Baskin Robbins and its 31 flavors has been around for a long time. It has never tried to be fancy, which is one reason we like its ice cream cake. It's good, basic, reasonably priced, and ready for pick up any time. One particular favorite is the mint chocolate chip ice cream and oreo combo. B-R will decorate a cake on request.

Baskin Robbins and its 31 flavors has been around for a long time. It has never tried to be fancy, which is one reason we like its ice cream cake. It's good, basic, reasonably priced, and ready for pick up any time. One particular favorite is the mint chocolate chip ice cream and oreo combo. B-R will decorate a cake on request.

Baskin Robbins and its 31 flavors has been around for a long time. It has never tried to be fancy, which is one reason we like its ice cream cake. It's good, basic, reasonably priced, and ready for pick up any time. One particular favorite is the mint chocolate chip ice cream and oreo combo. B-R will decorate a cake on request.

Baskin Robbins and its 31 flavors has been around for a long time. It has never tried to be fancy, which is one reason we like its ice cream cake. It's good, basic, reasonably priced, and ready for pick up any time. One particular favorite is the mint chocolate chip ice cream and oreo combo. B-R will decorate a cake on request.

Baskin Robbins and its 31 flavors has been around for a long time. It has never tried to be fancy, which is one reason we like its ice cream cake. It's good, basic, reasonably priced, and ready for pick up any time. One particular favorite is the mint chocolate chip ice cream and oreo combo. B-R will decorate a cake on request.

Ben & Jerry's, a frosty franchise known for its commitment to world-wide social causes, turns out dairy confections like no other. With funky names like Chunky Monkey and Wavy Gravy, this honest-to-goodness ice cream is worth its weight in flavor. Sold in regular cones, waffle cones, and quarts.

You can also pick up an ice cream cake (or order in advance, if you have something special in mind), or try the sundaes, shakes, and fruit smoothies.

Ben & Jerry's, a frosty franchise known for its commitment to world-wide social causes, turns out dairy confections like no other. With funky names like Chunky Monkey and Wavy Gravy, this honest-to-goodness ice cream is worth its weight in flavor. Sold in regular cones, waffle cones, and quarts.

You can also pick up an ice cream cake (or order in advance, if you have something special in mind), or try the sundaes, shakes, and fruit smoothies.

Ben & Jerry's, a frosty franchise known for its commitment to world-wide social causes, turns out dairy confections like no other. With funky names like Chunky Monkey and Wavy Gravy, this honest-to-goodness ice cream is worth its weight in flavor. Sold in regular cones, waffle cones, and quarts.

You can also pick up an ice cream cake (or order in advance, if you have something special in mind), or try the sundaes, shakes, and fruit smoothies.

Ben & Jerry's, a frosty franchise known for its commitment to world-wide social causes, turns out dairy confections like no other. With funky names like Chunky Monkey and Wavy Gravy, this honest-to-goodness ice cream is worth its weight in flavor. Sold in regular cones, waffle cones, and quarts.

You can also pick up an ice cream cake (or order in advance, if you have something special in mind), or try the sundaes, shakes, and fruit smoothies.

Ben & Jerry's, a frosty franchise known for its commitment to world-wide social causes, turns out dairy confections like no other. With funky names like Chunky Monkey and Wavy Gravy, this honest-to-goodness ice cream is worth its weight in flavor. Sold in regular cones, waffle cones, and quarts.

You can also pick up an ice cream cake (or order in advance, if you have something special in mind), or try the sundaes, shakes, and fruit smoothies.

Ben & Jerry's, a frosty franchise known for its commitment to world-wide social causes, turns out dairy confections like no other. With funky names like Chunky Monkey and Wavy Gravy, this honest-to-goodness ice cream is worth its weight in flavor. Sold in regular cones, waffle cones, and quarts.

You can also pick up an ice cream cake (or order in advance, if you have something special in mind), or try the sundaes, shakes, and fruit smoothies.

Ben & Jerry's, a frosty franchise known for its commitment to world-wide social causes, turns out dairy confections like no other. With funky names like Chunky Monkey and Wavy Gravy, this honest-to-goodness ice cream is worth its weight in flavor. Sold in regular cones, waffle cones, and quarts.

You can also pick up an ice cream cake (or order in advance, if you have something special in mind), or try the sundaes, shakes, and fruit smoothies.

Bounce or Play provides inflatable rentals for birthdays, company picnics, and other special events.

Given that Carvel's mascot, Fudgie the Whale, has his own MySpace page, it's clear that even after 70 years, the pioneering ice cream company wants to stay cool. So, when kids scream for ice cream, the nearest franchise is a good bet.

Carvel stores churn out hand-dipped and soft serve ice cream in classic cups, cones, sundaes, novelties, and shakes, but the company may be best known for its dependably good ice cream cakes, which can made to order or plucked, ready to go, from freezer cases filled with take-home treats. Carvel uses only kosher ingredients in its products.

Enchanted Parties by Tracy specializes in two kinds of personalized dress-up parties in your home. Parties can include up to 14 children. Tracy can travel to any town on the Missouri side of the St. Louis Metro area.

The Once Upon a Time Princess Party includes invitations, set up, pricess storytime, craft project, a "beauty session" and dress-up time, a tea party. The deluxe Happily Ever After party includes all of the above plus themed games and music, additional treats for the tea party, and a Poloroid photo for each child. Special additional-cost "ad-ons" can be chosen with either package.

