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11 Great Austin Spots for a Toddler Birthday Party

April 18, 2023 by Austin With Kids

Toddlers are so much fun to celebrate! They have big feelings, but that includes big feelings of happiness.

If you’ve got a toddler having a birthday, you should definitely throw a party — not just for them but for you too. You’ve survived babyhood and are surviving toddlerhood!

Since a toddler probably won’t remember their birthday party, keeping it simple is perfect. You want a place where the kids will have fun and where grown-ups can supervise without worrying too much. I’ve got some awesome recommendations for toddler birthday parties around Austin.

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Turf Areas

Turf is easy on little ones’ feet and minimizes what they can find to put in their mouths! These spots are also largely fenced in, so it’s easy to keep an eye on everybody.

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Littlefield’s

Central Austin

Not only is this a fun spot for toddlers and their guests, it’s also so pretty — the photos will be so cute. There’s a big turf area with a hill/tunnel, blocks, and a chalk board, and the patio is beautiful. You can contact them about booking a private event or just have someone go early to grab a spot!

Worth noting: the parking lot is small and the parking options otherwise are street parking on the residential street. There is a bathroom; it’s across the parking lot in the corner of the apartment buildings. You may need to ask for a code.

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Easy Tiger South

South Austin

This fenced-in turf spot on South Lamar is great for toddlers and their parents! Grab a table or two in the outdoor area by the turf and let the kids run free. There’s a tunnel and normally a few toys there.

Grown-ups can have beer or coffee, everyone can order a meal or a snack, and they offer tons of pastries and breads baked on site if you need more sweet things besides cake!

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The Hive

South Austin

Your toddler can run around the turf area at The Hive for hours! There are a bunch of small play houses and ride-on toys there. Not to mention the two-story play house with slides and the saucer swing that always seems to attract all the kids.

Coffee, beer, and food available here as well!

Indoors

If you don’t want to worry about weather (coming up with a bad-weather Plan B can add extra stress), choosing an indoor venue is ideal. There are lots of fun indoor play places around Austin that are great for toddlers.

(And remember: there’s nothing wrong with holding a birthday party at your house! If that’s simpler and more budget-friendly for you, do it! Some of the best parties are at home with friends and family.)

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Indigo Play

North Austin

Indigo Play has a huge 3-story playscape for bigger kids, but it also has several areas perfect for babies and toddlers. There’s a big soft play section where big kids aren’t supposed to go, a pretend town area and a sensory room.

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Almost Grown

Dripping Springs

This little cafe was made for small kids! It has little slides, lots of toys, soft blocks and lots of pretend play. Go shopping at the grocery store, take it home to your kitchen to cook it, head to the doctor, or build yourself a house.

There are lots of tables for the grown-ups to sit and chat while the kids have fun.

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Pikopye’s Town

South Austin or Lakeway

There are two locations of this adorable pretend town. The one in South Austin is more of a typical main street theme, with fire station, cafe, construction site, hair salon, and more. The one in Lakeway has a mountain town theme, with a camper trailer, fishing spot, grocery store, horses to ride, and lots of other fun areas.

Pikopye’s Town has lots of space for parents to mingle.

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Family Barn

Georgetown

This little play space/coffee shop is perfect for little ones — the play area is fenced in but parent can see most of the space from where they sit and relax! There are spots for imaginary play (grocery, doctor’s office, fire station), plus lots of ride-on toys, a ball pit and slide, and a little bounce house perfect for toddlers.

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Little Land

Several locations

You can’t go wrong with one of the Little Lands around town! They are made for small kids to climb, explore, and play freely. While they all vary a little bit, you’ll typically find equipment for swinging, balancing, building, and just being a toddler.

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Play Street Museum

South Austin

Play Street Museum opened its first location in Austin this year, and it is so cute for little kids. Toddlers can wander around and pretend in the grocery store, doctor’s office, vet, house, and cafe. There’s also a big train table, craft area, fun recycling truck and dinosaur toys.

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Brentwood Social House

North Central Austin

Brentwood Social House’s fenced-in backyard makes it a fun and easy spot to host a party. There’s a boat playground that both small and big kids love, and lots of tables spread around for grown-ups to hang out.

You can get coffee, canned beer and yummy food here.

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Meanwhile

East Austin

If you’ve been to Meanwhile Brewing, you know that people LOVE it as a spot to host a toddler birthday party. It’s fun for parents and kids alike. Toddlers will like the tree house, slide and balance beam; parents will like the shade, food trucks and coffee and drink options!

