If you are looking for some great theater, check out “Wake Up Brother Bear” through February 7th at the Imagination Stage in Bethesda. The show is best for ages 2-5 and tickets are $7. If you live in Virginia, the Synetic Family Theater has performances of “Puss’N'Boots” through March 14. The tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door.
If you are looking to run your kids indoors, I’ve recently learned of a few new options in Montgomery County. We hit the Playseum in Bethesda for the first time on Sunday for a birthday party. Parking was a pain because there is only street parking available but once you are inside, there was plenty for my 14 month old and 4-year-old to do. Entrance is $5 per kid and they have various themed rooms, ranging from a grocery store to a pet shop with bunnies, much to the delight of my girls. I feel like all I see is puking viruses all over places like that, so I’m on edge with my bag of hand sanitizer as my baby shoves everything into her mouth – but hey – I never said I wasn’t a little psycho.
I’m anxious to check out Great Kids Village in downtown Silver Spring which just opened on December 31st, the facility is apparently huge and offers play themed rooms, birthday party opportunities, classes, camps and music performances. If you live closer to Kensington than Silver Spring, Interactions Learn and Play also recently opened and has one thing over Playseum and GKV, a moonbounce.
Go forth and run them…….
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I have to say that I love these indoor play spaces! They save my sanity on frigid days when running outside isn’t an option. I’ve done the “date-night” thing at the At Play Cafe in Herndon and it was well worth it! Wee person had a blast and got to watch a movie and play til his heart’s content – Mommy and Daddy got a night out without the extortionist (aka college babysitter mafia) price! I’m hoping that these MD folks will get the idea and do it too…oh how I’d love to see a first run movie, when it’s actually still first run..