5 Fun Kansas City Holiday Traditions
December 1, 2011
Once your Kansas City mover has arrived, and things are unpacked, you will have time to come up for air and look into the holiday festivities in your new city. There is a lot to choose from!
1. Enjoy Christmas as Crown Center
This is a winter wonderland for children. They can play on the over-sized Crayola playground, see model trains running through a gingerbread village, sit on Santa’s lap, ice skate, watch holiday movies, and make Christmas crafts at Hallmark’s Kaleidoscope.
2. See Christmas at Union Station
See the Grand Hall, decorated for the holidays. Children and adults alike will enjoy the Christmas train exhibit, one of the largest model railroad displays in America, with trains of all sizes chugging through a winter scene. Children can ride the Historic Jones Store Train. They can also see Santa aboard the Kansas City Southern Holiday Express, a full size train decorated for Christmas.
3. Visit the Fairy Princess
Kline’s Department store, in 1935, came up with the idea to have a fairy princess that children could visit and tell their Christmas wishes. For 25 cents, each child would receive a present, which seemed to appear magically. Now, although Kline’s is closed, the Kansas City Museum has brought back the fairy princess. The price is now $5, but it is still worth the joy on the child’s face.
4. Ride a Train with Santa
There are several options for a train ride with Santa. Try the 45-minute trip on the Santa Train in Belton, Missouri at the Belton & Grandview Railroad. Or, in Baldwin Kansas, on the Midland Railway, have your photo taken with Santa.
5. Experience and Old Fashioned Christmas
Take a candlelight tour at the John Wornall House Museum. Walk the Shoal Creek Living History Museum. Visit their log cabins, school, church, and see St. Nicolas in velvety green robes. Ride the stagecoach at Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm, and decorate a gingerbread house. See Missouri Town 1855, where you will get in the festive mood as you tour the village along the luminary-lined paths.
With your Kansas City mover finished and gone, you will be able to get out and see some of these interesting and educational sites, and celebrate in the Christmas spirit.
(Photo attributed to flickr member @howcheng via the creative common license)
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