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13 results for “toddler activities” in Phoenix

Children's Museum of Phoenix

4.6(5,758)

Ages: Best for ages 0 to 10

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The Rush Fun Park

4.7(3,008)

Ages: Great for all ages from infants to teens

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FLC Fitness Center

4.6(247)

Ages: Teens, and tweens only where club policy allows. FLC is a membership fitness club rather than a family attraction, and gyms typically set minimum ages for the training floor and require a parent present for younger members. Confirm the current age policy at (602) 707-5903 before assuming your child can join or attend.

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Mini Milestones Play + Learning Space

4.5(39)

Ages: Birth to about 4 years, with the strongest fit under 3

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One of a Kind Petting Zoo

4.8(201)

Ages: Best for roughly ages 2 to 9, with 3 to 6 as the bullseye. This is a hands-on farm experience, and the entire value is a small child standing at eye level with an animal they are allowed to touch. Toddlers love it and need close supervision, since a two year old's instinct is to grab. Big kids stay interested through the feeding and the animal handling, then start to drift. Tweens and teens generally treat it as a short novelty stop unless they are the kind of kid who already loves animals, and there is not much here for a non-mobile infant.

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Ocotillo

4.4(2,536)

Ages: 2-14 years

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Partially Free

Washington Activity Center

4.4(226)

Ages: Roughly 4 to 17 for the programming, which the city describes as covering toddlers through seniors but which in practice leans school-age and teen inside the building. The full-size gymnasium and teen space are the draws for older kids. Toddlers and little kids get more out of Washington Park next door, with its green space and courts, than out of the seven activity rooms.

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Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum

4.8(1,173)

Ages: Roughly 5 through the teen years, which is a wide and unusually durable range. Age 5 is a natural starting point because that is where paid admission begins, and it is also about when a child can look at a bomber and understand that people actually flew it. Kids in the 6 to 12 band get the most out of it, because the museum lets you climb aboard the bombers and cargo planes rather than roping them off, and standing inside a fuselage is a completely different experience from looking at one. Teens who are into history, engineering or aviation often outlast their parents here, especially in the maintenance hangar where mechanics work on the flying aircraft in view of visitors. Toddlers and babies are the weak fit: hangar floors, moving equipment and steep boarding ladders are not built for them, and there is nothing to occupy a two year old between planes.

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Free

Chandler Museum

4.5(429)

Ages: Roughly 2 through 12, with the sweet spot at 4 to 10. This is a compact city-run history museum with rotating traveling exhibits rather than a play museum, so the experience scales with whatever exhibit is up when you go. Babies and toddlers do fine because it is quiet, level and free, and the museum runs an Art Tots program aimed squarely at the early childhood crowd. Elementary and middle school kids get the most out of the local history content, especially if they are studying Arizona in school. Teens will move through it quickly unless the current traveling exhibit happens to match an interest.

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Free

Playa Margarita Park

4.3(173)

Ages: 2 to 10 for the playground, and 8 to 17 for the courts and the ball field. This is a neighborhood park rather than a destination, and it is honest to say so. The shaded playground is the reason a family with a 3-year-old comes, and the shade structure is what makes it usable from roughly April through October when an unshaded slide in south Phoenix is genuinely too hot to touch. Older kids gravitate to the basketball court, the volleyball court, and the open field, and the recreation center runs weekday afternoon programming that skews toward grade schoolers and teens. Babies get very little out of it beyond a stroller loop and shade.

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Desert Botanical Garden

4.8(23,077)

Ages: 3-12 years

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Arizona Rock and Canyon Adventures

5.0(88)

Ages: Roughly 8 through 17, with the strongest fit from about 11 to 17. This is guided outdoor instruction in climbing, rappelling and canyon travel, and the company frames its work around training and education for novice and experienced adventurers alike, with the motto Train, Commit, Execute, Repeat. That framing tells you what kind of kid thrives: one who can listen to a safety briefing, follow instructions the first time, and keep working at something that is physically hard and a little scary. Tweens and teens are the natural audience. Motivated big kids around 8 to 10 often do beautifully in a private family session, because the guide can size the objective to the smallest person in the group. Because the adventures are custom designed rather than sold as fixed departures, there is no published minimum age, so call (480) 888-6953 and describe your kids honestly, including their height, weight and comfort with heights. This is not an activity for toddlers or babies in any form.

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Free

Altadena Park

4.4(507)

Ages: 2 to 9, with the splash pad carrying the under-6 crowd and the playground holding older grade schoolers. Tweens and teens will be done here in twenty minutes.

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