Kansas Fun Activities Guide

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  iFLY Kansas City

  Overland Park

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  Ready to try indoor skydiving? iFly Kansas City located in Overland Park, is just minutes from anywhere in Kansas City. Indoor wind tunnel conditions are perfect for skydiving day or night and in any weather! All ages and abilities can now skydive! iFly Kansas City provides the free fall adrenaline without the plane! Bring your family and friends for the indoor skydiving adventure of a lifetime! Reservations are strongly suggested! Call to make yours today!

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  Pendleton's Country Market

  Lawrence

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  Education while having fun at Pendleton's Country Market

     Come to the Pendleton's Country Market Butterfly Bio-Villa for an education while having fun! The Butterfly Bio-Villa contains caterpillars, butterflies and chrysalis from native species of butterflies. The Butterfly Bio-Villa is a great school, scout, or family field trip. Combine your visit with our farm's fall pumpkin patch or pick-your=own vegetable experience to add to the fun! A covered deck area is available for picnics. Groups may rent the farm for special events that can include bon fires nad hayrides.

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  Schlitterbahn Kansas City Water Park

  Kansas City

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  Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City Overflows with Fun! Get ready to dive into Kansas City's best waterpark - Schlitterbahn. The fun overflows with Verrückt - the World's Tallest Water Slide - and continues with the Storm Blaster - a Master Blaster Uphill Water Coaster, four tubing slides and chutes, two tubing rivers including the world's longest Tidal Wave River, 13 mini slides for kids, three relaxing beaches and a giant hot tub with a swim-up refreshment bar.

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  Silver Dollar City

  Branson

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  Silver Dollar City, Branson, Missouri, is one of the most popular vacation destinations in the country. Travel back in time to the simplicity of 1880s America, and enjoy the best in Branson entertainment plus a host of festivals and events.

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  Branson

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  NATIONAL CRAFTS & COWBOY FESTIVAL (September 13 - October 28)

     For fall, Silver Dollar City presents the National Crafts & Cowboy Festival, featuring some of the nation's finest craftsmen and authentic cowboys. The festival presents a Wild West Show with trick riders, ropers and a world-champion Native American Hoop dancer; Western music; a barn dance, and 125 visiting craftsmen. Best of Missouri Hands juried artists demonstrate their art and fall harvest foods are served up September 13 - October 28 at the Branson, Missouri theme park.

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  Silver Dollar City

  Branson

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  AN OLD TIME CHRISTMAS (November 4 - December 30)

     Our An Old Time Christmas festival, this year adding a huge new area: Christmas in Midtown, with towering light displays 9 stories high, animated figures in lights, and 1.5 million additional lights, bringing the park total to over 6.5 million lights! Christmas in Midtown is our largest single lighting expansion in the past 20 years of this festival. Details below: One of the nation's most acclaimed Christmas festivals, profiled by USA Today, CNN Travel, The Travel Channel and Good Morning America, is even bigger and brighter this year with an all-new area: NEW: Christmas in Midtown, a 70,000 sq. ft. area filled with new light displays 9 stories high, including 30 angels, animated reindeer pulling a sleigh, 3 light tunnels, two 40-foot long moving trains, dozens of stars and snowflakes, and a 50-foot tree, all created at Silver Dollar City. Christmas in Midtown, the largest single lighting expansion to date in the past 2 decades of the festival, adds 1.5 million new lights, bringing the park's total to 6.5 million lights! Rudolph's Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade, led by the most famous reindeer of all, features musical lighted floats with 200,000 lights accompanied by 33 costumed characters. Rudolph's Christmas Town, where kids can meet Rudolph, Clarice and Bumble, also includes activities from Reindeer Games to cookie decorating. Two original musical productions present Broadway-style experiences, with elaborate sets and talented casts: It's a Wonderful Life, adapted from the Frank Capra classic, and the acclaimed production A Dickens' Christmas Carol. The Christmas on Main Street light & sound show features the 5-Story Special Effects Christmas Tree with over 350,000 colorful LED lights. Tinker Junior's Toy Shop is an interactive show for kids featuring a 12-foot talking and singing Christmas tree. Kids can meet Santa in Santa Claus Lane, illuminated in colorful lights. Plus, the festival presents holiday shows, a musical Living Nativity, shows, rides, shopping and new Silver Dollar City dining specialties. During An Old Time Christmas, Silver Dollar City is open Thursdays - Sundays, plus Wednesdays Nov. 22 and December 20, and open after Christmas Dec. 26-30. Hours and schedules are at http://www.silverdollarcity.com/theme-park/Festivals/An-Old-Time-Christmas (less) ... Read more

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  Worlds of Fun

  Kansas City

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  Worlds of Fun is a traditional amusement park themed around Jules Verne's adventure book "Around the World in Eighty Days". The park offers its guests more than 100 rides and attractions, including six world-class roller coasters, thrill rides, and award-winning live entertainment.

