MINNEAPOLIS - Parents, you don't have to travel this weekend to entertain your kids.
Here is a list KARE 11 Sunrise has compiled of places in Minnesota that are catering to MEA:
- Minnesota Children's Museum
- Hours extended to 6 p.m. on Thursday
- Twin Cities Harvest Festival and Corn Maze
- Will be open Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Custer State Park Resort
- Stay two nights, save 20 percent and receive $20 in Activity Bucks
- Stay three nights, save 25 percent and receive $25 in Activity Bucks
- Show MN ID and a key card from a previous stay, kids under 10 get a free Buffalo Safari tour
- Madden's on Gull Lake
- Kids eat-play-sleep for free
- Family activities, including costume and carving contests
- Great Wolf Lodge
- Rates as low as $89.99 with promo code: MEA
- Craguns Resort and Hotel on Gull Lake
- 4 Days, 3 Nights of Family Fun for $500
- Family activities, including horse-drawn trolley ride, photo scavenger hunt, bean bag tournament and pumpkin painting
- Breezy Point Resort
- Discounted golf at Whitebirch course
- FREE horse-drawn wagon rides
- Family activities from MEA
- CampFire Minnesota
- Day camp for children
- Ages 6-14, Cost: $50 a day
- Minnesota Zoo's Falls Out Day Camp
- Separate camps for grades 1-3, grade 4-6
- Grades 1-3 theme: Farmyard Fun
- Grades 4-6 theme: Mysterious Farms
- The Works Museum
- Day camps, NEW for ages 10-14
- Themes include: unique flying objects, slime-gineering, haunted house maze, circuitry intensive and stop motion animation
- Elite Gymnastics Academy
- Day camp for ages 4+
- Sever's Fall Festival
- Will be open Thursday 10-6, Friday 10-8
- Which Witch is Which?
- Children's play with daytime shows
- Thursday at 10 a.m. (ASL interpreted), Friday at 10 a.m.
- Dehn's Pumpkin Patch
- Will be open Thursday and Friday at weekend prices
- All activities included with one-time-purchase wristband
- 11 a.m. hayrides on Thursday and Friday
- Air Assault Paintball
- Save $16 on player packages when you play Friday or Sunday and book online
- Every player will get 100 rounds of paint (may purchase more and continue to play), admission, rental gun and rental mask for only $18
- Harvest Days at Oliver Kelley Farm
- Included with $6-12 site admission/MNHS members free
- Expect even more to enjoy at the farm this year with their expanded visitor center
- The Bakken Museum Mad Scientist Sampler
- Mad Scientist Sampler (Frankenstein)
- Recommended for students in 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grades
- Sessions at 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. & 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
- Timberwolves and Lynx Academy MEA Clinics
- Separate for grades 2-4, grades 5-7
- Cost: $50
- Twins Off-season Baseball Camps
- Ages 6-14
- Cost: $80 per half-day session, $150 for both