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October 25, 2022

See S.P.I.E.S. 2: Flight of the Hawk at Imagination Stage
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S.P.I.E.S. 2: Flight of the Hawk

OCTOBER 29– NOVEMBER 20

Join S.P.I.E.S. in person, where it is more interactive than ever! This follow-up to the online hit S.P.I.E.S. & the Lost Treasure of Atlantis combines live theatre and filmed adventure scenes to create a collaborative and exciting experience where each audience gets to be the hero and solve the puzzles–and no two performances are alike.

“All 5-10 year-olds can be at the center of a spy story–decoding, problem solving, and ultimately saving the day! This show will send kids home feeling empowered.”
– Janet Stanford, Imagination Stage Founding Artistic Director

Performances:
Saturdays at 11:00am and Sundays at 11:00am and 1:00pm
JUST ADDED: Friday, November 11 at 7:00pm

Buy tickets today!

Make it a special S.P.I.E.S. Birthday party!
Birthday Parties at Imagination Stage come with a ticket discount, room rental, and on-site staff.

Horseback riding lessons, camps and trail rides in and around Washington, DC

July 27, 2021

Rock Creek Park Horse Stables– Washington, DC
Deep in the woods of Rock Creek Park, you can find peace in the company of horses and those who love them. Rock Creek Park Horse Center is one of Washington D.C.’s best-kept secrets and the only public riding facility in the nation’s capital. They offer boarding, camps, trail rides, pony rides, and lessons for first-time riders through well-seasoned equestrians.

Urbana Riding Club– Frederick, MD
A premier full-service equestrian facility located in southern Frederick County near I-270 and Sugarloaf mountain. They offer full care stall boarding and year-round lesson & leasing programs for riders of all ages and skill levels. Come enjoy the beautiful heated indoor, three outdoor riding rings, cross country fields, and over 2.5 miles of private trails!

Camp Olympia– Rockville, MD
They offer lessons year round at the facility on Muncaster Mill Road, Rockville, Maryland with a very flexible schedule. They have special programs which include horse shows, spring and winter break camp, one day camps for school holidays, birthday parties, Girl Scout badges and CHA Riding Instructor Certification Clinic.

Potomac Horse Center– North Potomac, MD
The heart of the Potomac Horse Center is an extensive teaching program featuring riding classes for 5 to 8 year old children – through adults of all levels. In addition, a strong classical dressage program, combined training, and a hunter/jumper program are available with riders competing under different trainers on both the “A” and local hunter/jumper circuits. They offer a variety of activities with approximately 12 horse shows a year and a busy calendar of clinics featuring internationally recognized clinicians in many disciplines. PHC also offers other recreational activities such as birthday parties, individual pony rides, trail riding classes through wooded parkland, open houses, a summer horse camp program, therapeutic horseback riding, and more.

Calleva Horse Adventure Programs– Dickerson, MD
Private lessons and after school horse programs are very popular at Calleva. Tiny Tots is a program created especially for children ages 3 to 6. Riding lessons are taught in a fun and age appropriate setting. They also offer horse back riding camp to kids ages 9-15. Have a horse birthday party or a scout field trip.

Reddemeade Equestrian Center– Silver Spring, MD
Private lessons starting at age 3; Group Lessons for ages 7 and up. For smaller children or any student looking to get more in-depth knowledge, we offer one-on-one instruction in 30, 45, or 60 minute interval

Wheaton Park Stables– Silver Spring, MD
WPS is a family-oriented riding stable specializing in group lessons, pony pal lessons, summer camps, birthday parties and trail rides.

Woodend Horse Center– Silver Spring, MD
They welcome everyone, from beginners and recreational riders to dressage lovers, hunter-jumpers, eventers, Western pleasure riders, and anyone who just loves being around horses! For more than 30 years, they’ve been sharing the art, sport, and joy of riding through lessons, camps, clinics, and more. They offer access to a 25-acre estate with lighted indoor and outdoor rings, paddocks, stables, fields, and riding trails. It’s a perfect place to learn to ride, improve your equestrian skills, expand your horsemanship, or just have fun in the saddle.

