At Camp Invention, children invent, build, question, and discover. They experience real-world problem solving and creative thinking as they transform the terrain and ecosystem of a distant exoplanet, take risks as future entrepreneurs, blast rockets and rubber chickens, and wire a circuit to create their own Spy Gadget Alarm Box! Local educators lead a week of hands-on activities that fuel children’s 21st century skills. 

Thank you for your interest in Central Christian Academy (CCA) for your child’s education. As a ministry of Central Christian Church for more than 35 years, our mission is to partner with the local church and Christian families who desire both quality academics and a Christ-centered, biblically-based education for their children.

By the time a child graduates from high school, they will have spent more than 14,000 hours in a school setting being instructed and mentored by their teachers. Therefore, the choice you make regarding which school your children attends is one of critical importance, both from an academic point of view and, more importantly, in terms of spiritual development. As Jesus said, “… everyone who is fully trained will be like his/her teacher.” (Luke 6:40). The faculty and staff at CCA are carefully selected for their academic excellence and their Christ-like example.

Nestled in the heart of the Museums on the River district just five minutes from downtown in the Riverside neighborhood, the Wichita Art Museum is home to a nationally renowned collection of American art.

As the largest art museum in the state of Kansas, WAM houses one of the country’s premier collections with 7,000 works in our permanent collection, including masterpieces by Mary Cassatt and Edward Hopper.

The Museum features two dramatic and large-scale works by Seattle glass artist Dale Chihuly. Inspired by the intricate patterns of traditional Persian glass, the Persian Seaform Installation provides a stunning first impression at the Museum’s entrance and hanging in the S. Jim and Darla Farha Great Hall is the Confetti Chandelier.

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. Discover why Sedgwick County Zoo is the No. 1 outdoor family tourist attraction in Kansas. Come out and play!

Our Mission: Inspiring a deeper interest in science through creative and fun experiences for all ages. Exploration Place has hands-on exhibits, birthday party packages, classes for all ages, and much more.

At Learning Lab Wichita, our learning opportunities focus on personalized learning, which helps students explore their interests and talents. We have a diverse range of offerings this summer for different ages of students. Try printmaking, circuitry or sports journalism – and, in July, explore our CTE offerings via our exclusive partnership with WSU Tech. Offerings are being continuously updated!

Girl Scout camp is the perfect place for girls to try new things, overcome fears, gain confidence, and make new friends. All in an environment designed just for her. From arts to zip lining, there’s something for every girl at one of our summer camps.

Girls can visit our sprawling camp in the Flint Hills, Camp Four Winds, or stay a little closer to home at Starwoods Outdoor Center, just south of Wichita. Opportunities from Day Camps to week-long Resident Camps offer girls a variety of camping experiences to enjoy.

For more information, call 316-684-6531 or email [email protected].

Garten’s Music is a family-owned retail store  that opened in 1969, now featuring keyboard instruments, guitars, ukuleles, music books and more! Band instruments are also available for rental or purchase. In addition, the Wichita Music Academy offers lessons for children and adults in piano, guitar, bass, ukulele, voice, violin, viola, cello, brass, woodwinds, and drums and percussion. All of our instructors must pass four background checks, and all of them have university training and/or professional performance experience. We believe that learning to make music should be fun and that students should learn the music they want to play! Our students earn trophies, wristbands and certificates for achieving musical milestones.

Color Me Mine offers painting on ceramics for all ages. Stop in to enjoy a fun family atmosphere. Choose from hundreds of ceramic shapes and dozens of colors topaint with! It’s a great place to spend quality time with friends, family, co-workers or a date, just relaxing and being creative together! Our talented staff will help you create your very own ceramic masterpiece. It’s so easy – anyone can do it! Great for Birthday Parties, Showers, Handprint Keepsakes, Holiday Platters, Fundraisers, School Programs, Scouting and gift making. Everyone’s an artist at Color Me Mine.

At JAG our mission is to help our students meet their full potential while in a fun and safe environment. We offer classes starting from 18 months up to adult classes. Our classes include boys and girls recreational gymnastics, tumbling, and ninja warrior for ages 6 & up, preschool for ages 1.5 to 5, urban gymnastics for ages 16 & up. We have both boys and girls competitive gymnastics teams. We also offer camps, birthday parties, mom’s day out, parent’s night out, and more!

Our dedicated coaching staff and low camper to coach ratios provide ample individual attention and instruction tailored to your child’s skill level. Campers build friendships and life-long memories as they improve their game through activities such as station-based swing instruction, on-course play with coaches, rules and etiquette lessons, fun games, trivia challenges and academic lessons including STEM. Multiple locations in the Greater Wichita Area.

Everything we do, from HappyFeet classes and birthday parties to Legends skill sessions and games, is designed to teach and encourage our players to take a risk, try a new skill—and when they do, we celebrate it as if that risk or attempted skill was in fact winning the game! It is our mission to build into our coaches, parents, and players the understanding that the process—practicing, attempting new skills, developing mental and physical coordination—is the win, not simply the means to a win.

So try one of our HappyFeet or Legends programs. Don’t come expecting white painted lines or even players standing in lines. Come expecting organized chaos on the field where your child will have a blast while getting hundreds of touches on a soccer ball. Expect a coach that knows how to teach and encourage your child to take a risk and try a new move or shot. And remember when your little soccer star takes that risk—that’s your cue to throw your hands in the air and celebrate like crazy!

When they are not in the saddle, campers will learn how to care for horses and will engage in hands on activities to help them learn in a safe environment! Campers will leave their week long camp equipped with basic horse care and horsemanship knowledge with a new found sense of pride and confidence after spending their week learning how to safely and correctly ride our magnificent horses. Call 316-651-0876 for more details or to enroll today!

Riverside Music Together is a center in Wichita, Kansas that offers family music classes. We are an accredited provider of Music Together^®—an internationally recognized music education program for children from birth through age 5 and the grownups who love them!

When your family joins our community, you and your child will be immersed in a world of participatory music-making, where the combination of singing, movement, and instrumental play is facilitated by a certified music teacher trained in early childhood music education and licensed to teach the Music Together curriculum. The songs and other high-quality music materials we use, crafted through 25 years of research into how children’s music awareness develops, are included in the cost for families to take home.

At Riverside Music Together, you’ll nurture your child’s music potential in the important early years while supporting their overall development, and you’ll have fun together doing something we all enjoy—making music!  

Perfect for anyone that likes to create – their wide variety of classes will make anyone happy! Register now for painting, sculpture, Lego, tech, cooking and science classes.