Kids In Motion

Most importantly, my son loves coming here. He’s all smiles the moment we walk in door and there is a ton for him to do. We will continue to visit, although maybe not as much as we could. There are a few issues that keep me from giving 4 or 5 stars. The biggest is that there is no changing station in the men’s room, nor is there a family bathroom. I’m a SAHD and almost all my visits are without my wife. I would also love to see some kind of yearly pass or discount for buying a package of admissions. I think their «shoes off» policy would be better if it was parents and kids year round. It’s pointless (imo) to let parents wear shoes in the spring, summer, and fall while children have to go shoeless. Also, there is a an employee that has seemed to really rub my son the wrong way. Honestly, he even kind of creeps me out so I don’t blame my son.
Other than that, this place is a great. To bad I can’t rate all the parents who seem to think parenting for them stops the moment they walk through these doors. This isn’t a daycare…

This is probably our favorite rainy day destination. Free Wi-​Fi for the adults (and free coffee most days!) My three kids, (ages 5, 3, and 2,) Will all play for hours on end without getting bored. There is so much to do here! The rooms are clean, and usually well organized, despite the constant barrage of children trying to destroy them. Depending on the day, it can get pretty busy, especially midmorning. But, there is so much to do that my kids hardly notice. Always check the website before you go. The owner will post any field trips or large groups that are scheduled each day, and the times that they are scheduled. You can book one of several party rooms for birthday parties, and they also offer laser tag for an additional cost. If you get hungry while you play, There is a small snack bar with a very limited selection. But you also have the option to Bring in your own food or, order-​in from several nearby restaurants. All in all, a wonderful place to wear out your kids.

No ‘big’ kids present when we were here, so it was not rough play for my toddlers which is usually the case with similar places. Snacks for sale to recharge. Cheapest way to entertain the kids for a couple hours!

Just discovered this place today with my three-​year-​old twins and we loved it! Loved the variety of play areas and the fact that you can buy snacks or bring in your own food. Sure, some of the comments about things being worn out or toys missing are true, but the owner is really trying to provide a great environment for little ones. I can’t imagine how quickly these parts and pieces wear out! Overall a great play place, I highly recommend it.

When the weather is bad and your house seems like the walls are closing in on you, this is the perfect place to take the kiddos to burn off some energy.
The indoor play-​yard has different themed rooms around the perimeter, and smaller indoor play structure that is perfect for your pint sized kiddos… I would say walking to say age 6.
The rooms include a theater, castle, grocery store, train room, 2 bean play rooms (construction and dinosaurs), play house, submarine, and diner with tables and a play kitchen. There is more than enough to keep my child entertained for couple of hours.
All in all, the place is clean, but it could use some maintenance. You can tell the owners invested quite a bit of money to get the place up and running, but it’s starting to show its age. Some toys are broken, the paint on some of the murals is chipping, and some features of the rooms might need some repair. Let’s face it kids are hard on the environments they play in, so this is to somewhat be expected, but continual refreshing and touch ups are needed to keep the place in tip top shape.
The place can be very crowded in winter on the weekends, but with the weather in MKE, we need places like this to save our sanity as parents.

I love this place. My daughter is 3 years old and we’ve been coming here for a year. The prices are reasonable, the staff is friendly, its always clean, bathrooms are always stocked and free coffee!!! they allow you to bring your own food instead of serving processed crap. Its just a fantastic place for a kid to run, play and explore safely and comfy couches for parents to relax.

I love having a place to take my toddler on cold ugly days. The staff has always been friendly and helpful. I do wish that some of the toys and activities were better maintained. For example the dolls in the little cabin are pretty gross and a lot of the trains in the train room are not even for that track. Otherwise there are some great activities!

It’s raining for the 4^th day this week and your going stir crazy inside… What’s a nanny to do?! KIDS IN MOTION it is!!! We come here to run off that extra pent up energy! There are several rooms themed out to the core. From a super market, acting, construction, dinosaurs, trains, art… There are at least 4 more I’m leaving out! Not to mention a huge play structure with slides, tunnels and those fun swinging punching bags! There is a nice, affordable café served by the friendly front desk staff. Tables to snack at if you choose to order something or bring in your snacks! We usually spend at least two hours here when we visit if not longer!

