Little visitors

[cjmcinty]

I have some family coming into town this weekend with a 5 year old and a 2 year old. We're planning to go the aquarium, but we're looking for a couple of other kid friends options. Zoo is out, and we've already talked about the fair. Any other suggestions? Are there any places where kids can bake or decorate cookies or paint pottery?

Thanks!

[Breadburner]

The pizza place with the big rat......

[Townsend]

Purple glaze on brookside across from Mecca and Puck's.  A good place for them to paint pottery.  Great people there.

[Miss Solemnis]

You might check Sage culinary studio for children on Brookside.  Don't know much about the place, other than the fact that it exists.  Website shows they do Saturday events, but they don't seem to have an October calendar posted.   

[RecycleMichael]

Tulsa Stained Glass has a cool little studio at 41st and Memorial. The kids make a tile and glass mosaic for less than ten bucks a piece.

The splash pad park at 41st and Riverside is good for that age group. Cool little water playground and interesting playground with lots of parental seating...

I think Gilcrease Museum is very cool and has some real hands-on exhibits for that age child. The garden were favorites of my kids on a nice day.

[cjmcinty]

The pizza place with the big rat......

chuck e. cheese huh. how original! was kind of trying to think outside of the box

[pmcalk]

Between the two, Incredible Pizza is better than Chuck e. Cheese.  Not my favorite place, but my kids love it, the food is a little more edible, and its clean.

Don't forget the Air & Space museum--they have some great hands on activities.  Purple Glaze is great--there is another location out south, if you aren't near Brookside.  This weekend the Youth Symphony has a free concert at the PAC.  It's designed for young children, though 2 may be a little young.  If the weather is nice, the Carmichael pumpkin patch is a lot of fun for kids.

[Hoss]

Between the two, Incredible Pizza is better than Chuck e. Cheese.  Not my favorite place, but my kids love it, the food is a little more edible, and its clean.

Don't forget the Air & Space museum--they have some great hands on activities.  Purple Glaze is great--there is another location out south, if you aren't near Brookside.  This weekend the Youth Symphony has a free concert at the PAC.  It's designed for young children, though 2 may be a little young.  If the weather is nice, the Carmichael pumpkin patch is a lot of fun for kids.

+1 for the ASM.  It's fairly new and it's also not far from the zoo, although you've already said that's out.

[cannon_fodder]

Gotta ask, why is the zoo out?
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We always enjoyed hiking (or with the littler ones, wondering around in the woods more than hiking) with our kids.  There are several good places to go around Tulsa that aren't a hard hike or that long:  Turkey Mountain, Oxley, Red Bud (favorite), or around Lake Keystone there are several.

If you want to make more a day trip out of it you could go to Woolaroc (North near Bartleville) which has a Western museum as well as all kinds of exotic and not-so exotic animals (from Elk to Zebra roaming around to miniature goats in a farm-like setting).  On the ground there are also several hiking trails and not too far away is a large heard of wild mustangs (government program to keep them off of grazing land).  Additionally in that general area is the Tallgrass Prairie reserve, an open area with miles and miles of open restored prairie and a large buffalo heard roaming around.

I wish I could say we had a nice children's museum too . . . but alas.

[cjmcinty]

I was actually hoping to go the zoo while they are here, because I haven't been yet, but they live in St. Louis and go to the zoo regularly throughout the summer. Wanted to do something different this weekend.

Gotta ask, why is the zoo out?
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We always enjoyed hiking (or with the littler ones, wondering around in the woods more than hiking) with our kids.  There are several good places to go around Tulsa that aren't a hard hike or that long:  Turkey Mountain, Oxley, Red Bud (favorite), or around Lake Keystone there are several.

If you want to make more a day trip out of it you could go to Woolaroc (North near Bartleville) which has a Western museum as well as all kinds of exotic and not-so exotic animals (from Elk to Zebra roaming around to miniature goats in a farm-like setting).  On the ground there are also several hiking trails and not too far away is a large heard of wild mustangs (government program to keep them off of grazing land).  Additionally in that general area is the Tallgrass Prairie reserve, an open area with miles and miles of open restored prairie and a large buffalo heard roaming around.

I wish I could say we had a nice children's museum too . . . but alas.

[Hoss]

I was actually hoping to go the zoo while they are here, because I haven't been yet, but they live in St. Louis and go to the zoo regularly throughout the summer. Wanted to do something different this weekend.

Take them if possible.  For a city of our smaller size, we have a pretty nice zoo.

[Conan71]

If you were up for about a 2 hour car trip, the Jasmine Moran Children's Museum in Seminole is a great place.

http://www.jasminemoran.com/frameset.html

Perhaps links to more ideas here.

http://www.travelok.com/cities/city.asp?city=Tulsa

Does anyone know if that museum just SW of the Bishop Kelley campus is still there or did it get converted to some other use?

[rwarn17588]

Gotta ask, why is the zoo out?

Because when you've got a family that regularly goes to the St. Louis Zoo, which is the best in the country with the possible exception of San Diego's, going to the Tulsa Zoo is not doing anyone any favors.

This is not the disparage the Tulsa Zoo. It's just that it simply doesn't compare to St. Louis'. It's pretty obvious this family is looking for something a little different than what they get back home.

I'd do Tallgrass Prairie. It's about 75 minutes north of town, but where else are you going to see buffalo in their natural environment?

[pmcalk]

If you were up for about a 2 hour car trip, the Jasmine Moran Children's Museum in Seminole is a great place.

http://www.jasminemoran.com/frameset.html

Perhaps links to more ideas here.

http://www.travelok.com/cities/city.asp?city=Tulsa

Does anyone know if that museum just SW of the Bishop Kelley campus is still there or did it get converted to some other use?

It's been gone for many years now.


There is a new one (forgot the name) out at 61st & Sheridan.  Not great, but not bad either.  http://www.kaleidoscopecm.com/ 

[Conan71]

RW reminded me of Woolaroc