Celebrate Fall at the Wildwood YMCA Fall Harvest Festival. Families can enjoy food and craft booths, face painting for kids, a Kids Zone, nature adventures with seeds and plants, and lots more.
Come out to beautiful and spooky Babler State Park for Halloween family fun like no other experience you'll find! Take a walk down the "terrifying trail" that will take you through multiple haunted cabins. Stay for some Halloween-themed crafts and complete the experience by adding on a hotdog meal and s'mores?
Children 12 and under can participate in trick or treating, pumpkin decorating, a balloon artist, festive Halloween music, a costume contest and more.
Families will work together with a GPS unit to find trick or treat locations around the Babler Outdoor Education Center. There will be candy and prizes at each location. Registration is required.
It's the Not-So-Haunted House that is oh-so-fun and where storybook characters come alive! Kids are invited to dress in their most "boo-tiful" Halloween costumes and have a ghoulishly good time going on a spook-tacular scavenger hunt throughout The Magic House to find trick-or-treat locations, and seeing their favorite storybook characters.
Visit Faust Historic Village to learn about life in the late 1800s. At the Folklife Festival, you can stroll through the village and check out the crafts and demonstrations, and experience a traditional Indigenous People's pottery firing. Visitors can also watch corn husk dolls and rope being made, candles being dipped, cooking demonstrations and more.
Catch the Pixar animated classic A Bug's Life at this outdoor movie night for the whole family. In addition to the movie, families can enjoy hours of fun with steel drummers, crafts, glow necklaces and food trucks prior to the movie.
Meet up at the Nature Playscape in Forest Park for a fun storytime followed by nature adventures! These free story times are open to children of all ages and their caregivers.
Preschool Storytime is geared to ages 2-5.
Daytime Playtime is an open gym for children ages 2-5 where the possibilities for fun and learning (through fun) are endless! Children will participate in activities that build coordination, strength, balance and self-confidence. They'll develop stronger motor skills, social skills, and take part in theme-based creative activities.
Dinoroarus is back for a limited time at the Saint Louis Zoo. This engaging attraction for all ages features 14 groupings of animatronic and stationary dinosaurs - colorful, prehistoric creatures that move realistically, some roaring and spiting or placidly munching on lush vegetation.
Bring your babies and toddlers to this free story time at the Missouri History Museum.