Bring the entire family out to The Domain on Saturday, June 21, from 11 am – 4 pm to experience Taste of North Austin. The 7th annual FREE event features live music, children’s entertainment including face painting, caricature drawings and balloon twisting, prize giveaways, and more! Sample a delicious array of food from North Austin’s favorite restaurants.
This weekend you can rock out, get your art on, watch “Jaws” in a pool (scary!), slide down a 3-story high inflatable water slide, get down at Bubblepalooza and lots more. Here are our Top 10 Austin Family Events!
Saturday, June 14 from 11 am – 3 pm, enter the woven world of artist Orly Genger as you make colorful creatures, then grab some natural elements to add to a collaborative weaving wall overlooking the lagoon at Laguna Gloria. Genger’s monumental outdoor installation, Current 2014, is on view now.
ATX Music and the Austin Public Library have teamed up to bring us free music in the library all summer long. Music For Kids features local kid-friendly musicians who will perform at various library branches throughout the summer. Musicians include Neal Kassanoff, Gina Chavez, Walter Tragert and Lucas Miller.
When you have a tiny train enthusiast in the back seat of the car, getting stopped at a railroad crossing when a train passes can feel like winning the lottery. But some days, you want a more guaranteed train sighting. Here are ten spots around Austin, in no particular order, where you can almost always see a train.
TODAY, Thursday, June 12 from 1:30 – 3 pm, make plans to be at Zilker Botanical Garden for a special appearance from ERTH’s Dinosaur Zoo. Their very own T-Rex will be at the garden to interact with kids and give you a taste of their upcoming show that will be at the Long Center June 17 – 22.
The Sunday Funday Kids Show at The Sanctuary Event Space will be a fun day of music that kiddos and parents can appreciate. Show is from 3 – 6 pm on Sunday, June 15 and we have four tickets to give away!
A show for anybody between the ages of 5 and 100, ERTH Dinosaur Zoo Live will travel back millions of years to take audiences on a journey through prehistoric Australia. Happening at the Long Center Tuesday, June 17 – Sunday, June 22, ERTH will allow children and adults the opportunity to experience dinosaurs through amazing, state-of-the-art puppetry.
Alamo Drafthouse and the Austin Parks Foundation present “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” at Republic Square Park for their final installment of Movies in the Park on Thursday, June 12 at 8:30 pm.
Inflatable water rides, an outdoor concert and a big screen movie under the stars – just a taste of what you can enjoy at the first annual Splashfest, Saturday June 14 at Windy Point Park on Lake Travis.
Do512 Family is all about what to do in Austin with kids. We love to be out and about in Austin and are always looking for fun things to do with the family.