On the first Saturday of each month through April, bring the family to the Rep for fun events designed to give young children an introduction to the arts and allow families to share the arts experience.

Create your own work of art or watch professional artists demonstrate their craft! 'Art City' features an ever-changing array of artists, painters, potters and sculptors at work. The Glass Studio demonstrates turning molten glass into unique sculpture forms and a variety of techniques, including glassblowing, hot glass sand-casting, etching, cutting, blasting and polishing.

'Circus Day' offers inspiring, interactive circus entertainment, memory-invoking circus food, fun, fabulous parties and exciting, educational circus classes.

The shorter set can climb through pint-sized tunnels, bounce in the only indoor ball pit or slide, crawl and stack to their little hearts' content.

What happens when you mix two Saber 40 aircraft fuselages, a fire engine, a castle turret, a 25' tall cupola and several 4' wide wrought-iron slinkies and the creativity of City Museum Creative Director Bob Cassilly and his crew? The result is 'MonstroCity', the most monumental, monolithic, monstrous montage of monkey bars in the world.

The 'Baby Bob Ball Pit' is for more relaxed visitors. If the Big Ball Pit is too rambunctious for your taste, hop over to the kinder, gentler ball pit next door. Swim through thousands of rubber balls just like when you were a kid.

Beatnik Bob's is a bohemian hangout with 'The Museum of Mirth, Mystery and Mayhem' where artist Bill Christman conveys the innocence, tawdry charms and cheesiness of the carnival midway and eccentric roadside attractions. Don't miss the Elvis Channeler, the 'Corn Dogs Through the Ages' exhibit and the world's largest pair of men's briefs.

Check out City Museum's collection of vintage (working) shoelace machines from the St. Louis-based Alox Manufacturing Company. Some of the machines now in service were last used to make bootstraps for US soldiers during WW2. Today, they weave brightly-colored laces for lanyards, flashlight holders and (of course) shoes. Check out the gift shop and bring home a piece of history.

'Elmslie and Sullivan' features original pieces by two of the most important American architects.

The 1924 Wurlitzer Pipe Organ once played in the Rivoli Theater in New York City. Thanks to a team of dedicated movers and restorers, it's sonorous tunes now form a chorus with the City Museum's concerto of excited squeals, peals of laughter and gasps of amazement.