3 . Pack the car and explore what New York State has to offer. Here are four family-friendly destinations where you and the kids can play, learn and have endless amounts of fun.

Sullivan Catskills

This year-round water park features 1l attractions, including an activity pool, a rope bridge challenge and slides. The room is kept at 84 degrees, which prevents any outside Cats- kill cold. It opens from Thursday to Sunday.

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

It's a nonprofit organization located at the historic 1969 Woodstock Music Festival site. Guests are welcome to explore the preserved site that held the famous festival. The center also has a museum that features artifacts from Woodstock.

Thomas Cole National Historic Site

The site has been additionally fitted with digital storytelling equipment intended to engage people of all ages, and while original artworks are on display, there are also things to touch and explore.

Vidbel Mountain Homestead

This fifth-generation nonprofit farm cares for several animals, many of which are res- cues. The farm works to teach children to care for the resident horses, goats, pigs and dogs. This season, the farm is open to anyone who would like to see the animals, with a special focus on child and adult visitors with special needs or dealing with illness. No admission fee.

9 . This New Year, it may be time to include a little football in your family traditions. Maybe the grandkids are old enough to play.     1    . No matter how you spend your holiday, a good game of pick-up football might just be what you need to make your New Year more interesting.

Most people already know the basic rules of football. There are a few choices you can make about how seriously or how informally you want to play. Team sizes will depend on the number of people you have in your group.     2    . But you can include many more if you have the number.

    3    , you will also want to figure out a scoring plan or decide how long you want to play. If you’ve got a group of friends together, you may want to play a longer, more serious game. A family group, made up of people of various ages and physical abilities, may prefer to limit the game to a shorter period of time, or end the game when one team has scored five or ten points.

Even if you have people who aren’t able to play or aren’t interested in playing, you can still include these people in the fun of the game.     4    , you can set up chairs for the watchers. They can also cheer for players, making it more enjoyable.

Over the New Year, a game of football is a great way to break up the day.     5    .