Events/Performances

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  Silver Dollar City

  Branson

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  NATIONAL CRAFTS & COWBOY FESTIVAL (September 13 - October 28)

     For fall, Silver Dollar City presents the National Crafts & Cowboy Festival, featuring some of the nation's finest craftsmen and authentic cowboys. The festival presents a Wild West Show with trick riders, ropers and a world-champion Native American Hoop dancer; Western music; a barn dance, and 125 visiting craftsmen. Best of Missouri Hands juried artists demonstrate their art and fall harvest foods are served up September 13 - October 28 at the Branson, Missouri theme park.

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  Silver Dollar City

  Branson

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  AN OLD TIME CHRISTMAS (November 4 - December 30)

     Our An Old Time Christmas festival, this year adding a huge new area: Christmas in Midtown, with towering light displays 9 stories high, animated figures in lights, and 1.5 million additional lights, bringing the park total to over 6.5 million lights! Christmas in Midtown is our largest single lighting expansion in the past 20 years of this festival. Details below: One of the nation's most acclaimed Christmas festivals, profiled by USA Today, CNN Travel, The Travel Channel and Good Morning America, is even bigger and brighter this year with an all-new area: NEW: Christmas in Midtown, a 70,000 sq. ft. area filled with new light displays 9 stories high, including 30 angels, animated reindeer pulling a sleigh, 3 light tunnels, two 40-foot long moving trains, dozens of stars and snowflakes, and a 50-foot tree, all created at Silver Dollar City. Christmas in Midtown, the largest single lighting expansion to date in the past 2 decades of the festival, adds 1.5 million new lights, bringing the park's total to 6.5 million lights! Rudolph's Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade, led by the most famous reindeer of all, features musical lighted floats with 200,000 lights accompanied by 33 costumed characters. Rudolph's Christmas Town, where kids can meet Rudolph, Clarice and Bumble, also includes activities from Reindeer Games to cookie decorating. Two original musical productions present Broadway-style experiences, with elaborate sets and talented casts: It's a Wonderful Life, adapted from the Frank Capra classic, and the acclaimed production A Dickens' Christmas Carol. The Christmas on Main Street light & sound show features the 5-Story Special Effects Christmas Tree with over 350,000 colorful LED lights. Tinker Junior's Toy Shop is an interactive show for kids featuring a 12-foot talking and singing Christmas tree. Kids can meet Santa in Santa Claus Lane, illuminated in colorful lights. Plus, the festival presents holiday shows, a musical Living Nativity, shows, rides, shopping and new Silver Dollar City dining specialties. During An Old Time Christmas, Silver Dollar City is open Thursdays - Sundays, plus Wednesdays Nov. 22 and December 20, and open after Christmas Dec. 26-30. Hours and schedules are at http://www.silverdollarcity.com/theme-park/Festivals/An-Old-Time-Christmas (less) ... Read more

Family Activities

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  Merriam Parks and Recreation Dept.

  Merriam

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  Merriam is located in the Northeast section of Johnson County in the Kansas City Metro Area. Summertime visit the Merriam Aquatic Center, Farmers Market on Wednesday evenings or Saturday mornings, or one of our Cruise Nights or Summer Sundays in Merriam.

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  Pendleton's Country Market

  Lawrence

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  Education while having fun at Pendleton's Country Market

     Come to the Pendleton's Country Market Butterfly Bio-Villa for an education while having fun! The Butterfly Bio-Villa contains caterpillars, butterflies and chrysalis from native species of butterflies. The Butterfly Bio-Villa is a great school, scout, or family field trip. Combine your visit with our farm's fall pumpkin patch or pick-your=own vegetable experience to add to the fun! A covered deck area is available for picnics. Groups may rent the farm for special events that can include bon fires nad hayrides.

