If you have a little kid then you know that their attention span is that equivalent to a wasp at a picnic table.

CORN! STEAK! LEMONADE! POTATO SALAD! 

All. over. the. place.

For a nice way to trick your kids into a little culture while participating in some free things to do in Indianapolis on a weekend, the IMA offers free half hour tours for families on the second and fourth Saturday of each month through May of next year. The tours begin at 1:30 and 2:30, perfect timing for the wee ones to be asleep in a stroller and the older ones to be fresh out of energy and on a full stomach.

Which is really the best operating circumstances for little people. Worn out and well fed.

Also, take heart that the security guards and docents at the IMA will follow you around like hawks whether you have your elderly grandmother with you or a sticky fingered four year old with you. So don't take it personally, just pretend they're not there. (Well, and don't touch. Duh.)

While there are a lot of Indianapolis attractions that feature plenty of green space and foliage, the Oldfields-Lilly gardens that share the grounds of the IMA have come to grow like mold on my little heart. If Tinkerbell were to live anywhere in Indiana, it would be here.