Labor Day weekend 2013: Things to do in New York City with kids

This wacky one-wheeled weekend rolls into town with a 13-mile ride from City Hall to Coney Island, where a party at Deno’s Wonder Wheel and fireworks honor Brooklyn Unicycle Day (yep, that exists) with a bang. The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus also invites those more comfortable standing on two legs to Governors Island for two full days of races, competitions and exhibitions, a chance to test your skills in a workshop or cheer for teams competing in one-wheeled basketball, hockey and even sumo wrestling. All ages.

Grab the fam and head to Historic Richmond Town, a preserved museum-village dating from the late 17th century, for its 34th annual county fair. Three stages of live music, puppetry, dance performances and rides are sure to keep the little ones occupied all day. Plus, check out the Ultimate Air Dogs: These athletic pups perform tricks while jumping off a dock into water, catching mad air (20 feet!) in the process. All ages.

The New York Baroque Dance company leads culture-hungry kiddos on a tour through Renaissance Italy with silly performances in traditional commedia dell' arte style (think musical comedy). Then, little ones get to learn the popular branle dance. Ages 5 and up.

Kids focus on their finned friends this weekend, specifically the goldfish swimming in Wave Hill’s Aquatic Garden. After observing these slippery swimmers, youngsters will turn paper bags into 3-D marine animals that can float home with them. Ages 3 and up.

The winning project from MoMA's prestigious Young Architects Program must provide three things for visitors to P.S. 1's outdoor courtyard: shade, seating and water. For its 14th year, the museum has selected an installation by CODA (Caroline O'Donnell of Ithaca, New York) as its temporary urban landscape on view throughout the summer. The enormous steel frame, balanced with recycled wood from old skateboards and fabric containers full of water (which projects into a fountain below and produces a luminous effect at night) will serve as a backdrop for the outpost's summer events like the Warm Up concert series and other lectures, performances and film screenings. All ages.