Bring your young arts and crafts-lover to the Queens Museum of Art to make his very own scale model of New York City out of cardboard, glue and colored paper. Children of all ages are invited to enjoy light snacks as the roll up their sleeves and create their small world based on the museum’s New York City Panorama, a 9,553-square-foot model of New York City in miniature, built by Robert Moses for the 1964 World’s Fair.
Parents and kids can also check out the museum’s show, “Wonderstruck in the Panorama: Drawings by Brian Selznick,” an exhibit of 35 imaginative drawings, sketches, and storyboards that document the making Moses masterpiece.
It’s all part of MetLife’s Second Sundays for Families series, in conjunction with the release of best-selling children’s author Brian Selznick’s novel “Wonderstruck,”
“Wonderstruck in the Panorama,” at the Queens Museum of Art [New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, (718) 592-9700] Oct. 6 from 1 pm to 4 pm. For info visit www.queensmuseum.org
