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New York, New York: The city that is so vibrant, you have to say it twice. New York City's diverse history and culture has something for everyone, even your difficult-to-please teenagers. While you might enjoy a Yankees game, browsing a museum or shopping on Fifth Avenue, your teenage children will likely enjoy more interactive activities. Impress and delight them with some unusual NYC haunts.
Food Making and Tasting
Make pursuing unusual food your family activity in New York. Gadling, a travel site, recommends Pizza a Casa, a cooking school that will teach you and your teenagers how to make artisan pizzas with traditional ingredients and methods. At the end of the lesson, you get to eat your creation. Other NYC food activities include browsing busy Chinatown to taste dumplings and other delectables. Several companies offer food-tasting tours.
15 Seconds of Fame
Like Los Angeles, NYC is a city that many come to in the hopes of realizing their dreams. Give your teenagers a taste of this with their own 15 seconds of fame. According to the site HomeAway, after shopping for an outfit at a popular clothing chain in Times Square, kids can change into their new outfits, get photographed in a photo booth inside the store and write a personal message to the world. Then a large screen in Times Square will show your teen's photo for everyone to see. Catch photos of your teen's time in the spotlight and his excited reaction.
Cemetery Tour
Graveyards are not just for Halloween. With its long and sometimes sordid history, New York has its share of cemeteries that are linked to stories of murder. TripAdvisor recommends a group walking tour at the beautiful Green-Wood Cemetery. The tour takes almost three hours, so bring comfortable shoes. Your teenagers will be captivated with the gory details and decaying crypts and mausoleums.
Learn to Trapeze
New York has a trapeze school where your teenagers or the whole family can take lessons for an afternoon. The travel site Gadling notes that the trapeze school can teach you how to fly through the air and perform acrobatics on a trampoline. Classes are designed for people of all athletic abilities. Join your teenagers on the trapeze or enjoy videotaping their unusual experience at the circus for a day.
Food Making and Tasting
Make pursuing unusual food your family activity in New York. Gadling, a travel site, recommends Pizza a Casa, a cooking school that will teach you and your teenagers how to make artisan pizzas with traditional ingredients and methods. At the end of the lesson, you get to eat your creation. Other NYC food activities include browsing busy Chinatown to taste dumplings and other delectables. Several companies offer food-tasting tours.
15 Seconds of Fame
Like Los Angeles, NYC is a city that many come to in the hopes of realizing their dreams. Give your teenagers a taste of this with their own 15 seconds of fame. According to the site HomeAway, after shopping for an outfit at a popular clothing chain in Times Square, kids can change into their new outfits, get photographed in a photo booth inside the store and write a personal message to the world. Then a large screen in Times Square will show your teen's photo for everyone to see. Catch photos of your teen's time in the spotlight and his excited reaction.
Cemetery Tour
Graveyards are not just for Halloween. With its long and sometimes sordid history, New York has its share of cemeteries that are linked to stories of murder. TripAdvisor recommends a group walking tour at the beautiful Green-Wood Cemetery. The tour takes almost three hours, so bring comfortable shoes. Your teenagers will be captivated with the gory details and decaying crypts and mausoleums.
Learn to Trapeze
New York has a trapeze school where your teenagers or the whole family can take lessons for an afternoon. The travel site Gadling notes that the trapeze school can teach you how to fly through the air and perform acrobatics on a trampoline. Classes are designed for people of all athletic abilities. Join your teenagers on the trapeze or enjoy videotaping their unusual experience at the circus for a day.
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