For more than 40 years, the Wichita Children’s Theatre & Dance Center has been a staple of the Wichita Arts Community. A non-profit theatre and dance school, its mission is to provide arts opportunities to young people of all ages and backgrounds in Wichita and the surrounding area. Now with satellite schools at Marks Arts in east Wichita and in downtown El Dorado, the Wichita Children’s Theatre & Dance Center is proud to enhance the cultural life of south-central Kansas by providing the highest quality performing arts education to its youth.
We will be offering classes in ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, music theatre and acrobats. At Kansas Dance Academy, you will find a professional, adult staff dedicated to teaching the art of dance to all ages. For more information and schedules, please call us at 316-684-2848.
Originally founded as the Wichita Art Association in 1920, Mark Arts is the area’s oldest and most comprehensive visual arts organization. For more than 100 years, Mark Arts has made art and arts education available to the citizens of Wichita and the surrounding communities.
The School of Creativity provides a 9,500-square-foot continuing education facility dedicated to art instruction for adults, teens and children.
- Painting & Drawing
- Culinary Arts
- Printmaking
- Pottery
- Sculpture
- Enameling
- Jewelry Making & Metalsmithing
- and More
Mark Arts offers a 14,000-square-foot gallery with annual exhibitions showcasing regional and national artists. Exhibitions include:
- John Newsom’s Universal Frontier
- Gaze featuring Women Artists
- School of Creativity Student and Faculty Exhibitions
- Brenda Lichman and Tim Stone
- National Watercolor Exhibition
- Abstract National Exhibition
- Eastern Kansas Scholastic Art Awards Exhibition
- Congressional Art Awards
The Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
ADMISSION IS FREE.
Wichita Gymnastics has been serving recreational and competitive gymnasts in South Central Kansas with a tradition of excellence since 1969. With a quality, caring staff, innovative teaching progressions, unparalleled organization and the best equipped facilities in the country, WGC has risen to become imitated and respected throughout our region.
Our primary emphasis is on positive self-image, physical conditioning, coordination and development to the child’s fullest potential. We have one location in Wichita, KS; we are located just west of 37th and Webb.
Staff members at WGC are chosen for their maturity (adults), sensitivity, expertise, enthusiasm and positive caring approach to teaching children. We are very proud of our staff and facilities. Come in and take a look!
Ballet Wichita offers ongoing classes at Ballet Wichita. The Institute, a training program that focuses on classical ballet technique offers classes for students who are just beginning ballet (as young as 3.5 years) to dancers who’s pointe shoes have been long neglected and to those who have always been interested and are finally ready to take that big step and enroll in a ballet class. What better way to welcome the new year!
For the serious dance students, our highly trained faculty will work to inspire the whole student to be both an accomplished dancer and a healthy, strong, confident athlete. Students will experience a structured curriculum offered in a nurturing and positive environment, targeting and exploring each student’s strengths and abilities. At the Institute, we offer a multi-skill level system, providing students with a unique curriculum allowing them to observe and learn from each other.
Botanica was opened to the public in May 1987 to generate enthusiasm for horticulture and enlighten people through educational, artistic, and cultural experiences. With this mission, Botanica’s gardens and programs expand public awareness of horticulture, educate Kansans about how nature can improve their daily lives, and assist in the promotion of community development.
Christian Performance Theater (CP Theatre) is a fall, winter and spring after-school theater arts program in all aspects of the performing arts. Students ages 5-18 are instructed in voice, drama, dance, improvisation, musical theater and more. Ages 8-18 currently enrolled in the class session are welcome to audition for a Broadway-style production. Parents also make a commitment to serve as a vital and active participant of the production by serving on production committees. We round out the year with our summer camps combining games, summer fun and opportunities for learning and growing in theatrical skills.
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.
We offer a full range of dance classes for children and young adults, summer programs, master classes, and workshops with visiting instructors.
OUR MISSION:
To develop a lifelong love of dance, movement, and physical fitness, to foster an appreciation of the art form, and to provide excellence in dance education.
Music Theatre Wichita creates a joyful summer of Broadway-scale productions and unparalleled educational opportunities for aspiring artists and technicians.
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!
As you tour Tanganyika our guides will give you many opportunities not only learn about the animals, but in many cases interact directly with them. This hands-on approach gives you a rare chance to connect with some of natures most unique and often endangered species.
Because Tanganyika is dedicated to education and animal preservation, your visit not only supports your experience at the park, but the very survival of many of the rare animals that call Tanganyika home.
Tanganyika’s breeding programs play an important role in preserving genetic diversity among captive populations, and Tanganyika participates in several international projects to preserve wild population in their natural habitats.
We hope your experience at the Park will provide a sense of peace, exhilaration, respect and resolve to help ensure survival of these wonderful birds and animals around the world.
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.
Field Station: Dinosaurs is a world-class family attraction that combines cutting-edge science with the creative minds of great artists and teachers to create a one-of-a-kind experience that’s thrilling, educational and fun.