Meadowbrook Stables– Chevy Chase, MD
They offer riding and horsemanship lessons in hunters, hunt seat equitation, and jumpers to riders of all levels, ages 6 through adult. They also offer a range of summer camp programs, as well as boarding, leasing and showing opportunities.

Out of the Box Stables– Gaithersburg, MD
They offer a lot of programs here! Including a monthly lead line classes for 5 years old and under. The children take turns being led around the ring on the different horses and ponies they choose. This is a one hour session! Individual lessons, birthday parties and summer camp can be found at Out of the Box.

NFF Stables– Poolesville, MD
NFF Stables began as Nothing Fancy Farm back in 1999 and has grown quite a bit over the years, and today they have a top-notch boarding and riding facility. Though their horses and stables are quite fancy, their attitude is not! If you’re looking for a barn that is professional, yet laid-back and fun – NFF Stables is for you! They offer boarding – both full care and field board; private, semi-private and group riding lessons for all ages from beginners on up; a show team that attends shows throughout the area; and summer programs.

Little Burgundy Farm Stables– Alexandria, VA
Little Burgundy Farm is a small, private horse farm located near the intersection of I-495 and Telegraph Road, in Alexandria, VA — a little piece of the country tucked away in the dense suburbs of northern Virginia. They offer access to horses and riding facilities through their equestrian riding club program, allowing members to take riding lessons on a recurring basis. They are well suited for experienced riders as well as new riders — both adult and youth riders that are at least 7 years — who are interested in taking weekly riding lessons and improving riding skills or simply enjoying the sport.

Mulford Riding School– Centreville, VA
Offering lessons, camps and boarding.

JBIT Ranch– Berryville, VA
All are welcome no matter their skill level or their goals as long as you simply seek to have a natural relationship with the horse. They provide a full range of horse services including English and Western Horseback Riding Lessons, Horse Training, Horse Boarding, Quality Horse Sales. They even offer summer Horseback Riding Camps for young and old alike with a focus on natural horsemanship, responsibility and relationship.

Brentsville Stables– Manassas, VA
Family owned and operated specializing in English riding lessons for ages 4 and up.

Covid-era gift guide: ideas for crafts, technology, home and outdoors

November 30, 2020

We hope you find this gift guide helpful as we have highlighted items that will entertain your children through the winter as we prepare to spend more time indoors as well as some gifts for your home (or others). Check out these stocking stuffers, all under $10!

For your home:

This steam mop is my favorite purchase during quarantine. Easy to use, I have now put my kids in charge of cleaning the floors! It eliminates 99.9 percent of germs and bacteria with the natural power of steam. I add essential oils to bring an inviting smell in, a bit of olive oil and sometimes a light cleaning product from Branch Basics into my water.

Solo Stove has allowed us to be outside on cool nights! It comes in various sizes and is smokeless (if you have dry firewood). Don’t forget marshmallow and hot dog skewers for the bonfire.

A lot of our friends have stepped up their outdoor spaces with a projector and screen so they can show movies outside alongside their bonfire and/or heat lamp. Whatever allows us to get out of our house in 2020, right?

Seriously don’t know why I didn’t get this sooner. The iRobot Roomba is a vacuum that intelligently maps & cleans an entire level of your home- set it and go! A cheaper option is the Eufy which also cleans hardwood and carpet.

Instant Pot is worth the hype and comes in various sizes. I just wish I had a cabinet it could be stored in.

Our air purifier is a 3-part filtration system that captures 99% of common airborne pm 2.5 pollutants such as allergens, odors, smoke, mold spores, dust mites and pet dander.

Add some green to your home and add a snake plant or palm. We have gifted this succulent subscription box to a friend and they delivered gorgeous succulents.

Get active and outside:

My kids are begging for rollerblades or rollerskates and I’m not opposed.

Socker boppers are another fun way for kids to get out some energy with theses inflatable boppers which can used in a variety of ways.

