A free, plain-language guide to parenting around the Puget Sound, from your first prenatal appointment to college drop-off.
Free, confidential support and crisis lines, answered by real people across Washington.
Prenatal care, classes, doulas, supplies, and emotional support, much of it free or billed to Apple Health.
It is the hand that reaches first, drawing you toward prenatal care and pregnancy supplies, toward childbirth classes and WIC and the steadying of the mind; and through the ParentHelp123 Resource Finder you may search out, community by community, whatever your own corner holds.
A warm line and the company of others who have gone before, online therapy, and a searchable roll of doulas and therapists and lactation consultants, kept for the whole long reproductive season, conception to afterward.
Public-health nurses and nutritionists and social workers tend the pregnancy and the first years that come after it; the Nurse-Family Partnership sets a nurse beside the first-time parent and will not leave; it bills Apple Health, and asks nothing of you.
Classes for the new parent and the seasoned alike, pregnancy, childbirth, the keeping of a baby, and, threaded through all of it, the statewide Family Help Line that is always there to be called.
It comes to you, into the house itself, for families on Apple Health across King and the counties near it, nurses and counselors and dietitians, the baby's necessaries, and a mentor to walk the parent through.
It helps a Washington family lay claim to what is theirs, WIC, Apple Health, the food benefits, and through the ParentHelp123 Resource Finder binds them to the services nearest home.
Playgroups, story times, screenings, and child-care help for the baby and toddler years.
Free drop-in play groups for the very young (birth–age 5): the loose hour of play, the circle time, the counsel for the grown; held in the libraries at Rainier Beach and Lake City, Northgate and Columbia City, and asking no enrollment of anyone.
Free screenings of how the child comes along, and a bilingual milestone height chart (2 months–5 years); and should some worry take hold of you, the navigators will carry you onward to early-intervention.
Living voices for the daily riddles and griefs of it, the sleep that will not come, the tantrum, the broken routine, and referrals onward to classes and groups and doings, across the whole of Washington's thirty-nine counties.
Hands set to play, a daily story hour, the creative corner and the silly science, all of it at Seattle Center; open Wed–Mon, 10am–5pm.
A free library card is the whole of the price; with it you may reserve passage into Woodland Park Zoo, the Seattle Aquarium, MoPOP, the Pacific Science Center and more, one pass to the week, the children frequently free.
The local word on infant sleep and feeding, on milestones and the long rainy-day play, and the surest calendar of family doings in the region (see the Events below).
A parent-participation co-op in Bellevue, its play-based classes running from the toddler (ages 1–2) clean through Pre-K, with monthly parent-education besides; the tuition kept low for the plain reason that the families themselves work the room.
An Issaquah co-op with second-year toddler classes and the 3s and the 4s/Pre-K beside them; play-based, and carrying within it a ready-made community of parents and the monthly parent-education.
A Snoqualmie Valley co-op, its toddler classes giving onto preschool; hands-on and play-based, the parent learning there in the room, right alongside the child.
Sammamish's Pine Lake co-op: play-based preschool with the parents at work in it and the monthly parent-education, one strand of the Bellevue College co-op network.
The parent-education program standing behind these Eastside co-ops; here are the toddler-through-Pre-K classes, the locations, the registrars, and, in several cities, the infant and toddler-only options besides.
Good books, free, arriving by mail month upon month to enrolled Washington children, from birth to the age of five.
An early-literacy work that presses a book, and a word of counsel, into your hands at the child's own pediatric checkups.
Help finding child care you trust and the subsidies that make it affordable, including preschool that's free for many families.
Free referral specialists who help you find the licensed care that suits your particular family, and reckon whether the financial help is yours to claim; call the Family Center, and begin.
Washington's child-care subsidy: the working or studying family that qualifies pays only a small monthly copay (and sometimes nothing at all), while the state takes up all the rest; apply at WashingtonConnection.org.
High-quality preschool for the Seattle 3- and 4-year-old, priced upon a sliding scale, most families qualifying for free tuition, near $12,000/yr in worth, with dual-language and inclusive classrooms to be had.
A King County subsidy, kept by BrightSpark, that brings child care within the reach of more families, walking often beside WCCC or following after it; the staff will lead you through the eligibility of it.
Free early-intervention and disability support for kids of every ability, with no doctor's referral needed.
Washington's free birth-to-3 early-intervention, speech and occupational and physical therapy, and the coaching of the whole family, brought to the home or into the community; near one child in eight is found to qualify.