Set against the natural backdrop of rolling Kansas grasslands, the Field Station is just minutes outside Wichita, Kansas. Over 40 life-sized, realistic dinosaurs (including the 90-foot long Alamosaurus, among the largest animatronic dinosaurs ever made) come to life thanks to the brilliant engineering of the world’s leading roboticists and the imagination of our artists. The park also includes Kansas Climb – a geodesic dome ropes course and Jurassic Golf, creating memorable and challenging activities for every member of the family.
The story of the dinosaurs is vividly presented on 14 acres of tall grasses, shady trees, winding trails and an outdoor amphitheatre. Scientists from the Bighorn Basin Paleontological Institute have worked to ensure that the exhibition encompasses the latest theories and discoveries in the fields of paleontology, geology and environmental studies. Workshops, games and activities connect the story of the dinosaurs to our world today, giving new relevance to their lives and power to the tale of their extinction.
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.
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!
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!
Acrobatic Academy Fitness & Education Center, Inc. is a family-oriented business that provides motor skill development, physical fitness and educational activities for our students, emphasizing positive self-image.
Acrobatic Academy, Inc. has been serving the Wichita and surrounding communities since 1977, offering quality instruction in non-competitive gymnastics, dance, cheer, youth & adult fitness, martial arts, educational pre-school and daycare, and Summer Red Cross swim lessons. The goal of our certified staff is to help students achieve a positive attitude and learn the importance of physical fitness.
Our students enjoy participating in class with experienced instructors who are chosen for their enthusiasm, ability to communicate with children and their caring, positive attitudes.
We offer classes for children and adults at all ages and levels, as well as parent-tot and special needs classes. Our kid-sit service is available for parents wanting to work out or observe a class.
Our facilities include a variety of equipment, air conditioning, and 26,000 square feet of space.
Wichita’s elite cheerleading & tumbling program for ages 3-18.
All Star Sports in West Wichita is your place for family fun! We feature go karts, mini golf, laser tag, climbing wall, driving range and an arcade! Seasonally we also have bumper boats and batting cages. Voted best birthday parties in Wichita and Wichita Eagle Readers Choice Award for Best Family Attraction for the past 7 years. Come visit us for fun with your family and friends.
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.
Flexible Nutrition is a group nutrition practice of 3 Registered Dietitian Nutritionists that are passionate about helping women and their families find a flexible approach to improving their nutrition and health. We provide individual nutrition counseling from a weight-inclusive and intuitive eating approach – meaning we focus primarily on sustainable behavior change and lifestyle improvements instead of a hyper-focus on your weight as the sole determiner of your health or success. We see babies to older adults, and work with a variety of health conditions/concerns, such as: Heart Disease, Diabetes, PCOS/Hormone Concerns, Eating Disorders, Sports Nutrition/General Fitness, Gastrointestinal Concerns, Food Allergies and much more. We also take a handful of insurances that may cover your nutrition counseling services up to 100% – contact us today to learn more!
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!
Summer Basketball League – WASP – Wichita Area Sports Programs
The Summer Basketball League was established with the goal of providing kids an opportunity to play off-season basketball in a organized format. The focus will be for kids to continue improving their skills and staying active with a basketball in the off-season while continuing to play summer in-season sports. WASP will provide a reversible jersey, eight games with officials and an end of season ALL-STAR GAME. To sign up, please fill out the registration form online. Early registration is discounted and recommended, as participants are limited due to event space. You will have the opportunity to reference friends or coaches that you want on your team. They will do our best to accommodate these requests. If you want to coach, please complete the volunteer information within the registration form.
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!
Sleepover Tiny Tents + Outdoor Fun Rentals. Let us help make your child’s next celebration special with Glamping Tents or an Outside Inflatable Water Park! Or book our White Bounce House Castle for your wedding, kids party or photography mini session!! We also have a White Castle Ball Pit for 1-4 year olds with 3000 balls to match the theme of your choice!!
Andover, KS
Our small, family business would love to host your next birthday party or special occasion at our farm!
We offer adorable themed miniature pony parties in our beautiful red barn! Enjoy pony interactions and take them for a walk around our cute, colorful obstacle course.
We also offer miniature horse cart rides around our tree-lined property; a favorite with all the kids! Add on the archery course to your party for a fun cart ride adventure or add the carriage top for an adorable princess or unicorn themed party!
You can also enjoy our shaded, one-of-a-kind tree house area and old fashioned games that’s sure to provide plenty of entertainment for everyone! End an evening party with s’mores and music around the fire pit.
Contact us today to reserve Morning Grit Farm for your next special celebration!
Photos and party details are found on Facebook at “Morning Grit Farm, LLC Parties.”
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Book a Stress-Free Birthday Party at BCAPA! Our done-for-you packages include custom invitations, a dedicated party host, a 1.5-hour party room reservation, a fun dance or Kindermusik class, and all the essentials like decorations, tableware, and more! Choose from our Classic, Deluxe, or Premium Packages to create a magical experience tailored just for your child. From enchanting dance classes, to themed adventures, BCAPA Birthday Parties turn dreams into reality. We’ll handle all of the details so you can enjoy the memories.
