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Family days out in and around Birmingham, each one written up honestly with the details parents actually need.
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FreeAbbey Fields
Kenilworth
A free park with a play area, a lake and easy flat paths from the car park, good for a no-cost couple of hours outdoors.
Accessible toiletBaby changeCaféPushchair friendly+2 more
from £7Adventure Golf at Four Ashes
Solihull
Eighteen holes of adventure golf with waterfalls and rocky routes, plus a café bar to refuel in afterwards.
CaféGroup bookingsIndoor seatingFood on site+5 more
from £16.50Adventure Sports (Warwickshire) Ltd
Warwick · ages 8-80
A big-kid activity centre near Warwick for clay shooting, quad bikes, laser tag, karting and axe throwing.
Booking requiredGroup bookingsIndoor seatingFood on site+3 more
from £3Adventure Street Ltd
Dudley · up to age 9
A child-sized village of role-play sets, from a bakery to a fire station, where under-9s run the show for a 75 minute session.
Accessible toiletBirthday partiesBooking requiredCafé+7 more
from £5.50Adventureland Aldridge
Walsall · ages 0-14
A big indoor playframe with a black hole slide, a climbing wall and a football pitch, plus a fenced baby corner for the small ones.
Birthday partiesCaféFree parkingIndoor play+3 more
from £6.49Air Nation
Birmingham · ages 0-15
An inflatable park with an 18ft bouncy slide into a ball pit, plus a toddler zone for the under-fours.
Booking requiredIndoor playFood on siteToilets
from £6Air Ninja
Birmingham · ages 0-16
An indoor trampoline arena with an assault course and inflatable zones for climbing, sliding and bouncing, plus a toddler area for under-4s.
Birthday partiesBooking requiredCaféFree parking+3 more
from £6AirHop Birmingham
Birmingham · ages 1-99
Wall-to-wall trampolines, airbags and a mixed reality arena for jumpers from toddlers to adults.
Birthday partiesCaféFree parkingGroup bookings+5 more

Albert's Schloss - Birmingham
Birmingham
A Bavarian-style beer hall and restaurant in the city centre where kids can join you for food, but only until early evening.
Accessible toiletBirthday partiesBooking requiredDog friendly+7 more

Art Courses Birmingham
Birmingham
Adults-only art courses in Birmingham city centre covering drawing, painting and life drawing over a full term.

Art for Life Sutton Coldfield
Sutton Coldfield
Adults-only drawing and painting classes, from a ten-week course in composition and portraiture to one-off printmaking and pastel workshops.
Food on site

Artrix
Bromsgrove · ages 0+
A theatre stage for pantomime and family shows, plus youth theatre classes for older kids.
Accessible toiletBlue badge parkingCaféCard only+5 more

Ash End House Children's Farm
Tamworth
Children's farm near Tamworth with animals, tractor rides and optional play barn.
Birthday partiesBooking requiredCaféGift shop+3 more

Ashby Boat Company
Nuneaton
Hire a narrowboat and pilot it yourselves along the Ashby Canal, a stretch with no locks to fumble with.
from £7.50Attwell Farm Park
Worcestershire
Redditch farm park with animals, outdoor play and indoor play areas.
Accessible toiletBike parkingBirthday partiesBlue badge parking+15 more
from £7Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
Bromsgrove · ages 0+
Wander 700 years of rescued buildings, ride the miniature train and count phone boxes in the National Collection of Telephone Kiosks.
Accessible toiletBaby changeBlue badge parkingCafé+10 more
from £30Axeperience Axe Throwing
Birmingham · adults only (18+)
A grown-up hour with a real axe, an instructor and a target, not a kids' activity despite the arcade-sounding name.
Booking requiredFood on site
from £7.50Aztec Adventure - Upton Warren - Activity Centre & Aqua Park
Bromsgrove · ages 2+
Aztec-themed adventure golf, high ropes and a lakeside café, with the inflatable aqua park back for summer 2026.
Accessible toiletBirthday partiesBlue badge parkingBooking required+7 more

Baby College Classes West Bromwich and Wednesbury
West Bromwich · ages 0+
Baby and toddler classes mixing music, movement and sensory play to build language and social skills from birth.

Baby Sensory & Toddler Sense Birmingham South
Birmingham · ages 0-13
Weekly sensory sessions for babies and toddlers, built around massage, music, textures and early signing.
Baby changeSensory friendly

Baggeridge Country Park
Dudley
A big country park where kids can hit the sandpit and diggers, ride a miniature railway, or try the high ropes if they're brave enough.
CaféOutdoor playParkingToilets
FreeBagots Castle
Coventry
Free ruins of a 14th century castle to poke about in, with a visitor centre and a picnic spot, open weekends only.
Picnic area
from £4.50Bancroft River Cruises
Stratford-upon-Avon
A private boat charter along the Avon through town and out into open countryside, with catering laid on if you want it.
Accessible toiletAllergy awareBooking requiredDog friendly+3 more
FreeBantock House
Wolverhampton
Free house museum with a mouse trail to hunt round the rooms and a nine-hole pitch and putt outside.
Baby changeBlue badge parkingBreastfeeding friendlyCafé+4 more
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