Kid Focused Events

Mother's Day Hootenanny with Farmer Jason
Saturday, May 10
10 am - 12:30 pm
Music Starts 11 am
$10 per person
Children 2 and under FREE. 

Visitors can drop in to try their hand at one of country music’s signature instruments, the steel guitar. Whether visitors are beginners or seasoned musicians, everyone is sure to learn something new.

Many artists customize and personalize their instruments.

Many artists customize and personalize their instruments.

This annual show is hosted by The Middle Tennessee Daffodil Society, approved by the American Daffodil Society.

Concertgoers everywhere are trading bracelets with fellow fans and their favorite artists to symbolize friendship and unity.

Inspired by Country Music Hall of Fame member Dolly Parton’s East Tennessee roots, visitors can create their own artistic interpretation of the Appalachian Mountains using watercolors and crayons.

Country music has diverse roots, including in Irish culture. Join us as we welcome members of the Nashville Irish Step Dancers (NISD) for a lesson in traditional Irish dancing.

Country music has diverse roots, including in Irish culture. Join us as we welcome members of the Nashville Irish Step Dancers (NISD) for a lesson in traditional Irish dancing.

Whether they’re for function or fashion, sunglasses help complete an outfit. Some country artists even use them to create a signature look.

Music fans often wear buttons, bracelets and other accessories to show support for their favorite artists. Visitors can make their own button celebrating a country musician whose careers began in the 1990s, such as Tim McGraw or Shania Twain.

Participants can bow a fiddle, pluck a banjo and strum a ukulele. The Musical Instrument Petting Zoo offers budding musicians a chance to try new and familiar instruments.

Museum visitors can sing, dance and play as a family at the museum the first Saturday of each month.

First Steps, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing education and care for children with special needs and medical conditions alongside their typically developing peers, invites families from across the community to come together fo

Saturday, April 19 | 10 - 11:30 am
$25/ adult / child pair
$15 additional adult (ages 14+)
$12 additional child (13 and under)

Tickets to each class are sold separately

29th Annual Chukkers for Charity, a fundraiser benefiting Rochelle Center and Saddle Up!, has grown into a prestigious family-friendly polo event that attracts a lively, diverse audience.

2025 Program Schedule

Spring: Wednesdays, March 19 - April 23 Registration opens January 15
Cost: $165 adult / child pair | $125 additional child

Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Suitable for Ages 5+
Session I: Feathered Friends 10-11:30 am
Learn about the characteristics, habitats, adaptations and migrations of birds.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Suitable for Ages 5+
Session I: Feathered Friends 10-11:30 am
Learn about the characteristics, habitats, adaptations and migrations of birds.

Winter / Spring 2025 Homeschool Programs

Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Suitable for Ages 5+
Session I: Feathered Friends 10-11:30 am
Learn about the characteristics, habitats, adaptations and migrations of birds.

Over the course of the next year, the team at Bagelshop is partnering with a number of local Nashville chefs and restaurateurs from all different cultures and backgrounds to celebrate their cultural New Years through unique bagel sandwiches inspir

Markets for Makers is coming back to Nashville!

Join us for the fifth annual Get MOVE'n 5K benefitting MOVE Inclusive Dance, a local nonprofit dance studio for people of all abilities. All funds raised from the event directly impact the lives of our dancers and their families.

THERE IS ALWAYS FUN TO BE HAD AT NASHVILLE ZOO.

Saturday, April 19th, 2025 | 3:00PM
Watertown's community celebration at Three Forks Park!

Easter Bunny - Egg Hunts - Bounce Houses - Cupcake Booth - Easter Punch - Easter Egg Art - Petting Zoo - Face Painting

Join us for Kidsville at the Parthenon on select Saturdays each month from 11 to 11:45 AM. Families with children ages 12 and under can enter the Parthenon for free on select dates and times.

Friday, July 4, 2025 | 4:00 PM - Fireworks at Dusk
Theme: Stars, Stripes and Squirtguns

Open every day, year round, EXCEPT Thanksgiving day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.

Every Saturday 11-11:45 AM
Kidsville at the Parthenon is a FREE weekly program that combines storytelling, educational activities, arts & crafts, musicians and special guests & more!

April 26-27, 2025

Monday, Thursday, Friday, 9am to 3pm
Saturday, Sunday, 9am to 5pm