Your kids favorite museum/DC-area activity

[Anonymous]

2nd Climbzone

[Anonymous]

Sandy Spring Adventure Park.

Terrapin Adventure Park.

North to South Farm, LaPlata MD. (goat cuddling)

College Park Aviation museum.

Crofton go-karts.

[Anonymous]

UpCycle Saturday Free Classes

Spy Museum

Planet Word Escape Room

National Gallery of Art Calder Wing

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Anonymous wrote:Crowdsourcing for some more out there ideas or experiences we haven't heard of.
We have the whole week off next week and have some low-key activities planned but want to do a few things like go to museum or nats game.
Just checking to see if there were any museums or activities in the DC area that you were really surprised that your kids like that maybe aren't as well known.
My kid likes being active Legos sports dinosaurs music rock climbing ninja courses.
We've done natural history and Lego museum. There's a rock climbing gym in Columbia that we've gone to but maybe there are some in DC or Virginia that might be super kid friendly especially for bouldering?
Thinking about the spy museum and other stuff like that.
Age is almost 7.

Movement in Crystal City has great bouldering

[Anonymous]

The rope course park in sandy spring is a good one. Also jazz in the garden, drop in art making at moonshot studio in the reach (Kennedy center)
National book festival is coming up and the kids’ lineup looks great.

[Anonymous]

National Museum of Health and Medicine in MD, particularly if your kids are a little weird.

[Anonymous]

National Cryptologic Museum (free, but closed weekends snd Federal holidays) which is off of MD-32 very near 295/BW Parkway.

It can be hard to find, so find it with an online map first, then look for signs on MD-32 as you get close.

[Anonymous]

This area has a lot of wonderful nature centers in almost every county - I recommend them if you live near Arlington, check out the Acme Pie Company, which has a 10 or so rotating pin ball machines along with great pie...2 notes on the recommendations above...Climb Upton is hard for younger kids (if yours has previous experience climbing, then disregard) and expensive, so I would recommend waiting until older; the National Museum of Health and Medicine needs to re-do their exhibits and think more carefully about how they tell the story of disability and the human body / medical experimentation. I don't recommend.

[Anonymous]

My 7 year old loved Planet Word. We did a DC day where we did Planet Word in the morning and then Building Museum in the afternoon. They had a great Lego exhibit there also.

[Anonymous]

This is a great list! Here's a few more:

Udar Hazy
DC Children's museum
National Harbor - boating and ferris wheel
And if you want to drive a little
Apple and peach picking in Maryland
Lots of big rocks to climb at Great Falls or the Virginia Arboretum

[Anonymous]

Mansion on O

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Playground at Beauvoir

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Another note for the postal museum next to union station.

[Anonymous]

Any Smithsonian
Zoo
Planet word
Building museum
Kid museum
Playgrounds - cathedral schools, Cabin John
Tow path walk or bike
Kayak rental by grown wharf
Community pools
Capitol movie and tour/ wash monuments elevator ticket

[Anonymous]

Would add Mt Vernon into the mix.

Grate Falls and the Sandy Park ropes course were favorites for my kids at that age.
There are various places to kayak and canoe also. There are also some horseback riding trails, not so far away.
If you wanna go a little further, and Annapolis is also a fun place to visit.