KC Kangaroos Play Centre
Aberdeen
KC Kangaroos Play Centre Exciting bright and colourful facilities include scramble nets and rope ladders, three different slides and a large deep ball pool. Dedicated toddler area with smaller versions!
Dizzy Rascals Indoor Playcentre
Laurencekirk
Dizzy Rascals Indoor Playcentre Soft play, with slides, ball pools and a massive soft ball 5-a-side football zone. New for 2006-ball cannons, trampoline and an extended play frame
Boomerangs Adventure Play
Fraserburgh
Rambos Kids Adventureland
Aberdeen
Rambos Kids Adventureland slides, rope climbs, ball ponds, soft ball shooters and a bouncy area that will entertain the kids for hours and hours
Brewster Bear Fun Factory
Portlethen
Brewster Bear Fun Factory Kids play centre attached to brewsters food chain - i find they are always worth a visit if the weather is a bit grotty and the kids need a runaround - and you can get lunch too!
Ton's o' Fun
Turriff
Ton's o' Fun a big children’s adventure play centre - a large, specially designed play structure in an enormous purpose-built facility we are making inroads into safe, challenging and fun adventure-play for children up to 145cm in height
Hoodles Play Barn
Oldmeldrum
Hoodles Play Barn The centre piece of the Play Barn facility is our extensive soft play area - the only one of its type in the area.
Bogie Dragon
Huntly
Bogie Dragon Within the activity centre is a large, purpose built adventure castle. It is a fun packed soft play themed area
Harleys
MacDuff
Harleys Offers softplay with toddler areas, ten pin bowling from shoe size child's 8 and a child friendly restaurant with Little Friends menu.
Junior Jim
Banff
Junior Jim Physical activity for pre schoolers only, limited opening but great atmosphere and innovative programme, good equipment. Council run.
Kidzalowd Softplay Area
Stonehaven
Kidzalowd Softplay Area Attached to a family friendly restaurant, this adventure play facility for the under 10s is bright, colourful, safe and clean.
Fuzzy Eds
Aberdeen
Fuzzy Eds Attached to a family friendly restaurant, this is a woodland themed adventure soft play facility with several levels of fun features and a separate area for toddlers. Height restriction for main section is 4ft9.
Storybook Glen
Aberdeen
Storybook Glen See more than 100 of your favourite nursery rhyme and fairytale characters. Enjoy exquisite flowers and plants, majestic trees, secret waterfalls, exotic animals and fairytale houses and eat at the self-service restaurant which offers healthy food.
Codonas Amusement Park
Aberdeen
Codonas Amusement Park Three entertainment centres: Codonas Amusement Park, Sunset Boulevard and Miami Beach with LOADS of things to do
Macduff Marine Aquarium
Macduff
Macduff Marine Aquarium features marine life from the Moray Firth in a variety of exciting and innovative exhibits. Visitors come face to face with hundreds of native fish and invertebrates normally only seen by SCUBA divers who brave the chilly waters of the North Sea.
Willows Animal Sanctuary
Fraserburgh
Willows Animal Sanctuary Willows Animal Sanctuary is dedicated to the care of abandoned and ill-treated domestic and farm animals. It looks after over 200 animals including more than 60 horses, ponies and donkeys as well as 100 sheep, goats, cows and pigs and approximately 60 cats and many rabbits, poultry and reptiles.
Doonies Farm
Aberdeen
Doonies Farm A fully-functioning farm with an outstanding collection of rare breed animals, come and encounter the countryside!
North East Falconry Centre
Aberdeen
North East Falconry Centre Spectacular Falcons, Owls, Hawks and Eagles are permanently on display.
The breathtaking flying demonstrations offer a unique photo and video opportunity.
One of many fun family places to visit if you're looking for
things to do in Aberdeen with kids.
Grampian Transport Museum
Alford
Archaeolink Prehistory Park
Insch
Archaeolink Prehistory Park Travel 10,000 years in one day from the Mesolithic to a Roman Marching Camp, with indoor and outdoor exhibitions, featuring hands on activities, workshops and guided tours everyday, Archaeolink is a dynamic historical experience for all the family.
Satrosphere Science Centre
Aberdeen
Satrosphere Science Centre is full of exciting exhibits, science shows, workshops and special events. Fun for all the family and everyone who loves to explore and experiment!
Montrose Swimming Pool
Montrose
Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool
Stonehaven
Craigievar Castle
Alford
Craigievar Castle Built in the early 17th century by Master William Forbes, his family lived in the castle for 350 years. Extensive parklands, woodland walks with beautiful views.
Balmoral Castle
Ballater
Balmoral Castle Set amongst the magnificent scenery of Royal Deeside, in the shadows of Lochnagar is the Balmoral Estate.
Purchased by Queen Victoria in 1848, the Estate has been the Scottish Home of the British Royal Family ever since.
Cawdor Castle
Nairn
Cawdor Castle As well as the Shakesperian Macbeth castle there are also three gardens, the Cawdor Big Wood, and a 9-hole 3 par golf course
Crathes Castle Garden and Estate
Aberdeen
Crathes Castle Garden and Estate One of the most beautiful and best preserved castles in Scotland occupied by the Burnetts of Leys for over 350 years and set against a magnificent garden with its world-renowned June border. Kids can also take part in quizzes, family trails, hands-on activities and play in the adventure playground.
