Enjoy live music, great food, games, rides for the kids, fireworks and lots more at the annual Celebrate St. Peters festival September 20 and 21 in Lakeside Park.
Along with carnival rides and game booths, kids can make projects at Home Depot Kids Workshops (from 11 to 2 on Saturday), and see kid-friendly performances, including Babaloo (1 and 3 p.m. on Saturday) on the Family Stage.
Carnival hours are Friday 4 to 10:30 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Scheduled musical acts include Head East, Sawyer Brown, Alyssa Lynn Little, Plastic Kings, SFO and more. Fireworks are scheduled for Saturday night.
For more information and a daily schedule of events, go to stpetersmo.net
It's the Not-So-Haunted House that is oh-so-fun, where storybook characters come alive! Kids are invited to dress in their most "boo-tiful" Halloween costumes and have a ghoulishly good time going on a spook-tacular scavenger hunt throughout The Magic House to find trick-or-treat locations and seeing their favorite storybook characters.
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.
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.
The Best of Missouri Market at the Missouri Botanical Garden features more than 150 vendors offering handcrafted items, locally produced food, native plants, herbs, live music and local brews, plus a two-acre Kid's Corner with farm animals (like llamas, alpacas and sheep!), circus performers, face painting, crafts, and a pumpkin patch with decorating let by Perennial.
Kids in kindergarten through 5th grade can fun evenings making spooky crafts. Parents can drop off their kids and enjoy an evening out. Enrollment is limited.