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2016 Summer Boredom Busters - Your Ultimate Guide to Local Fun

With almost 100 days of summer, thought you could use a few ideas

July 28, 2016

BEDFORD 1787 COURT HOUSE AND MUSEUM Bedford

CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS-Katonah

CORTLANDT HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM Verplanck

CROTON POINT NATURE CENTER Croton-on-Hudson

CUDNER-HYATT HOUSE Scarsdale

EASTCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY(MARBLE SCHOOL HOUSE) Eastchester.

EVER REST 49 Washington Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson

GLENVIEW MANSION AT THE HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM Yonkers

HERITAGE EXHIBIT Maryknoll Sisters Center, Ossining

HISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY Tarrytown

HORACE GREELEY HOUSE Chappaqua.

HUGUENOT NEW ROCHELLE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION New Rochelle

JAY HERITAGE CENTER 210 Boston Post Road, Rye

KYKUIT 200 Lake Road, Sleepy Hollow

Neuberger Museum of Art -Purchase

LYNDHURST 635 South Broadway, Tarrytown

MATERIAL ARCHIVES LABORATORY FOR ARCHAEOLOGY Croton Point Park Nature Center, Croton-on-Hudson

MILLER HILL BATTLEFIELD White Plains

MILLER HOUSE 140 Virginia Road, North White Plains

MORRIS-JUMEL MANSION 65 Jumel Terrace at 160th Street, New York.

MUSCOOT FARM PARK Somers.

NORTH CASTLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY/SOCIETY'S EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX Armonk

OLD DUTCH CHURCH AND BURYING GROUND 430 North Broadway, Tarrytown.

Legoland Discovery Center - Yonkers

Stew Leonards

Greenburgh Nature Center

Chocolate works

Pelham Art Center 155 Fifth Ave, Pelham, NY 10803

Ridge hill Shoppig

Playlists (Rye N.Y.)

Planetarium Yonkers

Yonkers Water front science barge

Grinton Libray

Tarrytown Music Hall

Applause together

Westchester Broadway Dinner Theater

Sports time

House of sports

Fun craft

Bowling in White Plains bowlmor

Bounce U

Catch a show at White Plains Performing Arts Center

Westchester Trail Rides

The Play Place

Go Karts Mt Kisco

Free music concerts Cross County

Duck pond Bronxville

Attend the Clearwater Festival

Ride Metro-North’s Hudson Line

Stroll Through PepsiCo’sSculpture Garden

Visit a local Farmers Market

Chappaqua Chamber of Commerce Movies in Millwood Park

Attend a Macaroni Kid event!

See a show at the Westchester Broadway Dinner Theater

Attend a Festival or 2

See 4th of July Fireworks

Go to any of the Riverfronts

Go to the sound

Attend a Kidgets event

Rye beach

Zeppoli Me

Hike the Aqueduct

Go Bowling at Bolmor

Regal movies $1 movies in Nanuet Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10am

Visit the Croton Dam

Walk the Rockefellar State Park Preserve

Capital Theater Port Chester

Wolf Conservation Center

Tea Town Lake Reservation

Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens (Purchase)

Westchester Children’s Museum

Rye Playland

Harvest moon Orchard

Fly a kite at the Peekskill Riverfront

Turkey Mountain Nature Preserve-Yorktown

Emelin Theater-Mamaroneck

Take a class at The Digital Arts Experience in White Plains

Go to the Renaissance Faire in Sterling Forest

Enjoy live music, I Spy house tours, scavenger hunts in the garden and more at Caramoor.

Go Kayaking or canoeing

Go indoor ice skating

Visit any of Westchester’s “Main Streets” and shop small and local

Check out your climbing skill at the Cliffs In Valhalla

Visit Wave Hill in Riverdale

So many great libraries why not check them out?

Go see the birds in Greenwich at the Audubon Center

Grab fido and head to a dog park

Take a road trip to World Of Wings in Teaneck

Who doesn’t like a road trip? Jump in the car and visit Poughkidsie in Poughkeepsie!

Rent an inflatable movie screen and have an outdoor movie

Take the kids to read to senior citizens at one of the local nursing homes

Plant a garden

Have a camp out in your own back yard

Throw a block party (did you know that Dippin Dots Delivers?)

Get a hotdog from Dobbs Dawghouse

Go skating at Murray’s in Yonkers!

Plan a ragamuffin parade

The Bronx zoo

Go Geocaching

Get in the car and explore the next town!

Check out neighboring Macaroni Kid sites and see what they have planned!