Bring your whole family to the National Blues Museum for Kids Day. Kids can experiment with instruments in the musical petting zoo, make crafts, and the whole family can enjoy a free outdoor concert!
Find yourself immersed in a sea of blue as the Tropical Conservancy at The Butterfly House is flooded with 1500 Blue Morpho Butterflies during Morpho Mardi Gras. Join the party at the Bugs on Parade, make a masquerade mask, and inaugurate the season with the majestic creatures.
Release a butterfly into the conservatory, visit the butterflies in the calm early morning, and enjoy a breakfast snack with the butterflies during Rise and Shine with the Butterflies at The Butterfly House.
Drop off your kids for these gift workshops and they'll become creative little elves! Each child participating in the Top Secret Gift Workshop will make and wrap three fantastic gifts you are sure to love.
The Magic House MADE for Kids will host a special Free Family Night featuring Black Santa STL! Visitors are invited to celebrate the holiday season and have their photos taken with Santa (using their own devices), then have lots of hands-on fun in the MADE for Kids makerspace.
Santa is on his way to visit the Frisco Park Caboose in Valley Park and sit for pictures with kids!
St. Louis Artworks hosts its Holiday Extravaganza featuring art exhibits, live art creation, music, food trucks, a pre-Kwanzaa presentation, live music and more.
Immerse yourself in awe-inspiring Chinese cultural performances, music, art, and history while enjoying authentic cuisine at Chinese Culture Days at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
There are more than strawberries (but plenty of those too) at this festival! Kids can enjoy carnival rides, a petting farm, wagon rides, the children's playground and lots more.
Join in the fun at this community festival that includes live music, a carnival, a children's area, local vendors, food trucks and more.
Families are invited to the Saint Louis Art Museum on Sunday afternoon to participate in free hands-on art activities with fun themes and to explore the galleries. Each Family Sunday focuses on a different family-friendly theme.
See the Zoo's California sea lions perform acrobatic and athletic feats, including Olympic-style dives on a high-diving platform, flipper walks, frisbee tosses and plenty of surprises. While on stage with the sea lions, the Zoo's trainers explain sea lion behavior and positive-reinforcement training, in addition to the need for conserving the sea lion's ocean habitat.