Scrapbooking With Your Family

Who says you need a drawer full of supplies to scrapbook? These apps help you get creative with family memories right on your digital device.

Coolibah: Available on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, Coolibah features more than 700 different scrapbooking kits—each with free and 99 cent options. Design the layout for your photos and decorate pages with unique backgrounds, borders, fonts, embellishments, and more.

Martha Stewart CraftStudio: With the versatile Martha Stewart CraftStudio app for iPad, you can customize scrapbook pages as well as cards, invitations, thank you notes, and more. Once you’re satisfied, share your masterpiece online, print it at home, or have it professionally printed by Snapfish.

ScrapPad: ScrapPad’s simple interface enables you to effortlessly design creative digital scrapbooks on your iPad or Mac. Best of all, your scrapbook can be shared over email or Facebook for friends and extended family to enjoy. It’s easy to use–perfect for junior scrapbookers.

Skrappy: This one-of-a-kind iPad app takes digital memorabilia to a whole new level by letting you import different types of media to your photo album. In addition to offering basic scrapbooking features, Skrappy allows you to add music, videos, voice memos, and web links to your scrapbook pages.

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Polaris Productions Theater Camp

Kids will learn, rehearse, and perform the wonderful Maurice Sendak and Carole King musical, Really Rosie. For 10 weekdays, campers will take part in physical and vocal warm-ups and learn choreography, staging, and vocal parts. They&rsquo;ll develop skills in acting, singing, character development, and more. This camp will ignite your child&rsquo;s imagination and passion for performing, build their self-esteem, and help them form lasting friendships. They&rsquo;ll have fun! At camp&rsquo;s end, the kids will perform Really Rosie for family members and friends. Kids of all levels of experience, ages 8 through 13, are welcome to join.

Speakitaly NYC

SPEAKITALY NYC offers stimulating and entertaining lessons for children 0 to 16 years through a wide combination of activities based on the communicative approach anchored in the Common European Framework of Reference: active learning (group work, role plays, etc.) and practice exercises aimed to improve listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Kids will start speaking and using Italian in a very natural way.&nbsp; Small classes capped at 6 students to make sure each one gets the needed attention and facilitate learners' progress.&nbsp; Our method is driven by a didactic method that is the result of constant updates, professional certifications and more than 10 years of experience in working with non-native speakers from different native languages and levels of knowledge. Our aim is to develop a range of Italian language skills while improving accuracy that will enable the students and participants to interact without stress or feeling rushed. We want to help those in the community really embrace not only the true culture in Italy but the Italian culture within New York City&hellip; Who doesn&rsquo;t love what Italy represents in the kitchen, in history &amp; in the arts? Speakitaly wants to support multilingual families who want to learn a new language or pass along their ancestor&rsquo;s heritage and culture. Raffaella, the founder said: "We see language awareness and intercultural sensitivity as the milestones for an inclusive society. Italian, like all other languages, is an enrichment and a growth in every way. Vi aspettiamo!"

Music Together

Music Together&reg; is for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their parents/caregiver. The classes include songs, rhythmic rhymes and movement, and instrument play activities that are developmentally appropriate for the children and easy for parents and caregivers, regardless of their own musical ability.