events, geared toward kids and families, that take place this weekend in Bayside and surrounding areas.

Here’s a green event, art exhibition, ecology saving effort, symphonic performance and poetry reading.

FAMILY BEST BETS OF THE WEEK

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Where/When: Flushing Public Library, 41-17 Main Street. On Friday at 4:00 p.m.

Why Go: Kids will use their creative sides to make their own models of green buildings using recycables provided by the library.

Pricing: Free

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Where/When: New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th Street. On Friday, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., or Saturday or Sunday, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Why Go: Because this art exhibit not only highlights the beauty of birds in general, but the fact that the ones featured are decreasing in number.

Pricing: Free with general admission. Admission fees are $11 for adults and $8 for kids, ages 2 to 17.

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Where/When: Alley Pond Park, on Saturday, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Meet at the .

Why Go: The family can help maintain the beauty, and ecology, of Alley Pond Park by picking out Invasive Species of the plant kind, such as wild rose and porcelain berry.

Pricing: Free

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Where/When: , on Saturday at 3:00 p.m.

Why Go: Guests will not only get a musical performance by the Queens Symphony Orchestra but a lesson in all things brass as well.

Pricing: Free

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Where/When: Al Oerter Recreation Center, 131-40 Fowler Ave, inside Flushing Meadows Corona Park. On Friday, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Why Go: This poetry reading will feature teens reciting their verbal formations of hip hop creations to incite emotional sensation through auditory stimulation.

Pricing: Free