If your crayon-toting artist loves parades, story-tellers, crafts, and music the Children’s Arts Festival that takes place during the last weekend of the Decatur Arts Festival in Decatur, GA is an event that your family should not miss. On the morning of Saturday, May 26th you can dress up your children and their wheels (strollers, wagons, bikes) and go to the corner of Church Street and Commerce Drive for a Children’s Parade led by the City of Decatur Fire Department. The parade kicks off at 9:45 a.m. and leads the kids right up to the arts festival.
The Children’s Arts Festival is located at Scott Park, just behind the Decatur Rec Center at 231 Sycamore St., Decatur, GA . We had an amazing time at the festival grounds last year because there were activities for children of all ages. Also, the Children’s Arts festival ended in the early afternoon, around 2:30 p.m., so there was still time to peruse the Decatur Arts Festival Artists Market in the late afternoon.
The Artists Market takes place on the grounds around the band stand on the Decatur Square and features over 100 artists. This year is the 20th anniversary of the Decatur Arts Festival and I am excited to go and pick up our commemorative Decatur Arts Festival poster…last year we decided we would make it a tradition to collect the arts festival poster every year that we attend. We also still have the flower pot and buttefly wings that my daughter made last year and we can’t wait to go back and create more keepsake works of art.
I hope to see many Decatur moms, dads and children out enjoying all of the art festival fun.
Yours truly,
Tumara a.k.a Decatur Mom
