Check our handy map to help find Things to Do in Newcastle with Kids, with something for all ages including kiddie friendly museums, trampolines parks, karting, the best parks, walks & playgrounds, and lots more. More details in our A-Z below👇
Details are subject to change, please check directly with providers for the latest updates, opening times and booking requirements.
📌 The Killingworth Centre, Killingworth, Newcastle, NE12 6YT
Large soft play including separate two-tiered toddler frame with slide, ball pit and soft play shapes. Regular activities and events, including playgroup, character guest appearances and Friday evening discos.
👉 For more info, visit @aceplayce.co.uk
🎫 From £4-£5.50 per child (under 12 months free)
Kids Eat For £1, after 3pm Mon-Fri term-time only (normal admission applies)
📌 147 Salters Road, Gosforth, Newcastle, NE3 1DU
A family run paint your own pottery studio. You can capture baby prints or choose from a range of items such as mugs, plates, figurines or animals. Also offering occasional seasonal workshops and events. Drinks, snacks and treats are available.
👉 For more info, visit @cannycraftynewcastle
🎫 Starting from £5 (booking recommended on weekends/school holidays)
📌 Salters Road, Gosforth, Newcastle, NE3 1DU
Baby print keepsakes and sit-in pottery painting sessions, plus Canny Crafty takeaway kits to paint at home.
👉 For more info, visit @cannycraftynewcastle
📌 Old Church Hall, West Avenue, Gosforth, Newcastle, NE3 4ES
Pirate themed multi-tiered soft play with two separate areas; one for toddlers and babies and one for juniors. Free activities such as crafts, singing and dancing. Cafe serving lunches and treats.
For more info, visit @Captain Ted’s
🎫 From £4-£5 (under 1 year free with cafe purchase)
📌 The Gate, Newgate Street, Newcastle, NE1 5TG
‘Movies For Juniors’ are weekly discounted screenings of kids films on Saturday and Sunday mornings, from £2.50 or new releases from £5.50.
👉 For more info, visit @CineworldNewcastle
📌 Blandford Square, Newcastle, NE1 4JA
Exhibitions on local maritime, scientific and technological history, including Science Maze with interactive exhibitions, toddler play space and ‘play+invent’ space for older children. Plus, RAF Red Arrows Flight Simulator ride (min height 42″).
👉 For more info, visit @newcastlediscovery
🎫 Free (donations welcome). Charges apply for flight simulator & selected activities.
📌 Gosforth Park, Newcastle, NE3 5EP
Garden centre with compact multi-level soft play. Cafe serving breakfast, lunch and main meals.
👉 For more info, visit @Dobbies (Gosforth)
🎫 From £3.50 per child (discount for card holders)
📌 Exhibition Park, Claremont Road, Newcastle, NE2 4PZ
Park with grassland, woodland and lake, plus crazy golf, skate park, sports courts, water play trough and playground with sandpit and mini diggers. There’s a Military Vehicle Museum, a cafe and Wylam Brewery serving main meals. Behind the brewery is a miniature train track with free rides 11am-3pm first Sunday of each month (April-Sep plus seasonal specials).
👉 For more info, visit Newcastle City Council
🎫 Donations welcome for train rides, more info @TynesideSocietyMEE
📌 Benfield Business Park, Benfield Road, Newcastle, NE6 4NQ
Four-tiered soft play with cannonball arena, rubber ring slides, trampolines, go karts, bumper buggies and football court. Separate toddler area with ball pool, pedal cars, soft play shapes and role play town including vet, grocer, doctor and mini cinema.
👉 For more info, visit @FunShackNewcastle
🎫 From £1-£12.50 pp (siblings under 1 year free)
**Toddler discount, weekdays 10am–3.30pm: £8.50 (term time).
**Kids Eat Free, after 3pm Mon-Fri term-time only (online bookings only, normal admission applies).
📌 Gosforth, Newcastle, NE3 3HD
Charity-run theatre, music venue, cinema and community hub, with fully licensed cafe bar. A fringe arts venue run by Liberdade Community Development Trust, a charity which gives people with learning disabilities opportunities in the arts and their community.
