What do you do with your toddler that is FREE?

[Anonymous]

Tree Top Toys also has story time every week, and sometimes other free events.

[Anonymous]

This website by a Northern Virginia dad is a lot of fun and has great ideas:
http://www.squidoo.com/novakids

goCity Kids DC is good - you can narrow search to just Virginia
http://gocitykids.parentsconnect.com/?area=193

Our Kids is great for all over the DC Metro area - the general site is good, the paid subscription weekly newsletter ($25 a year) is even better:
http://www.our-kids.com/

Best,
Jessica McFadden
http://aparentinsilverspring.blogspot.com/
[e-mail]

[Anonymous]

White Flint Mall on a cold winter day. Train ride at mall and pottery barn kids. My kids play for hours with the toys that are set up there.

[Anonymous]

Also, the pet stores with real pets are great. There is a store that sells tropical fish at Congressional Mall in Rockville (lower level). There are more interesting fish there than at the aquarium in Baltimore.
[By the way, the Aquarium in Baltimore is not worth it with young ones. Expensive, out of the way, and not all that.]

[Anonymous]

And on icky days if you're not up for the zoo or park - hit a pet store. They always have lots of fish, frogs, crabs, birds. Some of them have adoptable kittens and you may see some dogs in there going to school or shopping with their owners.