Staten Island Children's Council Review

It was a very good time on a rainy winter day. My son thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

its a nice place to bring young kids. to learn and play.

Good place to take the young ones. A little expensive, but it's worth it.

Very special service, suitable for all different ages, my kids liked the most the "build your own town". It's worth the effort, time and money. Kids already requested another.. chance to go out there (they have to finish up their own.. town..)

My daughter loved it. Lots of things to do. Friendly staff.

Such a fun place to spend quality time with mybkids

Would love coming here with my girls when they were little.

We used to love coming here. The last time we went one of the workers made an anti-Semitic comment to my family. Serious retraining or personnel changes needs to happen there. It is not appropriate to speak down to anyone of any race or religion. We were very disappointed and will not be planning any trips there anytime soon.

One of the best places to bring children of all ages. There are so many things to do it's impossible to be bored.

This place is clean and full of so much for kids to do.

Fun, clean and safe place for kids to explore and enjoy.

Great place to bring young kids (<10)
Fun play areas
Surrounding grounds are beautiful especially in spring/summer /fall

Everything is clean and organize,also the lady in the front desk was really nice with us.

Children love it, the only difficulty, and at the same time it's beauty, is its location.

Nice place to visit. Cozy and have different activities. Its clean and bonus is ability to visit snug harbor grounds.

SO DISAPPOINTED
I came here all the way from BROOKLYN with the two kids I m babysitting during the Wednesday free hours.
Once arrived there at 3:45, a lady tells us that the free hours are not from 3 to 5 but from 5 to 8, despite the fact that the website indicates 3 to 5. They just changed the free hours and it s an error from them they said. Fine. But we won t go inside for free until 5 she said. We should have call before coming she said.


NEVER COMING BACK AGAIN!!!!!!

Bring my nieces and nephews here all the time, they love it! The staff are so friendly and helpful (Zack goes above and beyond every time we visit). A few of the things are either missing or don t work, that s why I took a star off but aside from that, your kids are definitely going to love it here!

My son had a ton of fun. Free tickets on Martin Luther Jr day.

Nice ambience for children, lot of knowledge to learn and adventure.

$6 a person
Dated, less then perfect condition. Waste of time for older than ~5 y.
BUT
if you live near or happen to be there
AND
you child is 1-5 or you have a bunch of kids - place is great!
Child proof, simple (bordering primitive), multiple sections.
Child (better children) can spend half hour easy at each: huge dominoes (pillow sized and felt at touch), over sized checkers, tick-tack-tow; padded contraptions where kid engineers falling ping-pong ball route; over sized inter-lockable wooden LEGO (-like) build-able into child size house (or else);
realistic, yet padded and simplified firetruck, gear you may try on, pole you swing down, buttons, sounds, lights, ***
Arctic zone where you travel behind dogs on a sled, wear snow boots;
forest (jangle) with sounds to identify and telescope to spot stuff;
submerging with aqualung, communicate with buddies through water wall using (provided) hand gestures, discovering hidden in depth darkness creatures with a spot light (broken: bring flashlight);
bugs zone big and creepy (good way), be a bug, wear bug exoskeleton, watch live roaches (huge too), beehive (currently perished, should be easy to re-establish), crawl as an ant, check out prehistoric insects, read books (quite a few there).
Along the way you can just lay down or sit and read while your little one jumps around.
There is a theatrical section with actual stage, some light and sound effects, costumes, changeable decorations, audience (got to fill out with viewers though). You may spend a day just there, but have to have some imagination and creativity. Although they have some kind of story-telling in their schedule: I assume to create a theatrical kind of story.
There are two outdoors sections also (dolphins and boats)
All that from the prospective of a 5 y.o.
We wondered in with 10 y/o an were bored, yet bowled a round, played checkers, built some Grommet-inspired monstrosity, fooled around at the "theater"

Bonus: outside is a big park you can walk all over, several museums (all tiny), botanical garden, maritime exhibition (open Th-Sn), nearby Staten Island ferry (commute and a view), tug boats sneaking around huge tankers, Manhattan view, we run into movie shutting: gangster times, Ford D parked around - surrounding houses and few buildings are mostly old and sometimes interesting; multiple rough looking new yorkers of the same time period (they need not to dress specially: they walk around like that..)

We did not like it, but when/if I have a few children 2-5 y.o. and another adult to tender the heard, I will make a day of it. Bring sandwiches and Sherlock Holmes (the book)

Just a great place to bring the kids appropriately designed for kids 3 to probably 9, my son loves it here.

Great place for all ages, from 2-??,a lot for kids to learn ..

What an amazing place! I remember going there as a kid and being able to bring mine now is a treat. The activities keep the kids interested and hands on. Most of all the ship and block are in the basement is a popular spot for my two girls. Everyone who works there is extremely nice and great with kids. This is truly a gem on Staten Island.

"A Tale of Two Mice" ($1.99 at Apple's app store) has real marionette puppets in action. SI Children's Museum should have puppet shows like this.

Pretty good. Went here two times for two birthday parties. Great place for a birthday party!

Kids Love it. Kinda small though. Limited rooms. They have a variety of rooms and play areas. Staff is friendly and helpful. Came for a birthday party, definitely not worth it, unless you want to over pay and have other people at your party.

Great place to bring little once. Lots of educational fun. E floors of it. And a extra small once have their own safe space to play in the lower level which is padded and has a gate for their safety.

Recommend you sign up for a membership which pays for itself in a few visits. This place is open on rainy days, so my child has a place to have fun with other kids and I don't have to worry about her being board.
Open Saturdays and Sundays as well as weekdays.

Great museum for young children above the age of 3. They also cater birthday parties. Elevator access and handicap access available. I would say that this Museum is probably best for children Age 3 up to about 10 or 11. After that you have to look for more serious activities 2 interest of them

It's small, but a nice place to spend a summer afternoon.

My 4 year grandson had a great time on the Fire Truck. He also enjoyed the construction house, wrecking ball and crane.

Very interesting for kids of all ages, fun and educational, couldn't recommend it enough.

It was a great place to take the kids. Nice area and places to walk around to take pictures. But it was extremely hot inside. The tickets were a bit pricey as well.

very good place to go. but need more staffing for the big kids.

An outstanding surprise! Great indoor and outdoor fun for kids