Touring factories is an educational activity for families. Chip's Chocolate Factory (chipschocolatefactory.com) is located in Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri. It is open to the public with free demonstrations and samples, and is the home of "Kansas City Fudge." Also located in Crown Center is Hallmark's headquarters. At the Hallmark Visitors Center (corporate.hallmark.com) next door, you can go on a tour involving exhibits and interactive displays. You might get lucky and "virtually" visit with Hoops and Yoyo.
Strolling through rooms filled with spectacular artwork or rooms filled with nostalgic toys are both museum opportunities that are available in Kansas City, Missouri. A free museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (nelson-atkins.org) is known to be a very comprehensive museum. It houses more than 28,000 art pieces. The Toy and Miniature Museum (toyandminiaturemuseum.org) is a specialty museum located in a 38-room house. It is filled with nostalgic toys, fine-scale miniatures and marbles.
Watching animals wander or actually interacting with them is something that most children love to do. The Kansas City Zoo (kansascityzoo.org) is in Kansas City, Missouri. It is a favorite zoo among families, with more than 1,000 animals roaming 202 acres of land. Another kind of animal activity is Faulkner's Ranch & Pumpkin Farm (faulknersranch.com), which has a petting zoo, offer pony rides, hay rides and various other activities.
Creating art or speeding downhill in a roller coaster are family activities available in Kansas City, Missouri. Kaleidoscope (hallmarkkaleidoscope.com) is a place where children create art with Hallmark scrap material such as shooting stars and melted crayons. They have themed areas such as "The Outer Space Room", where kids can use Glow-Doodle to do light play on the walls or fluorescent markers to create their art. Outdoor activities can be found at Worlds of Fun (worldsoffun.com), a theme park with seven roller coasters and at the waterpark next door, Oceans of Fun.