Get there when it opens to grab your favorite table and hang some decorations!

I hope this helped you find the perfect spot for your little one’s birthday party (or provided some inspiration). Whatever place you choose, everyone will have a great time!

Want more ideas for where to take your toddlers? Check out all the restaurants with playgrounds or the pizza places with play areas.

Festive menu: what to cook for a child’s birthday – Parents.ru

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All parents ask themselves this question every year. Many even attach more importance to this than to the rest of the holiday, but in vain!

In fact, organizing a children’s table is not difficult, you just need to take into account some points and consult with the parents of the children invited. What can be done and how?

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Thinking through the menu for the children’s table, you need to understand that food for kids should be different from what is usually prepared for an adult holiday. First of all, food should be pleasing to the eye and be healthy.

Also:

• Do not use exotic products.

• dishes should not be spicy, fatty, too salty or sweet, smoked.

• ingredients should be familiar to children of this age.

• avoid foods that are considered to be allergens. Or find out in advance from all parents if the invited kids have any allergies to any products.

• do not serve foods with bones or hard skins for young children (grapes, fish, berries, etc.)

• avoid harmful carbonated or colored drinks.

• completely refuse harmful sauces (ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, etc.)

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The appearance of the festive table is just as important as the rest of the decoration of the space. True, it is not necessary to try to embody complex ideas, it is enough to use bright colors.

So, for a children’s feast, you may need:

• tablecloth

• napkins

• straws (may be decorated with tinsel, etc.)

• plates (preferably paper ones)

• canape sticks

• tableware

• fondue

• aprons

Don’t reinvent the wheel when planning menus – children often don’t like or remain indifferent to the combination of many ingredients . A simple cake with condensed milk cream is dearer to them than a complex work of culinary art with nuts, dried apricots, prunes and layers of a dozen types of creams. But at the same time, the simplest cake can be interestingly decorated, which will delight the baby and his guests.

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Light snack

Children’s party buffet is a good option, especially for the first half of the event. It all depends on whether you plan to serve hot dishes or just appetizers and dessert. As for snacks, they should be in the form of small portions that would be easy to take and eat between games. For example:

• Sandwiches. Even the most ordinary sandwiches can be served in their original form. To do this, it is enough to cut figures out of all its constituent ingredients using cookie cutters. And then you just need to fold and pierce with a canapé stick or wooden skewers. Products that can be used: bread (you can dry it a little in advance, but not to have a very hard crust), cucumbers, boiled meat, cheese, tomatoes, green salad, egg, sweet pepper, cottage cheese with herbs, potatoes, carrots, beets.

• Fruit. They, like sandwiches, can be served on canapé sticks. There are two options: either just plant pieces of fruit or pre-cut figures from them. Fruits on sticks can simply be laid out on a plate, forming a circle, or sticking them into a piece of watermelon, melon, pear, etc. So, you can make a fruit hedgehog from a pear-shaped base. It is enough just to peel the “muzzle” (where the sharp end is) from the skin, insert a carnation instead of an eye, and black grapes instead of a nose. Where the peel is not peeled, stick a fruit canape (these will be needles). You can also arrange them in multi-colored plastic cups (or paper). A more complex option is a fruit figurine made on a plate. It will be easy to make a beautiful butterfly, for example. True, in this case, it will be more difficult for children to eat it.

• Salad. For convenience, it is better to arrange salads in edible baskets, which you can make yourself from dough or buy in any supermarket. You can also use cucumbers instead of tartlets. You need to take a large cucumber, cut it lengthwise into two parts, and then clean out the pulp. Put salad in it. And from above, in order to turn all this into a ship, you need to stick a stick on which, as a sail, the same cucumber will be planted. To do this, cut the cucumber into thin long slices and put it on a skewer from two edges. Like fruits, salad can be served in transparent glasses, laying them out in layers, so it will be more effective. Ingredients that can be used: cucumber, sour cream, meat, potatoes, lettuce, greens, eggs, tomatoes, corn, green peas, beans, rice, sweet peppers, beets, carrots, cheese, shrimp.

Starters can be prepared ahead of time or made part of the party with a cooking game competition.

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Warm dishes

If you still decide to feed your little guests with warm food, then it can also be served, like snacks, without cutlery.

• Patties. All children love pies, especially puff pastries. They are quite easy to prepare, and besides, they are also satisfying. They can be molded into figurines or animals using special cookie cutters. Only for children you need to make smaller pies than for adults. What can be put in them: cheese, meat, potatoes, eggs, onions, salted cottage cheese with herbs, cabbage.

