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🌾 🌾 Wichita Experience Gifting Guide 2025

Shop Local This Season

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Landon Huslig
November 26, 2025

Good morning, Wichita!

In case you are living under a rock, the 5th and final season of Stranger Things comes out tonight.

Here’s to hoping someone says “that was crazy” and someone replies “I’ve seen stranger things..”

Let's get to it!

- Landon Huslig

p.s. Happy Thanksgiving! We will catch you next week.

Wichita Life Dinner Club

Post-Dinner Meet-Up

Our first dinner club was a huge success earlier this month! Dozens and dozens of people had dinner with strangers new friends and then met up at Wichita Brewing Company after to meet everyone else!

So, what is this?

Making new friends as an adult can be weirdly tough. We’re making it easier.

Here’s how it works:

🍽️ Take a quick quiz about your personality, interests, and food preferences.

✨ Get matched with five other Wichitans who fit your style (think food preferences, budget, life stage).

📍Your table of six meets for dinner on Tuesday, December 9th at 6:30PM - the exact restaurant is revealed that morning.

🥂 After dinner, all groups are invited to a casual after-meetup to keep the conversation going.

If you’ve been wanting to meet new people in town, this might be the easiest (and most fun) way to do it.

Holiday Shopping

Christmas is coming up in 29 days. Black Friday is in 2.

It’s time to pick up gifts for your loved ones (or yourself).

If you’re reading this, you likely love Wichita and love to support local. Here is a guide from a few years back with a lot of great options from the best areas of town to shop to food and restaurants and much more. Take a look and let us know what it is missing and we will give it a refresher.

Today we want to focus on giving experiences.

Experience Gifting

A lot of these are gift cards / certificates or passes to experience a class, attraction or activity!

I’m a human so I know I will miss something (or a lot), but let me know and I’ll get it added to a blog you can refer back to!

Attractions & Museums

Performing Arts & Concerts

  • Music Theatre Wichita - 2026 season includes Hello, Dolly!, Elf - The Musical, Fiddler on the Roof, Hairspray, Les Miserables - Century II

  • Flying Pig Improv - Use gift certificates like cash to see shows or take classes! - 3203 E Douglas Ave, Wichita, KS 67218

  • Mosley St. Melodrama - 234 N Mosley St, Wichita, KS 67202

  • Roxy’s - Now offering "Flex Tickets" this year, flexible tickets good for any show in current season - 412 1/2 E. Douglas, Wichita, KS 67202

  • Broadway Wichita - upcoming shows include Water for Elepahnts, Hades Town, The Music Man, Clue, Stomp - Century II

  • Park City Arena - 8151 N Hartman Arena Dr, Park City, KS 67147

  • Wave - 650 E. 2nd Street, Wichita, KS 67202

  • INTRUST Bank Arena - 500 E Waterman St, Wichita, KS 67202 - Cyber Week Deals have started for Dinsey on Ice and Monster Jam!

  • The Cotillion - 11120 W Kellogg Dr, Wichita, KS 67209

Classes

Activities

Spa Day

Food & Drink

Get Clean and Organized

Staycation

Other great local shopping or holiday guides include:

Small Business Saturday

When you think about Black Friday, you probably think of corporate, big box stores, Amazon deals, etc and you’re probably right.

That is why many communites rally around the day after Black Friday as “Small Business Saturday” to go shop locally in your community. Many places offer both Black Friday deals and now Small Business Saturday Deals.

Holidays in Delano

The Delano District in Wichita is embracing Holidays in Delano on Small Business Saturday and here are a few things you can look forward to. There are special events, special deals & discounts, and more.

Holidays in Delano — What’s Happening

Special Events
• Mrs. Bikers Claus — Collecting letters for Santa at the Alzheimer’s Association (11am–2pm)
• Ornament Painting — Free for kids 12 & under at The Health Connection (1–4pm)
• Photos with Santa — GRIT Studios (12–2pm). $5 cellphone photos, $15 professional
• Candle Making — Lola Candle Co., $25/person
• Gingerbread & Apron Decorating — All Things BBQ
• Carolers — Performances from Truesdell Middle School & Sunrise Christian Academy

Deals & Discounts (Highlights)

• All Things BBQ — Storewide holiday discounts
• Alzheimer’s Association — Purple sodas, games, Broncos tickets
• Bungalow 26 — Free gift with $40 purchase
• Chateau Gifts — 50% off storewide
• Exploration Place — 20% off memberships + purchase a brick for the new playspace
• Fartleks — Free 5k at Exploration Place (8am)
• GRIT Studios — Indoor Holiday Market (10am–4pm)
• Home2Suites — Free hot cocoa (while supplies last)
• ICT IV Hydration — $20 vitamin injections + skin event
• Rooted Hair Co. — Grand Opening festivities (10am–2pm)
• Rueben’s Mexican Grill — 20% off with a Delano receipt + $6 holiday drinks
• The Monarch — 15% off merch
• The UPS Store — $3 off shipping + 10% off prints
• Wichita Brewing Co. — Holiday cocktails
• Wichita Ice Center — Public skating 12–10pm

Prize Drawing

Scan a QR code at any participating business on 11/29 to enter. Prizes include:
Gift cards (Boats & Bikes, Bungalow 26, Hatman Jack’s, Sweet N Saucy, The Arcade, Flight 1868, Papa’s Ice Cream, La Galette, Monarch, Wichita Brewing Co.), Exploration Place All-Access Pass, Wichita Ice Center family pass, free hotel night at Home2 Suites, candle bundle, leather goods, facial, and more.

What do you want to see us go deep on in a future deep dive?

Quick Event Rundown

That's it for today!

If you enjoyed today, share this email with someone who should shop local.

Thanks!

- Landon