Where To Have Fun Indoors
To help you fight cabin fever, you’ll find some ideas below, including indoor places in Madison that provide fun all year long. . .
Madison Children’s Museum
Keva Sports Center
The Well
Tracks Hobbies and R/C Raceway
Fired Up Pottery
Ultrazone Laser Tag
Deer Valley Lodge (Indoor Waterpark)
Vitense Golfland
Sky Zone
Bowling
Libraries
For more ideas, click here for a blog from Madison Moms Blog! Know of any we can add to the list? Email us at DJ@Magic98.com or send us a message on the Magic Facebook Page.
Summer Scoop: Splash Pads, Beach Report & More
Magic 98 wants to help you enjoy the precious days of summer! On the Summer Scoop, you’ll find info for splash pads, beach reports, farmer’s markets, and more — all in one, handy place! Be sure to download the Magic App and bring Magic 98 with you wherever the adventure takes you…
MADISON BEACH REPORT
Click here for the latest updates on Madison lake and beach conditions before you head out.
SPLASH PADS
Find a splash pad to cool your kids off…
Click here for City of Madison splash pads, including Cypress Park, Elver Park, and Reindal Park.
For information about Goodman Pool, click here.
Click here for details on Fitchburg’s Splash Pad at McKee Farms Park.
For more Madison-area splash pads, click here!
FARMER’S MARKETS
The 2019 season is underway and there’s a farmer’s market just about every day of the week in every corner of Central Wisconsin! Click here for a full list of area farmer’s markets.
FUN PAGE
Use the Fun Page to plan your families free time. It includes a load of family-friendly events in the Madison area. Click here to see events near you!
“Alexa, Open Magic 98!”
If you have an Amazon Echo device, you’ll want to know how to get it to play Magic 98. Here’s how:
First, some definitions:
- Alexa is Amazon‘s voice service, used by different types of Echo devices such as Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Tap, and Echo Show.
- Skills are similar to apps on your phone. Just as you interact with your phone by using apps—reading e-mail, playing Words With Friends, and so on—you interact with Alexa by using skills.
- Default skills come pre-enabled on your Alexa device.
- Custom skills are searchable in the Alexa Skills Store. You’ll need a custom skill to listen to Magic 98. (Don’t worry; it’s free.)
There are three ways to enable the custom Alexa skill for Magic 98:
- Search the Alexa Skills Store for the Magic 98 skill and enable it.
- Open the Alexa companion app on your mobile device, search for the Magic 98 skill, and enable it. (Get the Alexa app from the App Store or Google Play.)
- Say, “Alexa, enable the Magic 98 skill.”
You have to enable the skill only one time.
After your Magic 98 skill is enabled, here’s how you use it: simply say, “Alexa, open Magic 98.”
Keep in mind that saying “open Magic 98” is preferable to saying “play Magic 98.” Here’s why: If you say “play,” Alexa will play Magic via Tune In Radio, a default skill that comes with your device. That’s fine, but if you say “open Magic 98,” you will open our specific Magic 98 skill, which gives you access to our skill’s features. That’s better. Right now, you can listen live. More features will be coming to our skill in the weeks ahead.
If you have questions or problems, get in touch. Have fun!
2017 Concerts on the Square Pictures
The best way to see the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra‘s Concerts on the Square is up close with Magic 98. Here are the 2017 VIP pictures. Click for a better look and to see the names of our guests.
May Day Deliveries 2017
April showers bring May flowers, and on May Day, Magic 98 brings treats to your office! In 2017, listeners won flowers from Klein’s Floral & Greenhouses and cupcakes from TnT’s Coffee and Cafe. Plus, one lucky listener won a spring cleaning package from PODS® of Wisconsin Moving & Storage that includes house cleaning, window cleaning, and 60 days’ free storage.
Here are some of our winners. Click to see the names. To see the full list of winners, click here.
Donate To The Community Baby Shower
You have an opportunity to help new moms with the 17th annual Community Baby Shower with Sentry Foods and Magic 98! Your donations will stay in our community and go to help new moms at The Elizabeth House in Madison and the Sauk Prairie Area Food Pantry in Sauk County.
You can donate to either of these organizations any time! For more information on The Elizabeth House, a safe place for a new start for pregnant women, click here. To connect with the Sauk Prairie Area Food Bank, click here.
Items that are especially needed during the Community Baby Shower are…
- Baby wipes – unscented
- Diapers: all sizes, but especially newborn
- Diaper rash cream
- New newborn clothing
- New newborn socks
- New nursing pillows
- New nursing tops
- New crib sheets
- New baby towels with hoods
This year, Magic 98 will be at local Metcalfe’s Markets and hope to see you make a donation! Below are days and times for where to find Magic 98, but keep in mind you can donate any time at these stores during the Community Baby Shower through January 24, 2020.