Make the ESIT referral and find the nearby provider through King County's Resource Access Team; and the Seattle Developmental Bridge bears up the child from birth–4, at no cost, within the city limits of Seattle.
An Eastside nonprofit giving free developmental evaluations and therapies and family support to children of every ability (Bellevue, Bothell, Redmond, Renton); and no doctor's referral is asked of you to begin.
Once the child has turned three, it falls to your school district to furnish the special-education services and the IEP; begin with Seattle Public Schools, or with your own district, and request the evaluation.
Free pilotage through the whole tangle of it, disability, health, housing, the family services, across King County, with interpretation in better than 150 languages; dial 2-1-1, and a community resource specialist will answer.
Washington's Parent Training & Information Center, free help to the family through the IEP and the long thickets of special education.
Disability support that answers each family in its own culture, across the many peoples of King County.
Early intervention and pediatric therapy for children, out in the Snoqualmie Valley and across the Eastside.
Seattle's largest house of birth-to-three early intervention and therapy.
Early intervention in north King County for the child whose growing has come slow.
Year-round sport, and a place kept in it for everyone, for the young of intellectual disability.
Family support, and an advocate's voice, in the matter of developmental and intellectual disability.
Washington's gathering-place of word and resource for the family making its slow way through the disability supports.
Enrollment, school choice, and after-school support for the elementary and middle-school years.
Find your neighborhood school by the address-lookup, learn the option schools, and lay your application in the Open Enrollment / School Choice window that opens each January.
Free help with the homework, the summer reading (the Summer Book Bingo), the maker spaces and the museum passes; and every K–12 student is owed a library card of their own.
Parenting classes and support groups, and referrals besides, the IEP, the parenting plan, for the school-age years.
The local parenting news, and a searchable calendar of camps and classes and sports and festivals you may sift by the child's age and your own neighborhood.
A gathering of family resources: the Teen Health Hub, the High School & Beyond Plan, the mental-health referrals, and the programs that teach a child its own safety.
The supports that hold a family steady across King County, food, the schooling in money, the one-to-one help that keeps a child fit to learn.
Mental-health support, the High School & Beyond Plan, and free help with FAFSA and WASFA.
The state-aid application for the student who cannot, or will not, file a FAFSA, the undocumented among them, and the key to the Washington College Grant and the College Bound Scholarship.
A plain setting of the two applications side by side, with free virtual workshops and the Funding Navigator to sit with you; submit the one only, never the both.
Free one-to-one labor over the FAFSA and the WASFA, a step-by-step Padlet, and gatherings near home, with a particular care taken for the mixed-status family.
A vetted roll of youth-kindly behavioral-health and primary-care resources, and the High School & Beyond Plan that lays the classes down against the far goals of career and college.
The free federal application for the grants and the work-study and the loans; make an FSA ID at StudentAid.gov, for most families do best to file the FAFSA and leave no aid upon the table.
For the teen in the grip of crisis, call or text 988, at any hour there is; and the WA Mental Health Referral Service will match the young (17 and under) to providers who will take your insurance.
Groups, coaches, and warm lines that connect you with other parents and trained support, at every age.
Seattle's own peer-support groups, set to the child's season, the expecting, the newborn, the 5–12 months, the teens, and groups besides for the working mother, the single parent, the LGBTQIA+ family; the price made flexible, and assistance to be had.
Talk the whole trouble through with a living coach, Mon–Fri 9am–5pm, and be sent onward to classes and groups across the state; it is free, and a recorded resource line keeps its watch 24/7.
Welcoming circles for the pregnancy and the long postpartum year, with a warm line and online therapy for the shifting mood, the anxiety, the loss; easy, without judgment, y se habla español.
Uncertain which way to turn? The Family Resource Navigators hear out what your family wants and bind you to the right help near home, and often in the one call.
Diapers, formula, food, and benefits help, so no kid goes without.
King County's diaper bank, free diapers and clothing, car seats and gear, sent out through more than a hundred partner agencies; you reach it by way of a case worker, a food bank, or a public-health nurse.
WIC lays down monthly food benefits, nutrition counsel, and breastfeeding support for the pregnant and for children under five; WithinReach and the ParentHelp123 finder help you make the claim.
Apply in the one place, online, for SNAP and cash assistance and the other state programs; many a family with children is found to qualify.
Find the food bank nearest you, and the help for rent and utility and bare necessity besides, by dialing 2-1-1 (Crisis Connections), free, and answered in better than 150 languages.
