2025 Biggest Birthday Party Bash Guide

This year’s event has even more fun activities planned. Please read through this guide in order to plan your evening and not miss anything. Note: This event has a lot of partners and fun activities. There may be some adjustments and changes from this plan.

Pre-Event Outdoor Fun from 5:30-6:30 PM

This year’s birthday bash is better than ever with a HUGE outdoor pre-event starting at 5:30 pm. We have lots of fun, FREE things and giveaways planned, like Free Konas from Kona Ice Greenville for every kid, Free Clutch Coffee Bar drinks for each guest, a free Take & Build with Plus Plus, and meet the Papa Bear mascot and get a free carwash (limit to 1-per family) with Papa Bear Car Wash. Be sure to stop by Wildlife Geeks table for some fun animal interactions!

Papa Bear Car Wash:

• Prize: Free Year of Membership and swag basket

Plus Plus:

• Prize: activity basket valued at $75

Kidding Around Greenville:

• AT THEIR TABLE: Pick up a free issue of the Greenville Journal to see our new feature and get a Golly sticker

Wildlife Geeks:

• AT THEIR TABLE: Learn about and interact with animals

Check-in Procedures

Weather permitting, we will start checking-in guests by 5:30 pm outside. Please bring your e-ticket issued by Simple Tix. You will receive a wristband once you have been checked in.

Once you receive your wristband, you can start enjoying the outside vendors and freebies. Outside vendors will remain outside from 5:30-6:30 pm.

Doors will open by 6:30 pm. You may enter with your wristband or by scanning your ticket at the door. Please understand that we work hard to get everyone in the building as safely and quickly as possible but it will take several minutes to check everyone in.

Please note that no food or drinks are allowed inside the museum. Dispose of your trash before entering the building.

The Main Event: Golly’s Birthday Bash

• Everything You Need to Know about the Lower Floor
  Characters & Highlights: Bubbles the Goldfish Mascot, seed planting activity, Elsa & Ariel, Cupcake Decorating Station with Tip Top Cake Shop and yogurt lassi drinks from Kolapasi Indian Canteen, Corn Hole, and our Birthday Party Make Over Station. See the link above for full activities and prizes on this floor!
• Everything You Need to Know about the Main Floor Characters & Highlights: Reedy Rip’It the Greenville Drive Mascot, paint & decorate your own birthday cake craft & Take a Photo with Golly. See the link above for full activities and prizes on this floor!
• Everything You Need to Know about the Upper Floor Characters & Highlights: Join Belle & Tiana on the dance floor as DJ Pre-K gets the party started, and meet Cat in the Hat. See the link above for full activities and prizes on this floor!

Tips & Tricks

Kolapasi Indian Canteen will be providing bags this year for you to carry all of their prizes and treats! Kids’ bags include: a Free Coupon for a Kids’ Meal at Habit Burger Upstate, a free Coupon for a Kids’ Meal to Kolapasi Indian Canteen, and a coupon for a Free Kiddie Pudding Cup (purchase required) from PuddN’ Creations.

Be sure to visit every vendor to see if you won one of our amazing door prizes (over $3,000 in prizes)! Winner names will be displayed at the tables.

Head up or down first. If you are one of the first to enter the building, we recommend heading to one of the popular activities on the upper & bottom floors first before they develop lines.

Focus on visiting the vendors first. We have packed our event with fun, and our event is limited to two hours since our event is after the museum’s public hours. Be sure to look over the schedule ahead of time to know what activities you want to prioritize. We would rather you have a great time and have more than enough to do than not enough activities to fill your time!

The Scoop on the Lower Level

Head down the stairs or elevator to the lower floor for a space packed full of fun. Remember to visit each vendor (numbered yellow rectangles) to see if you won a giveaway prize.

Across from the Elevator:

First Presbyterian Academy:

• PRIZE: A coupon for a waived Application Fee for the 25-26 school year valued at $175 along with FPA swag bag.
• AT THEIR TABLE: Seed planting in a pot activity

Cherry Orchard Pediatric Dentistry & Oral & Implant Surgery:

• PRIZE: Gift Certificate to South Carolina Children’s Theatre
• AT THEIR TABLE: Dental related word games – word search, crossword puzzles, etc.

Waterworks Exhibit:

Find Bubbles the Goldfish Mascot

Goldfish Swim School

• PRIZE: Swim tote + goggles + towel + 3 months of free lessons! ($450 value)
• AT THEIR TABLE: Get your photo with Bubbles the Goldfish Swim School Mascot and then join a scavenger hunt with the Bubbles and Friends mat in the Waterworks exhibit. Plus a prize wheel.

Cafeteria:

Create a crown, confetti hair fun, find Elsa, get a yogurt drink, and decorate a cupcake.

