The St. Louis African Arts Festival, held in Forest Park, celebrates the rich and diverse cultures of Africa and African people. Children's activities include storytelling, arts and crafts, mask-making and educational workshops. In conjunction with the festival, the Saint Louis Zoo will have special activities focused on a different African animal each day.
There are more than strawberries (but plenty of those too) at this festival! Kids can enjoy carnival rides, a petting farm, pony rides, the children's play area and lots more.
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.
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.
Kids Night Out at Olympia Gymnastics is an evening filled with fun! Parents get a babysitter for the night and kids will enjoy gymnastics/ninja-themed activities, group games, crafts, and more! Members and non-members are welcome.
turn into “spraygrounds” during the hot, summer months, combining all the fun of a trip to your favorite park with one of childhood’s most treasured summer pastimes – getting wet. Here’s our list of some of the best ones St. Louis has to offer.
If you're like me, you've spent many a night tossing and turning, worried sick about the day Buddy realizes
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they roll out of the recovery room. But for the rest of us, there's no "bouncing back." It takes work. So we asked some St. Louis moms to share their get-fit secrets.
weather. But these concerts are designed just for kids, so even the toddler set can rock out to music geared just for them.
mistake but you've already committed and there's no way out and you just sit there praying for death? I'm sure by now you've figured out I'm talking about spinning. Or, as the ancient Mayans called it – El Diablo Loco.
has already ended. Wondering how to prevent the complaints of boredom that seem to inevitably accompany summer vacation? With this list of great ideas, you can keep your kids entertained and engaged until they head back to school in the fall – and may even have some fun yourself in the process.
make better food choices.
to more for their daughters than looking pretty and being rescued by a prince, these lovely ladies pose a bit of a problem.
debated between the helicopter mom and the free range parent – how much freedom do we give a child who has demonstrated she can handle herself?
look at it as an opportunity.
in the evening, when a parent and child snuggle in bed and crack open a book, that technology goes out the window and one’s imagination runs wild.
co-sleeper and the cry-it-out devotee. But through it all, there’s one thing almost every mom can agree on.
Day. It turned out to be the gift I've cherished most.
we learned about electricity the painful way.
Teen pregnancy rates are down, but there's more to be done - starting with simple conversations.
Garden is one of the most awesome. From the slides that look like trees to the edible garden, here's why the Doris I. Schnuck Children’s Garden is the backyard playhouse of kids' dreams.
arrived in our mailbox, my third grader paged through it eagerly … and then proudly pointed to about thirteen different camps she planned to sign up for this summer. From circus camp to acting camp to a camp where you make your own ice cream, she had visions of attending them all.
Lifetime mini-series. It’s called The One She Left Behind, and it’s particularly heart wrenching.
