Come and join in! There will be lots of hands-on activities, crafts, and active games for families.
Family Tent activities are funded in part with a Good Neighbor Grant from the Kalamazoo Community Foundation.
- Special Guests: Aerial Angels
- Two performances: 2 PM and 3:30 PM
- Location: On the Bluff
- Watch as high-flying female circus artists swing and dangle above your head!
- Thanks to Aerial Angels, an international touring group of performers based in Kalamazoo
- 19th Century Home Crafts
- Noon to 4 PM
- Try your hand at practical skills that boys and girls learned growing up.
- Thanks to Kalamazoo Valley Museum & Planetarium — A Participatory Museum of History, Science & Technology
- Nature Goes Wild at the Farm
- Noon to 5 PM
- Plenty of non-domestic animals are found around Michigan farms — find out more.
- Thanks to Kalamazoo Nature Center, celebrating their 50th Anniversary
- Face Painting
- Noon to 2 PM and 2:45 to 4:30 PM
- Get your face painted to celebrate Harvest Fest.
- Thanks to Ben Flaten, Kalamazoo Gazette 2009 STAR Award Winner for community volunteer service, and Friends
- Feed the Birds
- Noon to 5 PM
- Make a tasty pinecone bird feeder and decorate a bag to take it home.
- Thanks to Kingman Museum — Natural History Museum and Planetarium
- My Landscape
- 1 to 5 PM
- Create a beautiful nature scene with wax-resist and watercolor; then frame it!
- Thanks to Susan Teague of Teague Art Studio
Activities by Tillers International
- Weave It!
- 11:30 AM to 5 PM
- Add your special touch to our community weaving project.
- Hook It!
- 12:30 to 5 PM
- Use blacksmiths' skills (but no fire) to create a decorative hook from clay.