This is a great place to spend couple hours with your kids for cheap. They have different learning rooms, an indoor play land and a giant lite-​brite. There are couches and arm chairs to relax in while watching a big screen if you don’t feel like chasing your kids room to room. The only downside is that they have like 4 birthday parties scheduled at a time and it’s super super busy if you don’t get there in the AM. My daughter had a blast digging in the «dirt» in the dinosaur room!

First time experience with our kids. I was very impressed with the variety activities for kids up to easily ten years of age. Very large area that held at least 100 kids and 100 plus parents. Seating for parents in all areas. What I liked about it was the variety of activities, details of each room and cleanliness. What I didn’t like was some rooms are obviously being developed and had very little to the activities such as the art room or science room. Two separate large party rooms that can be reserved.

Great place to take your kids to play! My kids love the different rooms with all types of things to do. I would recommend this place for all families looking for something to do.

Always a good time at Kids in Motion! Most recently had our son’s birthday party here and could not have been more pleased with the price, service, and party host. It was awesome & we would totally recommend them for a fun & fabulous birthday party!

What you’ll get:
Large indoor climbing structure
Elaborately themed and beautifully painted mini rooms (whose themed toys are strewn everywhere)
An eating area with picnic tables for eating carry-​ins or food made on site
Lots of large couches where moms and dads camp out and ignore their kids
What it’ll cost you:
Six dollars per kid during a week day, which is probably the best time to go. I think it is ten dollars per on the weekends
The concept is great — buy a bunch of daycare type items and a large play structure, set up the rooms, let in the public and ignore them. The staff’s bad attitude was apparent the moment I walked in. The two ladies working there did not greet me or even acknowledge me until they were done bitching about someone they both knew. When one of them finally walked away and the other took care of me, I got my receipt and nothing else. No instructions, no waiver to sign (cool, if my kids get hurt they can pay my bills), no information. We stayed for 2 hours, which was plenty of time.
My kids — ages 6 and 3 — liked the place, so the 3 stars are from them. I took off 2 stars for the staff (a lady made 2 quick rounds in the 2 hours we were there, but otherwise they were non-​existent) and cleanliness. Look, it’s a kid place, so I don’t expect much, but certainly something can be done about the pervasive urine smell? Do not go here if you’re a germaphobe or during cold and flu season! I saw two hand sanitizing stations and they were both by the eating area. At one point, I saw a mom wiping something up off the floor and then carrying her kid away. Staff never came out to further clean up the mystery mess.
We might go back one more time, but I don’t think my kids will beg for it. They did not complain about leaving.

My two grandsons 5 and 3 were visiting for the week and I was looking for fun places to go. I read the reviews and have to admit I was a little skeptical but decided to give it a try. We went on a Thursday late morning. We were there about 2 ¹⁄₁ hours and during that time about 25 or so kids.
The boys had a great time! So many different rooms and activities to explore not to mention the great climbing play area and the bubble blowers. The 5 year old especially loved the free Air Hockey, climbing area and dressing up like a fireman. The 3yr old loved the train room, bubbles and grocery store.
I saw comments regarding health concerns about the beans used in various rooms but I think it is a great idea. Even if a little one would put it in their mouth/​eat it won’t harm them. There were only a small volume of beans on the floor right outside the play rooms. I thought the volume of beans in the rooms was just about right. In regard to cleanliness I saw no problems even the bathrooms were clean. Certainly the place isn’t brand new but I saw no problem.
Just a few critiques: Some of the items for pouring out peas/​bean in the construction room are jammed and art supplies needed replenishing. Some of the dress up item do need to be replaced and I would recommend more boy and girl items. That being said my boys and others were totally enjoying dressing up I have a picture of him in his fireman hat, constriction vest and belt with pretend walkie talkie.
A reminder to parents it is your responsibility to watch your children, give them room to socialize but also interact with them. They are precious gifts and only little once.
We would definitely go again and my grandsons would totally agree.

