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Out and About in (and Around) Everett with Kids Over Winter Break

If the beeps and honks of that new battery-operated toy are starting to wear on your nerves, or you just need to be assured that there is sentient life outside of your living room, it’s time to put down the coffee cup and hustle those kids out of the house for an adventure.

But where can you go? We’ve got a few ideas for you!

Go for a swim

While it may involve upending the house in a frantic search for swimsuits, goggles, and packable snacks, in the end it’s a win. 

Everett YMCA pool

Swim Center at Forest Park  

Go for a skate  

My youngest asks constantly to go ice skating. Roller skating is great too. They have a snack bar (soft pretzels and queso!), video games, and you can wear spandex. What could go wrong? Helmets are your friend.  

Angel of the Winds Ice Rink  

Everett Skate Deck  

Make art

Give your dining room table a break from endless sprinkles and glue. Also, someone else cleans up after them. Score.

The Ceramic Place

FeelArtistic  

Let’s bowl

It’s more than an awesome locale for epic movie musical scenes.

Evergreen Lanes  

Glacier Lanes 

Paintball anyone?

Tactical planning is an important life skill.

DoodleBug Sportz Indoor Paintball Arena 

Go see a movie

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker opens December 19. Just sayin’.

Regal Everett Stadium 16 & RPX

Escape the ordinary

Come together as a team to think your way out of a box.

Escape Scene Everett 

Escape Everett  

Tuck into an English High Tea

Can’t make it to London this winter? Throw on some finery, perform some perfunctory pinkie finger lifts, and make a reservation for high tea in Everett.

Rabbits Pantry

The kid’s museum, Of course!

It’s the most obvious choice if your kids are little. That doesn’t make it bad, it’s good. They have everything: an art studio downstairs, a library in the treehouse, a water room. Fun is a given.  

Imagine Children’s Museum

Everett Children’s Museum // Jake Campbell

Do something that doesn’t involve money

Believe it or not, it can be done.

Bundle up and go for a walk on Howarth Park Beach (and please throw sticks for my dog when you see him down there).

Go to the animal shelter and try not to adopt anything.

Paint rocks and hide them around town.

Go to a Children’s Storytime at one of our awesome public libraries or just hang out in the kid’s area, play with their toys and check out a gigantic stack of books and movies.

You can do it, parents. Break free of the living room and have some kid-friendly fun out and about this winter break. 

Did we miss any great ideas? Leave a comment to let us know.


Tammy lives and works in Everett, WA with a disgraceful pitskunk named Samhain the Druid, three professional shrew killers, two strange children, and a lawyer to keep them all out of trouble.


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