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This back-to-school bash includes lots of fun activities for kids, including inflatable bounce houses and inflatable obstacle course, face painting, pony rides, a story time in the indoor theater, and visits with adoptable pets. Plus, kids can play games to win a variety of school supplies and back-to-school themed prizes. Kettle corn and Kona Ice snow cones will be available for purchase. 

Get ready for an event that is sure to eclipse all others! Identified as one of the best places under the sun (and moon) for viewing the solar eclipse, The Magic House will host a Solar Eclipse Viewing Party in the museum's front garden. 

Kids can collect some bugs in Forest Park, see them up close and learn about the Forest Park ecosystem at this free outdoor workshop.

Enjoy multiple activities both inside and outside the Nature Center, centered around amphibians and reptiles. 

Visit the Field House Museum to celebrate a favorite childhood toy - the teddy bear! All kids 15 and under will take home a new furry friend of their own.

Kids can get hands-on experience with cool tech tools that are made especially for them at this free workshop.

Children can read books to dogs, meet local authors and do some hands-on activities inspired by the books featured at this free story time designed to celebrate reading.

Celebrate Independence Day at the Old Courthouse with special ranger talks, mock trial vignettes, a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and a concert by the Independence Band.

Kids will learn about the variety of wildlife in their backyard and build a native species habitat to take home.

Preschoolers will learn about the colors of the rainbow and get creative with a color mixing activity.

Remember the old days of mud pits and mud pies? Here is the chance to relive some of the joys of your childhood with your children. Powder Valley will provide the dirt, you bring the clean clothes for the ride home.

Enjoy a free movie at the Edwardsville City Park Band Shell (by the library) at sunset.

Join Angela Speck, Director of Astronomy at the University of Missouri-Columbia, as she explains the upcoming solar eclipse and explains the best ways to view it at this free event.

After a story read by a firefighter, kids will watch a movie, then have the opportunity to climb on the firetrucks and ask the firefighters any questions they may have about fire safety.

Kids can learn more about the Solar Eclipse of 2017 (coming up Aug. 21) that will be visible in our region, including ways to safely view it and what to expect during the eclipse.