Another item on my kids list this year is a hoverboard. Perhaps it’s due to the marathon we just had watching Back to the Future.

Micro scooters are great– they come in a variety of sizes and styles and my kids have loved each one they’ve had. The mini-deluxe is perfect for ages 2-5 and the maxi deluxe is the next scooter for ages 5-12 while this micro is great for the older kids who have better balance.

If you have space outside a ninja obstacle course is a great way to get your kids outdoors and burning energy.

Balance stepping stones are great for smaller kids to set up in the yard while developing balance, collaboration and concentration skills

Dueling stomp rocket allows two friends to stomp rockets as high as they can into the sky.

Arts and crafts:

This playhouse allows kids to doodle & decorate a cardboard castle and other designs. A perfect indoor activity that will provide plenty of fun for winter.

Don’t let the word painting steer you away from this. My six year old received this for her birthday and in one day created all of the 12 designs– she LOVED it and it is an activity that allowed her to be completely independent while creating. Grab this big gem diamond painting!

3-D printing pen is the first in a 3D printing device!

Light-up tracing pad is a favorite in our house. It has a variety of designs featuring 1 graphite pencil, 12 short colored pencils, 10 tracing sheets, 10 blank sheets, and 1 graphite pencil.

The art case that comes with everything your budding artist needs and you can keep it all in the carrying case.

Grow n glow terrarium is another favorite in our house. It is an indoor activity for kids that allows them to craft, plant, water and grow your own mini ecosystem. Just add water for a unique science experience!

Aquabeads give your child a chance to place the beads following the template and spray with water to complete! Flip the tray to remove the design, wipe dry and continue creating with Aquabeads!

Build and paint a wooden car (or rescue vehicles) with 42 pre-cut & sanded wooden pieces to make 3 cars, sand paper.

Tech:

Oculus Quest 2 transports your movements directly into VR with intuitive controls. Get the best seat in the house to live concerts, games, groundbreaking films, exclusive events and more.

Echo Dot for kids lets kids ask Alexa to play music, read stories, and call approved friends and family. The included year of Amazon Kids+ (FreeTime Unlimited) gives them access to thousands of hours of kid-friendly Audible books, interactive games, and educational skills.

Fuji film instax mini camera + accessories is an awesome gift for kids who enjoy snapping photos. Photos immediately are printed and can be added to the photo albums.

VTech KidiZoom Smartwatch is great for kids 4+. They can take photos, learn to tell time and play games on this watch. It comes in a variety of colors.

Powerbeats wireless earphones: Up to 9 hours of listening time with secure ear fit. Apple Airpods Pro are another good option in fact these are my favorite as they are noise reducing and I can pop them in while my kids are doing virtual school if I need to cancel out the noise.

Wireless karaoke microphone is a handheld karaoke microphone which is small in size and easy to hold. Kids can practice and share favorite songs using music apps (YouTube , Pandora, Spotify..)

Osmo starter kit: Children interact with actual hand held pieces & an iPad, bringing a child’s game pieces & actions to life (No WiFi necessary for game play).

A bluetooth speaker is great to have when you go outdoors as it is bluetooth compatible. We brought this one along on our beach trips this summer and it worked great. A cheaper option is this Bose one.

Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. All opinions remain my own.

BusyBees brings the party magic to wherever you are!

October 5, 2020

Busy Bees is bringing their magical birthday parties to you! More details here.

Virtual birthday parties in Washington, DC and beyond

April 17, 2020

A few friends of our friends as well as family members have had birthdays during this pandemic. We celebrated the best way we could think of; a drive to our nephews house blaring Stevie Wonders ‘happy birthday’ with handmade posters and cards and we mailed gifts via Amazon to others. While neither are ideal, we still were happy to be able to wish them a happy birthday during this tough time. Another great idea is to organize a birthday parade; I saw it play out on Glennon Doyle’s IG when her daughter’s friends planned a fun surprise parade and it brought tears to my eyes. Now that we are looking at months of this social distancing some of our favorite places have thought about how to continue to make birthdays specials for our kiddos. So prepare to bake a birthday cake, order a birthday banner or themed decor and check out the options below. We introduce to you virtual birthday parties!

