By Vanessa Whiteside on December 17, 2025
3 Indoor Kansas Attractions for Kid-Approved Fun This Winter
Too cold to play with the kids outside? Bring them to one of these three indoor play areas that promise kid-approved fun, where they can learn about aviation and nature, all while fostering their creativity.
Each of these Kansas attractions features dedicated spaces tailored for hands-on activities, ensuring children are entertained and engaged.
Kansas Aviation Museum
Wichita
Family-friendly fun is the focus at Kansas Aviation Museum’s Little Aviators program on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., encouraging children ages 12 and under to discover the wonders of flight at no cost.
An educational space dedicated to kids features computerized flight simulators, climbable play equipment and wind tunnels to launch paper airplane flights. At activity tables, little aviators can ignite their imagination while playing with tiny airplanes and building blocks or scribble on coloring pages. From a child’s perspective in the air traffic control tower, the museum’s outdoor planes look like toys.
Kansas Aviation Museum
3350 S. George Washington Boulevard, Wichita
(316) 683-9242
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Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Hays
Kids with a wild curiosity about animals and fossils will want to hang out at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History’s Discovery Room. The museum’s youngest visitors are encouraged to open drawers with touchable specimens and observe snakes and creepy crawlies inside terrariums. Restless kids can burn off energy climbing on Charlotte the Spider, play games and puzzles or use their artistic talents to color pages featuring the museum’s critters.
The Discovery Room will host Feeding Frenzy on Dec. 26 at 10 a.m., when children make friends with and feed Cocoa and Hershey (rat snakes), Poppy (leopard gecko), Sisu (bearded dragon) and Bug (opossum).
Sternberg Museum of Natural History
3000 Sternberg Drive, Hays
(785) 628-4286
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Baker Arts Center
Liberal
Baker Arts Center’s activity rooms for children are provided so young emerging artists can unleash their imagination and create masterpieces. Here, they are allowed to write with markers on vibrantly colored walls, to create shapes on oversized Lite-Brite® walls, or build LEGO® structures.
The center’s Kids Winter Break Camps on Dec. 22 and Dec. 29 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. include two, one-hour art classes: Watercolor Class and Pipe Cleaner Class. Each hands-on activity is designed to be beginner-friendly, and all materials are included. Class registration is $10 for members, $12 for non-members.
The Baker Arts Center
624 N. Pershing Avenue, Liberal
(620) 624-2810
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