Come Shop With Me Bethesda!

Find books about math, cooking, baking, and stories where food is the main topic!

Push your own mini grocery cart, shop our freezers, aisles, and produce. Learn about food groups and how to pay for your items at the register.

Sponsored by Safeway.

Come Have Coffee With Me DC!

This is a great spot to have a snack your bring your own lunch.

A beautiful room that can be blocked off for private parties or a special birthday party.

Sponsored by Ebenezers.

Come Make Pizza With Me Bethesda

Find your favorite childrens cookbooks and stories all about eating out.

Create a pretend pizza! Begin with the crust, then the cheese and felt toppings, crank it through the oven, drop it in the Domino's box and deliver it to Mom!

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Come Make Pizza With Me DC!

Find your favorite childrens cookbooks and stories all about eating out.

You can be a customer or you can enter orders in the computer. Maybe be a cook and create a pretend pizza! Add lots and lots of toppings!

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Come Care With Me Bethesda!

Find story books where animals are the main character. Pick out a reference book on animals, or a book about how to take good care of pets!

Come pet Strawberry, our fluffy and friendly rabbit, or have Toothless, our Lizard, crawl up your arm! We have 12 animals ranging from rabbits to frogs, to doves, and our lizard.

This shop is sponsored by Bethesda Pet on Elm Street in Bethesda.

Come Bake With Me DC!

This shop is sponsored by thecakeandthefrogbakery.com who also offers a standing 10% discount to all customers that mention the Playseum with a cake order.

For Playseum dollars decorate a cupcake, whip up a smoothie, make an ice cream sundae, sand art hot chocolate, pumpkin pie or chocolate mud pies.

Right outside the bakery you will find kids baking books, classic stories centered on baking and Melissa and Doug Bakery Toys for purchase.

Sponsored by The Cake and the Frog.

Come Dress Up With Me Bethesda!

Find your favorite girly or princess book in the Bella Salon. Find books from Cinderella to American Girl Doll books, to hair and body books.

Dress-up, try on some ballet shoes or put on a wig. Brush a Barbie head or pull up a stool and read your favorite book.

Sponsored by Bella Bethesda Salon.

Come Sail the Seas With Me on our Pirate Ship DC!

Build a sand castle or hear the ocean in a giant sea shell. Our pirate ship is decked out with all the pirate gear. Put on a play or a puppet show for your parent.

Find books on travel. Our imagination soars and sails here.

Sponsored by CRUISE ONE Travel.

Come To The Dentist With Me Bethesda!

We've got the best tooth fairy books around! Read stories about loosing teeth, keeping them clean and how to take care of your body.

Make a tooth imprint, and on certain days create a tooth from homemade clay. Try your smarts at tooth trivia and for an additional $1 make your own toothpaste.

Sponsored by Dr. Roya Pilcher

Come Cook with Me DC!

Lavagna, an Italian restaurant and neighbor of the Playseum offers cook books for young and old.

Here kids can make homemade pasta and seasonally we make apple pies and sorbets for Playseum dollars. The tables are made of chalk board so have fun and draw your favorite foods or dish up some fake food and serve it to mom.

Sponsored by Lavagna.

Come Bake With Me Bethesda!

Find Ms. Gina's favorite cookbooks from around the world. Take home the latest  books on how to bake with kids.

Decorate a real cupcake to eat here or bring home! Make some chocolate chip cookie dough to bring home and bake, or make a yummy smoothie with our baker!  All activities in the bakery cost Playseum dollars.

Currently looking for a sponsor.

Fly to Ethiopia With Me DC!

This shop is dedicated to providing clean water to the Hamar Village of Ethiopia. When you make clay beads, pots, or something uniquely creative 50% or your Playseum dollars go to help bring clean water to the people of this village.

Buy a bracelet, belt or necklace actually made by the women of the Village to support their efforts for clean water. Kids can also crawl inside a small mimic of a Hamar Village Hut.

Sponsored by Global Team Local Intiatives.

Come to the Eye Doctor With Me Bethesda!

Look at Eye Witness, Eye Spy, 3D, and Search & Find books.

Little ones can play at the lego table, use color patterns, and practice coordination with the widget board and the magnetic balls. Older kids will enjoy making a color fusion project, trying on the eye glasses with color changing lenses or using the view master.

Sponsored by Vision & Conceptual Development Center, Bethesda.

Come Play Ball with Me DC!

Explore sports in a safe way with a safe place to play.

