Wow!

For the second year in a row, TripAdvisor has awarded Discovery Place KIDS-Huntersville with its Certificate of Excellence, placing our Museum in the top 10% of reviewed businesses worldwide.

According to TripAdvisor, this prestigious award “is given to businesses that consistently earn high ratings from TripAdvisor travelers.”

Thank you for choosing us for quality family fun time and sharing our passion for learning through play.

Your fantastic reviews mean the world to us. We look forward to sharing many more adventures in imagination, fun and learning with the Huntersville community and beyond!

Summer is almost here and there is so much fun to be had.

But if the thought of trying to beat the heat and beat the crowds already has you exhausted, we have one thing that might help…

Member Mornings!

After Memorial Day, we will open an hour early on Sundays, just for our Members.

It’s a great time to enjoy exclusive access to fun, play and adventure. Stop by early when the Museum is quieter to get some quality, air-conditioned play time with your kids.

This opportunity will be available every Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – noon, through September 1.

Not a Member? Click here to Discover the Benefits. Keep reading.

Crouched on a low stool in a narrow dark room, Creative Play Professional, Cortney Peterson hefts the mermaid over her head, stretching her right arm as high as it will go into the mouth of the puppet.

Colorful lights flash and a calypso beat plays. It’s showtime at the Town Hall Stage.

“You and me, into the sea. You and me, into the sea,” the mermaid sings as Cortney’s hand moves, opening and closing the puppet’s wide, lipsticked mouth and bobbing her head in time to the music.

With her left hand, Cortney waves a wooden rod tethered to the puppet’s left hand, making the mermaid gesture wildly with each high note.

Beside her, Coordinator Lauren Braun crouches on another stool, whispering cues and readying a cast of characters that includes a clown fish, hermit crab, octopus and Keep reading.

This month, we will be mixing the hues of the rainbow to create exciting art and science projects. Orange you ready?

Paint the town red as we investigate the stunning science of color, create brightly hued works of art and read colorful stories including Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni, Press Here by Herve Tullet and Red and Yellow’s Noisy Night by Josh Selig.

Did you know that color plays an important role in early childhood education? Color is one of the first ways we make distinctions among things we see. When children notice the green trees, a yellow banana or red socks, they are defining and organizing their world.

By learning to discern the similarities and differences between colors, children are using the same skills they need to recognize differences between l Keep reading.

Do your children love singing along to tunes on the radio? Are they the first ones to run to Town Hall when it is time for Big Fun at Discovery Place KIDS?

Then be sure to join us in May for two exciting new Summer Camps that focus on music!

For our littlest musicians (age 2) and their adult, Music Makers is filled with family-friendly musical activities in an engaging atmosphere. This Camp helps children develop early vocabulary and math skills through fun rhythms, nursery rhymes and music and movement.

For ages 3-4, Musical Literacy will explore some of our favorite stories in a whole new way by pairing them with musical instruments and singing. For example, folktales about drums will encourage children to play along with rhythm sticks and to create their own beats. Children in Keep reading.