Tip Top Cake Shop:

• AT THEIR TABLE: decorate birthday cupcakes (For children, while supplies last)

Kolapasi Indian Canteen:

• Get a free yogurt lassi

The Little Gym:

• PRIZE: 1 Free Month of Membership ($125 value)
• AT THEIR TABLE: Decorate your own party crown station

Pigtails & Crewcuts:

• PRIZE: 10-haircut package valued at $224
• AT THEIR TABLE: Free confetti hair gel treatment for children

Kidding Around Greenville:

• AT THEIR TABLE: Tattoo art

Be Anything Room:

Dance Without Limits:

• AT THEIR TABLE: Dance party with an obstacle course for kids including a mini trampoline, hula hoops, cones, and a small wedge mat

THINC Chiropractic:

• PRIZE: Wellness Package with a Certificate for a New Patient Appointment and other wellness goodies.
• AT THEIR TABLE: Education and Free Neurological Scans

St. Joseph’s Catholic School:

• PRIZE: IGLOO Cooler Prize pack – Igloo Maxcold Extra Large Ice (2), Igloo Rival 1 quart jug, and Igloo 60 Quart Latitude Roller Cooler. ($111 value)
  AT THEIR TABLE: Corn hole activity

The Scoop on the Main Level

*Sensory-Friendly Space with dimmed lights and headphones available in the Dream Theater located to the right as you walk into the main entrance of the museum.

Take a picture with Golly & find Reedy Rip ‘It

Front Entrance:

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate:

• Prize: Dreamer membership (3-5 person membership to TCMU) $240 value

Healthy Heroes Exhibit:

Prisma Health Urgent Care:

• AT THEIR TABLE: Urgent Care info & swag

Swim Lessons with Mary:

• PRIZE: 4 pack of flexible private 30 min lessons at the Greenville or Spartanburg indoor location ($200 value)

Publix & What’s Cookin’ Kitchen area:

STRIDES Tutoring:

• AT THEIR TABLE: Spin the wheel to win a prize

Shriners Children’s Hospital:

• AT THEIR TABLE: Promo items & information

Bank Exhibit:

Greenville Federal Credit Union:

• PRIZE: $100 VISA gift card
• AT THEIR TABLE: Money modeling activity & free packs of flower seeds to encourage “planting the seeds of savings”

Wheels on the Ground Exhibit:

Challenge Island:

• PRIZE: Summer Camp Giveaway (Value of $155)
• AT THEIR TABLE: $10 off coupons for Summer Camp

Yellowbobbypins Art Camp:

• PRIZE: Free week of summer camp (value of $235)
• AT THEIR TABLE: Kids will use tempera paint sticks and foam stickers to decorate their own “Birthday Cake”. The “cakes” have a magnet attached so they can hang on refrigerators with pride!

Wings in the Air Exhibit:

Upstate Kids Consignment:

• AT THEIR TABLE: Planting seeds activity

The Climber Area:

Ivybrook Academy Five Forks Campus:

• PRIZE:  Ivybrook Merchandise & Children’s books – Value $25 
• AT THEIR TABLE: Say hello to Ivy, Ivybrook Academy’s mascot and spin the wheel to win a prize

The Scoop on the Upper Level

Head upstairs and join the dance floor with DJ Pre-K and our princesses, Belle and Tiana.

Grandma Betty’s Farm exhibit:

Judson Mill Play Cafe:

• PRIZE: Family Monthly Pass ($60 value, up to 6 kids)

Sylvan Learning of Greenville:

• PRIZE: Free Insight Assessment and one month at Sylvan.
• AT THEIR TABLE: Prize wheel with stem related questions and meet the Cat in the Hat.

Geo’s Golf Exhibit:

Giggles Drop-In Childcare:

• PRIZE: Free Date night includes one date night for up to 3 Kids for 4 hours with dinner for the children included ($144 value)
• AT THEIR TABLE: Game wheel with prizes and tattoos

Parkside Pediatrics:

• PRIZE: 2 tickets to Baby Bootcamp Class – Value $30 per couple

Parkside OB-GYN:

• PRIZE: 2 Free Tickets to a Class of Choice: Birth & Recovery ($50 value), Laboring Positions ($50 value – 1 ticket reserves a spot for 1 mom-to-be and 1 support person) and Menopause 101 ($35 value)

Acrosmith Gymnastics:

• PRIZE: Free 2 Hour Birthday Party at Acrosmith ($250 value)

Construction Zone Exhibit:

Davis Orthodontics:

• PRIZE: $1,000 Treatment Certificate for Braces or Invisalign for new patients
• AT THEIR TABLE: Prize wheel and coupon giveaway

Erica Simonavice:

• AT THEIR TABLE: Jumbo Tulip Magic Scratch Craft

Talkin’ Trash/ Fun & Games exhibits:

DJ Pre-K: Put on your dancing shoes and join the dance floor. DJ Pre-K is a DJ who gets the party started for your little ones! 

steamWORKS Exhibit:

Roper Mountain Science Center:

• PRIZE: Annual Family Membership – $125 Value – (Family or Grandparent) Two adults and up to 6 children or grandchildren 18 and under in the immediate family.
• AT THEIR TABLE: Activate your creatures powers! Learn about animals, activate their creature powers, pretend to be animals and touch many different animals things ( shells, bones, snake skin, insects etc… )