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New City School hosts this free, virtual storytime featuring stories and songs with Heidi Kehle, one of New City School's preschool teachers. Stories and activities are designed for children from infant/toddler through 2nd grade. 

Get ready to (sham)rock and roll at the Play Street Museum St. Patrick Day event It's Your Lucky Day! Kids will enjoy a performance by the Clarkson School of Irish Dance, shamrock hunting, rainbows and time to play in the museum.

Come to the Brentwood Firehouse for a free showing of Soul. Enjoy the movie next to the firetrucks! 

Strap on your baby carrier and get ready for an adventure at Nature Babies. These free, 45-minute programs are designed for ages 12 weeks to 2 years and includes outdoor and sensory activities as well as a short group hike. 

Kids can celebrate National Unicorn Day at the St. Louis Carousel, where they'll color and decorate a unicorn, enjoy a cookie, take rides on the carousel and take home a goody bag. 

Night at the Museum at Play Street Museum is perfect for everyone in your family! Your kids will have a blast as they play with friends new and old. Each Night at the Museum is themed and includes educational activities for the whole family. 

Find yourself immersed in a sea of blue as the Tropical Conservancy at The Butterfly House is flooded with 1500 Blue Morpho Butterflies during Morpho Mardi Gras. Join the party at the Bugs on Parade, make a masquerade mask, and inaugurate the season with the majestic creatures. 

Release a butterfly into the conservatory, visit the butterflies in the calm early morning, and enjoy a breakfast snack with the butterflies during Rise and Shine with the Butterflies at The Butterfly House. 

Come support the Backstoppers at the Brrrentwood Ice Festival! Enjoy open skating with your local first responders. You can also skate with some of your favorite characters from Frozen! 

Featuring real puppets created by the Henson Creature Shop, Splash and Bubbles: Dive In, Lend a Fin! takes children on an underwater adventure to learn about the ocean and what they can do to help protect it.

For Pete the Cat, life is an adventure no matter where you end up. So the minute the groovy blue cat meets The Biddles, he gets the whole family rocking, that is, except for young Jimmy Biddle, the most organized second grader on the planet. 

Kids can enjoy a winter wonderland of active fun at the Winter Wonderland MLK Day at Olympia Gymnastics. 

Join the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for a fun, live watch party of its first-ever Tiny Tunes digital concert. This free online experience is for ages 3-6 and their families. The Tiny Tunes concert experience will explore high and low sounds, and tell the story of The Lion and the Mouse through music. Participants will also dance and make music along with St. Louis Symphony musicians! 

Noted storyteller Sherry Norfolk immerses your family in fun, engaging storytelling techniques to make your stories come alive. This free program is for ages 2-8 and their families. Registration is required. 

Kids can spend President's Day assuming the role of a veterinarian and learn how to perform a nose-to-tail exam, the importance of proper nutrition, perform a tick check, and identify animal body language. 

Support your early reader's developing skills through a read-aloud session of one of their favorite books followed by a STEAM activity, like bubble experiments or making clay pots from homemade clay. 

Fishing around for something fun to do? Swim on over to The Magic House for the Splash and Bubbles Breakfast! Guests will have a whale of a time as they nibble on a delicious breakfast, participate in some very fishy art activities, explore the Mu"sea" um and enjoy private playtime in the exhibit Splash and Bubbles: Dive In, Lend a Fin!

See a live bald eagle up close, participate in cold weather games, build a Bald Eagle's nest, test your eagle knowledge, create tree cookie crafts, meet Eric the Eagle and lots more at this annual celebration of the Bald Eagle. There will be lots of opportunities to view eagles, trumpeter swans and other waterfowl too.

Have a fun-filled, high-energy evening at this event for the whole family: Family Nerf Wars. Each participant needs to bring a Nerf gun. Soft tip darts and safety goggles will be provided. Registration is required.