TAKING WING The Bronx Zoo’s Butterfly Blast weekend includes performances, storytelling, and arts and crafts. The ongoing Butterfly Garden exhibit contains more than 1,000 North American specimens, including Great Purple Hairstreaks, Painted Ladies, and Tawny Emperors. Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Bronx Zoo, Bronx River Parkway and Fordham Road, Bronx, 718-367-1010, $3 in addition to zoo admission, $11 general, $8 seniors and children under 12, free for babies.

HANDS ON Socrates Sculpture Park holds its final two sculpture workshops for children age 5 and above. For the workshop “Rome … Built in a Day,” children use recycled boxes, packing tape, and construction paper to make their own installation to play in (Saturday). At “Fabric Ranch” next weekend, children create giant, three-dimensional line drawings using yarn, string, and rope. (Saturday, August 27). Both workshops: noon-3 p.m., Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd. at Broadway, Long Island City, Queens, 718-956-1819, free.

SCARED ERIK The easily frightened protagonist of the puppet show “Erik the Amazing & The Shalaballah” makes a superhero costume to bolster his confidence. But to his surprise, the outfit turns him into the real thing. The 42nd Street Puppets troupe performs the afternoon show. Saturday, 1 p.m., B.B. King, 237 W. 42nd St., between Seventh and Eighth avenues, 212-997-4555, $25 includes lunch, $10 show only.

SHANGRI-LA FOR LITTLE ONES Curator Yukie Kamiya conducts a family tour of Patty Chang’s video installation “Shangri-La”at the New Museum. Afterward, children between ages 7 and 14 can create their own architectural models and photo collages in a workshop led by architect Rodrigo Muniz. Saturday, 1-3 p.m., New Museum of Contemporary Art, 556 W. 22nd St. at Eleventh Avenue, 212-219-1222 ext. 235, free for adults with $6 museum admission, free for children under 18.

HURRAY FOR HARLEM The final weekend of the Harlem Week Festival includes tennis and basketball tournaments, an auto 696 1436 821 1446show, college expo, and film festival.The children’s festival includes a petting zoo, pony rides, magic show, and face painting (Saturday and Sunday, noon-6 p.m., Henry Highland Garnet Outdoor Plaza, West 125th Street between Malcolm X and A.C. Powell Jr. boulevards, free). Festival: 10 a.m.-10 p.m., 212-491-3748 for sports events. For a full schedule, go to www.harlemdiscover.com.

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