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Indoor play areas for kids
Play parks hosted by local community centers remain the best deal for entertaining young kids indoors during Seattle's wet winters. Make sure to call or check Web sites for hours. Parents willing to spend a few more dollars should consider commercial play spaces, like Urban Monkeys and Pump It Up, where they’ll find options ranging from inflatable toys to supervised care.
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The Children's Museum
(Queen Anne/Seattle Center)
Located inside the Center House, the Children's Museum features exhibits of different world cultures, all child-sized and interactive.
Children's Museum of Tacoma
(Tacoma)
Interactive exhibits, which focus on world cultures, art and science, rotate throughout the year, allowing kids to explore new interests with each visit.
GYMagine Gymnastics
(Mukilteo)
Drop-in preschool playtimes are available, as well as programs that have specially designed curriculums that offer sequenced gymnastic activities.
Gymboree (Northgate)
(North Seattle)
Brightly colored, moderately priced, active wear is the foundation of this national chain. New styles arrive often, making this store a great solution for those ever-growing children.
Gymboree (Pacific Place)
(Downtown)
Brightly colored, moderately priced, active wear is the foundation of this national chain. New styles arrive often, making this store a great solution for those ever-growing children.
Gymboree Play and Music (Ballard)
(Ballard/Crown Hill)
Children and parents sing, move and simply play together in this colorful, kid-friendly environment designed for newborns to five-year-olds.
Imagine Children's Museum
(Everett)
Kids learn about the everyday world through hands-on exhibits. Entertainment and education are combined with opportunities to "milk" a life-sized cow, climb a rock wall and explore large-scale mockups of a plane, train and sandcastle.
KidsQuest Children's Museum
(Bellevue)
KidsQuest Children's Museum encourages kids to unleash their creativity with activities that explore technology, art, science and daily life in the Pacific Northwest.
Lil' Kickers Fun Zone
(Sandpoint/Wedgwood)
At Magnuson, kids can jump on a bounce house, obstacle course and double slide.
The Little Gym
(Maple Leaf)
The friendly, professional instructors of this national chain focus on motor skill development, offering classes in dance, tumbling, gymnastics, karate and sports skills.
Pump It Up
(Kirkland)
Pump It Up primarily hosts birthday parties but offers four weekday drop-in sessions, which each run an hour and 15 minutes. Parents are welcome to climb and bounce along with kids.
Seattle Gymnastics Academy
(North Seattle)
For an hour every weekday, the Seattle Gymnastics Academy opens its gym for drop-in play. Kids can bounce on a trampoline, walk across balance beams, twirl on a rope swing and somersault down wedge mats.
Zoomazium
(Greenwood/Phinney Ridge)
The Woodland Park Zoo's most recent addition is an indoor, multimedia facility for infants to 8-year-olds. Theatrical demonstrations, storytelling and video presentations fulfill the learning component, while a rope bridge and 20-foot climbing tree take care of the fun.
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