Let's Dress Up, the Upper East Side shop specializing in kids' dress up, hosts costume parties for City-based princesses and knights at The Museum of the City of New York.

Wild Blue Kids birthday parties provide a packed menu of science and nature education, global culture and outdoor adventure to kids aged 3-11.

These crafts workshops offer options like Plastercraft, T Shirt Decorating, Pottery, Beading or Create-a-Cuddly.

Parties at the private, not-for-profit French Institute Alliance Française last 90 minutes and introduce kids ages 1-10 to French and Francophone culture with songs, arts and crafts, games and

With Linda Kaye's Birthdaybakers Partymakers, kids get to explore the Central Park Zoo and enjoy animal themed activities.

Kids' parties are often synonymous with sugar and junk-laden meals.

Kids in Sports emphasizes "sportsmanship, teamwork, respect and communication" and party guests will put all these tools into practice when they play soccer, baseball, football, floor hockey

Parties run 90 minutes, and can be designed around a theme.

Kidville specializes in theme parties like the raucous Jumpin' Gym party, the dancin' Hip-hop party, the Treasure Hunt Party and more.

Parties at DT-UT are held in one of several spaces -- a curtained-off room, suitable for smaller gatherings, the larger back room with skylit atrium, or, for really big parties, the entire cafe space