There was a time when Kansas kids took the outdoors for granted. They just seemed to grow up outside. That time was spent working on the family farm, chasing frogs down by the ponds, wandering along the creeks and rivers, and scaring up rabbits along the fence rows. Kansas kids were no strangers to sunrises and sunsets, nor to the feel of wind, rain, or snow on their faces. Values learned from these times—responsibility, self-reliance, hard work and sharing—carried over into the lives they led. Kids Mission To provide multiple outdoor recreation opportunities for Kansas youth with adult partnering and mentoring to encourage outdoor recreational opportunities, and promote and provide an active lifestyle as an alternative to sedentary activities.
Program Scope O.K. Kids covers the entire state of Kansas. Primary sites are at the Kansas State Parks, but other organizations and venues such as City and County Parks and Recreation Departments and private sites also hold O.K. Kids Program Across the state of Kansas each year, over 40 sites sign up to host the O.K. Kids Program. Participation has steadily grown through 2017 with over 13,000 Kansas youth and their parents/grandparents annually enjoying their day outdoors at different sites throughout Kansas. Events are free to all participants and open to all.
Kids Program offers the opportunity for participants to experience the outdoor beauty of Kansas and to learn a little about its natural resources and wildlife through games and activities. Each site determines the specific activities it will offer participants based on the site’s resources and perceived community interests and needs. Kansas Wildscape provides the operating manuals, event signage, free participant caps or t-shirts, gifts, prizes and overall organizational, promotional and marketing support.
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Kids participate in outdoor games and activities including: fishing derbies fishing clinics horseshoes scavenger hunts sack races archery bird watching birdhouse building hiking outdoor cooking contests All events are free and provide a great way for families to spend time together outdoors. For many of these Kansas kids, this O.K. Kids Day will be an introduction to the beauty and enjoyment of the outdoors, for others a reawakening or reinforcing of their outdoor interests.
Kids Program Impact & Involvement The first year of the program was 2001, and was limited to a single day of activities at every Kansas State Park. Between 4,000 and 5,000 attended the first O.K. As the program has grown, it has become an annual program with most events held between May and September with over 14,000 youth and their families in attendance. To date, Kansas Wildscape has invested over $150,000 in our O.K.Kids program to help sites get started, promoted, and growing rapidly for years to come. Kansas Wildscape understands that this is a generation of children full of technology, constant activities and expectations, with strict boundaries set by parents and society to protect, and a shrinking sensory world. Today’s children are not “missing” nature, because they cannot miss something they have never truly had. It is our goal to help show our Kansas children the beauty of nature, an appreciation for nature, and a desire to seek out more nature in their life. By making this impact, we hope to help a child find a place of imagination, a place of fantasy, a place of peace, a place of discovery, a place of freedom, a place of privacy, and a place of transformation.
Below you will find 2018 O.K. Kids Day events throughout the state. Included is the name of the event as well as a contact number for more information (time, location, activities, age group, etc.). If the name of the city involved is not part of the event name, it is included after the event name. April: 19 - Earth Day 2018, Cross Timbers State Park - (620)637-2213 21 - O.K. Kids Day at OJ Watson Park, Wichita, Ks - (316)516-5753 24 - Conservation Kids Roundup, Colby Community Building, Colby, Ks - (785)899-3070 May 5 - Cheney Lake Association's O.K.
Kids Day, Cheney State Park, Ks - (316)299-8801 5 - Webster State Park O.K. Kids Day, Stockton, Ks - (785)-425-6775 5 - O.K. Kids Day, Meade State Park - (620)873-2572 5 - O.K. Kids Day, Fall River State Park - (620)637-2213 June 2 - D.Y.I. Nature, Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita, Ks - (316)683-5499 2 - Fishing Derby, Arkansas City, Ks - (620)441-4301 2 - SHRC Fishing Derby, Spring Hill, Ks - (913)592-2214 2 - 13th Annual Glen Elder Youth Fishing Tournament, Glen Elder State Park - (785)545-3345 3 - Cops n Bobbers Casting Contest, Edgerton, Ks - (913)208-1920 9 - Dillon Nature Center/Wal-mart O.K. Kids Day, Hutchinson, Ks - (620)663-7411 9 - Kids' Fishing Derby, Pomona State Park, Vasser, Ks - (785)969-3392 9 - O. Kids Day, Cedar Bluff State Park, Ellis, Ks - (785)726-3212 16 - Cops n Bobbers Olathe Fishing Camp, Cedar Lake, Olathe, Ks (913)208-1920 20 - Macksville City Library, Open House & Rock Hunting, Macksville, Ks (620)348-3555 30 - WRC OKKids Day, Island Park, Winfield, Ks - (620)221-2160 July 1 through 31 - City of Shawnee Parks and Rec Month Celebration, Herman Laird Park, Shawnee, Ks - (913)742-6405 4 - O.K.
Kids Day Fishing Derby, Riggs Park Lake, Haysville, Ks - (316)529-5922 August 11 - 14th Annual O.K. Kids Day, Clinton State Park, Lawrence, Ks - (785)842-8562 25 - Tuttle Creek State Park O.K. Kids Day, Friends of Tuttle Creek, Manhattan, Ks - (785)313-3067 September 1 - Cops n Bobbers Desoto Casting Contest, Desoto City Park, Desoto, Ks (913)208-1920 9 - Coffee County O.K. Kids Day, John Redmond Reservior - (620)364-8484 15 - Fishing Derby, Gardner Lake, Gardner, Ks - (913)856-0936 29 - Cops n Bobbers Edgerton Fishing Derby, Edgerton Lake, Edgerton, Ks - (913)208-1920 22 - O.K. Kids Day at North Shawnee Community Park Shelter House, Topeka, Ks - (785)286-0676 October 6 - O.K. Kids Day at El Dorado State Park (316) 321-7180 17 - Cops n Bobbers Fishing, Mildale Open Park, Edgerton, Ks - (913)208-1920.
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