Magic House

Outdoor Spaces

Explore not only the hundreds of engaging indoor exhibits, but also discover the beautiful hand-on outdoor areas at The Magic House! 

Nature Play

Nature Play

Explore nature in this unique outdoor space. Make mud pies in the โ€œmud kitchenโ€, explore a shallow creek bed while building rock towers, and create a stick structure alongside native Missouri plants. Located in Backyard Magic area, Nature Play is open year-round.

Play Garden

Play Garden

Follow the winding brick pathway through a beautiful Play Garden. Discover musical instruments, a kaleidoscope, hedge maze and Hopscotch from Around the World. Splash in a circular stream, dig in a giant sandbox under a shaded pergola and spin a granite ball water sculpture.

Waterfall Patio

Waterfall Patio

A beautiful stone waterfall is the backdrop to an outdoor water play space featuring a multi-level water table that invites exploration and play with spinning water wheels, pumps, and tip buckets. In cooler weather the water table is converted to a sensory table with colorful rocks to investigate.

Sunshine Classroom

Sunshine Classroom

A rooftop garden open seasonally from Earth Day through early October that brings to life the book Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert. Dig in different types of soil, help water the plants, explore a variety of seeds at the potting bench, tend to a pretend vegetable garden and become a seed as you learn about the plant cycle.

Kids Construction Zone

Kids Construction Zone

Grab a hard hat and report for work at a construction site! Shovel rocks, load up a wheelbarrow, lay bricks to complete the walls of a building, add plumbing pipes to a house under construction and drive a skid-steer loader while exploring the many jobs found at a work site.

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