Have you heard? City Crew (formerly known as Barry’s Crew) is a completely FREE program for kids to join. What is City Crew in Wichita? It’s a program for kids to connect with their community and learn more about city services. Managed by the City of Wichita, this program offers free activities, events, behind-the-scenes tours, and chances to meet city workers like firefighters, police officers, and more. Each event has a different theme and location so you can go to cool places you may never have been to before.
City Crew is a great way for families to engage with Wichita while keeping kids entertained on a budget because it’s FREE!!
The City Crew, Barry the Bison, Beatrice, Sgt. Justice, Sparky, and Webster are looking forward to seeing you at awesome events around Wichita! Crew Members get invited to community sporting events, Dave and Buster’s, pool parties, Great Plains Nature Center, Watson Park, and a lot of other cool places you may have never been before. The mascots know how important it is for kids to have fun, so they make it easy to join – it’s FREE!
About Wichita’s City Crew Kids Club
The City Crew membership is FREE!
- The City Crew Membership Kit will include a lanyard and a Crew Member badge that will allow members free access to official City Crew events.
- Pro Tip: All current crew members must re-register for the new year. If you already have a badge, keep it; they will update it with a new sticker.
- To register, you must be 2-12 years old and want to have lots of fun in our big city.
- Some events will be exclusive to crew members, and others will be public. The public events will have added perks for City Crew members, like earning Barry’s Bucks.
- If you are a City Crew member and you attend an event you can earn Barry’s Bucks! Enter bucks into the drawing wheel for a chance to win cool prizes, awarded monthly.
How to Join Wichita’s City Crew Kids Club
To join the City Crew, parents can sign their kids up at the Wichita Park and Recreation website. You have to reregister each year, so make sure to Register. Click HERE to sign up for City Crew.
Crew Members can pick up their Crew Kit by scheduling your pick-up time and location by contacting Barbara McGuire at bmcguire@wichita.gov or (316) 268-4192. The Crew Kit will include an official Crew Member badge and lanyard, a special events calendar, and more.
Upcoming Kids’ City Crew Events 2025:
Saturday, March 8, 2925: Medieval Times: City Crew Event
Saturday, May 3, 2025: Garden Party: City Crew Event
Saturday, July 26, 2025: Sensory City: City Crew Event
Come take a trip to Sensory City and learn about the world around you by using your touch, sight, sound, smell and taste. As Crew members begin their journey throughout Sensory City, you will visit unique districts such as Active Avenue, Balance Boulevard, Creative Cove, Joystick Junction, Munch & Move Market and Texture Town. Each city space offers a hands-on adventure of interactive activities such as arcade gaming, tasting unique foods, exploring textures like slime and kinetic sand, making a glitter jar sensory toy and high energy play with racquets and balls. Add stamps to your passport as you travel through the city to become a certified Sensory City Explorer.
This is a City Crew event, exclusively for City Crew members. Not a member? No worries! Register to become a City Crew member for free before the event at the link below!
Saturday, September 27: Golfing Par-Tee: City Crew Event
Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025: Wilderness Wonder Quest
Barry’s Bucks with City Crew
One of the many perks of being part of the City Crew is getting rewarded just for showing up and having fun! Whenever you attend a City Crew event, you’ll earn Barry’s Bucks—named after the program’s friendly mascot, Barry the Bison. These special bucks can be collected at events and then entered to win incredible prizes!
Attend a City Crew Event
Whether it’s a color run or a Lego quest, you’ll earn Barry’s Bucks just for participating.
Collect Barry’s Bucks
Each event gets you more bucks, so the more involved you are, the bigger your chances to win.
