Kidcot Fun Stops

Kidcot Fun Stops: attraction at EPCOT, Walt Disney World — live wait times, operating status, and planning data on MouseHub.

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Visitor sentiment

5.0· 3 Google ratings

The MouseHub take

Kidcot Fun Stops are eleven craft stations, one in every World Showcase pavilion at EPCOT. Kids pick up an activity card at each country. One side carries facts about that country's culture and traditions, and the back is a coloring sheet with Disney characters on it. Markers sit on the table. The cast members working each stop come from the country they represent, and most will write a child's name in their own writing system and talk about home while the coloring happens. Ziploc presents the program.

Families use it to buy time. A kid with a card to collect will walk the whole lagoon while the adults work through the food and drink, and each pavilion gets a destination instead of another shop to be dragged past. Most of the stops sit inside a pavilion shop or gallery, so they double as an air-conditioned sit-down. Italy's and the American Adventure's are outside, which matters in August. Adults touring without children walk past all eleven without registering them.

At a glance

Best for
Families with preschool and early-elementary kids walking World Showcase, especially on a day when the adults want to eat their way around the lagoon.
Skip if
You are touring without kids, or you have one EPCOT day and a list of headliners still to get through.
Ride type
Card-collecting and coloring stop, eleven of them around World Showcase
Intensity
Nothing to it. No motion, no darkness, no loud noises, and a kid can leave a card half-colored and walk away.

The good

  • Any height, and nobody transfers out of a chair
    Disney's guest policies list this as Any Height, with May Remain in Wheelchair/ECV. The whole party stays together at the table, toddler to grandparent.
  • The cast members are the actual draw
    Each stop is staffed by someone from the country it sits in, and most will write a child's name in their own writing system and answer questions about home. That conversation is the part parents remember, not the coloring.
  • Most stops double as a cool sit-down
    Disney puts the majority of them inside a pavilion shop or gallery, like The Puffin's Roost in Norway and the Bijutsu-kan Gallery in Japan. Twenty minutes off your feet in the air conditioning does more for the afternoon than it sounds like.
  • The card gives kids a reason to keep walking
    World Showcase is a long loop with little on it aimed at a four-year-old. Something to collect at the next pavilion turns the walk itself into the thing they are doing.
  • Start anywhere and stop whenever
    Disney's own page offers any or all of the eleven, so there is no order to follow and no penalty for quitting at six. Skip whichever pavilion is packed and pick it up on the way back.
  • You are rarely waiting behind anyone
    These are tables, not queues. Families step up, take the card, and move on, so even a busy afternoon costs a few minutes at most.

The bad

  • The stops are genuinely hard to find
    There is no marquee and nothing you can spot from the promenade. Most sit at the back of a pavilion shop, and first-timers walk the whole building twice before finding one.
  • Two of them have no air conditioning
    Disney's location list puts Italy's stop and the American Adventure's outdoors. At those two you stand in the sun while a kid colors.
  • Mexico and the United Kingdom get jammed
    Both sit in tight indoor spaces. Once three or four strollers gather around the table, the aisle behind it is gone.
  • The markers are hit or miss
    At the busy pavilions, half of them are dried out by late afternoon. Parents who care about the coloring bring their own.

Veteran tips

  • Look up the locations before you go
    Disney's attraction page lists all eleven stops by pavilion, down to which shop or gallery each one is in. Five minutes with that list saves a lot of wandering across a full loop.
  • Make Japan a stop, not a maybe
    The cast members in the Bijutsu-kan Gallery write names in Japanese characters, and it is the card most kids show off afterward.
  • Park the stroller outside the pavilion
    The indoor stops sit in shop aisles a double stroller cannot turn around in. Leave it on the promenade and walk the last stretch.
  • Walk the loop in one direction
    The stops run in promenade order from Mexico around to Canada. Going one way means no pavilion gets missed and nobody backtracks for a card they skipped.
  • Run it alongside the food booths
    During a festival the marketplace kiosks sit in the same pavilions as the stops. Adults order, kids color, and neither group stands around waiting for the other.
  • Bring a few of your own markers
    A handful in your bag covers the dried-out ones at the busy pavilions, and a kid who wants purple gets purple.
  • Save it for the hottest part of the day
    The indoor stops are cool and seated, which is a better use of two in the afternoon than another lap of the promenade.

MouseHub editorial, written from visitor reports and official Disney sources. Last reviewed .

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