👉 For more info, visit @gocivtheatre
📌 Jesmond, Newcastle, NE7 7DA
Woodland stretching over three kilometres with streams, waterfalls and a network of paths and bridges. Some parts of the stream are suitable for paddling. There’s a visitors centre, café and outdoor play area with slides and nest swing. Plus ‘Pet’s Corner’ including pigs, goats, sheep, rabbits and birds.
👉 For more info, visit @urbangreenncl
🎫 Free, donations welcome.
📌 New Bridge Street, Newcastle, NE1 8AG
Art and sculpture galleries, including a play space for toddlers with toys, books and dress-up, and weekly pre-school workshops with gallery exploration, practical art activity and story time (term-time only, booking required). Also regular Saturday art classes for 10-15 years (booking required). Cafe serving hot and cold meals.
For more info, visit @laingartgallery
🎫 Free, donations welcome
📌 Life Science Centre, Times Square, Newcastle, NE1 4EP
Life is an amazing science centre with hands-on exhibitions and a changing programme of activities throughout the year. Highlights include: Space Zone, Live Theatre Shows, Making Studios, Experiment Zone, Under 7s Play Zone, the biggest Planetarium in the north, and the WOW Zone with dramatic demonstrations and brain teasing exhibits.
👉 For more info, visit @scienceatlife
🎫 From £10-£14.25 pp (age 2 and under free)
Some age restrictions apply. See website for details
📌 The Gate, Newcastle, NE1 5RZ
Three space-themed courses, with atmospheric surroundings including a secret airship hangar and a crash landing on the moon. Each course has 9 holes designed to suit all ages and abilities. Plus electro-darts, ping pong, pool and restaurant & bar.
👉 For more info, visit @MrMulligansNewcastle
🎫 From £9 pp | Family £34.50
📌 Rear 24 Benton Road, Newcastle, NE7 7DT
Large multi-tiered soft play with four lane slide and ball cannons. Separate toddler soft play and toys. Plus race car track, mini climbing wall, football court, dance pads, games consoles and regular craft activities. Cafe serving lunch and main meals.
👉 For more info, visit @NewAdventureLands
🎫 From £4.25 – £5.95 per child (under 1 year free)
Play & Eat, Mon – Thurs 3pm – 5.50pm: £6.95
📌 Grange Road, Newcastle, NE15 8ND
Three-tiered soft play including cargo net, slide and two ball pools. Cafe serving lunch at selected times: Monday/Tuesday: 4pm-7pm, weekend: 9am-3pm.
👉 For more info, visit @newburnactivity
🎫 From £3.30 per child (discount for cardholders)
📌 St Marks Church, Shields Rd, Newcastle, NE6 2UQ
Taster sessions, introductory courses and instruction in a unique listed building, providing a spectacular climbing environment with over 1,200sqm of climbing walls for roped climbing, lead wall and bouldering, from novice to expert level.
👉 For more info, visit @newcastleclimbingcentre
🎫 From £7.50pp (discounts with various membership/passes)
Ages 5+
📌 100 Grey Street, Newcastle, NE1 6BR
Packed program with family-friendly shows, plus weekly drama workshops and school holiday workshops for young people.
👉 For more info, visit @NewcastleTheatreRoyal
📌 Newcastle, NE1 7RH
A diverse programme of productions, showcasing local independent theatre companies and smaller independent artists through to large-scale commercial producers.
👉 For more info, visit @Northern Stage
📌 Ouseburn, Newcastle, NE1 2PA
A not-for-profit charity with pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs, lizards and tortoises, and animal feeding and petting. Plus a garden and orchard and a cafe serving homemade delights.
👉 For more info, visit @ouseburnfarm
🎫 Free, donations welcome.
📌 High Gosforth Park, Newcastle, NE3 5HQ
Set on the grounds of High Gosforth Park, offering a range of golfing facilities to cater for any age and ability. There is a 28 bay driving range, an 18 hole golf course and an 18 hole mini-golf course suitable for ages 3+.
