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Bring your little ballerina for a fun beginners dance class at The Butterfly House. Participants will explore a variety of basic dance techniques while learning interesting information about plants and animals found at The Butterfly House. 

Learn about vultures, see them fly, go on a vulture scavenger hunt and lots more at the World Bird Sanctuary's Vulture Awareness Day. 

Enjoy a new take on Octoberfest at the Saint Louis Zoo's Zootoberfest. This family-friendly Octoberfest includes all the fun of the zoo, including your favorite animals, with German food for purchase, a "biergarten" for adults and root beer for kids, and kids activities.

Enjoy more than 120 regional food producers and artisans, live music, and a Kids' Corner with cow milking, crafts, pumpkin decorating, barnyard animals and more.

Celebrating the history, culture, and people of Japan, the Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the largest and oldest festivals of its kind in the United States. Your family can enjoy guided walking tours, bonsai, cooking, martial arts and origami demonstrations, sumo wrestling, and special activities for kids.

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

Big trucks will be a big deal at The Magic House on Big Truck Day. Visitors can register to attend a Big Truck Day celebration where they can get up close and personal with a cement mixer, crane, fire truck and more.

You and your little conductor will enjoy a delicious breakfast, private playtime in the all-new Thomas & Friends: Explore the Rails exhibit, all-day admission to The Magic House and more.

Thomas & Friends: Explore the Rails is pulling into The Magic House's station this fall! Surrounded by everyone's favorite blue engine Thomas and his engine friends, kids can explore the Island of Sodor's iconic locations: Knapford Station, Sodor Steamworks and more.

This special play time at Play Street Museum encourages kids in the creative process by encouraging kids to feel what they are making. Fingerpaint Paint & Play features eco-kids fingerpaints. 

The Canine Carnival features lots of activities for kids, dog-related carnival games, live music, lots of prizes, adoptable pets, raffles, exhibitor booths, live music, food trucks and more.

Kids can stir and mix up a batch of concrete slime at this special play time at Play Street Museum. It's amazing how a few simple ingredients can come together to make something so cool! This is a fun, educational activity for all ages.