Atlanta attracts millions of tourists every year who visit the Coca-Cola Museum or take in an Atlanta Falcons game in the Georgia Dome. There is no shortage of fun activities for kids in the most populated city in Georgia.
Bring children 8 and under to the Imagine It! Children's Museum of Atlanta for exhibits such as Leaping into Learning. This is where kids can enter a man-made forest to play in a stream with real fish or look for hidden treasure in a huge treehouse. In the year-round Let Your Creativity Flow exhibit, kids get a paintbrush, mix paint colors together and create art on a huge wall mural. As fo 2010, the museum is open seven days a week.
Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta
275 Centennial Olympic Park Dr. NW
Atlanta, GA 30313-1827
404-659-5437
childrensmuseumatlanta.org
The Cascade Atlanta Family Fun Center is equipped with a 15,000-square-foot maple skating rink that includes modern lighting and a sound system that sends music throughout the skating area. A 144-foot projection screen displays music videos, and the snack bar serves pizza, hamburgers and chicken wings. The skating rink and arcade center is open seven days a week, as of 2010.
Cascade Atlanta Family Fun Center
3335 M.L.K.Jr. Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30331
404-699-9559
atlantafamilyfuncenters.com
The Play the Animal Way presentation at Zoo Atlanta allows kids 2 and older to view special animal feedings and training demonstrations. Participants will learn which favorite treats animals like kangaroos and giraffes most enjoy. Kids over 14 years of age can participate in the Keeper For a Day event. Participants help to bathe elephants, feed otters and clean smaller animals in the zoo's exhibits. This zoo is open every day of the year except for Christmas Day and Thanksgiving day, as of 2010.
Zoo Atlanta
800 Cherokee Ave.
Atlanta, GA 30315
404-624-5600
zooatlanta.org
