Fun Places in the D.C. Area to Take Kids

Museums

• Bureau of Engraving and Printing
• College Park Aviation Museum
• Discovery Creek Children's Museum
• International Spy Museum
• National Arboretum
• National Building Museum
• National Capital Trolley Museum
• The Newseum
• Smithsonian Institution

Activities

Visit a dairy farm!

• South Mountain Creamery

Visit a local farm to pick your own produce!

• Pickyourown.org

Enjoy high tea!

• Green Spring Gardens

Catch high-flying acts!

• Bealeton Airport Flying Circus

Go back in time!

• Claude Moore Colonial Farm

Exhibits and festivals

• Brookside Gardens
  
  Watch the butterflies flutter by at the "Wings of Fancy" live butterfly exhibit or take a lovely walk through a winter wonderland at the "Garden of Lights" winter garden walk.
• Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival
  
  Enjoy our woolly friends!

Petting zoos

• Leesburg Animal Park
• Phillips Farm
• Reston Zoo
• Queen Anne Farm

Children's performances and concerts

• Glen Echo Puppet Theater
• Adventure Theatre
• Wolf Trap Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods
• Classika-Synetic Theater
• Imagination Stage
• Smithsonian's Discovery Theater
• Saturday Morning at the National Theatre
• Alden Theater
• BlackRock Center for the Arts
• The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
• Musical Theater Center
• Young Artist Theater

Interesting playgrounds and parks

• Cabin John Regional Park
• Calvert Cliffs State Park
• Clemyjontri Park
• Great Falls Park
• Hadley's Playground
• Mount Vernon
• Sky Meadows State Park
• Turtle Park
• Wheaton Regional Park