Celebrate 150 years of common ground at the 150th Birthday Bash at Tower Grove Park! Bring your family to enjoy live music, lots of food trucks and family fun.
Sauce Magazine will present Food Truck Alley featuring 15 food trucks from their Food Truck Friday events. There will be live music, including Dylan Triplett and Kg Land, and in kid-favorite Celia in the Children's Performance Area.
Roving entertainers from Circus Kaput will provide delightful fun for all ages, and there will be arts & crafts projects for kids from Artscope.
And don't miss St. Louis Cardinals own Fredbird and Louie from the St. Louis Blues! Admission is free.
Saturday, October 23 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Tower Grove Park.
More information: towergrovepark.org
Celebrating the history, culture, and people of Japan, the Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the largest and oldest festivals of its kind in the United States. Your family can enjoy guided walking tours, bonsai, cooking, martial arts and origami demonstrations, sumo wrestling, and special activities for kids.
Kids can work on existing gym skills, learn new skills or just play around during Open Gym at Miss Kelly's Gym in Creve Coeur.
Wagon rides, live entertainment, great festival foods, a petting zoo and much more make this an apple pickin' good time for the whole family. There will be pony rides, a children's carnival, opportunities to feed goats and other farm animals, caramel apples, funnel cakes and more.
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.
LEGO Club at the St. Louis County Library is a free opportunity for kids to gather and have fun building with LEGO bricks. LEGOs are provided.