Press release from Dancing Bear Toys:
FUN FEST 2016: Free Outdoor Festival for Families
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – September 24, 2016 – Dancing Bear Toys announces the fourth annual Fun Fest, a free outdoor festival for kids. The festival will take place on Saturday, September 24 from 11 am to 2 pm in the parking lot of Dancing Bear Toys’ Asheville location (518 Kenilworth Rd).
Fun Fest will showcase over a dozen kid-friendly businesses and organizations from the Asheville community.
Each business will offer a free activity for kids at their booth. Activities include a design-a-monster contest, a Swurfer swing installation, a puzzle solving station, face-painting, and a kids’ tattoo parlor.
This Fun Fest will host the second annual Kidzone – a section dedicated to kid entrepreneurs and their crafts and trades. Over 30 young vendors will set up booths alongside local businesses and try their hand at running a business. Kid businesses will include a photo booth, handmade fairy doors, dog treats, and a hugging booth.
Participating businesses include The WNC Nature Center, Scott’s Knots, Conundrum Escape Room, Studio 52 of Flat Rock Playhouse, Asheville Macaroni Kid, The Asheville Museum of Science, My Monster Menagerie, Asheville Area Music Together, Swurfer, Asheville Scrabble Club, iPlay inc., Blue Ridge Tae Kwon Do, and Spellbound Children’s Bookshop.
Dancing Bear Toys is a family-owned toy store with locations in Asheville and Hendersonville.
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