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It’s time to sign up for another Lowe’s Build & Grow Clinic! Kids who attend the clinic on February 13, 2016 will make a Valentine’s Day Picture Frame–the perfect gift for a grandparent! Remember, the Lowe’s Build & Grow clinics are free, but you have to register in advance. Kids will love using real tools and the sense of accomplishment when they finish building. These building clinics are a great opportunity for FREE family fun, and give everyone a chance to spend time together. Enjoy!
The weather doesn’t always cooperate. Which begs the question, “Where do you go when you and the kids need to get out of the house, but it’s just too hot, cold, or rainy to be outside?” If we were honest, sometimes, fighting cabin fever in kids requires getting outside of our four walls.
Chick-fil-a Gunbarrel Point
1804 Gunbarrel Rd, Chattanooga, TN 37421
423-485-0777
Chick-fil-a Oak Park Town Center
5740 Highway 153, Hixson, TN 37343
423-877-5504
Chuck E. Cheese’s
22 Northgate Park, Chattanooga, TN 37415
423-870-3215
McDonald’s (Gunbarrel)
2017 Gunbarrel Road, Chattanooga TN
423-510-1661
McDonald’s (Hixson)
4123 Hixson Pike, Chattanooga TN 37415
423-877-9056
Hamilton Place Mall Play Area
At Dillard’s Men/Kids/Home Lower Level Entrance
2100 Hamilton Place Boulevard, Chattanooga, TN 37421
Northgate Mall Play Area
At Belk Entrance
271 Northgate Mall, Hixson, Tennessee 37415
Battles for Chattanooga Museum
1110 East Brow Road, Lookout Mountain, TN 37350
Creative Discovery Museum
321 Chestnut St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
423-756-2738
Gymnastic Center of Chattanooga (preschool open gym on Fridays)
6855 Mountain View Rd, Ooltewah, TN 37363
423-238-5258
Hamilton Skate Place
7414 Goodwin Dr, Chattanooga, TN 37421
423-899-1788
High Point Climbing
219 Broad St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
423-602-7625
Holiday Bowl Brainerd
5518 Brainerd Rd, Chattanooga, TN 37411
423-899-2695
Holiday Bowl Hixson
5530 Hixson Pike, Hixson, TN 37343
423-843-2695
Hunter Museum of Art
10 Bluff View, Chattanooga, TN 37403
423-267-0968
International Towing and Recovery Museum
3315 Broad Street, Chattanooga, TN 37408
423-267-3132
The Jump Park
1810 Chestnut St, Chattanooga, TN 37408
423-531-8688
Chattanooga Libraries (take your pick–they’re all great!)
Model Railroad Museum (at Chattanooga Choo Choo)
1400 Market St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
423-872-2529
Pin Strikes
6241 Perimeter Dr, Chattanooga, TN 37421
423- 710-3530
River City Pottery
1414 Jenkins Rd, Chattanooga, TN 37421
423-553-0612
Ruby Falls
1720 South Scenic Highway, Chattanooga, TN 37409
423-821-2544
Superfly
7455 Commons Blvd., Chattanooga, TN 37421
423-825-9320
Tennessee Aquarium
1 Broad Street,Chattanooga, TN 37402
800-262-0695
Tennessee Bouldering Authority
3804 Saint Elmo Ave, Chattanooga, TN 37409
423-822-6800
Urban Rocks Climbing Gym
1007 Appling St, Chattanooga, TN 37406
423-475-6578
Winner’s Circle Family Fun Center (laser tag, indoor batting cage, arcade)
59 Kellerhals Lane, Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742
706-858-0950
The YMCA
423-266-YMCA
If visiting an area attraction, be sure to check for coupons from the Chattanooga Visitor’s Bureau…who cares if you aren’t a tourist 😉
Majestic 12 Cinema
311 Broad St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
423-826-2370
Northgate 14
310 Northgate Mall Dr, Hixson, TN 37343
423-870-9833
Rave Motion Pictures East Ridge 18
5080 South Terrace, Chattanooga, TN 37412
423-855-9652
Regal Cinemas Hamilton Place 8 Movie Theater
2000 Hamilton Place Blvd, Chattanooga, TN 37421
423-855-5951
Regal Cinema Hamilton Place 10-17
2000 Hamilton Place Blvd, Chattanooga, TN 37421
800-326-3264 ext. 353
Tennessee Aquarium IMAX Center
201 Chestnut St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
423-266-4629
Did we miss your favorite indoor activity for kids in Chattanooga? Tell us in the comments and we’ll add it to the list!
Event Coordinators, help us fill up our event calendar and let us spread the word about your 2016 Summer Camp, Club, Class, or even your VBS in our Chattanooga Summer Guide. Parents love seeing events and activities collected and neatly arranged in one place. This year, we would love to include your summer camp, club, or class!
As usual, basic entry in our summer camp and class guide is COMPLETELY FREE and will include a one or two sentence summary of your event and a link to your website. It will look like the following:
“Summer Camp for Super Sleuths–Mystery camp for ages 8-11. Learn more by clicking here.”
