Family Area

Family Area Activities and Street Performances

This special interactive area features hands-on crafts, quiet games and active games, and other creative learning activities for young audiences and their families. The Family Area will also feature a variety of street performances sure to delight festivalgoers of all ages.

Gene Tagaban (Guuy Yaau)

Tlingit storyteller, musician, and dancer (Ruston, Washington)
Dancing in a stunning, hand-painted mask and feathered wings, this renowned storyteller and Raven Dancer brings audiences into active participation with timeless Indigenous teachings.

Hālau ‘O Lilinoe

traditional Hawai’ian hula (Carson, California)
With graceful and mesmerizing performances, this halau (school) celebrates hula and nourishes the roots of their culture, preserving it for generations to come.

Lurking Class Skate Shop

skateboarding (Salisbury, Maryland)
A diverse crew of skaters from Salisbury’s downtown skate shop will demonstrate skateboarding’s improvisational spirit as well as classic tricks on a pop-up obstacle course.

Robert Clarke

juggling and magic (Boston, Massachusetts)
Specializing in juggling and magic, this well-traveled street performer has the uncanny ability to captivate both young and old with his fun-filled, laugh-out-loud interactive family show.

FAMILY ACTIVITIES AREA

The Family Activities Area features interactive activities, hands-on crafts, games—both active and quiet—and other creative learning opportunities.

Make-and-Take Activities

• Paint your own eco-friendly birdfeeder with the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art at Salisbury University. Help birds on their way south by supplying food for their trip.
• Create your own paper plate tambourine with the University of Maryland (UMD) Extension. Once it is done, you’ll have your own musical instrument to play while enjoying the festival.
• Make and decorate colorful butterfly wings using coffee filters and pipe cleaners with Lower Shore Master Gardeners.

Animal Ambassadors

Meet the animal ambassadors from the Salisbury Zoo. Staff from the Salisbury Zoo will be roving through the crowds with ambassador animals and educating festival guests about various animals’ characteristics, where they can be found in nature, and cool facts on zoo ambassadors and their counterparts in the wild.

All About Bees

Learn all about bees and other pollinators. See the bees in action in a self-contained hive. Make butterflies with colorful wings out of coffee filters, a paper straw, and pipe cleaners. Did you know that butterflies can taste with their feet? Which flowers do butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds like best? Learn their secrets and visit the pollinator garden with flowers for all the pollinators, plus the plants caterpillars need to eat. Find out how to attract pollinators to your own back yard.

Make music at the Mobile Learning Lab

Step inside the Wicomico County Libraries’ new Mobile Learning Lab for some kid-friendly karaoke and to learn about the libraries’ partnerships and outreach programs! Plus, the Paul S. Sarbanes Branch, located downtown, will be holding their semi-annual book sale right around the corner.

Thanks to our Family Area Partners:

Special thanks to our Family Area Partners: Salisbury Zoo; Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art at Salisbury University; University of Maryland Extension; UMD Extension Lower Shore Master Gardeners; Wicomico Public Libraries.