Free diapers and clothing and gear for the families of the Eastside, kept out of Issaquah.
Free food and clothing and diapers for the families of the Issaquah country.
Emergency food, and the baby's supplies, for the families of Renton.
The Seattle markets match your SNAP/EBT dollar for dollar, that a food budget might be made to stretch the further.
Monthly produce vouchers for the income-eligible Seattle family, good at the markets and the grocers alike.
A statewide matching of produce for the SNAP/EBT shopper, at more than a hundred farmers markets.
The Thursday market in Bellevue, SNAP Market Match and all, kept for families.
The Tuesday market in Renton (June–September), with doings for the family and EBT honored.
The Wednesday waterfront market in Kirkland, where SNAP Market Match and WIC are taken.
Clinics that see families regardless of ability to pay, plus kids' insurance, vaccines, breastfeeding help, and poison control.
Sliding-fee medical and dental, pediatric and mental-health care, at clinics scattered across the greater part of Seattle.
Nonprofit community health centers tending the whole family across King County, and turning none away for want of means.
Sliding-scale primary and pediatric and behavioral care; the uninsured taken in, and Apple Health honored.
A pediatric hospital and its specialties, for the children and the teens of the whole region.
A free service that matches the child of seventeen and under to nearby mental-health providers who will take your insurance.
Free or low-cost Medicaid coverage, medical, dental, and vision, for the eligible children of Washington.
The official marketplace, where one applies for Apple Health or buys the subsidized family plan.
The childhood vaccine schedules, the school requirements, and Washington's free childhood vaccine program, all set down.
Plain-spoken word on immunization, the tools and the resources, for the Washington parent.
Free lactation counsel, a warmline, classes, and the breast-pump to rent at little cost.
Free peer support in the breastfeeding and chestfeeding of a child, through local groups and trained volunteer leaders.
Free and confidential help, kept 24/7, against poisonings and overdoses and the toxic thing swallowed.
A Bellevue childbirth center, its Level III NICU and its parenting classes.
Kirkland's Family Maternity Center, for the pregnancy and the birth and the newborn's first keeping.
Renton's birth center and its neonatal ICU, for the growing family.
Seattle maternity and childbirth care, spread across Western Washington.
An Eastside pediatric specialty clinic, surgery and urgent care, in Bellevue.
Car-seat checks, domestic-violence support, shelter, free legal aid, and how to report concerns about a child's safety.
A statewide map of the car-seat inspection stations and the certified hands that will fit one, free.
Free car-seat safety checks, at Seattle and Bellevue and Federal Way.
A support line kept around the clock, with shelter and legal and immigration advocacy, for the survivors of King County.
Advocacy and counsel and support for LGBTQ survivors of abuse, and for the families that hold them.
Emergency shelter, and what a family needs, for those gone without a home in King County.
Referrals for food and housing, for rent and utility, and the steadying word in crisis, across King County.
Report the suspected abuse or neglect of a child; the King County intake line is 1-800-609-8764.
Confidential counsel kept around the clock, crisis intervention, and guidance in the reporting of child abuse.
Free civil legal aid for the low-income family; in King County, call 2-1-1 to be taken in.
Free and low-cost immigration legal services, the VAWA and the U-visa among them.
Domestic-violence support, shelter, and advocacy for survivors of the Eastside (Bellevue/Kirkland).
Libraries, camps, scouting, arts, STEM, gifted programs, and homeschool support beyond the classroom.
Free books and e-books, help with the homework, story times and events, at branches all across King County.
An editor's curated guide to the Seattle-area summer camps, the day camps, the enrichment classes.
Troops and badges, camps and the schooling in leadership, for the girls of Western Washington.
Cub Scouts and Scouts BSA troops, and the summer camps, throughout the Seattle region.
The finding-out of the gifted and highly-capable, and the services owed them, in Seattle Public Schools.
A statewide nonprofit holding the homeschool law's guidance, the curriculum, and the support of families.
STEM camps and field trips, and Science on Wheels carried out to the curious child.
A citywide partnership set to see that no Seattle Public Schools student goes without arts education.
Thousands of free programs in a year, the author talks, the STEM and maker workshops, the story times, and Seattle Reads.
Free author events and story times, STEM programs and homework help, across the King County branches (Bellevue, Kirkland, Renton, Issaquah).
Mentoring, clubs, first jobs, and confidential teen support lines for older kids.
One-to-one mentoring, the young matched to the steadying elder, across King and the counties about it.
