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Embrace Adventure in Abilene, Texas
With great museums, parks, food and more, Abilene deserves more than just a drive through.
Big Tex for Little Tots
This year, treat the tykes to the best kid-approved attractions including mock rodeos, puppet shows and lots of slides, swings and speedy rides.
Parkwood Green Park in Plano
Adventurers ages 5-12 will love the five slides, including a tall covered slide that rockets down to a soft mulch padding.
Timberglen Park in Dallas
Several climbing structures, a set of large monkey rings and more challenging, smaller monkey rings will keep the kids who love to climb plenty busy.
Leather RX
After scooping up the season’s hottest pair of shoes, you do your best to wear your beloved pair with care….
Little Valentines
Valentine’s Day is upon us, and while you’re definitely expecting at least some flowers or chocolates from the hubby, no…
Farmers Branch Park in Farmers Branch
But kids ages 5-12 will love the monkey bars, tall and twisty slide, crawl-through tube high off the ground and the small rock-climbing wall.
Cook Up Some Fun
Try engaging your child with hands-on training at an area cooking school that offers classes just for kids.
Spicewood Park in Plano
The vast mulched-covered play area is home to a simple swing set, a pair of riding animals, a length of monkey bars and a very tall slide.
Growing Green Thumbs
Just because you don’t have a knack for gardening doesn’t mean your kids can’t experience the thrill of growing produce. Try out these area gardening classes structured just for kids—who knows, you might even learn a thing or two!
Green With Envy
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Free Wheeling
School’s nearly out … if you’re dreading having to drag your kids on endless errands, repeatedly telling them to nix…
Watters Crossing Park in Allen
The playground itself is adequately mulched, has a wide swing set, plenty of monkey bars and three slides, all of variable heights (graduated for varying ages).
Smith Park in University Park
For older children, there is a large climbing structure with two slides, monkey bars, a rock wall and a tic-tac-toe game through which to engage their competitive spirits.
Beavers Bend Park in Frisco
t boasts a large play structure perfect for school-aged kids with a kid-sized rock wall and a network of slides and stairs.
Pumpkin Perfect
It’s that time of year again—when talk turns from books and rulers and backpacks to ghouls and ghosts and ……
Kids Kastle in Highland Village
A wooden playland filled with staircases and crannies, bridges and climbing nets, swings and slides, this park is perfect for letting imaginations run wild.
Summer Serenity at Possum Kingdom Lake
Just a short trek from Dallas, glistening at the foothills of the Palo Pinto mountains, lies Possum Kingdom Lake, a scenic slice of West Texas.
It's Good to Be … Cool in Denton County
There is no tougher critic than a school-yard tribunal (aka “the cool kids”). Whether your child is one of them,…