Welcome to Our Kids - Washington DC
Grammy nominated and platinum-selling recording artists, Jonas Brothers will head to the Verizon Center in Washington, DC on July 13, 2009.
The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, starring the world famous Rockettes will arrive in the Washington, DC metro area for the first time this year!
Here are some great activities now underway or soon-to-be. We'll change the page along with the seasons. Check back often for new updates. Here you'll find things from local festivals and fairs to the latest information on consignment sales in your area.
Also see >> Special Events
- 2009 Spring & Summer Festival Guide
- 2009 Summer Camps & Camp Fair Guide
- 2009 Summer Fairs - your guide to all the local fairs that happen in the DC metro area!
- 2009 Summer Movie Guide - a guide to local summer movie festivals and free movies for kids!
- 2009 Summer Reading - your guide to all the local summer reading programs.
- 2009 Summer Sounds - your guide to all the local summer concert series!
- Farmer's Markets - a listing of the local farmer's markets. A fun family activity!
- Indoor Play Areas
- Indoor Pools & Water Parks
- Pick Your Own - a listing of all the local farms you can pick fresh produce.
- Roller Skating Rinks
Also see >> Special Events
Our area is a mecca for family-friendly live entertainment and museums. If your children can sit still for 45 minutes or so, they are probably ready to see a (short) play or a concert. Here are some recent shows, museums and other attractions around the DC area the OK staff has taken in. Can you recommend something else? Please send us a review!
- Atlantis Waterpark
- B&O Railroad Museum
- Baby Loves Disco
- Broad Run Miniature Golf
- Burke Lake Park
- Calvert Cliffs State Park
- Chesapeake Children's Museum
- Chincoteague Island - your guide for a family vacation!
- Clix Portrait Studios
- College Park Aviation Museum & NASA Goddard Flight Center Visitor
- Family Discovery Cart: The Way We Work
- Great Wolf Lodge
- Gulf Branch & Long Branch Nature Centers
- Home Depot Kids Workshops
- House of Bounce
- Jammin' Java Kids Weekday Music Series
- Kid Drop Zone
- Kids N Motion - indoor playspace
- Kreeger Museum Family Programs
- Life Time Fitness Birthday Parties
- Little Tots Summer Fun Series
- Lyle the Crocodile at Imagination Stage
- Madame Tussauds DC
- National Children's Museum Launch Zone
- National Museum of American History Museum
- National Postal Museum - Getting Started in Stamp Collecting
- Nature Playce at Hidden Oaks Nature Center
- Newseum
- Night at the Museum Cast comes together to give DC area press a rare treat!
- Paradiso Ristorante Italiano
- Pickle Bob�s Ice Cream & Treatery/The Bear Mill
- Pirate's Cove Waterpark
- Pump It Up
- Potomac Nationals Minor League Baseball Game
- Sant Ocean Hall - at the National Museum of Natural History
- Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum
- Signal Bay Water Park
- Skate-N-Fun Zone
- Story Theatre Series - at Imagination Stage
- Trail Discovery for Kids: June Highlighted Hike
- Trail Discovery for Kids: May Highlighted Hike
- Trail Discovery for Kids: April Highlighted Hike
- Trail Discovery for Kids: March Highlighted Hike
- Water Park at Bohrer Park
- You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - at Adventure Theatre
- Wildwood Beaches, New Jersey: A Family Vacation
- Battle for Terra
- Bolt - on DVD
- Banjo to Beatbox - Cathy & Marcy CD review
- Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia in 3D - at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater
- Dinosaur Pop - CD review
- Earth
- Handy Manny: Manny�s Green Team - DVD review
- Hannah Montana: The Movie
- Hot Vinyl: The New Tunes from Recess Monkey and Rocknoceros
- Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian
- Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - DVD review
- Marley & Me - DVD review
- Monsters vs. Aliens
- Book Review: Melonhead by Katy Kelly
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - DVD review
- Up
- Wall-E
- At Play Cafe
- 2008 Gaithersburg Winter Lights Festival
- An Our Kids Camping Q and A
- Apple Picking at Hartland Orchards
- Berry Picking
- Book Review: Songs, Rhymes and Activities for Young Children in English, Spanish, and ASL, Fall Season, Book 1
- Bunnyland - at Butler's Orchard
- Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution - at the National Museum of Natural History
- Burke Nursery Fall Festival and Pumpkin Playground
- Bull Run Festival of Lights
- Creativity
- Claude Moore Colonial Farm - Market Fair
- Cows-N-Corn
- Fairfax Corner
- Day Trip or Family Vacation: Fenwick Island
- Garden of Lights - at Brookside Gardens
- Gift-Giving Suggestions - Our Kids has compiled a list of reader recommendations for toys, books and other gift ideas just in time for the holidays.
- Great Country Farms� Fall Pumpkin Harvest Festival
- Great Falls
- It's Raining, It's Snowing! What Should We Do with the Kids?!
- JumpWorks
- Leesburg Animal Park
- Marian Koshland Science Museum
- Meadowlark Botanical Gardens
- Monkey Business - review of an indoor play area
- National Archives
- National Building Museum
- Paint Your Own Pottery
- Peter Pan: The Musical - at Olney Theatre Center
- Ratatouille - Updated review with local elementary school opinions.
- Review of VA and MD Indoor Waterparks
- Sandy Point State Park
- Snow Tubing at Liberty Mountain Resort
- Sport Bounce of Loudoun
- The Flying Circus Aerodrome Air Show
- Unicorn Winery
- Watson Adventures
- Wee Play - review of an indoor play area
- Winter Festival of Lights
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-- Mary E.
-- Mary E.
Our Kids Special Giveaways
This week OK members are getting a chance to win a family four-pack of tickets to Six Flags and tickets see Rocknoceros at the 9:30 Club. Members are also treated to discounted tickets for Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular! and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
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- Making It: A stay-at-home mom profits by finding things to do for other people's children Washington Post | October 26, 2008
