Looking for fun activities to do with your kids? Yelp recently unveiled its Most Saved Kids Activity List in Every State, to help families find fun activities to keep kids entertained and educated whether at home or on the road.
Yelp did a deep dive on the kids' activities that parents are eyeing and saving the most across every US state (and DC), including everything from children’s museums and trampoline parks to mini golf and play cafes. Yelp’s report also pulled the trends that parents and kids can’t get enough of, including “STEAM time,” indoor play spaces (increasing 61,420% in searches on Yelp), and activities that boost creativity.
A few notable trends:
“STEAM time” is the new screen time. The STEAM approach (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) blends hands-on experiments, interactive exhibits, and educational play to foster critical thinking and creativity. Families aren’t just looking for ways to burn energy — they’re saving places on Yelp that sneak in learning, too, like at Discovery Center of Idaho and Spark Imagination & Science Center in West Virginia.
Indoor play spaces are skyrocketing. From play cafes that cater to parents too, like Chirpy’s Play Cafe in Nebraska, to indoor trampoline parks like Shell We Bounce in Delaware, Yelp users are drawn to all-age and all-weather havens where little ones can run around while adults grab a coffee, answer a few emails, or chat with friends. Searches on Yelp for “indoor playcenter” skyrocketed 61,420% and “play cafe” searches went up 27%, comparing 2025 to 2024.
Creative spots are climbing the charts. More families are searching for places where kids can paint and create. On Yelp, searches for “children’s art classes” rose 34% and “kids arts and crafts” went up 32%. From painting pottery at Meg-Art Pottery Painting Studio & Espresso Bar in North Carolina to joining a handcraft workshop at The Craftsman & Apprentice in Colorado, craft-focused outings are now top of the bucket-list.
Planning a staycation, plotting a cross-country road trip, or just trying to survive a daycare-free Tuesday? To keep these spots handy, follow the Most Saved Kids Activity in Every State Collection in the Yelp app. Don’t forget to tap the bookmark icon on any business that catches your eye to start building your own family-fun adventure list.
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Did your favorite kids spot make it on the list? Let Yelp know on Instagram and TikTok by tagging @Yelp. Remember, you show your support by saving businesses to your Collections and leaving reviews — so keep adding to your Yelp Collections and share your experiences to help other families find new favorites.
How we did it: This is an all-time list of the most saved kids activity in every state, according to Yelp. They identified businesses in the Kids Activities category, then ranked those spots using a number of factors, including total number of saves and ratings of reviews. If a business with multiple locations appeared more than once, we included only one of its locations. When available, all businesses on this list have a passing health score as of Feb. 5, 2026.
To identify trends, they analyzed the frequency of the phrases mentioned per million searches on Yelp, comparing 2025 to 2024.
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