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Winter Festival 2009

This section of the website has highlights from the 2008 Winter Craft Fair. For information on the 2009 Winter Festival, please go here.

Photos from the 2008 Winter Festival

The 2008 Craft Fair was a great success. From top to bottom, the 375 Pearl Street building was rocking with fun activities for children and families and fantastic crafts and gifts for holiday shoppers.
 


A Winter Wonderland at Dec. 6 Craft Fair

Brooklyn Friends School, 375 Pearl Street in downtown Brooklyn, holds its 29th annual Winter Craft Fair on Saturday, Dec. 6 from 10 am to 5 pm. While the main event features 45 local artisans selling unique holiday gifts, the Fair offers locally produced food, carnival games, a book fair, and all-day entertainment for children and families. Best of all, proceeds benefit the Horizons at Brooklyn Friends School academic enrichment program for children at PS 307 and PS 287 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

From top to bottom, the school building, just around the corner from the Marriott at Brooklyn Bridge Hotel, will be a winter wonderland of giving and sharing. Children from ages 2 to 12 will enjoy bouncing rides, face-painting, and carnival games, spend time learning about and producing old-fashioned holiday crafts, and help build life-size paper Gingerbread girls and boys.

There will be strolling singers and a student jazz band performing throughout the day, and a professional photographer's booth will be set up for holiday-themed portraits. From cupcake decorating to composting and karate demonstrations, there will be fun activities for all.

Winter wreaths and plants, fresh from the Canarsie market, will be on sale, and there will be a special section for craft projects created by Brooklyn Friends School's youngest children. Childcare is available so that parents have opportunities to survey the vast array of fresh, local and inspired crafts and gifts from quiltmakers, potters, jewelers, needlework artisans, and apparel designers.

Child Care and Kids' Crafts

SIGN UP for Child Care and Kids' Crafts at the Craft Fair

Space is limited for Child Care and Kids' Crafts.  We'll be on the 
7th floor in 1B from 10AM - 3:30PM.  Here's what we'll be doing:
  • Giant gingerbread cutouts (paper gingerbread people shaped like your child)
  • Making pancake, hot chocolate, and mulled cider mixes to give as gifts
  • Decorating gift boxes for our mixes
  • Playing board games         
          • Cost: $10/half-hour.  There will be adult supervision at all times.
If you know what time you'd like to attend the fair, we can save you 
a spot in the child care room.  You can sign up with Trish (on the 
6th floor) for any half-hour between 10:00 and 12:00 or 1:00 and 3:30.







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