Abra-Kid-Abra hosts camps, classes, and workshops to teach kids the ins and out of performing magic and related entertainment like juggling, face painting, creating animal balloons, and clowning. Summer camp themes include Kids Comedy, Circus Skills, Puppet Theater, Magic, and Let Us Entertain You.

The staff even gets to clown around a bit: They are happy to perform shows for kid or adult parties, street fairs, or school students.

A full-sized gymnasium for basketball and volleyball, meeting room, fitness room, and playground are available for patrons of Affton Community Center.

The center regularly schedules exercise/fitness and recreational programs, including volleyball, basketball, dance, babysitter skills, karate, and tumbling.

Basketball, soccer, dance/poms, karate, volleyball, drama, and drawing summer camps are held here for schoolage children. All require pre-registration; call center for more information.

A full-sized gymnasium for basketball and volleyball, meeting room, fitness room, and playground are available for patrons of Affton Community Center.

The center regularly schedules exercise/fitness and recreational programs, including volleyball, basketball, dance, babysitter skills, karate, and tumbling.

Basketball, soccer, dance/poms, karate, volleyball, drama, and drawing summer camps are held here for schoolage children. All require pre-registration; call center for more information.

A full-sized gymnasium for basketball and volleyball, meeting room, fitness room, and playground are available for patrons of Affton Community Center.

The center regularly schedules exercise/fitness and recreational programs, including volleyball, basketball, dance, babysitter skills, karate, and tumbling.

Basketball, soccer, dance/poms, karate, volleyball, drama, and drawing summer camps are held here for schoolage children. All require pre-registration; call center for more information.

A full-sized gymnasium for basketball and volleyball, meeting room, fitness room, and playground are available for patrons of Affton Community Center.

The center regularly schedules exercise/fitness and recreational programs, including volleyball, basketball, dance, babysitter skills, karate, and tumbling.

Basketball, soccer, dance/poms, karate, volleyball, drama, and drawing summer camps are held here for schoolage children. All require pre-registration; call center for more information.

A full-sized gymnasium for basketball and volleyball, meeting room, fitness room, and playground are available for patrons of Affton Community Center.

The center regularly schedules exercise/fitness and recreational programs, including volleyball, basketball, dance, babysitter skills, karate, and tumbling.

Basketball, soccer, dance/poms, karate, volleyball, drama, and drawing summer camps are held here for schoolage children. All require pre-registration; call center for more information.

Balls-n-Strikes features top-notch baseball and softball instruction via camps, small groups, and private one-on-one instruction. The facility caters to kids in early elementary school all the way through high school seniors.

Along with offering classes and lessons, the centers help match up players looking for teams, as well as teams looking for players; it also offers cage rentals by the half-hour and hour.

Among Balls-n-Strikes most popular features are its camps, which typically coincide with school vacation breaks. Its winter holiday camps give players a chance to warm up their skills well before spring training begins. Camp schedules vary by location and season; check website for all the details.

Balls-n-Strikes features top-notch baseball and softball instruction via camps, small groups, and private one-on-one instruction. The facility caters to kids in early elementary school all the way through high school seniors.

Along with offering classes and lessons, the centers help match up players looking for teams, as well as teams looking for players; it also offers cage rentals by the half-hour and hour.

Among Balls-n-Strikes most popular features are its camps, which typically coincide with school vacation breaks. Its winter holiday camps give players a chance to warm up their skills well before spring training begins. Camp schedules vary by location and season; check website for all the details.

Balls-n-Strikes features top-notch baseball and softball instruction via camps, small groups, and private one-on-one instruction. The facility caters to kids in early elementary school all the way through high school seniors.

Along with offering classes and lessons, the centers help match up players looking for teams, as well as teams looking for players; it also offers cage rentals by the half-hour and hour.

Among Balls-n-Strikes most popular features are its camps, which typically coincide with school vacation breaks. Its winter holiday camps give players a chance to warm up their skills well before spring training begins. Camp schedules vary by location and season; check website for all the details.

Balls-n-Strikes features top-notch baseball and softball instruction via camps, small groups, and private one-on-one instruction. The facility caters to kids in early elementary school all the way through high school seniors.

Along with offering classes and lessons, the centers help match up players looking for teams, as well as teams looking for players; it also offers cage rentals by the half-hour and hour.

Among Balls-n-Strikes most popular features are its camps, which typically coincide with school vacation breaks. Its winter holiday camps give players a chance to warm up their skills well before spring training begins. Camp schedules vary by location and season; check website for all the details.

