Family fun for whenever
Valentine’s fun
- The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, 6 Washington St. in Dover, childrens-museum.org, will hold a Valentine’s Dance party featuring special musical guest Mr. Aaron on Sunday, Feb. 8, from 1 to 3 p.m. Mr. Aaron will perform between 2 and 2:30 p.m.; the day will also feature Valentine’s crafts, the website said. See the website for tickets, which cost $18 per person.
- The Educational Farm at Joppa Hill, 174 Joppa Hill Road in Bedford, will hold a Valentine’s Day Birdseed Hanger craftmaking event on Thursday, Feb. 12, from 11 a.m. to noon, according to jhef.org/events-at-the-farm, where you can reserve a spot for $15 per child. The event will feature a story about animals in winter, a walk on the story patch, a visit to farm birds and making the birdseed hanger, the website said.
Stellar!
- The Friday, Feb. 6, Super Stellar Friday program at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discover Center in Concord is all about “Stellar Spectroscopy & Exoplanet Observation,” according to starhop.com. “Join us in the planetarium theater as we take a guided tour through how we use telescopes like the James Webb to learn more about stars too far to visit or take detailed pictures. Learn about the traces left in starlight and what they mean for a star’s formation and potential for habitable worlds, as well as the importance of events in our universe leading up to our own lives on Earth,” the website said. Doors open for the Friday night programming at 6:30 p.m., the presentation starts at 7 p.m. and a sky viewing with New Hampshire Astronomical Society begins at 9 p.m., weather permitting, the website said. A planetarium show, for an additional $7 per person, takes place at 8 p.m. See the website for tickets to the event.
Pink Day
Southern New Hampshire University’s women’s basketball team will celebrate Penmen Pink Day — “Fill the gym with love for breast cancer fighters and survivors” according to a post on the NH Hoop Skills Facebook page — on Saturday, Feb. 7, with a vendor fair starting at 12:30 p.m. before the game against Southern Connecticut State University at 1:30 p.m., according to snhupenmen.com. The men’s game, also against Southern Connecticut, will start at 3:30 p.m., the website said. The games take place at the Stan Spiro Field House on the SNHU campus in north Manchester.