Events

Lions Club KidSight Screening

The Mankato Lions Club will visit the Children’s Museum on November 20, 2025 from 4:00-6:00pm for FREE vision screenings for Museum members or paid admission guests. Lions KidSight USA is a nationwide program bringing Lions clubs across the country together to ensure our children receive eye screenings and follow-up care when needed.

20 Nov - 19 Mar

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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Not a Box

Join us this non school day for a journey into your own imagination! Inspired by the book Not a Box by Antoinette Portis, we will be playing with boxes of many sizes accompanied by various materials to expand your ideas to your hearts content!

28 Nov

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

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Not a Box

Join us this non school day for a journey into your own imagination! Inspired by the book Not a Box by Antoinette Portis, we will be playing with boxes of many sizes accompanied by various materials to expand your ideas to your hearts content!

29 Nov

9:00 am - 2:00 pm

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Math Happens

Join us each and every weekend for Math Happens! A Math Room is a welcoming, hands-on space where visitors of all ages can explore math through play, puzzles, and discovery. Activities are designed to spark curiosity and invite open-ended exploration – no worksheets, no pressure. Just joyful, creative encounters with math in a comfortable setting. […]

29 Nov

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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Math Happens

Join us each and every weekend for Math Happens! A Math Room is a welcoming, hands-on space where visitors of all ages can explore math through play, puzzles, and discovery. Activities are designed to spark curiosity and invite open-ended exploration – no worksheets, no pressure. Just joyful, creative encounters with math in a comfortable setting. […]

30 Nov

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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Baby Play

Join us on the Infant and Toddler Play Porch! With a goal to support first-time parents or those who are caring for an infant, the Museum staff – who have a background in and a passion for early childhood development, will offer content specific to our birth to two age range.  Although topics such as […]

02 Dec

10:00 am - 11:30 am

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Bookmobile

The North Mankato Taylor Library Bookmobile makes weekly stops at the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota on Wednesday afternoons from 2-3pm. Join us for story time on the Lauri Kuch Memorial Stage each week!

03 Dec

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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Gingerbread House Workshop

Start or Continue a Holiday tradition. Come and build a gingerbread house with everything provided for you! We will even clean up the mess! Decorate a gingerbread house at the Museum, where you’ll get a pre-constructed house and a variety of decorative foods! Design your festive dream home, then leave the mess behind! Work on […]

04 Dec

3:30 pm - 6:30 pm

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STEAM Explorers

STEAM brings together a powerful combination of skills, techniques, and experiments! Join us weekly on Friday mornings to explore a variety of STEAM related child-led play activities!

05 Dec

9:00 am - 11:00 am

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Gingerbread House Workshop

Start or Continue a Holiday tradition. Come and build a gingerbread house with everything provided for you! We will even clean up the mess! Decorate a gingerbread house at the Museum, where you’ll get a pre-constructed house and a variety of decorative foods! Design your festive dream home, then leave the mess behind! Work on […]

06 Dec

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

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Math Happens

Join us each and every weekend for Math Happens! A Math Room is a welcoming, hands-on space where visitors of all ages can explore math through play, puzzles, and discovery. Activities are designed to spark curiosity and invite open-ended exploration – no worksheets, no pressure. Just joyful, creative encounters with math in a comfortable setting. […]

06 Dec

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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Math Happens

Join us each and every weekend for Math Happens! A Math Room is a welcoming, hands-on space where visitors of all ages can explore math through play, puzzles, and discovery. Activities are designed to spark curiosity and invite open-ended exploration – no worksheets, no pressure. Just joyful, creative encounters with math in a comfortable setting. […]

07 Dec

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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