Almost Holiday Craft Fair Time in Brooklyn: Brooklyn Friends School Winter Festival

Here's one of our favorites, a huge all-school event, and great fun for kids:
 Brooklyn Friends School will be having their Winter Festival on Saturday, December 4.

Get a jump on holiday shopping and have a blast with your children at this Downtown Brooklyn school's 31st annual holiday extravaganza. Festivities include an "all by hand" craft fair with 45 local artisans; holiday plant and wreath sale; book fair, children's carnival with bouncy rides, mazes, and games; a children's craft activity center; and readings by local children's book authors, headlined by Tad Hills of "Duck and Goose" fame.

Spend the day: Saturday, December 4, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Brooklyn Friends School is located at 375 Pearl Street, Brooklyn (one block from Borough Hall and the Marriott Hotel).718-852-1029 www.brooklynfriends.org/winterfestival

Free admission, although tickets at a nominal cost will be sold to the Children's Carnival and Craft Center. Proceeds benefit the Horizons at Brooklyn Friends School summer enrichment program for public school children in Downtown Brooklyn.

Photo by Taylor (Zach) Klein, Creative Commons license

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