• Baskets. Dough tarts are ideal for both cold and hot appetizers. Warm dishes are best cooked at the same time together in a basket. To do this, it is better to take cupcake molds, lay out a circle of rolled dough in it and put your preferred products there. Ingredients that can be put: potatoes, tomatoes, meat, shrimp, zucchini, corn, beans, cheese, onions, sweet peppers, eggs.

• Pizza. A good dish for a children’s party will be a mini-pizza, which children can also cook themselves, as part of a holiday and competition. To do this, it is not necessary to make the dough yourself, you can buy ready-made and cut out circles from it using any cup. Also, funny faces can be laid out from the products, and baked on each of them. Ingredients that can be put on pizza: meat, tomatoes, mushrooms, meat, cheese, sweet peppers, beans, corn, green peas.

• Barbecue. This is the conventional name for pieces of meat that, after cooking (steamed, baked, fried), must be planted on a small wooden skewer. You can also make them with vegetables. Ingredients: meat, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, zucchini.

• Pasta pizza. If you want something original, then we offer you to cook pizza from pasta, in the form of “nests”. First you need to gently boil them so that they retain their shape. Then you need to put them on a baking sheet, put the ingredients (vegetables, meat, etc.) on top, and sprinkle grated cheese on top. You can also fill it with an egg, then such a “nest” will better retain its shape.

• Pancakes. A Russian dish that can be served not only with sour cream, jam or honey, but also with stuffing. For kids, it is better to serve them in the form of bags in which you can put meat, vegetables, cottage cheese, etc.

• Figures. You can make funny animal figurines out of rice or buckwheat. Meat (small meatballs) and vegetables can also participate in this. So you can sculpt animal figures or depict the whole picture. However, in this case, you will have to lay out an edible image on each plate, for each baby separately.

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And compote?

No holiday is complete without drinks. The only question is what would be so interesting and useful to bring to the table.

For younger children, it is better to stock up on small packaged juices. For older children, you can make a mix of freshly squeezed juice. And also make homemade lemonade or compote, serving them in a beautiful decanter or glasses. If you are worried that children might spill the drink, then buy special plastic transparent glasses with a rounded lid where a straw is inserted. You can paint them or stick stickers on them.

Fruit milkshakes are just as popular at children’s birthday parties as juices. But jelly may have gone out of fashion, but it will also be appropriate, although not everyone may like it. Dessert is best served with warm tea rather than cold drinks. Many will also prefer warm cocoa with milk.

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Sweet moment

Where there are children, there is always a sea of ​​sweets. This is especially true for children’s celebrations. In addition to the birthday cake, there are always other goodies at such events. Since purchased sweets do not have useful properties, we suggest that you cook them yourself. The main thing is that they are tasty and beautiful.

• Homemade “candies”. It is necessary to soften a bar of dark chocolate in a water bath, and then mix it with nuts, dried fruits and 1/3 can of condensed milk, you still need to add a small piece of butter. Then pour the resulting mass into a small mold and place in the refrigerator for 10 minutes, and then in the freezer for an hour. After that, you just need to cut into pieces and you can serve.

• Ice cream. All children will appreciate this dessert. However, you can not take the ice cream itself, but take frozen yogurt. It will be much more useful, and the taste is not particularly different. So that each guest can make his own version of dessert for himself, you need to buy waffle cones and cups, or just creamers. And also spread out “fillers” in various cups or decorative jars, which everyone will then add to their cup of ice cream. It can be: cookies, chocolate, coconut, fruit pieces, marmalade, nuts, berries. Alternatively, you can simply layer each cup with yogurt, fruit, liver, cereal, marmalade, and chocolate.

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• Jelly mousse. Children will definitely like this dessert. It is quite light and useful. It can be done with different layers. For example: Boil 200 ml of milk, pour into a deep cup, add 1 tbsp. powdered sugar and 2 tbsp. instant gelatin. Then you need to beat everything until foam is formed. Take a banana and grate it. Pour milk into 2 cups. Add a banana to one of them and beat. In the second, put the strawberries and beat. Take 2 bowls and fill the middle of the banana and strawberry mass in different bowls. Place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to set the jelly. Remove the bowls from the refrigerator and top up with the remaining half. Only from above it is necessary to fill in layers of a different taste and color. And put it back in the fridge. When the jelly hardens, you can decorate it with berries, whipped cream, etc.