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  Watch Ya' Mouth

  Watch Ya' Mouth

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  Watch Ya' Mouth 90s Edition will take you back to a brighter, more simple time when Scrunchies were cool and Marky Mark was a musician. With the 90s bundle, you get twice the content and nostalgia for days! That's tight, yo! VOTED BY FANS: 90's version exists because of YOU! From the company that made Watch Ya' Mouth, the top selling, original, award-winning party card game Watch Ya' Mouth: 90's Edition combines the game play you've come to know and love with the nostalgia of all things 90's Bangin' phrases such as "Billy Ray's Mullet" and "Gameboy" will bring it all back for a night of dope fun! 3-10 players wear cheek retractors and speak out 90's phrases while teammates guess what they are saying Includes 300+ Family-Safe phrases. Great for all ages including kids who are 8+ (less) ... Read more

  Watch Ya' Mouth 90s Bundle

  Save 30% off Watch Ya' Mouth 90s Edition bundle pack (voted by fans!) by using the code "Flannel" at wym90s.com. Includes #FreeShipping.

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Fun Centers

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  Zonkers

  Olathe

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     Zonkers (Previously Jeepers!) is an indoor theme park serving families with children of all ages. Our park provides a diverse mix of Inflatables. Arcade games and Amusement rides built to scale for indoor use. Rides include the popular Python Pit (Roller Coaster), Yak Attack (Mini-Himalaya), Venetian Carousel, Train, Banana Squadron (Airplane Ride), and Soft Play.

Museums/Zoos

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  Kansas City Zoo

  Kansas City

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  With more than 202 acres nestled inside valleys and rolling hills, the zoo hosts more than 1,000 animals. The Zoo is divided into several sections: Australia, Tiger Trail, KidZone that includes the Discovery Barn, Peek-A-Boo Tree and an Endangered Species Carousel and a 100 acre-Africa Plains. A new Tropics, an indoor rainforest, opens in 2009 and polar bears will return in 2010.

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  Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure

  Salina

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  Here you can get face-to-face with a rare white camel, an Indian rhino, a curious orangutan, an ornery aardvark or many of the other animals of the 100+ species of wildlife at home in our zoo. Great care has been taken to provide our animals spacious and naturalistic environments throughout 60 acres of beautifully landscaped park. As you stroll through the zoo, we hope you take the chance to visit with one of our zookeepers. This dedicated crew is a huge reason why visiting Rolling Hills Zoo is such a unique experience. They are specially trained to enhance the quality of life for our animals, which in turn helps the animals thrive and be extra responsive to zoo visitors. Our zookeepers know the animals well and are happy to relate their own insights to the many animal personalities here at Rolling Hills. (less) ... Read more

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  Sedgwick County Zoo

  Wichita

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  Come face to face with the wildest animals from around the world! See eye to eye with endangered chimpanzees and orangutans. Get to know the gorillas of The Downing Gorilla Forest. Spend the day with colorful birds, playful penguins, poison dart frogs and more than 3,000 other individual animals of all sizes, shapes and colors. Visit the seventh-largest zoo in the nation and discover why Sedgwick County Zoo is the No. 1 outdoor family tourist attraction in Kansas. Come out and play!

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  Sunset Zoo

  Manhattan

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  Sunset Zoo, located in Manhattan, Kansas, is open 360 days a year and is home to over 300 animal species! Mission: to inspire conservation of the natural world.

Preschool Activities

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  My Gym - Overland Park

  Overland Park

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  Great Futures Being at My Gym! Gymnastics, music, dance, sports, games, special rides and more! From Birthday parties, to camps, to fun-filled programs throughout the year! My Gym is perfect for ages Perfect for kids ages 6 weeks to 13 years!

  35th Anniversary Open House

  FREE 35th Anniversary OPEN HOUSE! Friday, September 28th from 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM Saturday, September 29th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM We are so excited to celebrate 35 years of My Gym with an…

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  My Gym - Wichita

  Wichita

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  My Gym Wichita offers high quality fitness and fun classes for children ages 6 months to 6 years old. We also host the BEST birthday parties in town where your child will be the STAR. Preschool Prep, Camps, Tots and Kids Nights Out, Open gym times are also available to develop your child's mind, body and happiness!

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  Tiny Tykes

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  TinyTykes Pre-School Soccer Programs - 41 Kansas Programs

     Child development through Challenger's nationally acclaimed innovative pre-school soccer program! TinyTykes is an innovative program, created by childcare specialists that introduces children aged 2 to 5-years to the basic skills of soccer. Both our Cubs (2- 3 years) and our Lions (4-5 years) modules use fundamental soccer activities, games and stories to develop their skills in the following areas: Balance, Agility and Coordination Technical Skills Gross motor skills Physical Development Social skills Self confidence Communication Teamwork