Fun Austin Experience Gifts For Kids

More and more I hear that parents are sick of the clutter and are looking to give experience gifts to their kids for Christmas. Here are some fun Austin experience gifts for kids. You could also try giving a Pogo Pass, which gets you discounts to dozens of local spots. Use the code AUSTINFUNFORKIDS for a 50% off discount!

Fun Austin Experience Gifts For Kids

Annual passes/ Memberships

• Sweet Eats Fruit Farm has an annual pass for $60/person, which pays for itself if you go at least 3 times. We love this farm- there’s so much to do! In addition, the pass also includes all their festivals and corn maze.

• Thinkery has a family membership for 4 people for $115. There are other levels depending on how many people you need to include.

• A Texas State Park Pass would be fun for the outdoorsy kid. Fourth graders and their families get in for free, but if you don’t have a fourth grader, this would be a fun way to encourage the whole family to get outside more.

• My kids love to climb and would get so much use out of a membership to Austin Bouldering Project or Crux Climbing Center.

Fun Austin Experience Gifts For Kids

• A membership to Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center would come in handy during Fortlandia. I think grandparents would love to gift this and make plans to take the kids there.

• Zach Theatre offers a membership option for unlimited theater and Georgetown Palace offers Flex-Passes.

• Austin Zoo membership for a year for the animal lover.

• Give them a membership to Urban Air for unlimited jump time!

• Get a monthly or annual pass to the Austin Aquarium.

• My 4 year old would LOVE to get a membership to his favorite place, Pikopye’s Town.

• Get a 5 or 10 pass from Little Land Play Gym (locations all over the Austin area).
• Typhoon Texas offers Season Passes (and will most likely have a Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal on them)!

Fun Austin Experience Gifts For Kids

One time Experience

Fun Austin Experience Gifts For Kids

• Take the kids to the COOLEST Museum they will ever experience: The Austin Museum of Ice Cream!

• Speaking of ice cream, take your kids on an “ice cream tour” of Austin and hit up all the best local ice cream shops like Lick, Amy’s, Dolce Neve, Cold Cookie Co, Jeni’s, The Yard, Tiny’s, Scoop & Score, and Austin Scoops. You could do this with any other dessert or food, like cookies, snow cones, or even pizza.

• Try a virtual experience at Sandbox VR. Groups as big as 6 can all play together and choose from one of their unique games for about an hour.

• Have a tea party at Rivery Coffeehouse in Georgetown. Melissa makes it extra special for you by having it all set up when you arrive. You get to choose 2 different flavors of tea and they bring out loads of homemade pastries and goodies to eat. It’s such a special and unique gift! My tea-loving 12 year old son LOVED this experience.

• Living in the “Live Music Capital of the World”, means that you have got to expose your kids to some live music, right?The Rock and Roll Playhouse will occasionally play at Mohawk Austin several times a year. It’s a fun way to expose your kids to music you love, like the Beatles!

• Get tickets for the Sherwood Forest Faire, which comes to town (just outside of Austin) in March.

Fun Austin Experience Gifts For Kids

Food Experience

• Rivery Coffeehouse in Georgetown has the cutest little afternoon tea party. I took my son for his 12th birthday and we had such a lovely time! Melissa takes extra good care of you and everything was delicious.

• The Melting Pot is a super fun family-friendly experience. We have only been for special occasions and like to dress up to go. The kids love the fun of dipping (honestly, who doesn’t?)

• Kura Sushi is a place that my kids beg us to take them to all the time (but we’ve only been twice). My 9 year old loves it so much, he even picked it for his Yes Day dinner over spring break. It’s a revolving sushi restaurant where you pick up what you want from the conveyor belt. They have other options for kids who don’t like sushi too (but really only the sushi comes around via belt).

One Time Experiences

• iFLY has a special gift offer of 4 flights shared by 2 people for $119.

• Lake Travis ZipLine has a gift giving option that allows the receiver to book their own day/time, valid for a 3 hour zipline tour with access to 5 different ziplines.

• Retro Boats Austin lets you take a retro boat out on Lady Bird Lake. Cruise around in style (they go slow and our boys love taking turns steering the boats).

Fun Austin Experience Gifts For Kids

• Austin Flyboard allows you to fly out on the water at Lake Travis. There isn’t an easy online gift giving option, so you would have to book this and pre-pay for them.

• K1 Speed gift cards are available for the race car fans or just kids who like to go fast!

• Pinballz Lake Creek has an indoor go-kart track, arcade games, laser tag, bumper cars, an escape room, and more! Plan a fun day out or purchase a gift card.

• Kalahari Resort has day passes available if you don’t want to spend the night. Take the kids for a day of water slides and splashing at America’s largest indoor waterpark.

• Tom Foolerys at Kalahari is fun all on its own, if you don’t want to add the waterpark option. Bowling, a ropes course, amusement park rides, arcade games, an escape room, laser tag, and more!

• Cidercade has all-you-can-play arcade games for only $10 admission! This would make such a fun White Elephant gift or Secret Santa gift where the gift limit is only $10. You could bump up the gift card amount if you’d like to treat them to one of their yummy pizzas (or dessert pizzas) as well.

• Drive-thru Safari tours always make everyone laugh!

• Explore a cave and gift a tour at Inner Space Cavern.

• Top Golf is a fun outing for the whole family.

• Indigo Play or Mt Playmore are great places to take the kids when it’s too rainy, cold, or hot to play outside.

Fun Austin Experience Gifts For Kids

One time Experience

• I took my little artist to a mommy and me date at Painting With A Twist one time where we painted coordinating Mom & Baby Panda paintings and they turned out so cute! This makes such a fun one-on-one date.

• Movie gift cards would be the perfect tween or teen gift. Kids don’t really hang out at the mall anymore these days like we did when I was 12, but I’m sure they’d love to go see a movie with their friends.

• My video game loving kids (and husband!) would freak out at getting passes to SXSW Gaming Expo. We went one year and they still talk about it. Still not sure if it’s going to happen in 2022, but worth looking into!

• Let them try an escape room that’s just for kids at the Scholarship.

• Dart ‘Em Up has so many special deals happening now. It would be so fun to gift your kid a fun afternoon of running around with a few of their friends here.

• Hang out at Splash Shack for the day, a smaller and less overwhelming version of Kalahari.

Fun Austin Experience Gifts For Kids

Classes or lessons

• Sur La Table occasionally offers cooking classes for kids, usually over summer or winter break. My kids love cooking and baking shows and would enjoy getting to learn from the pros!

• Foodie Kids is a great gift option for any food-loving aspiring chefs out there. They offer gift certificates for their classes.

• With so many options to use this life skill out here, canoe or kayak lessons with Paddle With Style would make such a fun experience gift.

• Golf lessons from Top Golf.

• Ninja classes from Austin Ninjas. In other words, training for American Ninja Warrior Junior!

• Skating lessons would pair nicely with a new pair of cute roller skates or roller blades.

• Rock stars, musicians, singers: gift them music lessons at School of Rock! They offer lessons and camps for guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, and vocals.

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