School is out this week. Kids are home. Here’s some stuff to do to keep ’em busy and entertained…

This week at Lefferts Historic House from 1-3PM: Bundle-up and get on over to Lefferts Historic House for some great indoor fun. Learn how to play Nine-Man Morris and make your very own playing board to take home.

At the Brooklyn Museum: Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains focuses on the tipi as the center of Plains culture and social, religious, and creative traditions from the early nineteenth century to the present. The exhibition examines the tipi as an architectural form, an expression of Plains artistic and cultural identity, and an interior space for domestic and ritual use. Tipi features more than 160 objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection of Plains material, as well as selected works from other museums; objects by contemporary Plains artists; and three full-size tipis, two with furnished interiors.

Norman Rockwell Behind the Camera: Beginning in the late 1930s, Norman Rockwell used photography as a tool to bring his illustration ideas to life in studio sessions. Working as a director, Rockwell carefully staged his photographs, selecting props and locations, choosing his models, and orchestrating every detail. He created an abundance of photographs for each new subject, sometimes capturing complete compositions and other times combining separate pictures of individual elements.

Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets: Body Parts features thirty-five representations of individual body parts from the Brooklyn Museum’s ancient Egyptian collection, many of which are displayed for the first time. This exhibition uses fragments of sculptures and objects created as distinct elements to illuminate the very realistic depiction of individual body parts in canonical Egyptian sculpture.

At the Brooklyn Public Library: Attitude: Brooklyn Portraits by Brooklyn Photographers
by Michael Scott Berman, Joe Delano, Walker Esner, Lauren Fleishman and Nora Herting, an exhibition in the lobby.

For teens and adults:

Cold War Movies at BAM: The Village Voice Senior Film Critic J. Hoberman returns to BAM to curate a series of films on the occasion of his new book, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War. This new book examines the synergy between American politics and popular culture, zeroing in on the dawn of the McCarthy era. The series highlights oaters, sci-fi flicks, capers, and melodramas—some of which satirize the Red Scare, others which play into it—all essential works featured in An Army of Phantoms. Film descriptions written by J. Hoberman.

More Activities for Kids

Prospect Heights Patch has a good list of activities: Where to go with the kids Feb 21-27!