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Rainy Day Fun

Summer 2021

Just because it’s raining outside doesn’t mean you have to rein in the fun! Visit one of the many indoor attractions and keep the fun going.

Even on rainy days there’s only rainbows at Crayola Experience. There is 70,000 square feet of indoor colorful fun with 20+ creative attractions. Name and wrap your very own Crayola crayon! Learn how crayons are made in a live manufacturing show starring animated crayon friends Scarlet & Turk along with the resident Crayonologist. Sculpt colorful creations using Crayola Model Magic compound, melt down crayons into shapes and take Silly Selfies. Create unique keepsakes with melted wax, star in your own coloring page, watch your paper creation come to life as it bops and rocks in the spotlight at Rockin’ Paper, see the World’s Largest Crayola crayon and so much more.

Museum of Illusions is an impressive destination where Illusions can be Optical, Photographic or Interactive and all 100% indoors with A/C. Museum of Illusions is perfect for rainy days with your family or a date night. Visual, sensory and educational experiences where nothing is as it seems. Optical bewildering images that play tricks on you, confusing your eyes and brain. Photographic illusions that can confuse your mind and create false perceptions that can be seen only through photos or pictures that visitors can take with their camera. Interactive illusions that can have the size of a “room” and can blow your mind. Visitors can enter, be apart and interact with the exhibits.

Orlando Science Center is Central Florida’s award-winning, hands-on science museum. Four floors of indoor exhibit halls offer a vast array of exciting, interactive experiences from down-to-earth explorations in natural science to the high-tech world of simulation technology. Everywhere you look you'll find educational and entertaining opportunities to explore, experiment and discover.

Whether you’re wild about animals, ecstatic about space or a maker in the making, Orlando Science Center offers dozens of exhibits, live shows and programming, workshops, giant screen theatres and more! Please reference their health and safety guidelines before you visit at osc.org/reopening-plan.

Visit Ripley’s Believe It or Not!® where the impossible is possible. Let curiosity be your guide as you explore all 10,000 square feet of this amazingly unique attraction that appears to be falling into a Florida sinkhole!

Explore the world through hundreds of fascinating exhibits. Get hands on with entertaining interactives and marvel at some of the strangest art in the world. You won’t want to miss the newest galleries, Weird Florida and The Warehouse. Then make your way to a Dance Party and meet some of the most interesting “people” from around the world. Stop at the Wax Hands exhibit to create the most unique keepsake to take home with you.

WonderWorks Orlando, best known as the upside-down house, is the perfect attraction for when it is raining outside. It is an indoor attraction with three levels of over 100 interactive exhibits. What better way to get out of the rain than having fun and learning, where most of the exhibits are science based.

Don’t forget to visit the Basement where you will find the Glow-In-The-Dark Ropes Course, 4D Motion Ride and Laser Tag which are all included with your ticket. Come and explore for about 3 to 4 hours. You will also find exhibits like the Hurricane Shack, Bed of Nails, WonderCoaster, Dig It!, Astronaut Training Challenge (Gyro), Floor Piano and Virtual Sports.

Don’t let a rainy Florida day ruin your fun!