Flair Designery, an online retailer, offers unique, stylish, and chic custom-designed photo birth announcements, photo holiday cards, invitations, stationery, and more. The venue offers free local deliverery to the St. Louis area.

Gibbol's Novelties & Costumes is a zany shop in the Laclede's Landing district that sports a circus theme and specializes in joke items for all ages, custom-made costumes for rental or sale, a complete magic department, and a huge selection of masks, stage make-up, and clown and jugglers' supplies.

Higher Hope Entertainment is a party service company that offers balloon decor, singing telegrams, and balloon artist "Double 0 Balloon," who creates fun scultures for all party guests. Double O Balloon can also perform at restaurants, church and corporate events, and libraries throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area.

Find the party paraphernalia you're looking for online at iparty.com. Packages for birthday parties and special occasions could be a life saver when you're pressed for time and ideas.

Halloween costumes in all shapes and sizes are available here, too.

Located inside Chesterfield Mall, Jump in the Park is an indoor bounce park. It offers free wireless Internet, Parents Nights Out, fun fit classes, parties, family seminars, healthy foods, and live entertainment.

The venue also offers rentals and sales of inflatable "bouncers" in many styles, shapes, and themes.
The equipment is fully insured and safety inspected regularly.

Jump in the Park also hosts week-long summer camps focused both on building fitness and on visiting the mall's kid-friendly stores for special activities.

MidWest Soccer Academy is a non-profit organization that provides year-round soccer instruction. Its leagues and training focus on enhancing players' individual skills, field sense, physical strength and fitness, mental preparation, and sportsmanship.

The Academy sponsors indoor leagues for kids in grades kindergarten through fourth, and it hosts birthday parties and summer soccer camps; the facility can also be rented for special events.

Lively, two-hour ready-made parties in an array of themes is the specialty of Oogles 'n Googles, which serves the entire St. Louis area. Party packages include set-up, a themed storyline, invitations, themed cake, goody bags, souvenir photo, and a special gift for the birthday child.

Tea Time, I Spy Detective School, Swashbuckling Pirates, and Dinosaur Expedition are just a few of the themes the company offers. Parties are geared toward children ages three to 10.

St. Louis Snow Cone makes its way to parties in the super-cool Snow Sled, a customized 1957 Chevy Step Van, and serves up icy treats for any special event. Flavors include root beer, fuzzy peach, Ozark mountain berry, red apple, and honeydew melon. The Snow Sled is also available for fundraisers.

The Daily Bread Bakery & Cafe likes to claim that it leaves its customers with "a smile on every face and a chocolate chip cookie in every hand." The restaurant draws crowds for its yummy breakfasts, artisan breads, bistro salads, gourmet soups, hearth-baked pizzas, and specialty sandwiches. The kids' menu offers standard youngster fare, including PB&J sandwiches.

The Daily Bread also does a brisk catering business, offering most of its menu in portions for a crowd: fruit platters, salads, gourmet box lunches, dessert trays, and much more.

Whole Foods stores, operated by the world's largest retailer of natural and organic foods, are like hybrids, offering the kinds of products usually found in small, local co-ops, but with the wide selection more typical of conventional grocery superstores.

The produce selection is high quality, with prices to match; same for the meat and seafood departments. The 365 and Whole Kids house brands offer some relief, particularly on kid staples like cereal, snack foods, and peanut butter and jelly. Sample stations throughout the store enable parents and kids to graze while they shop; or they can buy something to enjoy in the cafe area after check-out.

Prepared dishes run the gamut from soups to sushi, with vegetarian, vegan, Asian, and Mexican options. Most stores feature in-house kitchens that serve up hot, ready-to-eat meals, as well as in-store dining tables.
Fresh breads, spices, bulk grains, dietary supplements, frozen and canned foods, sumptuous chocolates and baked goods, and designer cheeses are also available. Pet food, bath products, magazines, cut flowers, and paper goods are some of the non-food items for sale.

Whole Foods stores, operated by the world's largest retailer of natural and organic foods, are like hybrids, offering the kinds of products usually found in small, local co-ops, but with the wide selection more typical of conventional grocery superstores.

The Town and Country location stands at 55,000 square feet, nearly twice the size of the Brentwood store. It offers free Wi-Fi, café seating for 80, outdoor dining, the Whole Kids' Club for young shoppers, kids' birthday parties and cooking classes, and adjoining walking/running path and bike racks, among many other impressive features.

The produce selection is high quality, with prices to match; same for the meat and seafood departments. The 365 and Whole Kids house brands offer some relief, particularly on kid staples like cereal, snack foods, and peanut butter and jelly. Sample stations throughout the store enable parents and kids to graze while they shop; or they can buy something to enjoy in the cafe area after check-out.

Prepared dishes run the gamut from soups to sushi, with vegetarian, vegan, Asian, and Mexican options. Most stores feature in-house kitchens that serve up hot, ready-to-eat meals, as well as in-store dining tables.
Fresh breads, spices, bulk grains, dietary supplements, frozen and canned foods, sumptuous chocolates and baked goods, and designer cheeses are also available. Pet food, bath products, magazines, cut flowers, and paper goods are some of the non-food items for sale.