Author: The Hippo Press

Family fun for whenever

More maple

The sap season fun continues at some area maple sugar farms.

• Ben’s Sugar Shack, 8 Webster Highway in Temple, will continue its tours of the maple sugaring process throughout March, Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dress for the outdoors; see bensmaplesyrup.com.

• Parker’s Maple Barn, 1316 Brookline Road in Mason, will offer sugar house tours weekends in March, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. See parkersmaplebarn.com.

• Charmingfare Farm, 774 High St. in Candia, wraps up its Maple Express event this weekend, with times Saturday, March 22, and Sunday, March 23. Admission costs $29 per person and the event includes horse-drawn and tractor train rides, a look at a working sugar shack, visits with the farm animals, taste testing and more. See visitthefarm.com.

Nature Quest

The Nashua Public Library and Nashua River Watershed Association will hold March’s Nature Quest event on Saturday, March 22, from 1 to 3 p.m. with a focus on the river otters, beavers and muskrats of Nashua River in Mine Falls Park. Register at nashualibrary.org.

On screen

• Chunky’s Cinema Pub, 707 Huse Road in Manchester, chunkys.com, has some special screenings on the horizon. On Tuesday, March 25, at 11:30 p.m. The Smurfs (PG, 2011) will screen as part of the Little Lunch Date Series. Admission costs $5 and includes a $5 food voucher. Snow White (PG, 2025) will screen as a Sensory Friendly Screening on Wednesday, March 26, 11:30 a.m. During these screenings, house lights will be up and the volume will be lower.

• O’neil Cinemas Brickyard Square, 24 Calef Highway in Epping, will feature the recent PG release The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie on Saturday, March 22, at 10 a.m. in a sensory-friendly screening.

• The family film on Wednesday, March 26, at Flying Monkey, 39 S. Main St. in Plymouth, flyingmonkeynh.com, will be 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog(PG). The film starts at 6 p.m., doors open at 5 p.m. Tickets cost $3 online, $5 at the door, and the theater offers a special kids’ menu on family movie nights, according to the website.

Family fun for whenever

Kids on stage

• The Palace Youth Theatre will present an hour-longDiary of a Wimpy Kid: The MusicalThursday, March 13, at 7 p.m. at the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St. in Manchester; palacetheatre.org). Then on Wednesday, March 19, and Thursday, March 20, at 7 p.m., the Palace Teen Apprentice Company will present Once Upon a Mattress Youth Edition at The Rex Theatre (23 Amherst St. in Manchester). Tickets cost $16 to $19.

• The Peacock Players present their Spring Youth Mainstage ProductionShrek The Musical Jr.with shows Friday, March 14, and Friday, March 21, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, March 15, and Saturday, March 22, at 2 p.m., and Sundays, March 16, and March 23, at 2 p.m. at Janice B. Streeter Theatre, 14 Court St. in Nashua. Tickets cost $15 to $18 for adults, $12 to $15 for students and seniors.

• The Kids Coop Theatre will present the musical The Prom at the Derry Opera House (29 W Broadway in Derry; derryoperahouse.org) on Friday, March 14, and Saturday, March 15, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 16, at 2 p.m. See kctnh.org.

• And if your kid is looking to be on stage, the Riverbend Youth Company is holding auditions Sunday, March 16, and Monday, March 17, for 8th- through 12th-graders for The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical,which is slated for a June performance at the Amato Center in Milford. See amatocenter.org/riverbend-youth-company for audition details.

Cookie season

• Win those Thin Mints and Samoas at Girl Scout Cookie Bingo at Chunky’s Cinema Pub, 707 Huse Road in Manchester (chunkys.com), on Sunday, March 16, at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $13.99.

• Or, if you just want to cut to the cookie eating, check out the Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains, the local Girl Scout organization, at girlscoutsgwm.org, where you can find cookie booths near you. Multiple spots are slated to operate in the greater Concord, Manchester and Nashua areas this weekend.

Family music

• Grammy-nominated family musician Alastair Moock, whose music is described as upbeat Americana for all ages, will play a concert on Saturday, March 15, at 10 a.m. at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire (6 Washington St. in Dover; childrens-museum.org), according to the Museum’s website. The concert is part of regular admission for the morning play session (which runs from 9 a.m. to noon; the museum is also open from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturdays). Admission costs $14.50 for everybody over 12 months; $12.50 for 65+.

St. Pat’s fun

St. Patrick’s Day Party is the theme at Cowabunga’s, 725 Huse Road in Manchester, on Thursday, March 13, from 5 to 8 p.m., according to the website. Prices start at $20 per child for two hours of bouncing and more; adults and infants get in free with a paying child, the website said. See cowabungas.com.

Save the date

The Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St. in Manchester; currier.org) will hold a five-week in-person class called “Art Explorers” for ages 5 to 7 on Saturdays, starting March 22, 10 to 11:30 a.m. The cost is $200 and the class will feature exploration of a variety of art forms and media including watercolors, pencil, sculpture and more, according to the website.

Camp fun

Jason Cote, studio operations director at the Concord Karate Studio (89 Fort Eddy Road, Suite 3, Concord; 224-KICK; cks-nh.com), emailed with information on the studio’s camps. Concord Karate will have three weeks of summer camp — June 23-27, July 28-Aug. 1 and Aug. 18-22, running daily from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with early drop-off and late pick up options, the email said. The camps will include karate games, summer learning, snacks, karate class, a field trip and more. See the website for more. For our listing of camps, check out the Feb. 27 issue of the Hippo in our digital library at hippopress.com. If you have a summer camp that’s not listed in the story, let us know at [email protected].