The Village Children's Museum — Attraction in Willmar

My daughter's preschool class visited for a field trip in May 2023. She loved it! The toys and games all have an educational facet to them that helps children learn about many different subjects: gravity, money, physics, health skills, make believe, among others. They have full head to toe costumes for firefighters, doctors and ambulance EMTs, not to mention various X-rays and a light box to view them. They also had an ambulance room with various medical equipment for play. They have a grocery stocked with food complete with shopping carts and checkout with a working register and money. They have a foam block pit, slides, tricycles and balancing equipment to challenge physical movement. They had so much more that I haven't mentioned here. The staff were awesome and explained the rules in a way that little kids can easily understand and follow. She had a blast! We stayed for about an hour and a half and she could have played for another hour, at least. Thank you The...

I was extremely disappointed with my recent visit to The Village. This place was absolutely disgusting. The Village has become a complete joke of a children’s play place. The facility was filthy — dead bugs and cobwebs in the window sills, toys that were literally wet 😳 (who knows from what), and what little is left of the toy selection was either broken or so beat up it should have been thrown away years ago. This place has gone way downhill. My children even noticed how bad it was and THEY requested to leave early.

What makes it even worse is the recent price increase. Charging families MORE money while offering such a run-down, dirty, and poorly maintained environment is beyond insulting. It honestly feels like they’ve just given up on caring for the place or the people paying to be there.

We will never be back, and I strongly suggest other parents look elsewhere. Save your money and your kids from this disaster of...

The idea is all here and perfect for the kids to go play, But there are a couple issues I paid for my nanny kids to go in and play as I had college online school work to do so I wasn’t going to play with the kids and they new that but I still had to pay $8 for me to even enter the seating area to sit and watch the kids. The seating area is another thing, if you would like to sit you sit at one of two plastic picnic tables that are just filled with people’s stuff so no place to sit. Socks or shoes are mandatory socks are preferred but if not shoes must be on, there should be an option to purchase or rent socks because trying to keep shoes on an autistic 7 year old boy is a battle because he is seeing everyone else in there socks so he wants to as well.

Just a couple things that could be better but the resources and things to play...