The Jr. NBA Skills Challenge provides boys and girls, ages 13 and younger, the opportunity to showcase their basketball skills. Free and open to all. Pre-registration is not required.
Your whole family can be superheroes when you participate in the Superhero Dash, a 5K, one-mile run, walk and roll fundraiser for Unlimited Play. Sign up early to get your official Superhero Dash t-shirt. Costumes are welcome! Unlimited Play supports accessible playgrounds, because all kids deserve to have playgrounds where limitations are forgotten and differences are celebrated.
Teens can team up and play laser tag among the books at this free laser tag event at the library.
New for 2018! Kids, teens and families can dig a little deeper into specific art media at Artscope workshops.
Using single-board Raspberry Pi computers, teens and tweens can learn basic computer science and programming by building real computers with their very own hands.
Learn the art of collage using cell phone photography to create a visual narrative of Laumeier Sculprture Park's landscape.
Students who participate in the Brain Bee will enjoy hands-on brain activities, meet teenagers from other schools and learn about the science of the brain.
Join in on First Art, a free art program for toddlers where the focus is on the process of making art rather than the finished product. Dress to get messy!
Explore the Saint Louis Zoo in the evenings at the Chinese lantern festival Animals Aglow! Animals Aglow returns to illuminate the Saint Louis Zoo for the second year with dozens of new, towering lanterns and light displays.
Visit The Magic House for Toddler Time, a special early-morning program for toddlers. Children age 1-4 can take part in exhibits and exclusive interactive activities designed just for little ones. There are new themes every week!
Open Gym at Miss Kelly's Gym is an opportunity for any child to have supervised free play in the gym. They can work on existing skills, try something new, or simply play around. It is completely up to them! Open Gym is open to both members and non-members ages 12 and under.
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.