• Cookies. All children love cookies, and making them is a pleasure. It is enough to make the dough, roll it out, cut out figures from it and bake. And then melt the chocolate in a water bath and dip the cookies there. With the help of adults, children will be able to make their own dessert during the holiday. To make cookies you will need: 250 g flour, 100 g sugar and butter, 10 g baking powder for dough, 3-4 tbsp. warm water, a pinch of salt. Put the softened butter and sugar in a bowl, add warm water (3-4 tablespoons for soft dough kneading). Then mix everything and leave for 10 minutes, covering it with a towel. Form a flat pancake from the dough and cut out figures from it using cookie cutters. Lay on a baking sheet covered with parchment (you can grease a little with sunflower oil), leave for 10-15 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees, until browning.

• Chocolate Holiday. Many children love chocolate. Therefore, if no one from the parents is against it, you can make a chocolate holiday. To do this, you need a chocolate fountain. But if your budget does not include such expenses, then just put fondue on the table. Thanks to this invention of mankind, chocolate can be kept liquid and warm throughout the entire celebration. Plus, we advise you to also arrange the sprinkles, which the children can sprinkle on their chocolate dessert. What can be dipped in chocolate: kiwi, bananas, apples, pears, pineapples, marshmallows, cookies, etc. What can serve as sprinkles: air flakes, crushed cookies, pastry sprinkles.

• Wafers. If you have a waffle iron at home, then you don’t have to rack your brains with a dessert for a children’s birthday. Homemade waffles always taste better than store-bought ones. You only need to prepare the dough and arrange bowls with yogurt, chocolate, condensed milk, sweet cottage cheese or jam to spread them on waffles. Waffle dough: Take 5 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 200 g butter and 1 cup flour. Whisk eggs with sugar. Melt the butter, and then mix it with the egg mixture and flour, mix. You have the dough for making waffles in a waffle iron.

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Choosing a present for a 2 year old baby’s birthday

• How to choose a present for a 2 year old child
• Gift ideas for a 2 year old child
  • Movable toys 90 034
  • Children’s musical instruments
  • Wooden toys
  • Educational cube
  • Kids wall stickers
  • Interactive toys
  • Rocking toys
  • Books
  • DIY kit
  • Gift card
• Conclusion
• Questions
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How to choose a gift for a 2-year-old child

By the age of two, a child can usually repeat almost any sounds he has heard, knows several dozen words and gradually learns to put them into sentences. The kid can walk, run, and every day he jumps faster and more often. Physical fitness allows him to overcome various obstacles, climb and descend stairs, and walk backwards.

Two-year-olds show new emotions but still cannot fully cope with them. They love to fool around and be the center of attention, but they still don’t like to share toys. After the second birthday, the child knows exactly what he likes and what he wants to play, so the gift chosen should match his interests.

Gift Ideas for a 2-Year-Old Child

For a two-year-old child, choose a toy that will not only give him pleasure, but also support physical and intellectual development. It is also important that the gift matches their needs and skills.

A game that is too difficult can upset him, and a game that is too simple can get boring quickly. Toddlers as young as 2 years old can already match shapes and colors, create different designs from materials at hand, and draw simple shapes such as circles and lines. However, most of all they like outdoor games – running, jumping and climbing, while exploring their surroundings. Let’s take a look at a few gift ideas:

Movable toys

As already mentioned, children at this age are very mobile, so it’s a good idea to bet on mobile toys that can be pulled, pushed and ridden. It can be, for example, a children’s exercise bike, on which a child can learn to maintain balance and pedal, which is very useful in terms of developing coordination and motor skills. An interesting option would also be a wheelchair in which the baby can transport his favorite toys.

Children’s musical instruments

Musical instruments for children are divided into two types: those that play pre-prepared melodies when a certain button or key is pressed, and those that involve the child himself in the process of creating music. The latter are much better in terms of child development. They not only develop musical sensitivity, but also train the ability to use both hands at the same time and improve eye-hand coordination.

It is important that the musical instruments chosen for children make pleasant sounds (especially for parents who will have to listen to them all day long) and be visually appealing.

There are many varieties of such instruments: small synthesizers, guitars, cymbals and drums, and even brass instruments.

Wooden toys

Whoever coined the phrase “hard childhood, wooden toys” would be very surprised if he saw a range of wooden products in modern children’s stores. Sorters, constructors, blocks and puzzles made of wood are durable and suitable for a child of any age. Their particular advantage is safety.

