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By Susan Rosenthal Jay
for The Brooklyn Paper

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Saturday, Sept. 13

11 am-1 pm: Free lunch and music. Giggles and Green (369 Court St. near First Place in Carroll Gardens). Free. Call (718) 499-0010 for info.

12:30 pm and 2:30 pm: “Hansel and Gretel.” Puppetworks (338 Sixth Ave. at Fourth Street in Park Slope). $7 kids, $8 adults. Call (718) 965-3391 for info.

1 pm: Creative nature crafts. Salt Marsh Nature Center (33rd Street and Avenue U in Marine Park). Free. Call (718) 421-2021 for info.

Waterford on the Bay

1-4 pm: Harvest, cook and eat apples. Lefferts Historic House (enter Prospect Park at Flatbush Avenue just north of Empire Boulevard). Free. Visit www.prospectpark.org.

Sunday, Sept. 14

2-4 pm: Learn about seeds and make arts and crafts. Brooklyn Botanic Garden (enter at 900 Washington Ave., just south of Eastern Parkway). $8 adults, $4 kids. Call (718) 623-7200 for info.

12:30 pm and 2:30 pm: “Hansel and Gretel.” See Saturday, Sept. 13.

Tuesday, Sept. 16

11 am: Sing-along. Moxie Spot (81 Atlantic Ave. at Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights). Free. Call (718) 923-9710 for info.

Friday, Sept. 19

3 pm: Free admission. New York Aquarium (West Eighth Street and Surf Avenue in Coney Island). Call (718) 265-FISH for info.

Saturday, Sept. 20

1-4 pm: Butter churning, potato sack races and spinning flax into linen thread. Lefferts Historic House (enter Prospect Park on Flatbush Avenue just north of Empire Boulevard). Free. www.prospectpark.org.

4 pm: Explore city history in comic books. Fort Green Park Visitors Center (enter park at Myrtle Avenue between Washington Park and North Portland Avenue in Fort Green). Free. Call (718) 722-3218 for info.

12:30 pm and 2:30 pm: “Hansel and Gretel.” See Saturday, Sept. 13.

Sunday, Sept. 21

12:30 pm and 2:30 pm: “Hansel and Gretel.” See Saturday, Sept. 13.

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