Paid internships and the training in a trade, for the young of sixteen to twenty-four (16–24).
Camps and swim lessons, sport and child care and the youth programs, region-wide.
After-school clubs, the teen's first job, and the readying for college and career.
A free and confidential teen-to-teen line for any trouble there is, answered, fittingly, by trained teens.
Support kept around the clock, and referrals, for substance use and problem gambling and the troubled mind.
Youth mental-health counseling and substance-use treatment, out of Bellevue and across the Eastside.
Youth and family services, shelter, and behavioral health, kept in Kirkland and across the Eastside.
Counseling and well-being for the child and the family (the same once called Childhaven, and RAYS).
Organizations that serve families in their own language and culture, rooted in Seattle's neighborhoods.
A hub of better than forty programs for the Latino/a child, the youth, the family.
Multilingual services for the family and the youth and the elder, kept for Asian immigrant families.
Youth and family programs for the East African refugee and immigrant family.
Health and family services rooted in culture, for the urban Native family.
Resettlement, and the support of the family, for the refugee and immigrant of the Seattle country.
Free doulas matched to your own culture, and lactation support, for the birthing family.
Multicultural family programs, and care in crisis, for the Indian American family (Bellevue).
Multilingual counseling, family, and basic-needs services for Asian and Pacific Islander communities across King County.
Support for foster, kinship, and adoptive families, LGBTQ+ families, military families, grandparents raising grandkids, and parents of twins.
Training and licensing and the long support that comes after, for the foster and kinship and adoptive family.
The educational and the essential, both, for the child and youth held in foster care.
Kinship Navigators to help the grandparent, and the kin come round again to raising, find what they need.
A drop-in community house that lends its strength to LGBTQ+ youth, ages 10–22.
Peer support, and what is needed, for the families and friends of LGBTQ+ people.
Free support kept around the clock, counsel and resource, for the military family.
Community, the sale of outgrown gear, and resource, for the greater-Seattle family of twins and multiples.
Free tax help and credits, tax-free college savings, free transit for kids, and a neighborly way to pass along outgrown gear.
Free tax filing, and help with the Child Tax Credit and the EITC, for the low- and moderate-income family.
The state 529 plans, by which one lays by, untaxed, against the child's far education.
Free passage on the transit for every rider of eighteen and under, across the Puget Sound.
The hyperlocal gift economy, where a child's clothes and gear and toys pass free from neighbor to neighbor.
City parks programs and school-district enrollment for Bellevue, Kirkland, Renton, and Issaquah, all served by the King County Library System.
Recreation and camps, preschool and youth sport, at the community centers across Bellevue.
Preschool and camps, dance and the youth doings, at the community centers and the KTUB teen center.
Preschool and youth classes, camps and the swimming, at the Renton Community Center.
Community-center classes, the swimming, the day camps and preschool, kept for families.
Enrollment by way of ParentVUE, the preschool and the before- and after-school care among the choices.
Serving Kirkland and Redmond, the new-student and kindergarten registration set out for families.
Online enrollment, the documents it asks of you, and guidance through kindergarten registration.
Online new-student enrollment, the open-enrollment transfers, and kindergarten registration.
Type a word, a name, a topic, an age, and the list narrows to match.