My son loves this place, but it can get really crazy when it’s busy. There are areas that are getting run down (ex: the conveyor in the construction site no longer works and there are supposed to be bags (there never are) where you can put icky toys that your child puts in his or her mouth. That being said, it’s a great way to work out the kids’ energy and we always have fun. A bit pricey on the weekends: $ 10/​child.

When I looked at reviews for KIM, I thought it odd that there was only 4 & they were all high reviews. Then I saw 25 other «hidden» reviews & those were more inline with my recent visits. Apparently the filter on Unilocal filters out some reviews unless you are a super-​yelper. I have gone to KIM about 4 times in the last few months. My first experience during the week was great, the next few on weekends, not so great. I wanted to give a 2 star review but went with 3 because of the owner effort. I first want to state, I love the idea of this place. I want it to succeed & hope they can implement some changes. I still plan on going back. My kid appears not to care about the shortcomings that I see as this is high up on her requested places to go. I chuckled reading some of the hidden reviews as it was almost verbatim what I said to my husband after my experience yesterday.
Point 1: Kids out of control/​no staff observation. (I know parents should be doing this). I have seen kids taking handfuls of the legumes in the digging/​construction room & literally throwing them at the other kids. The parents that were there were looking around thinking, as was I, «where are these kids’ parent? Finally, a few pulled their kids out of this area & took them to another room. But my kid was hanging tough and gave me a «mom, those boys are being naughty». Another dad was standing by me and finally yelled «cut it out already!» I think everyone wanted to say the same but you never know the wrath you may encounter when doing this. I saw the dad leaving with these boys & he wasn’t even looking at them as he walked out the door. He had been on a nice couch for two hours while the kids ran wild. I have been to other kids places where this would not be tolerated by an observant staff. The Helium trampoline place has high schoolers monitoring the activity, the Big Backyard has at least a staff person right there operating the refreshment counter. It is open and easily monitored by staff. This place is not and needs some regular staff observation.
Point 2: Staff planning. A women standing at the check in counter on her way out asked to speak to the manager. She was very respectfully discrete & said it was her first time there and how she could not believe how filthy everything was – food packages and half empty soda cans in the play rooms. The reply to that from the manager was that they had a big private party the night before that went until 2:00 a.m. and had not had a chance to clean up everything (this was at about 11:30). Don’t have the large private parties unless you have a contingency for extra cleaning up the next day before paying guests come in. Really no excuse. I have seen a young man working there cleaning up as often as he can but have seen the same litter and lack of general clean up. It appears the staff is stretched very thin for all that needs to be done.
Point 3: Inadequate stock in some of the rooms. The artroom is woefully lacking. Yesterday & past times there were no crayons except little stubs, no ink for stamp pads, about 4 markers with missing caps. A little girl come up to me & ask me where the ink was & I told her to ask one of the staff but she wanted me to ask. I did not have the heart as he was just doing everything. If you can’t stock the room do something else with the space that does not require stocking. I would say the same for their «science» room. I think there may have been more things in it at one time. Not sure what as I have never seen them. There is a chalk board – no chalk. And then what appears to be a magnetic puzzle game. Don’t have rooms where you have to have a constant restock of things if you are unable to deliver it.
Point 4: Cleanliness. It was not a feeling of sticky mess and dirt on everything, just more or less general clean up could not be kept up due to sheer volume & lack of staff. There are legumes in two of the rooms – a construction room and a dinosaur digging room. They are everywhere. The first time I went, they young guy was sweeping up multiple times (during the week visit), the last few weekend visits, never saw anybody at any time.
Everything seems to boil down to they need more staff – especially on weekends during their party times. It was not as if I saw a bunch of employees standing around doing nothing. On the contrary, they are busy running in a million directions looking frazzled. More employees consistently monitoring zones. It seems like they are just able to put out fires & not really maintain the space. Have closed circuit t.v. in the rooms – monitored by staff. KIM promotes the comfortable environment for parents to sit down but do not promote being responsible. Someone has to make this more enjoyable for the people watching their kids. I have had family experience with small business ownership & realize sometimes limitless staff is not an option so I hope they can find some balance & make this work better.