You can also submit it to our popular event calendar for FREE, too! (Just click the green button below and enter the info yourself)
A featured event upgrade is an affordable way to capture readers’ attention and drive customers to your site. You may choose to upgrade your event to a featured entry for only $50. A featured entry will allow you to include your graphic or logo, a full paragraph summary, and two links (for example, one link to your website and one link to your Facebook page.) All of our summer guide featured event upgrades will also be entered into our drawing for a month’s worth of premium advertising space on Chattanooga Families!
You can feature a single camp in your image or a group of classes/clubs!
(Note: If you are submitting more than five camps/classes, you must purchase the upgrade.)
See the graphic below for featured upgrade examples.
You can purchase your featured listing by using the Paypal button.
For our 2016 Summer Guide, we only have room for ONE sponsor. For $100, one local business will earn sponsorship status with links, text, a clickable graphic, and social media shout-outs.
If your event isn’t for kids, or your business is targeted to our audience, but isn’t offering a specific summer camp, class, or club, we would love for you to consider guide sponsorship. Please email us (chattanoogafamiliesblog@gmail.com) to discuss and/or purchase your sponsorship status.
My Goal is to publish the Summer Guide in April! Fill in your event info below.
It’s time to sign up for another Home Depot Kid’s Building Workshop! This time you’ll make a Valentine Mailbox to hold all your child’s valentine cards from their favorite friends. After the mailbox is built, your child can personalize their project with paint.
We love heading over to the Homes Depot Building Workshops for a morning of hands-on fun! The FREE Home Depot Kids Workshops take place the first Saturday of every month.
Register in advance to reserve your spot.
It’s time to sign up for another Lowe’s Build & Grow Workshop! Take your child to Lowe’s and let them build Black Widow’s Sky Cycle inspired by “Marvel’s Avengers Assemble.” Kids love the chance to build with the small hammers and bang to their heart’s content–just watch your fingers if you’re helping them! This is a perfect indoor activity for kids in Chattanooga.
Date: July 11th, 2015
Time: 10:00 am
Where: Lowe’s
The workshop is FREE, but you do need to REGISTER ahead of time.
Happy Building!
It’s time to sign up for another Lowe’s Build & Grow Workshop! Take your child to Lowe’s and let them build a Captain America Motorcycle inspired by “Marvel’s Avengers Assemble.” Kids love the chance to build with the small hammers and bang to their heart’s content–just watch your fingers if you’re helping them! This is a perfect indoor activity for kids in Chattanooga.
Date: June 27th, 2015
Time: 10:00 am
Where: Lowe’s
The workshop is FREE, but you do need to REGISTER ahead of time.
Happy Building!
Need something inexpensive to do with the kids this summer? Sign up for Kids Bowl Free and your kids can enjoy bowling at Pin Strikes every day this summer between May 5th-August 31st.
Pin Strikes is the only Chattanooga area bowling alley on the Kids Bowl Free list. Be sure to read the fine print as some restrictions apply. Must be 15 years and under. Can’t be used for camp outings, daycare trips, etc. Kids will need to rent shoes, but there is an option for a summer shoe pass that might be worth it, depending on how often you will use it.
Sign up for Kids Bowl Free.
The Covenant College theatre and music departments will present the children’s musical Honk! on March 27, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sanderson Auditorium at Covenant College. Honk! brings Hans Christian Anderson’s The Ugly Duckling to life through song and dance, creating a show appropriate for all ages.
Honk! will open with a preview performance on March 27, at 7:30 p.m. for a discounted ticket price of $7 for adults; $4 for students, staff, faculty, and seniors; and $1 for children.
The show will run March 28, 29, April 3, and 4 at 7:00 p.m., with a final performance on April 5, at 2:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased by calling 706.419.1051 or via email at boxoffice@covenant.edu.
Ticket Prices:
Adults$10
Students, staff, faculty, seniors $5
Children $2
This weekend is a Home Depot Kids Workshop!
Saturday, March 1, 2014 from 9am-12pm, kids can build a Trojan Horse Bank from the new DreamWorks animated film, “Mr. Peabody & Sherman”, coming in March, 2014. Home Depot workshops are FREE; best for ages 5-12. Sign up ahead of time to reserve a spot!
Personally, our boys love to go to the kids workshops and have some “manly” time with Daddy!
If you have a little dog lover at your house, you’re in luck!
The Chattanooga Theatre Centre is performing Go, Dog. Go! Based on the popular children’s book, you’ll see red dogs, blue dogs, big dogs, little dogs – all kinds of wonderful dogs – riding bicycles, scooters and roller skates on their way to a big dog party held on top of a tree! Guaranteed to have you howling with laughter!
This play is designed for children in the PreK-2nd grade age range. Tickets are $10 for all ages.
Performance Dates:
To order tickets, visit the Chattanooga Theatre Center’s Ticket site. Our family is planning on going, so maybe we’ll see you there!
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