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The Fit Kid events are from 4 to 7pm on the first Friday of every month. Kids under 12 are invited to complete a fitness challenge when they arrive to earn their free admission. The children’s museum opened in 1979, and somewhere around here I’ve got a button to prove it.
Spider-Man Day at MADE for Kids
The Magic House engages all children in hands-on learning experiences that spark imagination, pique curiosity, enhance creativity and develop problem-solving skills within a place of beauty, wonder, joy and magic. The Magic House has frequent special events, generally giving participants access to play in the museum afterward. One of the most popular, Big Truck Day, will blow the minds of your young vehicle lovers. Generally held in the fall, it’s a ticketed event that brings cranes, fire trucks, bucket lifts, sleeper cab trucks, and more up close for examination and exploration.
Dinosaur Train: The Traveling Exhibit
Admission also includes a hot dog lunch and private playtime in Trike Town. Cultural events, too, like an observance of the Hindu festival of colors, Holi, and a German Easter celebration, draw crowds. Finally, holiday breakfasts and evenings with characters like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are annual traditions. Everything you need to know about the kids' museum's exhibits, special events, and memberships, plus info about its satellite location, MADE for Kids. This included a large wrap-around porch, an expanded lobby and an elevator that allowed the Museum to be accessible to all visitors.
The Magic House to open new location in St. Louis - KSDK.com
The Magic House to open new location in St. Louis.
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Nature Play
Kids can learn to launch everything from rockets to small businesses in The Magic House @ MADE, which opened to the public today. The Magic House’s first permanent satellite location, at 5127 Delmar, isn’t a museum. Rather, it’s an interactive space where kids can get hands-on experience working with low-tech looms, high-tech laser cutters, and much more. Everyone from grandparents on down can have fun at The Magic House, but the exhibits are mostly designed for younger children. The “For Baby & Me” area features a peek-a-boo barn, baby gym, and miniature school bus.
We are honored to have provided families in the St. Louis region, and around the country, a place where imaginations are sparked, curiosity is piqued, and problem-solving skills are developed through a variety of hands-on experiences. There are also dozens of activities for elementary school-aged children, such as the kid-sized community with a bank, grocery store, library, and fishing pond. Tweens enjoy the recurring exhibit called "Kirkwood Safety Town," which frequently opens in the weeks around back-to-school time in the fall. In this mock neighborhood, kids learn about fire, water, and traffic safety, and they can even get fitted for a bike helmet. Older kids also enjoy the chance to star in a television newscast and have fun with an electrically charged ball you can touch to make your hair stand on end. At the "Make-It Workshop," they can see how a 3D printer works or build a sculpture from recycled materials.
Located just two blocks west of Kingshighway, the facility is on the second floor of the adult makerspace MADE STL. Free parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis on the private lot to the west of and directly across the street from The Magic House, MADE for kids’ building. Grab all the neighborhood kids–or your local youth group–and you can have tickets for just $6! You need 15 people to get the group rate, with one adult for each 5 kids you bring. The Magic House is well worth it’s $12 admission fee, but this gets a little expensive if you have a big family.
A little pricey when you pay the same price for everyone, one year and older. The Magic House, St. Louis Children’s Museum embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion as essential to our mission. We value and seek to support the uniqueness of each member of our community including their race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and identity, ability, age, socioeconomic level and religious/spiritual identities. Scholarships are available for St. Louis area organizations that serve children’s in need of financial assistance. MADE for kids is located in St. Louis’ Delmar Maker’s District on Delmar Boulevard between the Central West End and the Delmar Loop.
Special Events & Programs
Toddlers can spend their time at “A Little Bit of Magic,” a fun exhibit that includes a textured tunnel to crawl through, a sandbox for digging, and a mirror maze. With that long-term vision in mind, the Cortex Innovation Community contributed $500,000 toward equipment, exhibits, operation, and free admission and programs for children and families from underserved areas. Overall, organizers aim for 50 percent of visitors to attend free or at reduced rates, according to Beth Fitzgerald, president of The Magic House, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
Founded in 1979, this interactive children’s museum provides fun hands-on learning activities that encourage creativity. The museum staff loves to help children understand science, history, and the world around them through exhibits that involve them in the action. Family Plus ($250) is a great option for parents and kids from a single household who want to get into both museums. Among other tools, the art area features potter’s wheels, a screen printer, and a colorful display of markers and other supplies that’s a work of art on its own. The makers’ space, sponsored by the Ameren Corporation Charitable Trust, showcases sewing machines, a laser cutter, and an area where visitors can apply basic coding skills by using special markers to design a path for a tiny Ozobot robot. The Ozobot can change speed, direction, or even spin or zigzag according to the color codes in its path.
Parking is FREE at the Magic House in their large lot in the back. In the summer and on weekends, additional parking is available at Nipher Middle School, right next door to the Magic House, and Concordia Lutheran Church across the street. Visit our website for schedules of changing exhibits, activities and events. Went there with our son and his family to let the grandkids run around.
The recycling/upcycling craft area offers fun tools from scissors and needle/thread to hot glue guns. This exhibit transports kids back to the time of dinosaurs and encourages basic scientific learning. Oldham is a freelance writer and Teach For America alumna who has taught middle school, high school, college, and adult education classes in the St. Louis area. In the entrepreneurs’ marketplace, they can design buttons and business cards to market their ideas and inventions. And the Magic House @ MADE even features some real-world examples of products created by kids who’ve done just that. The MADE acronym defines the facility’s four sections, a Makers’ Space, Artists’ Studio, Designers’ Lab, and Entrepreneurs’ Marketplace, with each area offering several activities and design challenges to spark kids’ creativity.