Kids in Motion is great for little ones.
This place was clearly designed by people who know exactly what kids (and parents) need to have a great time. There is a room to suit every whim, and enough space that it never really feels crowded.
My son (2 ½) is obsessed with the train room, the dinosaur room, and the climbing structures. I watched him like a hawk initially, but the bigger kids are usually really good about giving the littler ones a lot of space, and I was able to settle in to one of the comfy couches and watch from afar as my lil dude tore the place up. Sports events are frequently projected against the wall, and there is no admission charged for parents. Major props for this. Downtown spots like Betty Brinn charge far too much for adults, which is a huge turn-​off. Kids in motion is far more relaxing, and far cheaper.
The only downside is that it is IMPOSSIBLE to get my son to leave, and he asks to go back for about two weeks afterwards.

We are visiting from out of town and brought my 2 year old and 10 month old here on a dreary Sunday. This place is huge and you can easily go to another area if it feels too busy. There were 2 birthday parties going on while we were there and that was the only time it felt crazy. There is a giant play/​slide/​climbing playground centered around about 10 themed rooms. My girls loved the Dino room, the music/​dress up room and the art room the best, but they spent time in most of them. There is a nice balance for both girls and boys, but not really for young and older, which is why I only gave it 4 stars. While my girls had fun, my dad and I had to help them a lot because things are too far off the ground for them or there were too many rambunctious older kids around. For example the train track was almost too tall for my 2 year old and the blocks and puzzles were on adult sized tables. We stayed with them but a few parents parked themselves on the couches and let their kids do whatever. I had to talk to a few kids who were not sharing, taking things from my girls and even pushing my 10 month old because he wanted to stand near the train track where she was standing. There was a young man working there and he was visible but busy cleaning and it would have been nice to have a higher expectation for people to mind their kids. Yes, they are there to run and play but it’s also a great opportunity to enforce manners. We have a membership to Gymboree and I’ve never had to talk to other people’s kids because they are there with them, as opposed to a sort of drop off.
Overall we had a nice experience and would return during another bout of cabin fever.

Great place to take the grand children when they spend a weekend, the boys 10 and 11 head for the laser tag and I don’t see them for hours. My 3 year old grand daughter, gets dressed to the max and puts on a little show on the stage and then goes grocery shopping in her fancy clothes. There are not many places to go that I have found that all 3 enjoy at the same time, that I don’t have to run around in different directions and chase them down. Me I find a comfy chair with my Nook HD and read a good book. We are going tonight, Jennings is going to the sock hop dance and the boys are begging to go play laser tag. The x-​box will be forgotten about this evening (Even grandpa is going tonight).

I am starting my review a bit bias because I am in awe of Brandi and the struggles she has overcome in her life and to keep her business running you cant help but think so highly of her. I will not go into her personal business but if you google this business, you will see the history and the struggles. She is a very hard working mom of very young children making it all work on her own.
KIM, is an excellent place for kids. There is so much to do there that your kids could spend the whole day and still want to go back for more. There are many rooms designated for play. Grocery store, Construction, Science, Theater Dress Up, Art, Games, Music, etc and in the center a huge playset.
Great for parents too. Lots of couches and tables to sit at. Free WiFi, food, drinks and coffee to purchase. Can purchase snacks for the kids too if you did not pack your own.
KIM offers programs for the kiddos too. My son did a LEGO camp this summer and he really liked it. The only con I have on that is I would have liked for the kids to learn to build something specific and worked on it. For example: «Today we are going to build this plane» and the kids learn step by step how to do this. Instead this program was more learning about a monument and trying to build it on your own and free building.
KIM is clean and the workers are walking around constantly picking up after the kids. When there is a broken toy or dirty toy found, there are bags on the walls for the children to put these toys into so they can be cleaned, fixed or toss out so no one gets hurt.
Family atmosphere and you can’t but feel like you want to help because everyone is just so nice.
We will be coming back when school is out. I really recommend if you have a child or children — it’s a MUST SEE.