Tolquhon Castle
Ellon
Tolquhon Castle Tolquhon Castle is for the most part a comfortable 16th century mansion with an earlier 15th century tower in one corner. The old tower, known as the Preston Tower, was built by the castle's original owners, the Preston family. In 1420 it passed by marriage to the Forbes family.
Urquhart Castle
Loch Ness
Urquhart Castle Once one of Scotland’s largest castles, Urquhart’s remains include a tower house that commands splendid views.
Transition Extreme
Aberdeen
Transition Extreme In their coaching sessions they take children from the age of 5 years and upwards. It’s a brilliant combination of exercise, psychological challenge and lasting friendships, and it’s open to absolutely everybody!
Beach Leisure Centre
Aberdeen
Beach Leisure Centre The freeform leisure pool has fantastic water features including rapids and a wave machine so you won't fail but have a whale of a time
Go Ape! Crathes Castle
Banchory
Go Ape! Crathes Castle Go Ape is the UK's No.1 Forest Adventure. Take to the trees and speed down zip slides. They’re part of an exciting course of rope bridges, Tarzan swings and crossings; all set high above the forest floor.
Codonas Bowling
Aberdeen
Codonas Bowling 26 ten-pin and cosmic bowling lanes with a modern and comfortable decor. The rest of the amusement park offers a great range of other family entertainments.
One Sports
Aberdeen
One Sports 18 lanes of 10-Pin-Bowling featuring the latest cosmic lighting and automated bumper systems. Modern, fully-equipped, air-conditioned Fitness Suite Four 5-a-side, all-weather, astroturf football pitches. Cafe serving fast-food, sandwiches, soups etc., Arcade Zone including all the latest video games, pool tables, and air hockey.
Strikers at Fraserburgh Leisure Centre
Fraserburgh
Strikers at Fraserburgh Leisure Centre Classic family friendly tenpin bowling in newly refurbished premises. Little ones can use bumpers and a ramp. Set within a leisure centre, so plenty of other sporting opportunities if you've got extra energy.
Aviemore Treasure Trail
Aviemore
Aviemore Treasure Trail The self-guided Aviemore Trail is a fantastic and inexpensive way to explore the town whilst enjoying a fun walk in the fresh air.
Old Aberdeen Treasure Trail
Aberdeen
Old Aberdeen Treasure Trail The self-guided Old Aberdeen Trail is a fantastic and inexpensive way to explore the town whilst enjoying a fun walk in the fresh air.
Alford Valley Railway
Alford
Alford Valley Railway Scotlands first 2ft Narrow Gauge passenger railway, running a half-hourly service from Alford to Haughton Park.
The Old Royal Station
Ballater
The Old Royal Station At the centre of Ballater is a beautiful wooden building that was formerly the royal railway station. Recently restored, it now houses an exhibition, the Tourist Information Centre, a restaurant and shops.
Seafront Splash
Montrose
Seafront Splash Modern, purpose built play area with a whole host of modern adventure play equipment suitable for the older kids as well as the juniors, plus a paddling pool with a difference and a 'construction' site.
Seaton Park
Aberdeen
Seaton Park The park has a large, modern children's play area, large open spaces, a formal garden and a fountain..
One of many fun family places to visit if you're looking for
things to do in Aberdeen with kids.
Montrose Basin Nature Reserve
Angus
Montrose Basin Nature Reserve Local nature reserve with zoned areas supporting local wildlife and plantlife, and a visitor centre with telescopic views of the thousands of migratory birds, maybe even seals.
Montrose Beach
Angus
Montrose Beach Sandy beach with great local amenities and attractions, and a wildlife sanctuary and visitor centre on one end which offers telescopic views of some 50,000 migratory birds.
The Ceramic Experience
Aberdeen
The Ceramic Experience At the studio, customers are supplied with everything from stamps and stencils to aprons, brushes, tiles and paint, all of which are non-toxic and food safe.
iheartart
Aberdeen
iheartart They offer ceramic painting, canvas painting, hand and foot prints, canvas bag painting, craft classes and so much more! Child friendly and helpful.
Thanks for all the great things to do and Indoor Play Areas in Grampian with kids you keep sending in.
Now the school half term is upon us are with winter and the christmas holidays fast approaching, we're trying to find as many fun things to do with kids as possible, especially cheap and free family friendly places to visit this year - theme parks, waterparks and swimming pools, museums, indoor playcentres and softplay for toddlers, petting farms, wildlife parks and zoos, aquariums, castles, steam railways, pottery making and ceramic cafes, roller and ice skating rinks, karting tracks, snowdomes, dry and indoor ski slopes, climbing walls, activity centres, ten pin bowling alleys and all the other best family tourist attractions, that you can visit at the weekend.
Also teachers may find the site useful for ideas for the best places to take their classes on school journeys with many historical and educational atractions listed
So, if you've been for great days out with the kids, or a school trip, which isn't shown above, just send in an email and we'll add it on so people visiting on holidays and all the other children in Grampian can enjoy the great day out as well.
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