Balls-n-Strikes features top-notch baseball and softball instruction via camps, small groups, and private one-on-one instruction. The facility caters to kids in early elementary school all the way through high school seniors.

Along with offering classes and lessons, the centers help match up players looking for teams, as well as teams looking for players; it also offers cage rentals by the half-hour and hour.

Among Balls-n-Strikes most popular features are its camps, which typically coincide with school vacation breaks. Its winter holiday camps give players a chance to warm up their skills well before spring training begins. Camp schedules vary by location and season; check website for all the details.

Balls-n-Strikes features top-notch baseball and softball instruction via camps, small groups, and private one-on-one instruction. The facility caters to kids in early elementary school all the way through high school seniors.

Along with offering classes and lessons, the centers help match up players looking for teams, as well as teams looking for players; it also offers cage rentals by the half-hour and hour.

Among Balls-n-Strikes most popular features are its camps, which typically coincide with school vacation breaks. Its winter holiday camps give players a chance to warm up their skills well before spring training begins. Camp schedules vary by location and season; check website for all the details.

Baskin Farm is a full-service hunter/jumper equestrian facility nestled within the beautiful wooded suburbs of West St. Louis County. The farm boards horses and offers beginners lessons and one-week summer horse camp sessions, which allow "horse-crazy" kids to learn how to ride and how to care for horses and riding equipment.

Baskin Farm is a great place for novice and intermediate riders, with an extensive lesson program focusing on safety and horsemanship. The program features many school horses, private and group instruction, a Working Student program, and frequent participation in local shows.

"Midwest diving" seems a bit contradictory, but BellyUp Diving believes anyone interested in underwater exploration deserves proper training, even those far, far away from seascapes.

Private and group lessons teach the fundamentals of scuba diving, including instruction on the correct dive equipment and techniques to use. Certification requires the completion of pool dives, five knowledge development sessions, and four open water dives; students also need to be at least 10 years old.

Birthday Pool Parties with BellyUp instructors are great fun. Parties are for children ages eight and older and can take place at private homes or at pools hosting special events. For those hosting their own pool parties, Belly Up Diving can supply certified lifeguards.

"Midwest diving" seems a bit contradictory, but BellyUp Diving believes anyone interested in underwater exploration deserves proper training, even those far, far away from seascapes.

Private and group lessons teach the fundamentals of scuba diving, including instruction on the correct dive equipment and techniques to use. Certification requires the completion of pool dives, five knowledge development sessions, and four open water dives; students also need to be at least 10 years old.

Birthday Pool Parties with BellyUp instructors are great fun. Parties are for children ages eight and older and can take place at private homes or at pools hosting special events. For those hosting their own pool parties, Belly Up Diving can supply certified lifeguards.

The Berry Hill Golf Course is a nine hole course that boasts bermuda fairways, bent grass greens, and laser leveled zoysia tees boxes.

Junior golfers, ages six to 13, can sign up for summer programs; advanced juniors can join the league and compete in both match and stroke play tournaments.

The full service pro shop offers golf merchandise and clothing, golf lessons, handicap services, and golf club and cart rentals. The course is host to men's, women's and junior playing leagues. Concession services are provided both in the pro shop and at the sixth tee snack bar.

St. Charles Parks and Recreation Department was started with the 1914 acquisition of Blanchette Park.

The park features paved hiking and bike trails, horseshoe and shuffleboard courts, tennis courts, a sledding hill, a large playground, picnic areas, and a baseball/softball field.

The Aquatic Center features two waterslides, an otter slide, a children's water playground, "lily pad walk," diving area, and lap swimming.

This thriving community center offers a wide range of youth and adult activities, fitness classes, and youth sport programs. The complex holds an ice arena, in which people can play hockey or learn to figure skate. Kuk Sool Won St. Louis holds its Korean-style martial arts classes here, too.

Youngsters enjoy tumbling, ping pong, crafts, boxing, and game-room activities at Buder Recreation Center, which also features a Tiny Tots program for little ones to learn socialization skills before they begin school.

Older children and adults can participate in the center's coeducational sports programs, including basketball, softball, volleyball, boxing, and martial arts.

A playground and basketball court can be found directly across the street from the center.

A popular free summer camp for children ages 4 to 12 is operated out of the center. Each camp session lasts one week; seven sessions are held. Call the center for more details.

