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Ohio has plenty of family-friendly activities to keep you busy after Christmas. Here are a few

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Ohio has plenty of family-friendly activities to keep you busy after Christmas. Here are a few

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Need some family fun during winter break and beyond? If you’ve exhausted all your at-home indoor activities and an Ohio winter day trip isn’t in the cards, here are some suggestions of fun places in Ohio for you and your family to enjoy, whether you’re in Columbus, Cincinnati or the Akron-Cleveland area.

Family activities in Columbus to keep you busy after Christmas

  • Breakout: An escape room where you look for clues around the room that will lead you to the end of the game
  • Topgolf: A golf entertainment center for everyone at any golf skill level. Players aim their golf balls at large targets worth different amounts of points, and the player with the most points in a bay wins
  • Scene 75: A family entertainment center with 12 attractions and over 200 arcade games. 
  • Activate: An active gaming facility where players jump, climb, and problem-solve between challenges 
  • Columbus Zoo Wildlights: Colorful holiday lights gleam all around the zoo, and many animal exhibits are open for viewing
  • Center of Science and Industry (COSI): A fun and interactive science, technology and industry center and all-ages museum named one of the best in the country by USA TODAY’s 10Best rankings
  • Skate Zone 71: Skating rink with an arcade and concessions 
  • Franklin Park Conservatory: Botanical gardens, featuring festive igloos and holiday lights during the winter season
  • Sandbox Virtual Reality: A virtual reality experience with full-body motion capture and high-quality haptics for an immersive experience

Cincinnati family-friendly activities to consider for winter break

  • Breakout: An escape room where you look for clues around the room that will lead you to the end of the game
  • Topgolf: A golf entertainment center for everyone at any golf skill level. Players aim their golf balls at large targets worth different amounts of points, and the player with the most points in a bay wins
  • Krohn Conservatory: Botanical gardens, featuring festive holiday lights during the winter season
  • Activate: An active gaming facility where players jump, climb, and problem-solve between challenges 
  • Cincinnati Museum Center: An all-day experience for all ages, with three museums in one, including a history museum, a children’s museum, and a museum of natural history
  • Nova Adventure Park: A family entertainment center with a trampoline park, arcade, rope course and many more activities for all ages
  • Contemporary Arts Center: A large art museum, including a creativity center for kids to explore
  • Cincinnati Zoo Festival of Lights: LED holiday lights display throughout the zoo, and many animal exhibits are open for viewing
  • Newport Aquarium: Vibrant aquarium with an array of aquatic wildlife, with the seasonal Scuba Santa’s Water Wonderland of holiday lights
  • Sandbox Virtual Reality: A virtual reality experience with full-body motion capture and high-quality haptics for an immersive experience

Holiday break family activities in Akron and Cleveland

  • Akron Christmas lights: The Wadsworth Griswold House brings a famous scene from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” to life with one of the best Christmas light displays in Ohio. Also, don’t miss the many daytime and nighttime Deck the Halls tours at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, the historic home of Goodyear Tire & Rubber co-founder F.A. Seiberling
  • Topgolf: A golf entertainment center for everyone at any golf skill level. Players aim their golf balls at large targets worth different amounts of points, and the player with the most points in a bay wins
  • Cleveland Metroparks Zoo: Winter lights display all throughout the zoo, and many animal exhibits are open for viewing
  • Escapology: An escape room in Solon where you look for clues around the room that will lead you to the end of the game
  • Greater Cleveland Aquarium: Cleveland’s aquarium has over 5,000 creatures and safe and fun ways to interact with the wildlife
  • Cleveland Botanical Garden: Botanical gardens, featuring a festive holiday lights display during the winter season
  • Sandbox Virtual Reality: A virtual reality experience with full-body motion capture and high-quality haptics for an immersive experience
  • Kringle’s Inventionasium: An interactive engineering activity center, turning your kids’ toy dreams to reality, with their seasonal Christmas experience with a real life Santa and his elves. 
  • Castle Noel: Keep the Christmas spirit alive at Castle Noel. The all-year Christmas museum in Medina features real props from your favorite Christmas movies and evolving exhibits
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