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Edwardsville Children's Museum invites families to participate in the Worldwide Day of Play. Dedicated to joyful learning through play, this event is focused on getting kids and their families up, out, and playing around. 

Calling all superheroes! Gather at the Edwardsville Children's Museum for a night of adventure! 

Explore Ballwin's parks with your toddler or preschooler with the Little Explorers program, held twice a month. Each Little Explorers outdoor class includes a craft, snack, and lots of activities to get you and your toddler moving and exploring!

Kids can climb into the driver's seat and explore big trucks - maintenance trucks, emergency vehicles, and machines and learn about how they work in the community. Everyone is invited to come in costume and enjoy some spooky treats.

This free, family-friendly night out features pumpkins, crafts, games and more. 

Visit Faust Historic Village to learn about life in the late 1800s. At the Folklife Festival, you can stroll through the village and check out the crafts and demonstrations, and try your hand at 1800s crafts.

Celebrate Fall at the Wildwood YMCA Fall Harvest Festival. Families can enjoy food and craft booths, face painting for kids, a Kids Zone, nature adventures with seeds and plants, and lots more.

Get into the Halloween spirit with some spooky fun and celebrate with the animals at Grant's Farm. Enjoy Halloween tram rides featuring Halloween lights, spooky scenes, live actors, scare zones, a Halloween-themed show, monster mash party and more. Costumes are encouraged.

Ride the wagons out to the pumpkin patch to search for your great pumpkin, live entertainment, pony rides, a petting farm, funnel cakes, caramel apples and lots of activities for kids.

SunCrest Fest brings together the best of Sunset Hills and Crestwood into a fall festival for all ages. The Fest features an old-school carnival with rides and classic games, live music, a parade and more. 

Beautiful Forest Park is the setting for the annual free concert performed by the St. Louis Symphony, complete with fireworks to end the show.

This is one breakfast your family is sure to flip over! You and your little short stack are invited to enjoy Breakfast with Santa at The Magic House. Registration is required.

Kids love Squishmallows! In this workshop, everyone gets to adopt a NEW Squishmallow and then paint its portrait. They'll also make a mini-clay version of their new squishmallow.

Do you need a creative activity for your kids on a day when school's out? Yucandu Art Studio offers No-School Workshops for kids in grades kindergarten through 5th.

Enjoy extended evening hours at the Saint Louis Zoo for the Family Glow Pary! Visit the Zoo after the Great Forest Park Balloon Race and enjoy glow accessories, and special balloon-themed enrichment activities with some animals. Visit all your favorite Zoo attractions and enjoy specialty cocktails for grownups too. 

Get ready for a hauntingly fun musical adventure the whole family will enjoy at Howl at Powell! This spooktacular concert is filled with playful melodies, ghostly tunes and fun surprises. Join in the fun and wear your custumes to celebrate the season!

Kids can enjoy stories, songs and other fun activities in English and Mandarin to help develop early literary and language skills at Bilingial Story Time at the St. Louis County Library. 

Families of all ages can enjoy festive decorations, entertainers, special food and drink menus and more at the Saint Louis Zoo's nighttime, non-scary Halloween experience Boo at the Zoo! Boo at the Zoo is a long-time St. Louis family favorite, with fun. spellbinding decorations for great photo opportunities, spooktacular entertainment as actors bring the decorated areas to life, interaction with the animals, fun at the 4-D Theater, & the Conservation Carousel and much more.

Trucks and other vehicles of all shapes and sizes will be on display for your little ones to climb on, inspect and interact with. This rain-or-shine event is free and open to all.

Kids are the star of the show during the Central West End's Children's Costume Parade and Party. The parade begins at 11 a.m. followed by trick or treating at neighborhood businesses.