Enjoy special keeper chats where guests can learn more about what it takes to care for wildlife around the world including tigers, koalas, primates and pinnipeds. Plus, family-friendly crafts and activities, story time at Wolf Lodge and more.

Get your kids out of the house for an indoor adventure at one of the many family-friendly play centers in the region. You're sure to find one close by with our extensive list.

Winter brings a whole new season of outdoor adventure in the greater Cleveland/Akron area. Find family-friendly fun at these places in the region that offer skiing, ice skating and snowshoeing.

Ever hand feed a bird? In a winter rite of passage in Northeast Ohio, you can – by hand-feeding chickadees at several area locations.

The temporary exhibit will explore the history of Perkins Woods, a city park where the Akron Zoo currently resides, and will focus on three main topics – how Black residents in Akron expanded the John Brown Monument, fought a plan to move the zoo from Perkins Woods and operated a long-lived Custard Stand at the park’s edge.  

There are countless mental health benefits of going to camp, such as providing a break from technology and stress, fostering social skills, and boosting self-esteem by learning how to work through challenges. Being outdoors or in nature also helps to improve a child’s mood, focus and resilience.

A makerspace is simply a place where kids can create, tinker, build and take things apart — essentially, they can explore how the world works in fun ways. When combined with sensory-rich activities — projects that invite kids to touch, pour, squeeze, twist, stack, mix and experiment — you create an environment where STEM learning feels more like play than work.

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