Please ask about our other custom parties with Birthday themes such as: • Westward Ho! • New York’s Houdini • All Aboard! PARTIES! • Historic Chocolate

Let us help you plan a complete party with food for kids and adults, custom cakes and additional decor or goodie bag items.

We can add balloon twisters, face painters, caricature artists, musicians, and more!

Parties are available to Members of the New-York Historical Society at the Family level ($150) or higher. CONTACT DiMenna Children’s History Museum Birthday Staff [email protected] (212) 873-3400 ext. 374 The New-York Historical Society is located at: 170 Central Park West @ 77th Street New York, NY 10024 nyhistory.org Featured PARTIES

HUNT FOR HISTORY WITH AROUND THE WORLD WITH NELLIE BLY GEORGE WASHINGTON America’s inspirational female star reporter It’s 1789 and George Washington is takes this party on a trip around the sitting in New York City as America’s world! Combining interactive storytelling, first president! Would you like to balloon twisting and an exuberant sense meet him? President Washington of adventure, Nellie Bly launches the History guides kids on a scavenger party into an exploration of the different hunt through the Museum, places and people she experienced visiting the camp bed he slept during her famous 1889 trip. Wait in during the American until you see the size of her PARTIES Revolution and a replica of his suitcase! Play the Nellie Bly game, house on Cherry Street. Kids get created just after she completed her BECOME A HISTORY DETECTIVE! tips as they read the Inaugural world-famous journey, and round out Kids hunt for facts, images and objects in the Museum in a Address and sign the the party with a themed craft and fun, custom-designed scavenger hunt. Partygoers enjoy Constitution. This Washington can even create tri-corner birthday cake. This party is perfect for the use of a private party room where they engage in a hats out of balloons! A special Washington birthday kids ages 8-12 who love to travel. choice of crafts, such as creating their own election button cake, inspired crafts, gift bags and balloons complete or decorating a box with images of people, maps this truly presidential experience, ideal for ages 7-10. PIRATES IN NEW YORK HARBOR and documents from American history. Arghh! The harbor is full of ships in 1696...and one of CELEBRATE WITH COLONIAL CORNELIA them is the Adventure Galley led by Captain William What was it like to be a kid in New York during the Kidd. He set sail to capture pirate ships in the Red Sea, Colonial years? Cornelia van Varick was eight years old but soon became a pirate himself, capturing a ship full in 1700 and she knows exactly the kinds of things kids of loot and sailing back to his liked to do! Cornelia bring her favorite toys to home in New York City. share with the party, like Ninepins and the Unfortunately, Captain Kidd was Game of Graces. She’ll show the arrested...but not before he kids important skills like how to hid his treasure on a cross-stitch and use quill pens. nearby island! Don your This Colonial gal can even sing pirate hats and follow STANDARD PARTIES: some nursery rhymes and twist a along with First Mates Billy 90 minutes: $800, ideal for ages 5-8 balloon animal or two! Special Leeds or as they Two hours: $1,000, ideal for ages 9-12 scavenger hunt, cross-stitch piece together a secret map FEATURED PARTIES: $1,700 for two hours themed cake, Ninepin- decorating and find the hidden treasure. All parties are for 12 children and include party and craft, gift bags and balloons Younger kids ages 4-6 will planning staff, birthday poster, goodie bags, paper goods complete this truly colonial love this raucous adventure, and balloons. Each additional child up to 30 is $30. experience, ideal for ages 5-8. with special cake.