We have an variety of toddler sports gear to encourage your little one to be a great little athlete. A lot of soft play balls in several sizes for different sized little hands. Or you may want to take a breathe and read your favorite books about playing outside!

Currently looking for a sponsor for this room. Put your name/logo here.

Come Build With Me Bethesda!

Find books about building, trucks and things that move on wheels!

Build a tower made of lincoln logs or a castle made of sand, after loading up some bricks with our pulley system. Watch the gidgets move on our magnetic wall!

Currently looking for a sponsor. Put your business name/logo here!

Come To ChinaTown with Me DC!

The fun of Chinatown can now be just fun for your child.

Currently looking for a sponsor for this room. Put your name/logo here.

Come Outdoors With Me Bethesda!

Find a variety of young toddler books about nature, 1,2,3's and A,B,C's, counting and shapes with an abundance of pop-up books.

Fish for letters of the alphabet, or dig for bugs in our recycled rubber dirt. Walk over our little bridge- but watch out for the crocodile! Listen for the birds in our oak tree, or sit on our park bench and read a book with your child.

Ask us about sponsoring this area.

Come Paint with Me DC!

This is the ultimate artroom!

Your kids can create to their heart's content. Lots of items available to make and paint. Miss Gina has found the best kid's DIY projects and knows how to make it so much fun. All you need to bring is your smile and creativity to bound to blossum here.

Some items require playseum dollars.

Currently looking for a sponsor for this room. Put your name/logo here.

Come to Grandma's With Me Bethesda!

Choose from a variety of tried and true parenting books and classic favorites to read at story time.

This room is filled with anitques from the 1930's to the 1970's. Set-up a tea party for two, pull out some old games, try your hand at an old typwriter, climb up into the attic and search through the many suitcases full of dress-up clothes.

This Shop has yet to be sponsored.

Come Play Dress Up with Me DC!

Another great place to feel grown up!

Everything is pink! A great place to dress up and get dolled up! Make lip gloss, bath soaps, and get fingernails painted.

Find your favorite girly or princess book in the Beauty Salon. Find books from Cinderella to American Girl Doll books, to hair and body books.

Currently looking for a sponsor for this room. Put your name/logo here.

Come Discover the World With Me Bethesda!

Take home a story book in another language or read a folktake from another country. Find children's reference books on international topics.

Touch, try on, smell, listen, and look at items that have been donated by the community and represent the world we live in! Play international games or complete a puzzle with a friend.

This room has not been sponsored yet.

Come To the Eastern Market with Me DC!

Kids can pick up a basket and shop the Eastern Market just like the grown ups!

The pretend food here is unique. Custom made to look like your favorites from the Eastern Market in DC. Teach your kids about all the different cultures that they will encounter everyday.

Currently looking for a sponsor for this room. Put your name/logo here.

Come Be Creative With Me Bethesda!

Find a variety of arts & craft books, and create projects to purchase ranging from ceramics, wood stools and birdhouses.

In the art shop, pull up a stool and get creative with clay, recycled objects, paint, stencils, beads and stamps. Paint shirts are available so your clothes stay clean, while you slap some paint on our plexi glass wall and squeegy it down!

Will be adding more info soon.

Come Be Brave With Me Bethesda!

Find great books about things that move: trucks, planes, trains, automobiles, boats and bikes. You will also find books about Thomas the train and books about city life. 

Wear a fireman's hat and pretend to drive the fire truck, or crawl through a tunnel to the hardware store.

Will be adding more info soon.

Our Famous Be Hive Bar Bethesda!

Find those famous children's series like Dr. Seuss,  Berenstein Bears, Little Bear, Magic Tree House, Disney, and so many more including books on subjects hard to discuss with children.

Make your own lip-gloss, lotion, bubble bath or soap up at the be-hive bar, or better yet, for a $1 have your nails painted! All activities at the Be-Hive Bar  cost Playseum dollars.

Will be adding more info soon.

Come Make Music With Me Bethesda!

Find story books where music is the main subject, or books that make their own music! Take a stroll through history and find your mom or dad's favorite record album on the wall!

Play the drums, base guitar, mini piano or sing your favorite songs while pretending to be a rock star!

This room is waiting to be sponsored by a kid's music company.

Will be adding more info soon.

Come Eat With Me Bethesda!

Eat a snack, bring in your own lunch, or rent this area for a birthday party or field trip.

Bookshelves found along the walls in the adjacent area contain early elementary and middle school books of all your favorite authors, as well as classics and homework books.

Will be adding more info soon.