| Organization | What they help with | Stage | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Help Me Grow Washington | Resource navigation: prenatal care, food, child development | Prenatal–Age 5 | 1-800-322-2588 · helpmegrowwa.org |
| Perinatal Support Washington | Pregnancy & postpartum mental health, doulas, loss support | Prenatal–Postpartum | 1-888-404-7763 · perinatalsupport.org |
| King County First Steps / Family Ways | Maternity support, nurse home visits (Apple Health) | Prenatal–Age 5 | (206) 477-6950 · kingcounty.gov |
| Step By Step Family Support Center | In-home pregnancy & infant support, baby items | Prenatal–Infant | (253) 896-0903 · stepbystepfamily.org |
| Parent Trust for Washington Children | Parenting classes & Family Help Line (all ages) | All stages | 1-800-932-4673 · parenttrust.org |
| WithinReach / ParentHelp123 | WIC, Apple Health, food benefits enrollment | Prenatal–Age 5 | (206) 284-2465 · withinreachwa.org |
| Denise Louie Education Center | Free Play & Learn groups, early learning | Birth–Age 5 | deniselouie.org |
| Seattle Public Library | Story times, homework help, free museum passes | All stages | spl.org |
| Seattle Public Schools | K–12 enrollment & school choice | K–12 | seattleschools.org/enroll |
| WA School Counselor Association | Teen Health Hub, HS & Beyond Plan, referrals | Teens | waschoolcounselor.org |
| WSAC (WASFA) | State financial aid & scholarships | College prep | 888-535-0747 · wsac.wa.gov/wasfa |
| FuturesNW | Free 1-on-1 FAFSA / WASFA help | College prep | futuresnw.org |
| Hopelink | Food, financial education, family stability | All stages | hopelink.org |
| ParentMap | Parenting advice & family-fun calendar | All stages | parentmap.com |
| Seattle's Child | Local news & kids' event calendar | All stages | seattleschild.com |
| PEPS (Program for Early Parent Support) | Peer parent-support groups, every stage | Prenatal–Teens | (206) 547-8570 · peps.org |
| Child Care Aware of Washington | Find child care & subsidy help | Infants–Pre-K | 1-800-446-1114 · childcareawarewa.org |
| Working Connections Child Care (DCYF) | State child-care subsidy | Infants–12 | 844-626-8687 · dcyf.wa.gov |
| Seattle Preschool Program | Free / low-cost preschool (sliding scale) | Ages 3–4 | (206) 386-1050 · seattle.gov |
| Bellevue College Co-op Preschools | Parent-participation toddler–Pre-K classes | Toddler–Pre-K | bellevuecollege.edu/parented |
| Early Support for Infants & Toddlers (ESIT) | Free birth-to-3 early intervention | Birth–Age 3 | King County (206) 204-3536 · dcyf.wa.gov |
| Kindering | Developmental evaluations & therapies | Birth–10 | (425) 747-4004 · kindering.org |
| WestSide Baby | Diapers, clothing, car seats, gear | Birth–Age 5+ | 206-767-1662 · westsidebaby.org |
| Washington 211 (Crisis Connections) | Navigation: food, housing, disability help | All stages | Call 2-1-1 |
A snapshot of family events around Seattle, good as of June 2026.
| Event | When | Where | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summer Book Bingo for Youth & Adults | Jun 9 – Sep 8, 2026 | All Seattle Public Libraries | Free |
| Seattle Spray Parks Open | Jun 9 – Sep 7, 2026 | Multiple locations | Free |
| Story & Play Time, Creative Corner, Silly Science | Daily (Wed–Mon) | Seattle Children's Museum, Seattle Center | With admission |
| Lego Artemis Adventure | Through summer 2026 | Pacific Science Center, Seattle | With admission |
| The Beautiful Game: How Soccer Connects Us All | Jun 9 – Sep 7, 2026 | MOHAI, Seattle | With admission |
| Moomins' Sea Adventures | Mar 28 – Sep 6, 2026 | National Nordic Museum, Seattle | With admission |
| Visit Kelsey Creek Farm | Daily, 9am–3pm | Kelsey Creek Farm, Bellevue | Free |
| Baby Animals & Berries Strawberry Festival | Jun 6 – 28, 2026 | Swans Trail Farms, Snohomish | Fee |
| Family Open Gym | Mondays & Tuesdays, 2:30–4pm | Montlake Community Center, Seattle | Low cost |
| Shoreline Indoor Playground Drop-In | Mon / Wed / Fri, 10am–noon | Shoreline Spartan Recreation Center | Low cost |
| Summer of Soccer (Seattle Parks & Rec) | Summer 2026 | Seattle Parks | Free |
| SCMS "Concert Truck" Free Concerts | Jun 18 – Jul 6, 2026 | Parks & markets region-wide (incl. Bellevue, Renton) | Free |
| Kirkland Summer Concerts (Marina Park) | Jul 9 – Sep 3, 2026 (Thu eve) | Marina Park, Kirkland | Free |
| Downtown Bellevue "Live at Lunch" | Jul 7 – Sep 11, 2026 | Downtown Bellevue | Free |
| Seattle Symphony Free Community Concerts | Throughout 2025–26 season | Venues region-wide (incl. Renton) | Free |
Live calendars: ParentMap Family Fun Calendar (parentmap.com/calendar) · Seattle's Child Calendar (seattleschild.com/calendar).
Free and cheap ways to get out of the house as a family, rain or shine.
A single Seattle Public Library card opens free passage to Woodland Park Zoo and the Seattle Aquarium, to MoPOP and the Museum of Flight and the Burke and more, one reservation to the week.
Seattle's spray parks run the summer long, Kelsey Creek Farm in Bellevue stands free every day of it, and come June the U-pick berry farms throw open across the region.
