Best for toddlers through early elementary at a small farm-themed play museum you reserve ahead.

Children's MuseumPretend Play AreaPaintingPotteryPaint Your Own PotteryJewelry Making
Birthday PartiesLocally-Owned
Facility accessIndoorBy appointmentDrop-inYear-round
(817) 533-7660
southlakeinfo@playstreetmuseum.com
2001 W Southlake Blvd STE #127, Southlake, TX 76092
Mon · 8:30AM – 6PM
Monday8:30AM – 6PM
Tuesday8:30AM – 6PM
Wednesday8:30AM – 6PM
Thursday8:30AM – 6PM
Friday8:30AM – 6PM
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
$16

$16

  • Open-play admission is $16.00 per child ages 1–8; younger and older children are free when accompanied by a paying sibling (home page FAQ).
  • Birthday-party packages: Weekday Party from $375 (Mon–Thu), Do-It-Yourself $425 (private use of the museum for 1½ hours), Sweet & Simple $695, and Sit Back & Relax $995 — each covering up to 20 children.
  • Each additional child is $15–$25 depending on the package, with a $100 large-party fee if more than 25 children attend; a party in the 4:30–6:00 slot can be extended 30 minutes for $100.
  • A 5-Visit Play Pass is $60 (Southlake location only).
  • A $200 + tax non-refundable deposit holds the date.
Parties from $375 to $995 · 20 guests · 1.5 hours
PackagePriceIncludes
Do-It-Yourself$42520 guests, $15 each extra · 1.5 hr · Whole venue
Sweet & Simple$69520 guests, $20 each extra · 1.5 hr · Whole venue
Sit Back & Relax$99520 guests, $25 each extra · 1.5 hr · Whole venue
Weekday Partyfrom $37520 guests, $15 each extra · 1.5 hr · Whole venue

Outside food allowed.

Prices as of Oct 2026, from the business. Confirm with them when you book.

Open play is by reservation, Monday–Friday only, in five timed sessions a day:

Schedule

Open play is by reservation, Monday–Friday only, in five timed sessions a day:

  • 8:30–10:00
  • 10:30–12:00
  • 12:30–2:00
  • 2:30–4:00
  • 4:30–6:00

The site directs families to book a slot online. Weekend playtime is also offered, but its slots change week to week and are posted in the museum's online booking calendar and on its Facebook page. Weekends also carry a separate special-events calendar (pottery and canvas painting, ocean exploration, dino digs) plus a Night at the Museum aimed at working parents, each booked as its own event. For the posted playtime sessions, the museum's own posts invite families to reserve ahead or drop in when space allows. Birthday parties and school field trips are also booked separately. Confirm current session times and event dates on the museum calendar when you reserve.

Our take

Play Street Museum is a small children's museum, and the "small" is the point. Instead of a big open playground you turn your kids loose in, it's a single themed space — right now a farm, with a barn to climb through, a farmhouse and feed-and-seed store to play shop in, wind tubes, and a giant light-brite — sized for little hands and short attention spans. Play runs in booked, timed sessions, five a day on weekdays with weekend slots posted week to week, rather than a free-for-all, which keeps the room from getting overrun and makes it an easy place to bring a toddler.

It fits a specific family: toddlers through roughly second grade, with a parent staying and playing alongside rather than dropping off. A crawler and a six-year-old can share the space, but older elementary kids tend to age out of it fast — this isn't a trampoline park or an arcade, and it doesn't try to be. What you're trading the size for is calm, supervision, and imaginative play over adrenaline. Parents rate it highly, and the rotating Discovery Rug themes give regulars a reason to come back before the farm gets old. There's also Craft Co., an add-on where kids can paint pottery or a canvas, make a batch of slime, or string a beaded bracelet — a way to stretch the visit if you want one, and the museum books private birthday parties and school field trips when it isn't running open play.

If your child is past the pretend-play stage and wants something loud and physical, look elsewhere. But for the preschool-and-under crowd on a hot or rainy Southlake afternoon, a reserved session here is an easy, low-chaos win.

Local Tips

The museum sits in a retail strip on West Southlake Boulevard, on the west side of town in Suite 127 — go by the suite number, it's an in-line storefront, not a standalone building. A few things to know before you go:

  • You reserve first: you book a playtime slot online, Monday through Friday, and there are only about five sessions a day; walk-ins are taken only if a session still has space, so booking ahead is the safer bet.
  • Sign the liability waiver ahead of time to save yourself the check-in fuss.
  • It's a stay-and-play, not a drop-off — plan to be on the floor with your kid.
  • Weekend playtime slots change week to week, so check the booking calendar or the museum's Facebook page before a Saturday or Sunday visit and book the slot; weekends also carry separately booked special events and parties.
Credentials

Play Street Museum Southlake is family-operated by Melanie and Steve McBride, who run it as a local small business — a couple with five children and five grandchildren of their own and backgrounds in parenting, coaching, and teaching, which is the lens they bring to a hands-on, learning-through-play space. The museum operates under the Play Street Museum brand, a children's-museum concept launched in the Dallas area more than a decade ago. Staff supervise the reserved play sessions; this is a stay-and-play format, so a parent or guardian remains with each child.

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