7 places and programs for kids in and around St. George, Staten Island (3 free): theater, play spaces, libraries. Includes Recess!! The Experience and St. George Library Center.
An immersive blacklight playground where kids move through glowing, music-filled play zones built around light and motion. Families can book open play tickets, birthday parties, field trips or group events.
Families come for free story times and sing-alongs for the youngest readers, while school-age kids use the space for reading, computers and homework after class. Staten Island's largest library, a short walk from the ferry terminal, with a family literacy space and a teen room.
Steps from the St. George ferry terminal, this museum on the site of the old Lighthouse Service depot shows a wall of more than 160 miniature lighthouses, plus foghorns and lenses. Seasonal lighthouse boat tours are offered.
A restored 1929 movie palace near the Staten Island Ferry that hosts touring family shows like Sesame Street Live and movie sing-alongs with costume parades. It also runs a free summer dance, theatre and literacy outreach program for young people.
A free summer program run by the St. George Theatre where young people take part in dance, theater and literacy activities inside the historic 1929 theater. It's part of the theater's arts-in-education work for Staten Island kids.
A Staten Island nonprofit theater that runs musical theater acting classes where kids rehearse and perform full youth editions of shows, such as Footloose: Youth Edition in fall 2026. Earlier productions included Shrek The Musical and Legally Blonde Jr.
Set in St. George, Lt. Lia Playground is a neighborhood spot where children climb, explore and play with friends. Transfer platforms and ground-level play pieces give kids with limited mobility ways to get onto and around the equipment. On hot summer days the spray showers switch on, and kids run through the water to cool off.
LittleGotham lists 7 places and programs for kids in St. George, Staten Island. The largest groups are 3 theater programs, 1 play space, 1 library.
Yes. 3 of 7 are free to attend, including St. George Library Center, Lt. Lia Playground, St. George Theatre Summer Dance, Theatre & Literacy Outreach Program.
6 listings are indoors, such as Recess!! The Experience, St. George Library Center, National Lighthouse Museum.