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CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX

THINGS TO KNOW: Visit the Children’s Museum of Phoenix and get ready for a day of adventure, creativity, inspiration and fun. Designed for children ages 10 and younger, this is not your typical museum. Here you can touch everything — and with more than 50,000 square feet of space, there’s plenty to touch. The museum’s mission is to engage the minds, muscles and imaginations of children and the grownups who care about them. Spend your day exploring the Noodle Forest, creating a masterpiece in the Art Studio, climbing to new heights in the Climber and so much more. The museum fosters a joy of learning through play and offers more than 300 play experiences spread throughout three floors.

DON’T MISS: The Workshop is a new makerspace exhibit that offers a handson creative space where children can gather materials, create a blueprint, use tools, such as hammers, screwdrivers, saws, nails, measuring tapes, wrenches, levels, wires, drills and more, to invent, build and create.

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You will learn the techniques you need Kids will have fun learning about science with to prospect for gold in the deserts and more than 300 hands-on exhibits, a state-ofmountains of Arizona. the-art planetarium, a five-story giant-screen americangoldprospectingadventures.comtheater, live demonstrations and more.

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Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park Arizona’s oldest and largest botanical garden, Crayola Experience the Arboretum was founded in the 1920s. Discover the magic of color through more than btarboretum.org a dozen hands-on activities. The Crayola Store offers the world’s largest selection of Crayola Fort McDowell Adventures Choose from adventures including a City products and souvenirs. crayolaexperience.com/chandler Slicker Cattle Drive, Segway tours in the desert, kayaking or riding the trail. fortmcdowelladventures.com Enchanted Island Park This 7.5-acre amusement park is located in the center of Phoenix’s Encanto park. It features Havasu Canyon trail The strenuous eight-mile hike from Hualapai Hilltop to the water forces you nine rides and a variety of attractions geared toward children ages 1-10. enchantedisland.com to earn the spectacular views of Havasu Canyon’s waterfalls. waterfallsofthegrandcanyon.com i.d.e.a. Museum Exhibitions and activities that incorporate science, technology, engineering, art and math Kinishba Ruins (STEAM) educate and inspire kids of all ages. ideamuseum.orgExplore the remains of a pueblo village built between 1250 and 1350 A.D. by the LEGOLAND Discovery Center Arizona pre-Columbian Mogollon Culture. discovergilacounty.com/kinishba-ruins Play with and learn about all things Lego. This indoor playground features family-friendly Off-Road Jeep Adventures exhibits, 4D movies, rides and a Lego factory tour. The educational and off-road guide-led legolanddiscoverycenter.com Sunset Sonoran Desert Jeep Tour will take you through scenic trails of the Tonto McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park National Forest. All aboard! Take a ride on one of the 30-acre thejeeptours.com park’s railroads, trains or carousel, and check out the 450 feet of model trains.

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Take two- to five-hour tours exploring ancient ruins, notable rock formations, or MacDonald’s Ranch pair your off-roading tour with horseback Youngsters will thrill to pony rides, a hay bale riding with a combo tour. maze, petting zoo, kid-friendly mechanical bull pinkjeeptourssedona.com and more. It’s the perfect spot for a memorable birthday party.

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A hike, a crisp dip in the Verde River and a comforting float in the Verde Hot Springs Mukutu’s Island are three of the best ways to spend a day Enjoy all-day fun at this exciting indoor trip to Payson. “island” in Chandler featuring towering trees, paysonrimcountry.com climbs, mysterious caves, a bungee jump, zip track, arcade, special toddler zone and more.

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Try horseback riding through the Old West Town of Coldwater or venture into the Pangaea: Land of the Dinosaurs foothills of the Bradshaw Mountains on Located at OdySea in the Desert, this indoor their Jeep Excursion. interactive exhibit and educational center westerndestinations.com features more than 80 lifelike animatronic dinosaurs.

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