Storybook Forest
Come and immerse yourself in the fairy tales from classic literature. You and your child can use your imagination through role play, dressing up, gliding down tree slides, acting in the Puppet Theater, and creating memories as you discover the magic of the forest.
The Storybook Forest helps develop gross and fine motor skills, while teaching kids about cooperative play and problem solving.
This attraction was made possible by a grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
Come and immerse yourself in the fairy tales from classic literature. You and your child can use your imagination through role play, dressing up, gliding down tree slides, acting in the Puppet Theater, and creating memories as you discover the magic of the forest.Peter Rabbit Bunny Patch Toddler Area
Toddlers can now enjoy their own space to explore and play in the Bunny Patch Toddler Area. Sorry, no big kids allowed! This area is for 36” and under. Your little toddler can play with wall puzzles, blocks, and climb over and under bunny mounds!
This exhibit was made possible in part by a grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
Toddlers can now enjoy their own space to explore and play in the Bunny Patch Toddler Area. Sorry, no big kids allowed! This area is for 36” and under. Your little toddler can play with wall puzzles, blocks, and climb over and under bunny mounds!Up, Up, and Away
The Up, Up, and Away exhibit includes creative flight! Children can create their own aircraft from fairous foam pieces, raise them into the air on the lift and explore which designs fly best.
A-Mazing Airways is a clear, pneumatic tube system with diverter boxes that children can open and close to change the pathway of the balls, scarves, and other objects that move through the tubes using the power of the air.
The Up, Up, and Away exhibit includes creative flight! Children can create their own aircraft from fairous foam pieces, raise them into the air on the lift and explore which designs fly best.Shop-A-Lot Market
Does your little one love going grocery shopping with you?
Well, now it’s their turn! Your little one can shop for realistic foods with mini shopping carts through our deli, bakery, and produce sections.
Rather work the cash register than shop? We’ve got you covered.
Does your little one love going grocery shopping with you?Wreck Resort Car Care Center
It’s time for your child to suit up for their mechanic job! Your child can use tools to work on a kid sized car, write up work orders & run their own shop.
The Raceway, incorporates basic scientific principles of motion, aerodynamics, velocity, cause and effect of speed and weight as well as basic ideas of building and timing through the assembling, tinkering, and racing of cars on a downhill track.
Lickety Split Soda Shop & Diner
It’s time to serve some great food in our updated Diner.
Read through menus, be a host, chef, or customer, and most importantly, don’t forget to take the pizza out of the brick oven!
Check in frequently for our cultural menus!
It’s time to serve some great food in our updated Diner.Paleontology
RAWR! This STEM learning exhibit will help advance your child for the Next Generation Science Standards that has been implemented in public schools.
Your little paleontologist can dig a dino site, track for dinosaur fossil footprints, build a dino table, and learn the importance of our Earth’s history.
This exhibit was made possible in part by a grant from the Community Foundation of Kankakee and will incorporate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning into your child’s play.
RAWR! This STEM learning exhibit will help advance your child for the Next Generation Science Standards that has been implemented in public schools.STEAM Learning Lab
Explore your senses in this open-ended exhibit full of science concepts and manipulatives.
Maker Space learning is available as well as daily STEAM concepts available to touch, feel, hear, and see. Create a masterpiece with a variety of media and recycled materials available to make and take your creations with you.
This exhibit was made possible in part by an in-kind donation from the Kankakee County Convention and Visitors Bureau and will incorporate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning into your child’s play.
Explore your senses in this open-ended exhibit full of science concepts and manipulatives.Pet Clinic
Sniffle Sniffle! Have no fear our veterinarians are here! Your child can act as a veterinarian and exam tables, x-ray machines, grooming station, boarding kennels, and read various stuffed animals charts.
Or your child can play the pet owner and have a reception area role where they are in the waiting area viewing related learning reading material.
Your little one can also use their imaginations to identify the basic principles of animal care, while acting on their care and compassion of healthy, sick or injured stuffed animals.
A special recognition to the Community Foundation of Kankakee River Valley and VCA County West Animal Hospital for their generous support in making this exhibit possible.
Sniffle Sniffle! Have no fear our veterinarians are here! Your child can act as a veterinarian and exam tables, x-ray machines, grooming station, boarding kennels, and read various stuffed animals charts.Temporary Exhibit
Stop in from time to time to explore different levels in this changing exhibit!