Shellebrate, Mermaid theme from Badlands

District Dabble Lab
Virtual Parties: Like they do for Birthday Parties at the DabbleLab, Emily will do a completely customized theme (mermaids, unicorn, rainbow) party for the child. She always personalizes something for each attendee, so if the parent would like to include the birthday child’s friends in a Zoom party, they are welcome to send the names and Emily will make a art kit for each one for the parent to pick-up and deliver to the guests of their virtual party. If the family is doing something just for the child and his/her siblings, Emily will create completely personalized and custom craft kits for them.

Dabble On-The-Go Art Kits: These change weekly and include three projects and a personalized art bag. Orders should be placed the week before and they are ready for delivery or pick-up on Monday of the following week. Emily will deliver within 2 miles at no charge and between 2-10 miles for a $5 fee. Anyone can do contact-free pick-up at the DabbleLab.

Red Panda Art Studio
Red Panda Art Studio is now offering virtual birthday parties! They will facilitate a 45-minute art activity with you and your guests! Art activity can be customized to any theme using materials most families will already have at home (markers, paper, paint, etc)– or you can arrange for them to create customized art kits to deliver to participants! Red Panda aims to bring some art fun to your Zoom party during this time! Extend the birthday fun by creating together! Email Stephanie for all of the details!

Virtual Art Classes: Stephanie is also offering virtual art class. Both of my kids are taking art class with their besties once a week and it is perfect. The projects use art supplies you likely have at home and are done over Zoom.

Henry’s Sweet Retreat
At home birthday party package includes decorations, cookie activity, games and cake and is available for curbside service! Included are 16 pre-baked sugar cookies for the family to decorate with 4 colors of icing and 4 kinds of decorations. A bright colored rainbow “Happy Birthday” banner and special hat for birthday kid and a birthday cake. The package includes an 8” cake (perfect for a family) decorated and a special message. This also includes games for 4-6 year olds and games for 7 & up that have instructions. Some choices are: Jelly Belly jelly bean tasting – they’ll give you 6 (fairly simple) flavors to try and figure out! Henry’s Helper – dress a paper doll cut out using frosting as glue. Missing Candy Game – figure out what candy is missing. M&M game – includes cups, m&m’s and straws. Candy Ball Saran Wrap ball (all you need is dice). Soda Tasting – they’ll give you 3 unique sodas to taste blindly to figure out the flavor.

ArtJamz
Offering various virtual classes and at-home paint kits. Unleash your inner artist! at home with an ArtJamz at-home paint kit and/or order a few for your kids friends and have your own Zoom party. You could also sign-up the attendees for a jamming live virtual painting experiences taught by a talented artists.

All Fired Up
While they are not offering virtual birthday parties, they are delivering take home kits with everything you need. You could browse the choices and order a few for your kids friends and have your own Zoom party!

Badlands
Beginning this weekend, Badlands has launched Badlands Birthdays in a Bag! – providing everything you need to replicate a themed birthday party, Badlands style! There are 4 themes available for purchase: Born to sparkle (unicorn), Hear Me Roarrr (Dinosaur), Shellebrate (Mermaid) and Calling All Heroes! (Superhero). Each kit contains décor, birthday signage, plates, cups and items to deck out your birthday party at home. Also included are a mindful moment card, activity sheets and virtual activities with accompanying materials like themed bingo to enjoy with friends and family at home or virtually!

Birthdays in a bag can be ordered via Badlands’ recently launched non contact Pull-in Pantry, a service providing pantry staples, alcohol and STEAM activity kits like Slime, Build a Rocket and Craft Kit (with more kits to come in the weeks ahead). The Pull-in Pantry not only provides a vital service to the community, but also helps to support Badlands’ staff pay relief during this challenging time. The pantry operates every Thursday – Sunday from 12pm – 6pm. Orders can be placed anytime and a pick up window chosen or call 240-599-5108.

