It’s hard not to go stir crazy when it rains over a long holiday weekend or on a day when you really just need some sunshine. So, we’ve compiled a list of fun things to do with kids in Wichita when it rains to help fight those rainy day blues!
When You Want to Get Out of the House
- First and foremost to check out our Guide to Indoor Fun in Wichita
- Play area at Towne East Mall or Chick-fil-A
- Go bowling
- Grab a coffee at CoFellow and let the little ones play in their indoor playground
- Ride the carousel at Botanica
- Visit Scheels to check out the fish tank, arcade, and candy shop
- Train table at Barnes and Noble
- Watermark Books
- Nifty Nuthouse
- Visit the fur babies at KS Humane Society (and TRY not to go home with a new friend)
- Explore or check out books at a Wichita Public Library
- Jump at a trampoline park
- Great Plains Nature Center
- Go roller skating or ice skating
- Exploration Place
- Chuck E. Cheese
- YMCA open swim/gym or rockwall
- The zoo because you’re likely to get it all to yourself
- Museum of World Treasures//Wichita Art Museum (now free!) // Kansas Aviation Museum//Ulrich Museum of Art (free)//Kansas Underground Salt Museum (in Hutch)
- And when desperate times call for desperate measures – a trip to Target always saves the day
When You’re Stuck Inside
- Create an indoor obstacle course
- Give the kids a box and watch the imagination unfold
- Make a pillow fort
- Have a Netflix marathon, complete with popcorn and sleeping bags
- Go on a smartphone ABC scavenger hunt (kids snap pics of something starting with each letter)
- Turn on some tunes and have a dance party
- Play a board game
- Get artsy with some edible finger paint like this
- Play hide and seek
- Have an indoor picnic
- Have a bathtub pool party – swimsuits and glow sticks included
- Collect rain water in a container and predict how long it will take to fill
