5 Things: Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturday

1. Get to the Museum. It's that time of the month! For April, Target First Saturday has the theme of Workt by Hand: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts. Even if that doesn't grab you, you can see music and dance performances, do a hands-on art project, listen to a book reading, go on a curator tour or just look at the museum's art yourself, all for free. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, 5-10 p.m.

2. Love a tree. Do your part by helping out your local street trees. At Street Tree Care 101: How to Help Your Street Tree Thrive you'll learn the basics of urban tree care with creative ways of watering, improving the soil and beautifying street tree beds. The class will also cover strategies such as how to get new trees for your block, widen existing tree beds, and even how to become a Licensed Citizen Pruner. Brooklyn Brainery, 190 Underhill Ave. at St. Johns Place, 11-12:30 a.m. Free. 

3. Spring into Spring. The bird are singing, the sun is shining and cherry blossoms are beginning to bloom. Fully experience the change of season at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Tour. Eastern Parkway at Washington Avenue, 1 p.m. with $10 admission. 

4. Help out a Kid from Kenya. Have an old soccer ball or pair of cleats? Today you can donate them to Kicks for Kenya, a drive to collect soccer equipment for the children of Nairobi's Kibera slum. Don't have anything. Your cash is welome, too. Drop off your stuff at 456 14th St. bet. 8th Ave. and Prospect Park West anytime between 9 and 5. 

5. Show the kids a good time. It's also this time of the year: Pay What You Wish to trial Children's Classes at Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance. Today there's Good Boogie from 10-11 and Haitian Dance from 11-12. See details at the link. 558 Fulton St. at Flatbush, Free.