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Hanukkah (Chanukah): Festival of Lights at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Sunday, December 15, 2024

This traditional Jewish holiday celebration includes festive Israeli music and dance, a menorah-lighting ceremony and more.

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Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Celebrating the history, culture, and people of Japan, the Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the largest and oldest festivals of its kind in the United States. Your family can enjoy guided walking tours, bonsai, cooking, martial arts and origami demonstrations, sumo wrestling, and special activities for kids.

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Children's Garden Opens for the season at the Missouri Botanical Garden

The Doris I. Schnuck Children's Garden reopens for the season at the Missouri Botanical Garden on March 30 for the general public. The garden introduces youngsters at their most impressionable age to the significance of plants and nature in fun and innovative ways.

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Great Green Adventures: Winter Color Walk

There may not be many plants blooming in January at the Missouri Botanical Garden, but that doesn't mean you can't find color in the garden. At Great Green Adventures: Winter Color Walk, kids will search out common and not-so-common colors in the garden.

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Hot! Hot! Hot! at The Butterfly House

Kids can shake off the cold weather with a tropical-themed celebration at The Butterfly House. Activities include tropical-themed games and crafts, marsh-friendly bugs, swamp-themed activities, music and live animal encounters.

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Arbor Day Tree Giveaway

The Kemper Center for Home Gardening at the Missouri Botanical Garden will give away Missouri native tree saplings on a first-come, first-served basis in honor of Arbor Day. (One per visitor.)

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Discover Nature Families: Wild About Water

Missouri Master Naturalist volunteers will teach your family about the importance of aquatic food chains and wetlands and how to care for them using hands-on, interactive activities.

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Wild Lights at the Saint Louis Zoo

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Delight in brilliant, colorful light displays with spectacular photo opportunities throughout the Zoo during Wild Lights. Walk through two tunnels with dazzling lights, and enjoy themed displays featuring snowflakes, candy canes, gumdrops, penguins, polar bears, tigers, giraffes and much more at this St. Louis family-favorite holiday tradition.

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Winter Wonderland in Tilles Park

Experience the holiday lights at Winter Wonderland in Tilles Park, where you'll find two million beautiful holiday lights and animated displays. This year's Winter Wonderland is drive-through only.

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Garden Glow at the Missouri Botanical Garden

More than a million lights will illuminate some of the Missouri Botanical Garden's most iconic locations, walkways will be transformed into sensory light tunnels providing an explosion of visual magic, and traditional candlelight village displays, festive drinks, s'mores and great photo opportunities will delight crowds of all ages.

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O'Fallon Celebration of Lights

The annual Celebration of Lights in Fort Zumwalt Park in O'Fallon, Mo., has been a holiday tradition since 1991.

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Brewery Lights at Anheuser-Busch Brewery

Enjoy the iconic lights that adorn the Anheuser-Busch Brewery close up during walking tours. Brewery Lights features more than one million twinkling lights and lots of family friendly activities. New this year is an enhanced parade with Clydesdales and street performers, giant branded nutcrackers and interactive stage performances.

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