Start planning a weekend full of family fun with the top kid-friendly things to do in Metro Detroit this weekend!
Bring your kids to the BIG ‘touch-a-truck’ – the Detroit Auto Show! Hop in various cars, let your littles drive the kid Jeep course or climb in the car for indoor test drives, enjoy fun photo ops and more!
Find more Power Wheels fun AND the coolest playground at the Macomb Corners Park Fall Fun Fest.
Disney On Ice ‘Find Your Hero’ brings Ana, Elsa, MIrabel and more to Little Caesars Arena this weekend.
Wayne County Parks hosts the annual Native American Heritage Day at Nankin Mills Park on Saturday from 1pm to 5pm. Find more kid-friendly cultural enrichment events and activities here.
Celebrate Heritage Day at Heritage Park in Farmington Hills. There will be fall fun and hayrides. If you can’t make that event, here are other hayride events happening in metro Detroit.
Are you ready for a road trip?! ArtPrize returns to Grand Rapids for a 2 week takeover of outdoor art installations downtown. Grand Rapids is an easy 2 hour drive and always fun. BONUS: The Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum exhibit debuts at the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum this weekend too!
Looking for indoor fun? Check out the NEW Urban Air in Commerce or the newly re-open Detroit Kid City in Clinton Township.
It’s fall festival season, here’s the line-up for the weekend:
- ArtPrize (Grand Rapids)
- Victorian Heritage Festival (Northville)
- Art Fair (Birmingham)
- Haven Hill Festival (White Lake)
- Ciderfest @ Diehl’s Orchard and Cider Mill (Holly)
- St. Anne Sausage Festival (Warren)
- Michigan Renaissance Festival (Holly)
Don’t miss this week’s giveaway – win 4 tickets to Disney Jr. LIVE at Fox Theatre in October!
Looking or cider, donuts and fall fun? Go on a donut crawl in Rochester or enjoy fall festivities at DeBuck’s Family Fun.
Enjoy the early evenings and take a trip to Glenlore Trails’ CarnEVIL Haunted Forest. It’s a kid-friendly lighted trail that runs weekends starting this Friday, thru October.
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Here are more ideas for the weekend!
MUSEUMS
- Sloan Museum of Discovery
- Cranbrook Institute of Science
- Michigan Science Center
- UM Museum of Natural History
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Ann Arbor Hands On Museum
VISIT THE PLAYGROUND
- Tattan Park (Westland)
- Macomb Corners (Macomb)
- Lower Huron Metropark (Belleville)
- Innovation Hills (Rochester Hills)
- Gallup Park (Ann Arbor)
- Elizabeth Park (Trenton)
- McClumpha Park (Plymouth)
- Kiwanis Park (Southgate)
INDOOR PLAY
- LEGOLAND Discovery Center (Auburn Hills)
- Dinoland (Madison Heights)
- Kidcadia Play Cafe (Dearborn)
- Urban Air Adventure Park (Sterling Heights)
- Rev’d Up Fun (Woodhaven)
- Stemville (Northville)
- Bounce It Up (Livonia)
- Rochester Play (Rochester)
- Bounce It Up (Livonia)
Find more family events on our Event Calendar
Photo credit: Detroit Auto Show
