Celebrate the birthday of the influential American artist, Jackson Pollock at Smudge Studios. You can make your own Pollock-esque splatter painting and enjoy a slice of cake at their Jackson Pollock Birthday Party.
Kaleidoscope Toys is hosting a Lego Play event with Learning Fun 101 on Saturday, Feb. 1 from 2 pm – 4 pm. Bring non-perishable food items to be donated to the Round Rock Area Serving Center and you’re in!
Integrity Academy Presents a Dealing With Difficult People Workshop, led by Joe Carr, an educator, trainer and coach from The Center for Nonviolent Communication. The workshop will be at Casa de Luz, in the Cielo South Room, from 7 – 8:30 pm on Wednesday, Jan. 29.
Bump Club and Beyond Austin will host a Pediatrician Panel Tuesday, Jan. 28 from 7 – 9 pm at Mandola’s Italian Arbor Trails.
Art & Soul Austin will save your sanity and keep your kiddos busy and happy with their Spring Break Art Camps, March 10 – 14 from 9 am – noon each day for kids ages 3 –7 or from 2 – 5 pm for kids 7 – 10. With a mission to “encourage, enhance and explore natural creativity through an art-rich curriculum,” the camps will include drawing, painting, collage, printmaking and sculpture. Cost is $180 per child.
Our top 10 Austin family events this weekend include our favorite conference for moms, children’s theatre, a 3-hour train ride and a gorilla run. Also, we made an amazing list earlier this week highlighting all of the Best Freebies and Deals in Austin, take a look at some of these Austin-staple-kind-of-deals and start checking ’em off.
Learn about, play on, and celebrate Texas trees at a free event this weekend that includes fun events for the whole family. It’s all happening at the Tree Talk Winter Walk event at the Texas Arboretum at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on Saturday, Jan. 25 from 9 am to 5 pm. Kids can climb trees with professional arborists, build a fort with tree limbs and branches, go on a tree scavenger hunt and more while adults learn tree care tips and purchase native woody species for planting.
Parent & Child Music Class now enrolling. Ten-week session with local musician, Neal Kassanoff. Parents with infants and older kids are encouraged to sign up. The ten-week sessions begins on January 24 at 9:30 am. Space in each 45 minute class is limited to 10 to 12 children. The cost for the session is $150–that’s $15 per class, which is awesome.
This Sunday, Jan. 26, head over to the Palmer Events Center for the FREE Austin Family Presents: Summer Camp Fair from 12 – 4 pm. Reps from more than 100 camps around Austin and throughout the state will be on hand amidst live entertainment, face painting, snowboarding and a bounce house. Parents can chat with camp owners and counselors while the kids romp around, and might even win one of 18 camp giveaways.
There is a school in East Austin that you may not be familiar with. East Austin College Prep is dedicated to sending 100 percent of its students to college, and it’s a free public school with open enrollment for any child in Travis County! Say whaaat? Exactly. If you’re as curious as we are, you can check out their upcoming Open House events!
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.