This Week at a Glance (December 29- January 2)
- dcstayathomeparent
- Dec 29, 2025
- 2 min read
Free and low-cost scheduled activities for babies and toddlers this week in DC
Programming Updates:
Petworth Library is closed for renovations until further notice
National Zoo Little Critters: Nature Play will be closed December 20 - January 2; Postal Museum Story and Play Time on hiatus until January 9
MONDAY (December 29)
(sorry to miss updating today!)
TUESDAY (December 30)
9:00am - 8:00pm: Lamond-Riggs Library Snowy Day Story Scavenger Hunt
9:00am - 8:00pm: Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library Winter Scavenger Hunt
10:30am - 11:30am: Anacostia Community Museum Little Artists, Big Stories
10:00am - 4:30pm: American Indian Museum ImagiNations Activity Center
10:30am: Folger Shakespeare Library Story Time (in the Great Hall)
10:30am - 11:30am: Cleveland Park Library Duplo Lego Play Time
10:30am - 11:30am: Parklands Turner Library Ello Hour: Reading Device Exploration
11:00am - 3:00pm: African Art Museum (Sublevel 2) Kwanzaa Creative Arts Workshops
1:00pm - 1:30pm: American Indian Museum Performance: Welcome to a Native Place
WEDNESDAY (December 31)
9:00am - 12:00pm: National Children’s Museum New Year's Eve special Countdown to Noon (hourly timed tickets required, $18.95/person, children under 1 and members free)
10:00am - 12:00pm: Hirshhorn Museum Storytime Studio (ticket required, on a first come first serve basis, two time slots: 10am or 11am)
10:00am - 1:00pm: Noon Yards Eve 2025 - family daytime New Years Eve celebration The Sundeck at The Yards DC
10:00am - 4:00pm: American History Spark!Lab
10:00am - 4:00pm: American History Wegmans Wonderplace
10:00am - 4:30pm: American Indian Museum ImagiNations Activity Center
10:30am: Folger Shakespeare Library Story Time (in the Great Hall)
10:30am - 11:30am: Anacostia Community Museum Little Artists, Big Stories
11:00am - 3:00pm: African Art Museum (Sublevel 2) Kwanzaa Creative Arts Workshops
11:30am - 12:30pm: Northeast Library Noon Year's Eve family daytime New Years Eve celebration
1:00pm - 1:30pm: American Indian Museum Performance: Welcome to a Native Place
2:30pm - 3:00pm: National Children’s Museum STEAM Story Time (hourly timed tickets required, $18.95/person, children under 1 and members free)
7:00pm: Sherman Circle Ball Drop family New Years Eve celebration
THURSDAY (January 1)
10:00am - 4:00pm: American History Spark!Lab
10:00am - 4:00pm: American History Wegmans Wonderplace
10:00am - 4:30pm: American Indian Museum ImagiNations Activity Center
10:30am - 11:30am: Anacostia Community Museum Little Artists, Big Stories
11:00am - 3:00pm: African Art Museum (Sublevel 2) Kwanzaa Creative Arts Workshops
11:30am: East City Bookshop Story Time
2:30pm - 3:00pm: National Children’s Museum Toddler Play Time: Tinker Tots (hourly timed tickets required, $18.95/person, children under 1 and members free)
FRIDAY (January 2)
9:00am - 9:30am: People’s Book Story Time
10:00am - 4:00pm: American History Spark!Lab
10:00am - 4:00pm: American History Wegmans Wonderplace
10:00am - 4:30pm: American Indian Museum ImagiNations Activity Center
10:30am - 11:00am: National Building Museum Story Time (free; register for museum admission)
10:30am - 11:00am: Shaw Library Heure Du Conte - Bilingual fun in French and English
10:30am - 11:00am: Solid State Books H Street Story Time
10:30am - 11:30am: Southwest Library Play Time
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