The community-center open gyms, the indoor playgrounds, the children's museums and the library story times, these keep the little ones occupied through the long gray Seattle days.
ParentMap's weekly "Weekender" gathers up the best of the free and family-friendly, the festivals, the hikes, the events, across Seattle and the Eastside and the South Sound.
Community centers and pools, and low-cost youth recreation and camps, across the whole city, and scholarships to be had.
Hundreds of parks and trails, pools and play areas, across King County, for the family's adventuring the year round.
A hands-on STEAM play museum for the young child, in downtown Bellevue.
Three floors of hands-on play and learning, for families, up in Everett.
Free museum days, library passes to the zoo and aquarium, summer spray parks, and public lectures.
SAM and MOHAI, the Museum of Flight, the Burke, the Nordic, all thrown open free upon the first Thursday of the month.
Seattle's Child's gathering of the free museum days, and of the museums that stand free always.
The cardholder is given free general admission to the participating museums on the first full weekend of the month.
Reserve free passage to the zoo and the aquarium and the museums, on a Seattle Public Library or KCLS card.
Free public lectures by renowned scientists and Nobel laureates at the University of Washington, open to all comers, in the room or online.
Community science events, the sensory-friendly hours, and talks for the curious family.
Spray parks and the free summer fishing weekends, festivals and beaches, gathered up week by week by ParentMap.
Free summer reading, and the doings that go with it, for all ages, through the Seattle Public Library.
A free summer reading program, for every age, across the King County libraries.
Some two dozen free cultural-heritage festivals, kept the year round at Seattle Center.
A free family festival of arts and music and dance, come each Memorial Day to Seattle Center.
A First Hill art museum whose doors stand free always, with programs made for families.
Free music and public talks, from a neighborhood chamber-music truck to university lectures you can stream from home.
Free hour-long chamber-music concerts off a truck made over into a stage, in the parks and markets region-wide (Bellevue, Renton, Seattle and more), made for families, and for those who have never once listened before.
Free public talks by UW faculty and notable guests at Town Hall Seattle, the subjects running from birding to the machine mind, in the room or livestreamed.
Free public lectures by renowned scientists and Nobel laureates, long a favorite of the curious child and teen.
Talks by authors and thinkers the year round, and free community gatherings besides, such as the Silent Reading at Seattle Center.
Seattle's Child's gathering of the free, family-friendly outdoor concert series, across Seattle and the Eastside and the South Sound.
Community science events and family-friendly talks, throughout the year, at Seattle Center.
Free hour-long orchestra and chamber concerts, set in neighborhood halls across the Puget Sound, easy, and made for families.
Talks and science and music the year round, in a historic downtown hall, the Saturday Family Concerts among them (free for ages 22 & under).
Free Thursday-evening concerts at Kirkland's Marina Park, the whole summer long.
Free midday summer concerts in the heart of Bellevue, and the Bellevue Family 4th and the arts events besides.
A great, often-updated gathering of the free outdoor concert series across Seattle and the Eastside (Bellevue, Kirkland, Renton and more).
Free astronomy talks with trivia at a local brewery, run monthly by UW grad students.
Free public telescope viewing and short talks on the UW campus, most months spring through fall.
UW grad students present their research to a general audience at Town Hall Seattle.
Public brain-science lectures, symposia, and the annual BrainFest at Pacific Science Center.
The local museums and attractions families love, many free on first Thursdays or with a library pass.
A downtown art museum, its Family Saturdays free, and free admission besides on the first Thursday of the month.
A waterfront aquarium, the touch pools and the daily family presentations; the child of 3 & under free.
Seattle's ninety-two acres of zoo, the Zoomazium indoor play space, and the family programs.
The UW museum of natural history and culture; free admission on the first Thursday of the month.
A museum of air and space; the first-Thursday evenings free, and the child of 4 & under free always.
A Seattle Center museum, the hands-on Sound Lab and the family gaming exhibits within it.
Kid-friendly trails, free spray parks, nature centers, and free state-park days.
A finder of hikes and the reports of those gone before, the family- and kid-friendly trail guides among them, statewide.
The state-parks access pass, and a dozen days a year besides when no pass at all is asked.
Free summer spray parks and wading pools, across the neighborhoods of Seattle.
A West Seattle nature center, its trails and cabins and the children's programs.
Trails and volunteer events, and the youth's outdoor schooling, along the I-90 corridor.
Free guided wandering of the low-tide beach, along the local shorelines, each summer.
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