The Great Zucchini
The award winning children’s entertainer who needs no introduction is offering 30 minute Zoom parties.

Mad Science
Live, virtual, interactive birthday parties are now available. Let Mad Science host your child and up to 40 of their friends in a secure Zoom ‘party-room’. Mad Science is Washington FAMILY Magazine’s 2019 Winner for Best Kid’s Entertainer. Call for more details at 301-593-4777.

My Gym Bethesda & Potomac
Party On! (Online, that is!) Everyone is at home and social distancing, but don’t let that stop you from throwing a birthday bash your child will always remember. My Gym LIVE brings great birthday parties to your home, living room or backyard! A 30 minute My Gym live birthday party includes LIVE age appropriate interactive entertainment from a My Gym Teacher. Dance, play games, party virtually and make memories together! My Gym birthday shirt for the birthday child is available for pick-up as soon as they re-open and they receive 4 free weeks of live online classes for the birthday child. Each party attendee will receive one free live online class for party attendees.

Marsha Goodman Wood
Virtual Birthday parties! I’m so glad to be able to provide this option for people to make their child’s birthday special even while we stay safe and practice social distancing. It’s nice doing these on Zoom because all the children can see each other and dance together from a distance. Usually the musician mutes everyone else while performing a song so the party participants can make noise without cutting off the performer and interfering with the audio. Then, the performer can unmute the participants to give people an opportunity to talk back or to each other between songs. It’s really a nice way to be able to celebrate while we can’t meet in person. There are some other online options that work for parties, too, such as Google Hangouts (and if a parent had another preferred platform, I’m open to anything that works best for the family). I try to keep my performance like I would at an in-person party, with songs tailored to the age of the birthday child and partygoers, and lots of opportunities to sing & dance along. I also provide the host & participants with album downloads so all of the families can have some music to enjoy even after the party is over. My goal is to give the birthday child and their family a joyous day and a positive experience making music together at home! The best way for families to schedule is to go to the above link and contact Marsha either by email or phone 202-246-6688.

Zig Zag Zooooom!
The incomparable magistical laffinator, Zig Zag offers a variety of virtual shows for young and not-so-young kids. Packed with Puppetry, Music and Kid’s Magic, Zig Zag’s shows will fill your home with joy and laughter.

Busy Bees
For Busy Bees, parties equal happiness and togetherness. They say it’s time for us to bring that back to our families! They have created a way to be “together”, while we are apart. Through designed celebration packages, your lil’ ones and their friends will join together in the same mission while at the “same place” (enter same Zoom backdrop created for each of the activities)! Packages are perfect for virtual playdates, or virtual birthday parties.
Order yours now for curbside pickup at our Falls Church store on the specified date.

If you’re wondering how to make a child’s birthday special, socially conscious, and STEM-tastic amidst the pandemic, look no further than Rosie Riveters! We’re bringing our immensely popular programming to virtual birthday parties for kids turning 5 to 10 with Rosie Celebrates! And you’ll be celebrating with a social conscience; all proceeds from Rosie Celebrates parties go directly toward supporting our mission to provide free STEM programming to girls ages 4-14. What does that look like during COVID-19? We’ve been providing STEM kits just like the ones we use for Rosie Celebrates to local children in need free of charge.

Birthday party ideas for older kids in and around Washington, DC

May 28, 2019

I love planning our Bambinos birthday parties but as our son has gotten older, his requests have gotten more precise and less intense. I do appreciate his taste for not having a big, blown out celebration and our bank account also thanks his simple request. This year he wants to have a sleepover, that’s it. I keep pushing something more exciting but that’s plenty of fun to him, so that’s what it shall be. The last two years he begged to just play a baseball game with his friends at a local park. After applying for the permit at the park, I decided to create a new birthday post in preparation of his future parties as well as for all of you with an older crew who have outgrown some of the ideas on previous birthday posts we’ve created (see bottom of this post).