Colored with non-toxic paints, they will not harm your baby even if he puts them in his mouth. In addition, their edges are carefully processed, so that the child will not plant a splinter. Wooden toys themselves are quite simple, so they will require children to use their imagination, which is very good for their development.

Educational Cube

This is one of those toys that completely captivates the child, making him come back to it regularly, because it is enough to turn the cube to make it completely new. Educational cubes in an easy and interesting form help develop imagination, fine motor skills, cause-and-effect relationships and ingenuity. For a two-year-old child, toys that have different elements arranged by color, shape or size are best suited.

Children’s wall stickers

Another original gift for a two-year-old child is wall stickers, which are not only a decor, but also a great creative toy. The child will like the new decoration of his room, where he can have a great time, and his parents will be glad that the extra toy will not lie on the floor.

The advantage of a wall sticker is that it can be applied and removed many times. Thanks to this, you can move it to different places in the room, for example, if you want to rearrange it or adjust its height to the height of a growing child.

Interactive toys

When choosing a gift for a 2-year-old child, it is worth trying to bet on interactive toys, like talking teddy bears or walking soldiers. Before making a purchase, you should pay attention to whether the chosen toy is suitable for the personality and development of the child, because some children will be happy with a big singing lion, while others may be frightened.

It is also very important that the toy is safe, that is, it should not have sharp edges or small parts that a child can swallow. The best toys for a two year old are those that make different sounds or light up when a button is pressed. However, it is worth making sure in advance that the sounds are not too loud and annoying. Not only for the child, but even more so for the parents.

A two-year-old child will definitely drop a toy more than once, which means that cheap products with a thin body will not last long. So do not save and try to choose high-quality, impact-resistant models.

Rocking toys

Absolutely all babies love to rock because it reminds them of the time when they rocked in their mother’s belly. Rhythmic movements back and forth not only amuse, but also soothe the baby. In addition, rocking contributes to the formation of connections between the neurons of the brain, which increases the intellectual potential of the child. Therefore, choosing a rocking toy as a gift for a two-year-old is a great option.

You can, for example, choose a classic wooden horse, or you can choose modern soft rocking chairs that make different sounds when swinging. Regardless of which model you choose, make sure it is stable enough and is the right height for your child.

Books

Regardless of age, a book is the best present, especially for a child who needs to develop his imagination. At this age, children already move their arms very effectively, so they can easily turn pages without your participation.

Books for a 2 year old should tell simple stories, preferably in rhyme, and have bright, colorful illustrations. So that the baby does not tear the paper, it is better to buy books with thick, cardboard pages. Good children’s books are specially developed by psychologists to emphasize various elements: speech development, learning to count, recognition of shapes and colors, etc.

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Demidov Dmitry Anatolyevich

Pediatrician, work experience – more than 15 years

Children at this age are very easily immersed in stories, so they will probably enjoy books that encourage them to count objects in a picture or answer questions. You can also choose from books that feature moving elements, or multi-part series, each featuring a different adventure for your favorite character.

DIY set

Playing with tools that look like daddy’s will bring a lot of joy to the child and will also support his development in many areas. First of all, such toys work out fine motor skills, because tightening screws requires concentration, patience and accuracy from the child. They also develop the creativity of the baby and allow him to come up with the paths to follow.

This set is perfect for acting out scenes that mimic situations that take place in a real workshop, which is great for stimulating the child’s imagination. He can, for example, try to independently construct some object from the elements included in the set, or disassemble an already finished object. In an easy game form, the child learns new things. And finally, such toys help to teach the baby to put things in their place after the game.

Gift card

A good option if you have stopped at the stage of choosing a gift is to purchase a gift card. If you are not sure what the child needs at the moment, or you are afraid that other guests invited to the birthday party will buy exactly the same gift, then instead of taking risks, it is better to simply take a card for a certain amount.

On the occasion of his birthday, the child will receive many gifts at once, after some time his interests will naturally change, and then the parents will be able to choose the right toy for him. So you will not only protect yourself from risk, but also prolong the pleasure of celebrating a birthday for your baby.

Conclusion

The right gift is one that stimulates your baby’s imagination and creativity: building, drawing, word games, toys with letters and numbers that develop fine motor skills – all this will be very interesting and useful for a two-year-old baby.

Questions

Why is it so important to choose educational toys? Does it matter for a two-year-old child what to play with?

There are two arguments in favor of educational toys at once: Firstly, they are simply more interesting for the baby.