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The Missouri Botanical Garden’s annual Green Living Festival is back refreshed and ready to provide you with sustainable solutions. Join experts at the Garden for a full day of active learning, family-friendly activities, and engaging in ideas for taking action in your everyday life.

Celebrate America's birthday at the Blast Bash at Westport Plaza featuring fireworks, family activities, live music, and more. 

Get ready for tons of free, soapy fun! Come to the library to play with tons of bubbles with the Bubble Bus.

Enjoy a free family movie at Westport Plaza. Concessions will be available. Arrive early for family friendly activities. Most movies start at sunset.

The free festival includes live music from Butch Wax and the Hollywoods followed by fireworks at 9 p.m. 

Explore the parks in Maryland Heights this summer at Fun in the Park evenings. There will be snacks and activities at each event.

Kids can explore Faust Park in a new way during the Kids Scavenger Hunt. All ages are welcome.

Meet up in Weldon Spring for the 23rd annual Kids Fishing Day. 

The Spirit of St. Louis Air Show and STEM Expo features amazing performers and captivating static displays that overtake the skies near Chesterfield Airport. Catch the U.S. Navy Blue Angels along with performers Matt Younkin and Skip Stewart and others as they pierce the sky and defy physics.

The Saint Louis Science Center’s newest exhibition, The Blue Whale Story, shares the life story of the largest creature to have ever lived on Earth. Combining life-size models, scientific discovery, hands-on interactives, and compelling storytelling, The Blue Whale Story is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stand alongside an ocean giant. 

Come face-to-face with mermaids at the St. Louis Aquarium during Mermaids on the Mississippi. Mermaids will swim the aquarium, and dive in shark canyon with the sharks, rays, sea turtles and other underwater creatures.

Celebrate Independence Day in Eureka at an old-fashioned festival complete with food trucks and a fireworks display. 

The Magic House, MADE for Kids will be hosting an exhibit of its own as TapeScape, an innovative playscape made almost entirely out of packing tape, opens for play on June 1 in the makerspace. 

The Gateway to Reading program is a parent-child workshop that focuses on strengthening reading skills while engaging in fun, literacy-based activities. Participants will receive a free toolkit of materials to help children in their reading journey.

Explore the Saint Louis Zoo in the evenings at the Chinese lantern festival Animals Aglow! Animals Aglow returns to illuminate the Saint Louis Zoo for the second year with dozens of new, towering lanterns and light displays. 

Your kids can enjoy a nature-themed story, a wildlife walk, and create a craft using nature's art supplies at the Nature Tots Storybook Hour.

Friendly and fun, auditions at The St. Louis Children’s Choirs are a great way for us to get to know one another. Auditions consist of your child singing a short song followed by a short informational meeting. A singer's ensemble placement is based on age, skill, maturity, and availability. The St. Louis Children's Choirs has an ensemble for every singer!