A space where you can experience holistic services that are intentional & purposeful. We are a small collective of professional practitioners constantly expanding our knowledge & skillset, able to explore avenues that we each feel best suit our individual & collective growth. We focus on holistic wellness because we believe that by looking at our purpose & existence as a whole, we can live our happiest lives while holding space for others on their wellness journey.
I work with individuals that want to improve their computer and business skills. I’m a certified Microsoft Office Specialist Master with nearly 30 years of technical education experience. My business is Dawn Monroe Training, offering one-on-one consulting, webinars, workshops, corporate training, speaking engagements and virtual production assistance.
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“The Wichita Toy Train Club” (WTTC) is an organization of collectors and operators for both classic tinplate and current hi-rail trains. Club members are generally oriented toward “O-gauge” (Lionel, MTH, Atlas, Williams, Weaver, Marx) and “S-gauge” (American Flyer). Some members are also interested in the larger “G” and smaller “HO” and “N” gauges, with some extensive layouts house at our museum. Come visit us, and we can put you in touch with many other model toy organizations.
Wichita’s Christmas store for fresh roasted coffees, teas & accessories, spices, cooking ingredients & tools, gifts, salsas, preserves, mugs…you name it!
Keep up to date with daily classes and special events at the studio and all over Wichita! Contact us to schedule a private class, lesson, or event.
Wichita Fit Body Boot Camp combines our signature Afterburn workouts, which keep your metabolism high and burning extra fat for up to 32 hours after each workout, with smart nutrition coaching and personalized accountability to deliver rapid, lasting, sustainable results*.
Come in to Wichita Fit Body Boot Camp today to see our positive, welcoming, high-energy community in action and start your journey to getting in the best shape of your life!
A sewing workroom for home textiles including: custom drapery, bedding, pillows, headboards, & ottomans. Retail sales of local art and artisan accessories.
Are you looking for a night out with friends? Is your inner DIY itching for a fun new project without having to buy all your own supplies and make a mess at your house? Then BOOK A CLASS at Board & Brush Creative Studio in Wichita.
Wichita is the largest city in Kansas, the home of Wichita State University and also known as the Air Capital. Wichita boasts a vibrant and growing arts and entertainment district. Douglas design district and Old Town feature many breweries, local shops and restaurants. Wichita has a distinct flag and also a large statue of “the keeper of the plains” both of which are a source of pride for the community.
WICHITA’S LITTLEST HEROES IS PASSIONATE about changing the landscape of what pediatric resources look like for generations to come in Kansas.
WE ARE FAMILY – NO ONE FIGHTS ALONE!
Thank you for your support to the families of Wichita’s Littlest Heroes! Your partnership is creating HOPE, HEALING AND HAPPINESS FOR KANSAS KIDS battling a life threatening medical condition!
Hi!! Is your little one having a hard time going to sleep, waking up often during naps or during the night!?! 4 The Love of Sleep is just for you!!! 4 The Love of Sleep is a sleep consulting business based out of Wichita, KS that specializes in creating individualized routines for newborns and up along with sleep training services. I will create a 12/24 hour routine based on your child’s specific age (and what their sleep and nutrient requirements are). I also offer online packages as well as in-person sleep training services, we can customize a package that fits the needs of your sleeper(s). I can have your little one sleeping in as little as three nights. As an RN in the Pediatric ICU, you’ll not only be getting a skilled sleep consultant but also a PICU RN that values safety and love along the way. You can email me or click the link to request more information. I look forward to chatting with you and getting your little one(s) napping better and sleeping through the night. xoxo
I came across Beautycounter and have been blown away with the quality and that they are a B Corporation that fights for stricter regulations on cosmetics.
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Here is my why: My journey started about 3 years ago when I switched from being a “catch all” photographer for the last 10 years to a photographer who caters towards women. For as long as I can remember I always wanted my mother to be confident and feel good about herself. You see, I grew up in a broken home, where abuse often happened and at a young age I was exposed to many things that I protect my daughters from today. One of those key factors is being put down by others. Nothing is more damaging then hearing you are not pretty enough, or smart enough, and let alone any and all emotional abuse. I remember looking at my mother’s 1980’s glamour shots, you know the ones with big fluffy bangs and feather boas, and thinking, “Wow, my mom looks so happy and beautiful.” That was before she endured many years of doubt. Her confidence just pours form those photographs. From those photos I found my why. I hope to show each and every woman that walks into my life a different feeling about themselves. Building their voice and confidence has became my everyday. With my photos I hope to show future generations that it’s okay to think highly of yourself and not to accept any doubt or pressures from others.
One of the most important things I want you to know is that when we are shooting in my studio or on-location it’s a judgement free zone. I am there to capture your beauty, your personality and everything that is uniquely you no matter what age, shape, size or race you are. My staff and I will not judge you in anyway, we are here to give you an experience of a lifetime.
It’s a time for you to embrace who you are.
We would love to meet each of you and show you a side of yourself you will fall in love with all over again. You got this babe! Building confidence is our main goal!