Free Friday at KidsQuest Children’s Museum

The first Friday evening of every month is free at Kids Quest Children’s Museum in Factoria (Bellevue) from 5-8pm. This children’s Museum is located inside the Factoria Mall and is  great way to spend a cold friday night.

The museum features a Backyard Exhibit, a Garage area with a Fire truck, free play construction zone, a life-sized litebrite! And of course a waterways section complete with water chimes and drums. There are other exhibits of course and I’d say is mainly for younger kids. We went a few years ago and it was fun. Clean but crowded.

This museum is small (much smaller than Everett Children’s Museum) but it’s fun to get out and explore new exhibits. And the cost, well you can’t beat free! Plus there’s a Red Robin inside the mall so we head over there for dinner afterwards.

Everett Imagine Children’s Museum

This weekend I took my boys to the Everett Imagine Children’s Museum. One gripe I have to get out-of-the-way, why do adults have to pay? Do you think I enjoy playing “bank” when I can do that in real life? Ok, I feel better!

The museum provides a safe environment for kids to play on an airplane, cafe, pet center, waterworks station, train set, all sorts of things. The glow in the dark room was pretty cool!

Downstairs there is a construction room and this time they had large foam blocks to build towers and things. This is where I saw the most kids stay in one area for any length of time and the kids worked together to build tall towers and then crash them down. It was really cool.

The other cool part is on weather appropriate days the rooftop playground is open. There is a fun play set, some music creating toys and the best part, a digging for fossils exhibit. There is ground up rubber bits and kids dig to find dinosaur bones and such. Really fun!

My guys are 6 years old and it was just barely worth it for us to go. I feel it’s better suited for younger kids but that’s my opinion. It was something to do on a gray winter day. You are allowed to bring in lunch and they have lots of tables downstairs to eat.

If you’ve never been, try it. Usually the museum is closed on Mondays and Thursdays is half price admission after 3:00. Keep in mind they close at 5:00pm everyday, don’t learn this the hard way like I did!