Youngsters enjoy tumbling, ping pong, crafts, boxing, and game-room activities at Buder Recreation Center, which also features a Tiny Tots program for little ones to learn socialization skills before they begin school.

Older children and adults can participate in the center's coeducational sports programs, including basketball, softball, volleyball, boxing, and martial arts.

A playground and basketball court can be found directly across the street from the center.

A popular free summer camp for children ages 4 to 12 is operated out of the center. Each camp session lasts one week; seven sessions are held. Call the center for more details.

Youngsters enjoy tumbling, ping pong, crafts, boxing, and game-room activities at Buder Recreation Center, which also features a Tiny Tots program for little ones to learn socialization skills before they begin school.

Older children and adults can participate in the center's coeducational sports programs, including basketball, softball, volleyball, boxing, and martial arts.

A playground and basketball court can be found directly across the street from the center.

A popular free summer camp for children ages 4 to 12 is operated out of the center. Each camp session lasts one week; seven sessions are held. Call the center for more details.

A full-service community center, the Carondelet YMCA features an indoor pool, full-size gymnasium, and several fitness and weight-training rooms.

Youth sports - including basketball, soccer, and T-Ball - are popular here. A range of childcare and summer camps for children ages six weeks through sixth grade is also offered.

A full-service community center, the Carondelet YMCA features an indoor pool, full-size gymnasium, and several fitness and weight-training rooms.

Youth sports - including basketball, soccer, and T-Ball - are popular here. A range of childcare and summer camps for children ages six weeks through sixth grade is also offered.

Located at the southwest corner of Benton Park, Cherokee Recreation Center features a gymnasium, a boxing and workout room, a crafts room, and an indoor swimming pool.

Numerous classes and sports are held for children and adults, including basketball, boxing, ceramics, and swimming.

Located at the southwest corner of Benton Park, Cherokee Recreation Center features a gymnasium, a boxing and workout room, a crafts room, and an indoor swimming pool.

Numerous classes and sports are held for children and adults, including basketball, boxing, ceramics, and swimming.

Circus Kaput comprises a husband-and-wife team; Ginger Routh is a face-painting specialist, and Joshua Routh is a nationally recognized circus performer. Circus Kaput can travel for shows within a 30-miles radius of St. Louis.

Ginger can paint cheek designs or full-face designs, and she comes to each event with a board of designs from which party-goers can choose. She averages about 12-20 faces per hour.

Josh is the star of Jadoo - A One Man Comedic Circus and received formal training at the Circus Center's Clown Conservatory in San Francisco. His shows combine elements of juggling, magic, teeterboard, partner acrobatics, and tumbling.

Aside from offering traveling party entertainment, Josh hosts special one- to three-hour workshops for kids and adults, including one called "Clowning by the Seat of Your Pants," which incorporates physical comedy and clowning, and "Hokus Pocus," which incorporates magic trick training.

City Museum is the winner of our 2008 Parents' Picks quest to find the best museum for big kids in St. Louis!

Truly an architectural wonder to behold, City Museum is constructed entirely out of unique, found objects: Reclaimed building materials, old chimneys, salvaged bridges, construction cranes, miles of tile, and two planes help form the amazing attractions here.

The Enchanted Caves capture any adventurer's imagination: With spiral tunnels in which to crawl and all kinds of nooks and crannies to explore, this is where many young visitors head first.

MonstroCity - the 2008 Parents' Picks winner for best playground for big kids - is an amazing "interactive sculpture" - that is, a giant playground that welcomes kids who climb and explore and includes multi-level caves. The Baby Bob Ball Pit gives little kids the opportunity to leap among, under, and over zillions of balls.

The World Aquarium, located upstairs, is 13,500 square feet and will house more then ten thousand creatures when fully completed. The Aquarium hosts special critter feedings almost every day; check the website for a schedule. Entrance to the Aquarium is an additional fee of $6.

The museum's "everydaycircus" area is where the zany antics of circus performers come alive. Weekly performances and classes designed for young entertainers are held here; pizza buffet birthday parties are, too.

Circus Performance Summer Camps - a unique and intensive circus training experience - teach kids the art of circus performance and are split between two-week sessions starting in late June and extending through the end of August. Camps are geared for ages eight though 16.

Calling itself "more than just a bowling center," Concord Lanes is exactly that: The sports center features an 18-hole mini golf course, sand volleyball leagues, as well as the eponymous bowling lanes, which host short season bowling clubs and leagues for all skill levels.

