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Fun Fest and Kidzone 2016 at Dancing Bear Toys

By sponsored - Dancing Bear Toys September 20, 2016

We're so excited for this year's festival! Fun Fest is a free festival for kids featuring your favorite local businesses. We invite a dozen independent businesses and nonprofits to set up booths in the parking lot of our Asheville store.  Each booth offers a free activity for kids!  The goal of Fun Fest is to help local families connect with local businesses.  (And to have fun - did we mention that part?)

Our amazing vendors this year are the WNC Nature Center, Asheville Museum of Science, Flat Rock Playhouse, Spellbound Children's Bookshop, Scott's Knots, The Conundrum, Asheville Macaroni Kid, Monster Menagerie , Asheville Area Music Together, Swurfer, i play., Inc., Blue Ridge Taekwondo, and the Asheville Scrabble Club!

We’ll have a swing installment, fresh local soft pretzels, puzzles from an escape room downtown, and so much more! This year is shaping up to be our best Fun Fest ever! Visit https://wncfunfest.wordpress.com/  for more information!

The Kidzone is a section of Fun Fest reserved for kid businesses.  We welcome all kinds of young entrepreneurs- from lemonade stands to on-demand interpretive dances.  Every kid has a special talent, and we want to help them showcase it! Running their own business is a great way to boost kids’ confidence and teach awesome life skills like budgeting, time management, social skills, responsibility, and much more!

This year we'll have 40 kids selling their wares at Fun Fest! Businesses include a photo booth, handmade fairy homes, a peek-a-boo and hugging booth, and so many more!

It all happens this Saturday, Sept. 24 from 11am-2pm at Dancing Bear Toys, 518 Kenilworth Rd, Asheville.