Abra-Kid-Abra teaches and performs magic and related entertainment, including juggling, animal balloon art, and clowning. The company offers magic camps, afterschool classes, and single workshops; it also can send entertainers to any party locale surrounding the metro area.

Abra-Kid-Abra can entertain with strolling performers, close-up magic, amd short sidewalk shows. For birthdays, entertainers present a 30-minute magic show that incorporates comedy into a story specifically about the birthday child. Photo opportunities are part of the show, and each child takes home a magic kit.

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.

Babymoon Boutique features a wide range of maternity, infant, and toddler wear. The store also carries slings and carriers, cloth diapers, and fun accessories and gifts.

Babymoon Boutique also serves as a Parent and Child Enrichment Center, helping parents with educational programs, peer support, and parenting groups that facilitate networking. Classes are lead by an experienced support specialist who has dealt first-hand with the trials and triumphs of pregnancy and parenting. Class topics include newborn care, CPR and first aid, breastfeeding 101, prepared childbirth education, infant massage, and a variety of topics related to health and fitness.

The facility includes a children's classroom, where kids can partake in games, art projects, and music classes while their grown-ups take in their own class.

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.

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.

One of St. Louis' historical, grand Victorian homes has found a new life with an important purpose: teaching students and adults all about resource efficiency and living a green lifestyle as the EarthWays Center.

The house is a three-story Victorian residence built in 1885 and renovated in 1994 to showcase practical demonstrations of energy efficient systems, recycled products, and waste reduction practices.

The center offers tours on the third Saturday and Sunday of every month (11am, 12n, 1pm, & 2pm); no reservations are required. When it is not open to the public, it is being used for classes and workshops.

Crafters and jewelry makers count Lady Bug Beads as one of their favorite haunts. More than 3000 square feet is filled with beads fashioned out of seeds, Bali and Thai silver, Swarovski crystals, pearls, shells, bone, semi-precious stones, and pressed glass. The store also carries all the accessories needed to create one's own jewelry.

Lady Bug Beads offers a wide range of classes and jewelry workshops; check website for details and seasonal schedules.

The past meets the future in the Forest Park complex that is the Missouri History Museum: The Beaux Arts Jefferson Memorial Building, built between 1911 and 1913 with proceeds from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, joins the Emerson Center, a sleek modern building which opened in 2000 and is organized around MacDermott Grand Hall.

Kids can see a replica of The Spirit of St. Louis here and learn about an array of historical events that impacted the region, including the 1803-1806 Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery expedition.

The museum has several unique programs for schoolage children and classroom groups, including the History Echoing Through the Galleries and the Learning Through Artifacts and Activities programs.

StrollerFit offers moms and babies a 60-minute stroller fitness workout, using strollers, resistance bands, and body weight to achieve muscular strength and cardiovascular fitness.

Children are entertained by songs, nursery rhymes, visual stimulation, and other activities.