The center's spacious Arizona Action Park Batting Cage is a real favorite here. It provides great practice for slow- and fast-pitch softball players. The batting area also offers nine baseball-pitching machines with various speeds.

The center's birthday parties are a big hit among the young set. Parties are generally held on weekend afternoons. Two packages are offered: The Krazy Koyote runs $8.99 per child and provides two hours of unlimited bowling; the Cool Cactus runs $11.99 per child and provides two hours of bowling plus pizza and beverage.

The Lanes also host a Summer Camp program for kids ages five to 13.

Calling itself "more than just a bowling center," Concord Lanes is exactly that: The sports center features an 18-hole mini golf course, sand volleyball leagues, as well as the eponymous bowling lanes, which host short season bowling clubs and leagues for all skill levels.

The center's spacious Arizona Action Park Batting Cage is a real favorite here. It provides great practice for slow- and fast-pitch softball players. The batting area also offers nine baseball-pitching machines with various speeds.

The center's birthday parties are a big hit among the young set. Parties are generally held on weekend afternoons. Two packages are offered: The Krazy Koyote runs $8.99 per child and provides two hours of unlimited bowling; the Cool Cactus runs $11.99 per child and provides two hours of bowling plus pizza and beverage.

The Lanes also host a Summer Camp program for kids ages five to 13.

Calling itself "more than just a bowling center," Concord Lanes is exactly that: The sports center features an 18-hole mini golf course, sand volleyball leagues, as well as the eponymous bowling lanes, which host short season bowling clubs and leagues for all skill levels.

The center's spacious Arizona Action Park Batting Cage is a real favorite here. It provides great practice for slow- and fast-pitch softball players. The batting area also offers nine baseball-pitching machines with various speeds.

The center's birthday parties are a big hit among the young set. Parties are generally held on weekend afternoons. Two packages are offered: The Krazy Koyote runs $8.99 per child and provides two hours of unlimited bowling; the Cool Cactus runs $11.99 per child and provides two hours of bowling plus pizza and beverage.

The Lanes also host a Summer Camp program for kids ages five to 13.

Calling itself "more than just a bowling center," Concord Lanes is exactly that: The sports center features an 18-hole mini golf course, sand volleyball leagues, as well as the eponymous bowling lanes, which host short season bowling clubs and leagues for all skill levels.

The center's spacious Arizona Action Park Batting Cage is a real favorite here. It provides great practice for slow- and fast-pitch softball players. The batting area also offers nine baseball-pitching machines with various speeds.

The center's birthday parties are a big hit among the young set. Parties are generally held on weekend afternoons. Two packages are offered: The Krazy Koyote runs $8.99 per child and provides two hours of unlimited bowling; the Cool Cactus runs $11.99 per child and provides two hours of bowling plus pizza and beverage.

The Lanes also host a Summer Camp program for kids ages five to 13.

Dublin Farms is a family-owned and operated horse facility that offers private lessons for beginners or those looking to improve upon specific riding skills. It's been in business since 1976. Dublin Farms also offers camps like Show Camp and Horsemanship Camp.

The Emerson Family YMCA features an indoor pool, a full-size double gymnasium, an indoor track, a fitness center, aerobics room, racquetball court, sports fields, a childcare nursery, a family changing area, and equipment checkout for basketballs, volleyballs/wallyball, racquetballs, and racquets. The YMCA hosts a range of classes, workshops, and special events throughout the year.

The Emerson Family YMCA features an indoor pool, a full-size double gymnasium, an indoor track, a fitness center, aerobics room, racquetball court, sports fields, a childcare nursery, a family changing area, and equipment checkout for basketballs, volleyballs/wallyball, racquetballs, and racquets. The YMCA hosts a range of classes, workshops, and special events throughout the year.

The Emerson Family YMCA features an indoor pool, a full-size double gymnasium, an indoor track, a fitness center, aerobics room, racquetball court, sports fields, a childcare nursery, a family changing area, and equipment checkout for basketballs, volleyballs/wallyball, racquetballs, and racquets. The YMCA hosts a range of classes, workshops, and special events throughout the year.

The Emerson Family YMCA features an indoor pool, a full-size double gymnasium, an indoor track, a fitness center, aerobics room, racquetball court, sports fields, a childcare nursery, a family changing area, and equipment checkout for basketballs, volleyballs/wallyball, racquetballs, and racquets. The YMCA hosts a range of classes, workshops, and special events throughout the year.