Although birthday parties are supposed to be fun, they often cause a large amount of stress for parents. Between the cleaning, the cooking, and the cleaning again, it’s easy to feel like your kid’s big day is more work than play.
Thankfully, these awesome birthday party venues in Knoxville TN and the surrounding counties take all the hard work out of birthdays, so you are free to enjoy the day making memories with family.
From bounce house playgrounds to laser tag battles, this list has all the best ideas for making your child’s birthday a stress-free day!
Birthday Party Venues
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This indoor bounce house playground features birthday parties, group events, and open jump times for public enjoyment.
General Info: Ijams nature center offers a variety of educational programs and nature-based activities including, hiking, biking, canoeing, kayaking, live animal presentations, and nature and conservation education. There is also an amazing ropes course on-site. Field trips and nature-themed birthday parties are also available.
Summer Camps: In addition to their year round educational programs, this facility also offers a variety of week-long summer camps with various themes. Camp activities include hiking, caving, canoeing, arts and crafts, games, songs, educational programs, and much more!
Ijams’ Preschool Camp serves children ages 3-5.
Ijams’ Nature Adventure Camp serves children ages 6-12 years old.
The children’s museum features a variety of educational classes and hands-on exhibits. Exhibits include a rain forest room, model trains, waterworks, a bird room, doll house, historical toys, nature room, Native American history and much more! The museum also has a birthday party room that can be rented for private events.
In addition to daily educational fun and birthday parties, the museum offers STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) based spring and summer day camps. The camps allow kids to experience hands-on learning in a variety of themes.
This full indoor rock climbing gym offers a variety of experiences, including bouldering and top rope climbing. There are rock walls for all ages and abilities. Private parties are available for birthdays, team building and much more!
With a goal of promoting Appalachian arts, this studio offers a wide variety of classes suitable for both children and adults. Classes include painting, pottery, weaving, and more. Birthday parties and school groups are welcome!
The main attraction of this facility is a live-action role playing game that takes players on an enchanted journey. MagiQuest also offers indoor Special FX Pirate Golf, the world’s largest mirror maze, and a laser room challenge. IN addition to general admission, the facility hosts birthday parties and large groups.
This kids’ gym offers a whole world of fun for preschool kids, including general gymnastics classes, parent/child classes, music & movement classes, birthday parties, and camps during school breaks for ages 3-12.
This fun center has both indoor and outdoor activities to meet all your needs. Activities include laser tag, mini golf, go karts, and an arcade. Birthday parties are available.
Eat, drink, play arcade games & watch sports in the Smoky Mountain region!
This pottery studio teaches you how to create one of a kind works of art from scratch. Methods including sculpting and wheel throwing. In addition to a variety of classes, this studio offers birthday parties, wine and clay nights, and team building experiences. This facility also offers Raku firing.
This indoor bounce house playground offers open jump times, birthday parties and off-site rentals.
This gymnastics based dance studio offers open gym days, birthday parties and summer dance camps.
This equestrian center provides general lessons, birthday parties, and camps during school breaks. Skill level instruction ranges form beginner to advanced.
For kids, Knox County Parks and Rec offers a variety of hands-on educational classes for both kids and adults. The department also offers a variety of sports leagues including, football, soccer, basketball, and baseball. Parks and Rec also offers summer camps and maintains local playgrounds, which offer pavilion rentals for birthday parties.
This indoor ice skating rink offers public sessions, ice skating lessons, ice hockey lessons, curling, ice dancing lessons, a theater on ice troupe, summer camps, and birthday parties.
This paint your own pottery studio offers a variety of pottery selections perfect for both kids and adults. In addition to general pottery painting, this facility also offers birthday parties and summer camps.
This paint studio provides step by step instructions to help you create stunning works of art. The studio includes sessions for both adults and kids. Birthday parties are available.
In addition to themed skating nights with general admission, this roller skating rink also offers birthday parties.
FREE outdoor splash pad in Knoxville.
This amazing LEGO facility allows kids to build and play hands-on with LEGO. Kidz (parents) Night Out, open play times, and field trips are available all throughout the year. The facility also hosts amazing themed birthday parties.
In addition to year round fun, Bricks 4 Kidz offers camp options whenever Knox County Public Schools are closed. These camps include week-long summer camp options. Themes include dragons, minions, pirates, space, transportation and much more!
This gymnastics studio has a lot to offer. In addition to a providing year round preschool for kids 1 through 5, Pertetual Motion provides leveled gymnastics classes, open gym times, birthday parties and summer camp.
This farm offers a HUGE amount of entertainment in once place. Activities include a pumpkin patch, hayride, corn maze, pig races, playground, a large variety of yard games, sandbox, zip lines and more!
This bounce house playground and arcade, where you can play games and win prizes, is located inside Foothills Mall. In addition to general admission play, the facility also hosts birthday parties.
For kids, Blount County Parks and Rec offers gymnastics and tumbling classes, dance classes, karate classes, swim team, ballet classes, sewing classes, art classes, and pottery classes. The department also offers a variety of sports leagues including, football, soccer, basketball, and baseball. This department also offers summer camps and maintains local playgrounds, which offer pavilion rentals for birthday parties. A variety of classes are also offered for adults and seniors.
This amazing roller skating venue offers general admission skate times and birthday parties.
This community art studio offers a variety of classes for both kids and adults. Birthday parties are available.
This indoor trampoline park features birthday parties, groups events, and open jump times for public enjoyment.
This prestigious dance studio has multiple locations in the Knoxville Area. In addition to providing dance lessons, this studio also hosts birthday parties and themed summer dance camps.
FREE outdoor splash pad in Knoxville, open spring through fall.
In addition to general admission experiences, this indoor skydiving facility offers birthday parties and group events.
In addition to offering daily play opportunities for all, this arcade with indoor play area is a favorite for kids’ birthday parties!
FREE outdoor splash pad in Knoxville.
Run by Knoxville Parks & Recs, this art center/studio offers pre-k classes, youth, and adult classes in a variety of media. Birthday parties and summer camp options are also available.
This fantastic gymnastics studio offers gymnastics classes, tumbling classes, open gym times, and birthday parties.
This comprehensive art studio offers a variety of classes for both kids and adults. Classes include, painting, clay, drawing, and mixed media. Birthday parties are available. Tipsy brush classes are also offered for adults.
Explore our fun and creative birthday party space as it takes you on an adventure through a castle playhouse with a secret garden and a tree house walkway with a rock climbing wall leading to a spiral turbo slide that swirls through a towering castle turret to the realistic grass and hidden hideaway below.
This indoor ice skating facility offers year round public skate times and group rates, which are perfect for birthday parties.
Creative Art Classes, Art Parties, and Summer Art Camps for Preschool, Homeschool, and Elementary age Kids in West Knoxville!
This fun and interactive children’s museum features hand-on play-based learning opportunities in the areas of science and STEAM. The museum also boats story time, arts and crafts, camps and birthday parties!
This indoor trampoline park features birthday parties, groups events, and open jump times for public enjoyment.