Summit Ropes Indoor Adventure Park

The St. James

Invicta Sports Club Archery Party

American Parkour

ZavaZone: Trampoline & Indoor Adventure Park

Ninjabe

The District Chef

Shawdowland Laser

Bach to Rock (parties starting at age 4-10+)

Game Truck of Northern Virginia

The Baseball Zone

Kayak the Potomac and celebrate with cake at the Wharf

Rockville Sportsplex (Choose from Small Field Package (soccer or dodgeball), Inflatables, Court (basketball, soccer, dodgeball or hockey) or Field)

Mini-golf at East Potomac

Top Golf (Teens & Kids options available)

Washington Nationals game or local baseball game: Bethesda Big Train, Potomac Nationals, Bowie Baysox

Go Kart Track (Must be 54′ to drive by yourself)

ArtJamz

iFly Loudoun

Tea with Mrs. B
Or a tea party at one of these fancy hotels

Cake Pop Party at Baked by Yael

Cookie decorating at Henry Sweet Retreat

Monster Mini Golf

Pinstripes bowling

A Game of Rooms
(Age minimum 12 years old)

The Escape Lounge

The Adventure Park at Sandy Spring Friends School (Teens and adults alike will have a great time ziplining and climbing through the trees!)

My Gym birthday party

More Indoor Options that may host parties

Pirate Adventures on the Chesapeake

June 19, 2018

Pirate Adventures on the Chesapeake has been in operation since 2003 and consider themselves to be a premier attraction for families with young kids in Maryland, DC, and Virginia while being conveniently located in Annapolis with parking! The program has been tailored over time to keep kids engaged and immersed in an incredible adventure at sea. They are family owned and operated and their biggest asset is their incredible crew, some who have been with the ship for over 10 years. Their ability to bring out the personality in all their young charges is what keeps people coming back year after year and contributes to the reputation as a family-friendly destination. The Pirate Adventure is a great time for kids but also makes for an enjoyable boat ride for grown-ups. The cruise includes views of the Naval Academy and historic downtown Annapolis. We were treated to an amazing afternoon aboard ship and brought along our friends to enjoy the adventure together. Photos are courtesy of Stefanie Harrington, DC area photographer.

I can attest to the fact that they specialize in family fun and even more so just plain old fun for kids. The experience began with customized pirate themed face and body paint for the kids, a quick lesson in pirate talk and mateys dressing to the part if they so choose all before climbing on board. Once on the ship, kids learned they needed to find the map in order to start the cruise to find the treasure. No child needed the attention of their parents the entire hour and a half cruise. The crew kept them completely entertained; adults might as well have been back on land. It was a chance for parents to just watch their Bambinos interact and take part in the fun interactive adventure while siting back and taking in the views from the boat, which let’s be honest, we don’t get to do very often.

They also host field trips and groups, birthday parties as well as families. The indoor party room completes the experience at sea with a pirate ship theme and pizza and cupcakes can be delivered to keep the party going after the trip.

They set sail seven days a week, six times a day from mid-April through Labor Day and weekends only through Halloween.

Ticket prices are $22 per person, $12 for children 2 and under and they offer discounted tickets at certain sailing times and for special events.

Location: 311 Third St. Annapolis, MD. 21403 (Less than an hour from DC!)

(Photos taken by Stefanie Harrington)

Not your typical kid gym

June 14, 2018

Need a place to escape the heat (or cold in the winter) and head indoors? Here are a couple of places that are sure to make your child happy and get some exercise when it’s too hot to be outside in the afternoon (or too cold in the winter). Most of these unique spaces offer camps, classes and birthday parties in addition to providing a space for your Bambinos to move.

(Photo: Badlands)
Badlands Playspace– 5200 Randolph Rd. Rockville, MD 20852
Read about our fun there!

Scramble Indoor Play– 5412 Eisenhower Ave Alexandria, VA 22304
Scramble is the first European-style play center in Alexandria. Scramble offers incredible indoor play every day of the week, birthday parties Fri-Sun and a full program of summer camps for Elementary-age children this summer.

