Art Gallery
Messy art, programmed art and displayed art designed by children and other artists. Experiment with paint, rainbows, light, mobiles and more!

Build Gallery
Construct amazing towers, bridges and architectural masterpieces with a variety of blocks, wood, tools and grand scale building materials! Exploring geometric shapes creates pathways for algebra and geometry.

Careers Gallery
Investigate body systems, examine animals, own a restaurant or car repair shop! Children take x-rays, repair rusty mufflers, create recipes and learn about their brain! Take turns being owner, physician, employee and customer, working together to simulate a small, active economy.

Grain Gallery
Children measure, pour, shovel, lift, hoist and transport grain on conveyor belts, pulleys, augers and levers (one of six installations in the world!) High tech video monitors replicate an actual Kansas grain harvest. Educational displays feature the importance of Kansas grain to the Kansas and world economies.

Grow
Active toddlers keep busy with the fantasy playhouse that they design, puzzle garden, sensory table, ball play and wall interactives.

Little Sprouts
Padded floors, color, texture, mirrors, mobiles, cubbies for crawling, exploring and pulling to stand.

Moneyville
Computer simulations and hands-on games focus on balancing a budget, the “real” cost of credit, and the value of saving, sharing and spending.

Science Gallery
Exciting and challenging opportunities for scientific inquiry and experimentation. Flying machine, amazing air mazes, plasma globe, Bernoulli blowers, wind tube, experiment tables and more!

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Outdoor Adventure: There is seemingly no end to the wonderful activities children will be able to do outdoors: hiking trails, planting and tending a vegetable, flower and butterfly garden, climbing hills, jumping rocks, building forts, making sand castles and mud pies and excavating bones in the paleontology dig. Exploring nature abounds within the four acres of dedicated green space.

Still to come! A monumental, exquisite and unforgettable indoor/outdoor Kansas Sunflower Climber will take visitors to new heights as children move their bodies through space, plot and plan explorations and take risks. In addition to gross motor development, climbing enhances balance, problem-solving skills and self-esteem (I did it!).

Thanks to generous memorial gifts for the Garbo Lei Family Treasure Garden, the Outdoor area will also feature a wonderful Asian Garden filled with quiet spaces for reflection, including a bubbling fountain and pond with colorful koi fish.

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