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Kids can meet a variety of living beetles from The Butterfly House and learn interesting facts about them while practicing their observation skills. Participants will also paint three rocks with a beetle and take the rocks home to add to their garden. 

The Brothers Grimm hit the stage with an epic fairy tale about wishes, family, and the choices we make. James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone's favorite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, and relevent musical.

No experience is necessary for students to attend this Editorial Cartoon Workshop. Students will create an editorial cartoon, which they can enter into next year's Scholastic Art & Writing Awards contest.

Enjoy Open Play on the obstacle courses at Ultimate Ninjas in Chesterfield on Monday, Feb. 18. Families are welcome to enjoy the customizable obstacle courses and work on skills as a family from 1 to 3 p.m.

Kids and teens ages 6-15 can practice and explore a variety of obstacles, fine tune their skills on a single obstacle, or practice running the customizable courses at Ultimate Ninjas Open Play. Registration is recommended. 

When Little Red finds the wolf disguised in her grandmother's clothes, she uses her self-defense moves to teach him a lesson he won't soon forget. 

Enjoy a presentation of West African drumming of the Malinke ethnic group from SpecDrum. You'll learn about the fhythms and what they are used for in African culture, and be ready to try out the drums! This Black History Month event is for all ages.

Parents are invited for coffee and conversation and to and learn about The College School at this free Friday Coffee and tour.

The Hundred Dresses tells the story of Wanda Petronski, the new girl in Room 13, who is a Polish immigrant who lives in a shabby house and doesn't have any friends. Every day she wears the same faded blue dress, but tells her new classmates that she has a hundred dresses at home. Her classmates tease Wanda about her hundred dresses until one day she disappears from school. As guilt overtakes the children, they decide to find out what happened to Wanda and to make amends. But is it too late? Bullying, friendship, and forgiveness as at the center of this play adapted from the beloved Newberry Honor Book by Eleanor Estes. 

The littlest Valentine's Day fans will have fun at this Pint Size Valentine's Party designed just for them! Kids ages 2-5 will enjoy making crafts, having snacks and playing in the gym. 

Kids can let their imaginations run wild with tens of thousands of LEGOS at this free LEGO Building Workshop. Kids ages 6-11 will design and build as never before, and explore their craziest ideas in a supportive environment. Participants will get to build an engineer-designed project from the LEGO 2018-2019 curriculum.

Not everyone is born with superpowers, so hone your skills with fun activities that will help kids reach their destinites at Family Fun Night: Superhero Training. 

Put on your black light reflective gear and head to Upper Limits Rock Climbing Gym for Cosmic Climb! This out-of-this-world climb is held on the third Friday of each month. 

It's important for parents to understand how their children are using social media, but it's not easy to keep up with the latest and greatest apps kids and teens are using. Parents who want to learn more can attend this free workshop led by author and professor Julie Smith. 

The fair features guest speakers, breakout sessions, and information tables from autism service providers and healthcare organizations. 

There will be activities for the whole family at the Winter Carnival and Kids Night Out, a benefit for the Chesterfield Family YMCA featuring Circus Kaput. Enjoy carnival games, cotton candy, popcorn, face painting, balloon animals, cariacatures and a circus show.

Spend the morning at Castlewood Stables and enjoy hot cocoa, story time centered around horses, the petting zoo, crafts, pony grooming and games!

Parents and guardians of prospective students are invited to spend time observing the homeroom classes engaged in literacy and math, then watch special classes some alive in the music studio, science lab, art studio, drama studio, computer lab and more. Stay for as little or as long as you'd like. RSVP is requested.