Elemeno– 709 8th St SE Washington, DC 20003
Formerly known as SkillZone. Parent coworking, SkillZone indoor play, early childhood STEM, family social events, kid-free time & private parties.

Magic Ground– 3100 14th St Northwest 3rd Level Washington, DC
See original review here.

Laugh Out Loud Stations Mega Fun Center– 6250 Greenbelt Rd. Greenbelt, MD 20770
CRAZY FUN Rides and AMAZING attractions all in one place to develop LOL Stations as the Best Indoor Theme Park and Birthday Party Place in the Washington metropolitan area, where the entire family can play together!! LaserTag, Challenge Course, Tumbler, Bumper Cars, Ball Blaster, Bouncers, 4-Level Playground, Himalaya, and much more!! Purchase a package or pay for single games.

Hyper Kidz!- 9309 Snowden River Parkway Columbia, MD 21046
Themed zones for kids ages 0-13. Other attractions include an interactive LED dance floor, laser light show, interactive screen games, bubble machine, glow-in-the-dark play, a concession stand, souvenir stand, and giant lite brite boards. Hyper Kidz encourages healthy and active social play.

(Photo: Nook)
Nook– Nook Mosaic:Coming Summer 2018 & Nook Ballston Quarter:Coming Fall 2018
Nook is a play and learning space for the young, modern family. Not just a children’s play space, Nook is a blended play, work, and learning experience for the entire family.

Climb Zone-13200 Mid Atlantic Boulevard Suite 130 Laurel, MD 20708
Indoor rock climbing with individual walls, each with a theme. There are a few bounce houses, an area for kids 3 and under to play in, video games and a small cafe. Ages 2-5 are $12, 6 years and older $25. You can stay as long as you’d like. Outside food is permitted. You can have a birthday party here too. Put your harness on and climb aboard your favorite art whether it be Mt. Rushmore or the Alice in Wonderland themed wall, you’ll have a great time.

ZAVAZONE– 45685 Oakbrook Ct #110, Sterling, VA 20166 & 40 Southlawn Court Rockville, MD 20850
ZAVAZONE is an Indoor Adventure Park: a unique space dedicated to active fun for people from ages 5 to 105. ZAVAZONE brings together ninja courses, ropes courses, trampolines, climbing challenges, zip lines, and more under ONE soaring roof. It delivers a heart-pumping multi-action experience like no other. Every visit to ZAVAZONE grants access to ALL of these exhilarating challenges, so you’re always free to create your very own active adventure. The state-of-the-art equipment is overseen by highly trained ZAVAZONE coaches who ensure safety while inspiring guests to make the leap or try a bold new move. All ZAVAZONE activities are included with admission.

Animated Child– 5167 Waterway Drive Montclair, VA 22025
Animated Child is an innovative enrichment center that encourages a child’s natural curiosity, independence and creativity. We engage children in every element of intelligence to highlight their unique way of learning. By exploring in which way a child is smart versus how smart they are, children are empowered to recognize ability within themselves. Great for ages 2-12. Open exploration times, enrichment classes, summer camps and birthday parties are available.

Sprout at Saffron – 3260 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201
The ultimate new business concept that combines your productivity (coworking), relaxation, fitness or yoga with your kids playing and learning. Moms, dads and caregivers can catch up on work or relax in the cafe, take a fitness or yoga class while your kids are taken care of in a holistic and educational environment. Classes vary from supervised open gym, music, ballerina classes and more! Classes are also offered for kids or adults.

Busy Bees– 11 Wisconsin Circle Bethesda, MD & 6110 D Arlington Blvd. Falls Church, VA 22044
An indoor play space where everything moves, spins or flies just for kids under 48″. $15 (or a pass) will get your kiddos inside, come and go as you please. Open 9-5 everyday. Complimentary coffee, tea and wifi. They also through amazing birthday parties.

Don’t forget these indoor spaces as well:

My Gym–5110 Ridgefield Rd, Bethesda, MD 20816
Kidville– 4825 Bethesda Ave, Bethesda, MD 20814
Gymboree– Various Locations