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Take your kids to a new reading program offered at the Gateway Arch Museum. Reading with a Ranger is a free program for families. You'll receive a copy of a themed children's book and read it together with a park ranger, have a group discussion, then explore the museum and Gateway Arch grounds. 

Join an educator at the Saint Louis Art Museum as you and your kids make your own bracelets with string and beads. Learn a simple technique for making a friendship bracelet, or experiment with your own designs.

Join an educator at the Saint Louis Art Museum as you and your kids learn to fold, design and fill your own accordion-style book. You'll explore books from the Ollie Family Resource Cart for inspiration.

The swimming pool at Whitefliff Park in Crestwood is free and open to the public for the Splashtacular Summer Kickoff! Starting at 5 p.m. there will be swimming, a band, food trucks, activities and games.

Join an educator (and animal lover) with the Saint Louis Art Museum on a 30 minute gallery walk through the museum to find some of the many amazing animals in art. This gallery walk is designed for children ages 3 to 5 with their caregiver(s), but all ages are welcome to participate.

Saturday mornings just got a little more exciting with Saturday Morning Live! Kids can see performances from Mad Science, Abra-Kid-Abra and take part in goat yoga.

Join the Missouri Botanical Garden for Great Green Adventures: Bees, Butterflies and Blossoms, where kids discover why bees and butterflies need blossoms, why blossoms need bees and why we need them all.

The Magic House satellite location, MADE for Kids is celebrating its 3rd year in the city of St. Louis. Join the celebration with fun activities all weekend.

Airversity Drone Pilot Academy wants to teach your child to pilot drones! At its boot camps, kids will learn about drones, drone regulations, drone careers, and drone flight. Each participant will take home their own drone after class.

Circus Flora is going underground for the 2022 production of The Quest for the Innkeeper's Cask! In the show, the caves beneath St. Louis have fascinated the city's residents for generations. Each cave has its own story. its own mystery, its own secrets.  In The Quest for the Innkeeper's Cask, Circus Flora's troupe seeks an ancient relic, rumored to have mystical powers, and believe to be somewhere beneath the city's streets.

Ready for your next adventure? Join Molly and her family and friends as you explore the great outdoors of Alaska and learn all about Alaska Native life at the Molly of Denali exhibit at The Magic House.

Exercise your child's mind and body with yoga poses, songs and stories during Yoga Story Time, a virtual, free program sponsored by the St. Louis County Library. 

During ABC Literacy Lab, presented by the St. Louis County Library, you can work with your child each week as they discover and learn to become ready readers. Sessions include stories, practice, and play to support early literacy development. 

Use the force to solve clues and puzzles to stop your planet from being destroyed by the Death Star! 

At the Firefly Festival, families will join staff for guided tours, discover the secrets of glow-in-the-dark animals, find out ways to help fireflies around your home, and learn to speak firefly with the firefly code game. You'll wrap up the night by joining The Butterfly House entomologists in the park to see real fireflies.  

Kids ages 2-4 are invited to explore the world of invertebrates at the Butterfly House.

Bring the whole family for a free concert in the center of the Zoo!

Camp out with the elk and bison at Lone Elk Park.