This Week: NYC Birthday Party Guide, Easter Egg Hunts and St. Patrick Day Parades, Spring Break Camps

3/14/13 - By Raven Snook

We had an awesome time last Saturday at our live baby chicks portrait sessions at Big Apple Portraits. And we were really impressed by how gorgeous our readers are (the kids were cute, too). Though the photo shoot is over, Easter fun is just beginning. There are a slew of egg hunts in NYC throughout the month as well as plenty of Easter activities in Connecticut, New Jersey and on Long Island. Meanwhile St. Patrick's Day is this Sunday and there are lots of ways to celebrate throughout the tri-state area this weekend, including parades in NYC and a way over yonder.

Have you looked at our NYC Birthday Party Guide lately? We've added a lot of new posts over the past few weeks, including info on indoor swimming pool parties, our top ten party places in the Bronx and Queens, and Brooklyn gym parties. If you're planning a vacation not a birthday, be sure to check out our Travel site. We recently reviewed the Mountaintop Lodge at Lake Naomi in the Poconos and rounded up farms where families can stay overnight near NYC.

Here's what else we covered on the NYC site this week:

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Our focus on Forest Hills continued with a roundup of our favorite family-friendly restaurants in the Queens neighborhood.

We expanded our already jam-packed NYC Party Guide with posts about the best birthday party places in Queens and indoor pools that offer kids' party packages.

Spring break is on the horizon and if you're looking for child care we have the scoop on a slew of cool school break camps.

Speaking of camps, we added a post to our Summer Camp Guide about language immersion programs for kids.

In honor of Passover, we highlighted five NYC museums where families can learn about Jewish culture, traditions and history.

Is your Brooklyn baby begging to boogie? We found a dozen Brooklyn dance schools that teach ballet, tap, modern and more.

Our founder Anna Fader, shared her thoughts about how to best approach the overhauled NY State ELA and Math Assessments (with a child currently in fourth grade she's personally invested).

Best bets for the weekend include early Easter egg hunts, a trio of St. Patrick's Day Parades and the opening of two circus shows: Cirque du Soleil's Totem in Queens and Bello Mania at the New Victory Theater.