Test, tinker, and create with more than 150 hands-on exhibits exploring science, humanities, the arts, nature, and health. It’s family fun and learning with open-ended play at the award-winning museum that inspires creativity, curiosity, and lifelong learning!

Connecting people to nature through play, Happy Hollow Park & Zoo is a division of the City of San José, Parks, Recreation & Neighborhood Services Department. With tens of thousands of visitors passing through our gates each year, the teams at Happy Hollow understand the importance of providing great experiences and memories that last a lifetime.

Of course, the libraries in the San Jose area are not really ONE place, but MANY places... but it's important to emphasize how valuable libraries are for family learning and fun. The libraries in our area are wonderful about posting their events to the KidsOutAndAbout calendar so you always can get ideas for free things to do with your kids that celebrate education and imagination. KidsOutAndAbout.com takes this opportunity to salute the wonderful children's librarians who serve our community with such dedication. They're proud that locals voted them to the list of best places to take kids this year!

The Junior Museum & Zoo is a place where children and their caregivers come to explore, discover, create and play. Through hands-on science exhibits and a diverse community of live animals, your child's natural scientist will be nurtured.

California's only combination theme park and waterpark, offering more than 100 acres of world-class entertainment for guests of all ages! 

LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Bay Area is the ultimate indoor LEGO® playground in The Great Mall in Milpitas. The indoor LEGO attraction is a 3-hour play experience featuring 10+ interactive play zones! Celebrate with a LEGO® Birthday party at LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Bay Area and have a fun-filled adventure to remember! For a birthday party to remember we offer Awesome, Awesomer, and Awesomest birthday party packages in our private birthday party rooms. See why we are the most unique venue for kid's birthday parties in the Bay Area!

Northern California's largest waterpark! More than 23 acres of slides and attractions, including raft rides, body slides, kiddie activity pools, thrill rides, the endless river and wave pool. Raging Waters San Jose was founded in 1985 and is Northern California's Largest Waterpark, offering scenic panoramic views of Lake Cunningham and the San Jose Foothills, over a million gallons of San Jose water slides, rides, and attractions, and 23-acres of family-friendly fun!

Children's Musical Theater San Jose (CMT) trains and educates today's youth through musical theater to set and achieve high artistic and personal goals, and to inspire them to become exemplary artists, patrons and citizens of tomorrow. In a normal year, CMT mounts ten full-scale musical productions at the historic Montgomery Theater in downtown San Jose. As a nationally acclaimed theater organization and the oldest performing arts organization in San Jose, CMT remains dedicated to providing the highest possible caliber of musical and theatrical training to children from ages 4 to 20, spanning all abilities. We stand behind our promise never turn a child away, regardless of financial or physical limitations.

Silicon Valley Karate has been setting the high bar for instruction in authentic, traditional Shotokan Karate since 1998 (but its primary instructor actually started teaching elsewhere in 1984). Come find out why so many people agree that this is THE place to do Karate! Choose to be awesome! Choose Silicon Valley Karate!