Best Party Place

TIE: Blazer Tag Adventure Center, Austin Children's Museum

Hmm, find new ways of artistic expression or blast away at your friends and loved ones? We can’t decide, either. The Austin Children’s Museum has inspired young minds for two decades now, and these days they offer boffo sleepovers with tantalizing themes like “Dinosaur Mania” and “Grossology!” For the wee-more aggressive set, Blazer Tag provides the ideal stomping ground – shouting and running aren’t merely tolerated, they’re encouraged. Both locales host birthday and group parties that can be intensely therapeutic – for kids and their parents.

Blazer Tag Adventure Center
1701 W. Ben White #1, 512/462-0202
www.blazertag.com

Thinkery
1830 Simond, 512/469-6200
www.thinkeryaustin.org