Parent's Guide to
Tucson, AZ

Discover activities, events, and resources for children.
Reid Park Zoo
Reid Park Zoo’s mission is “to encourage commitment to the conservation of biological diversity and to provide educational and fun experiences for visitors of all ages.” The Zoo, founded in 1965 with a collection of birds, prairie dogs, farm animals, and a few squirrel monkeys, has expanded to...
Rocks and Ropes
Indoor rock climbing combines balance, flexibility, strength and problem solving to provide a challenging workout for climbers of all abilities. For beginners, there is no better place to learn the skills needed to climb inside safely. For climbers that desire to hone their abilities, there is no...
Southern Arizona Transportation Museum
The Southern Arizona Transportation Museum is a relatively new railroad museum having just recently been started by the city of Tucson in the mid-2000s. The museum is located in the former Southern Pacific’s (also affectionately remembered as the “Espee”) beautiful two-story station in Tucson and...
The Mini-Time Machine
The Mini-Time Machine is museum like a time machine, by which the visitor sets off on a self-guided tour through different lands and times both real and imagined. Over 400 miniature houses, room boxes and enchanting collectibles are part of the extraordinary collection in this educational and mag...
Tucson Childrens Museum
The Children’s Museum Tucson was founded as the Southwest Children’s Exploratory Center in November 1986 in a small space on Pennington Street. Founders believed play was an essential part of learning of learning for children. The mission is to provide fun, play-based, interactive, hands-on le...
Tucson Gymnastics Center
Gymnastics offers much more than the mere ability to flip and twist. In addition to helping children progress through gymnastics skills and levels, at TGC, our goal is to get as many children as possible involved in the great sport of gymnastics. Emphasizing the importance of physical activity, h...
FC Sonora
FC Sonora's vision is to create a club that provided a strong Youth Developmental Program focused on the development of skills, game understanding and love for the game, before having the opportunity to enter the FC Sonora Competitive Program. "Focused on Development" is the mission of FC Sono...
Creative Juice Art Parties
Grab some friends, bring a date, or just come solo. Choose a painting, get a drink from the bar and enjoy a fun-filled, artistic evening full of good music and great company! Relax and discover your inner artist in a fun, casual environment and let your creative juice flow! No experience needed! ...
Color Me Mine
Color Me Mine Tucson is a fun and creative experience. Everyone is an artist at Color Me Mine and our staff can show you how! Color Me Mine has got hundreds of pieces to choose from and over 60 colors to paint them with. Friendly & helpful staff will guide you through the painting process so your...
International Wildlife Museum
Tucson’s favorite interactive wildlife museum! Bring the whole family for a day of fun and learning! The museum highlights over 400 species of insects, mammals and birds from around the globe. Some of the collections are more than 100 years old and all the animals found at the museum were ...