👉 For more info, visit @GolfForAll
🎫 From £4pp | Family mini-golf from £15
Ages 3+
📌 Newcastle, NE6 5QF
One of the largest and oldest established community theatre companies in the country, staging up to fourteen productions a year.
👉 For more info, visit @People’s Theatre
📌 North Tyne Industrial Estate, Whitley Rd, Benton, Newcastle, NE12 9SZ
Multilevel soft play and go cart track, plus separate toddler soft play and baby area with soft play shapes. Also dress up and role play toys. Regular baby/toddler activities included in entry price. Cafe serving breakfast, lunch and main meals.
👉 For more info, visit @Round The Twist Newcastle
🎫 From £1-£8.95 per child (siblings under 1 free)
📌 30 Lime Street, Newcastle, NE1 2PQ
The National Centre for Children’s Books, with specialist children’s bookshop, cafe, regular family events and free interactive exhibitions and galleries celebrating popular authors and illustrators past and present,
👉 For more info, visit @7Stories
🎫 Free entry to galleries and bookshop (charges apply for special workshops & events)
📌 Strawberry Place Newcastle. NE1 4ST
Range of tours available. The Classic Tour gives you deeper understanding of the club and its proud heritage. In the Rooftop Tour ascend to a walkway 150ft above the ground for panoramic views.
👉 For more info, visit @StJamesParkNE1
🎫 From £8-£15 pp
additional supplement for matchday tours
📌 Scotswood Road, Newcastle, NE15 6UX
With two multi-level race tracks, each accommodating over 16 karts at a time, you can race against friends and friends. TeamSport’s Cadet Karts are especially designed to be safe and comfortable for kids from 8 years.
👉 For more info, visit @TeamSport Karting (Newcastle upon Tyne)
🎫 From £33pp
Age 8+ (also required to have an inside leg measurement of at least 25 inches)
📌 Barras Bridge, Newcastle, NE2 4PT
Interactive displays on Natural Science, Living Planet, World Culture, Archaeology and Geology, with full sized replica T-rex skeleton and wide range of animals and sea creatures. Plus, a Planetarium and regular family workshops and events.
👉 For more info, visit @greatnorthmuseum
🎫 Free (donations welcome). Charges apply for Planetarium.
📌 Red House Farm JFC, Kingston Park Road, Gosforth, Newcastle, NE3 2HY
A social enterprise play cafe with toys, crafts, messy play, sensory play, role play and songs. Plus a designated baby area and outside space. Serving snacks and treats.#
For more info, visit @theowltreechildrenscafe
🎫 From £1.50-£3.50 per child (sibling discounts)
📌 81 Fern Avenue, Newcastle, NE2 2RA
Pottery painting and making experience. Paint a piece of pottery, or learn to make a pot on the potters wheel.
👉 For more info, visit @The Pottery Experience
📌 Grange Road, Newburn, Newcastle, NE15 8ND
Around 60 hectares of farmland, woodland and grassland along the River Tyne, with walking trails and the Wylam Waggonway cycling trail. Riverside picnic area and children’s play area with separate toddler and junior areas. Nearby is Hedley’s Coffee Shop for snacks and treats, and the Keelman Pub serving main meals.
👉 For more info, visit Newcastle City Council
📌10 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle, NE1 6QG
‘Bringing in Baby’ screenings alternate Thursdays at 11:30am, new releases with the lights up and sound down for the comfort of youngsters under two years. ‘Children’s Film Club’ every Saturday morning, tickets are £6pp and children receive a lolly and entry into a prize raffle. Plus a cafe with main dishes, snacks and desserts.
👉 For more info, visit @tynesidecinema
📌 Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle, NE1 2PQ
Guided tours of the Victoria Tunnel, used to transport coal under the city during the 1800s then converted into an air raid shelter during World War 2. Learn what colliery life was like and listen to ghostly tales.
👉 For more info, visit @VictoriaTunnelTours
🎫 From £5-£12 pp
Suitable for ages 7+
