Things to do in Las Vegas by your child’s age
We show ages as developmental stages because a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old need very different afternoons. Events store an age range; anything that overlaps your kids’ ages matches, and with several kids you see the union.
Stages
- Crawler (0–1)The first year is less about entertaining your baby and more about getting both of you out of the house. Las Vegas has a surprising amount built for exactly that — lapsit storytimes, sensory hours and shaded walks — most of it free and most of it over by nap time.
- Walker (1–3)A toddler needs somewhere to run that is fenced, somewhere to splash that is shallow, and a storytime that forgives wandering. Las Vegas has all three in every part of the valley — the trick is knowing which ones are built for this age and which just tolerate it.
- Explorer (3–5)Somewhere around three, outings stop being about containment and start being about curiosity. A preschooler can sit through a real story, finish a craft and walk a short trail asking questions the whole way. This page lists what Las Vegas offers that age in the next two weeks.
- Climber (5–8)Once school starts, the week has a shape: school until mid-afternoon, a few hours to burn energy, and weekends that need a plan. Las Vegas has a deep bench of free after-school and weekend programming for 5- to 8-year-olds — this page keeps the next two weeks of it in one place.
- Adventurer (8–12)Between eight and twelve, kids stop wanting to be entertained and start wanting to be good at something. The best things to do with tweens in Las Vegas are the ones with a real outcome: a summit, a working robot, a part in a play, a volunteer hour that counts.
- Teen (12+)Las Vegas is famously built for adults, which makes it oddly hard to find free things for teens to do that are not a mall. They exist — teen rooms at the libraries, open gym at rec centers, volunteer hours, trailheads twenty minutes from anywhere — and this page tracks what is on in the next two weeks.