Creative Kids Academy is a privately-owned Early Childhood Education program with thirteen locations across the Twin Cities, serving children from six weeks to twelve years old. At Creative Kids Academy, we believe that children are incredibly special. We are dedicated to ensuring the best educational and child care practices that exceed our families’ highest expectations. We have the responsibility and privilege to provide incredibly special environments, enrichments, and experiences for the children in our care.
Established in 1983. Closed for the winter, will re-open Spring 2020! The fantastic, funky Tinkertown Museum is an enchanted assortment of miniature, animated Western scenes. The giftshop alone is worth the visit. It took Ross Ward over 40 years to carve, collect, and lovingly construct what is now Tinkertown Museum. His miniature wood-carved figures were first part of a traveling exhibit, driven to county fairs and carnivals in the 1960s and '70s. Today over 50,000 glass bottles form rambling walls that surround a 22-room museum. Wagon wheels, old fashioned store fronts, and wacky western memorabilia make Tinkertown's exterior as much as a museum as the wonders within. Inside, the magic of animation takes over. The inhabitants of a raucous little western town animate to hilarious life. Under the big top, diminutive circus performers challenge tigers and defy gravity while the Fat Lady fans herself and a polar bear teeters and totters. Throughout, eccentric collections of Americana (wedding cake couples, antique tools, bullet pencils and much, much more) fill Tinkertown's winding hallways. Otto the one-man-band and Esmerelda, the Fortune Teller, need only a quarter to play a tune or predict yo