My daughter like many other little girls her age loves to spin around imagining that she’s a graceful ballerina. Many hours are spent dressing up in tutus, ballet slippers and circling around the kitchen to beautiful music. Being one of her favorite pastimes, she jumped at the opportunity to take dance classes when I offered them to her. After doing extensive research I compiled a list of great studios in the area (so you don’t have to) for a little prima ballerina to thrive in her creative movement.

Our event calendar is a wonderful resource full of fun events happening all over Connecticut. We've curated the best things to do in June to save you some time and frustration (when it's too late to fit a fun event into your already packed schedule). Now you'll have plenty of notice to plan for the most memorable and fun things to do around town. We only include experiences that are worth your time and money. Bonus: many of our picks are mostly free or inexpensive. We know you may not have time to drive across the state for a super cool science exhibit so we will try to include a few of the best in each region. Here are 12 of our most favorite things to do with kids in Connecticut this June. If you click through to the full listing you can then add them to your calendar. Have fun planning!

From a very young age, my twins gravitated towards creating art in various forms.  Whether my son is sculpting food or super heroes with PlayDoh or my daughter is sketching an imaginary landscape, someone, somewhere in my home is creating art.  With my own art skills lacking (I'm the writer, NOT the artist), we needed to enlist some professionals to help our kiddos hone their skills.  In our part of the state, here in Eastern Connecticut, we luckily had a large selection of classes to choose from!