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The Northern Colorado Children’s Festival focuses public attention on the needs of Weld County’s young children and their families, and recognizes the early childhood programs and services available in the community. With the help of many other agencies, this event highlights children as the building blocks for our community’s future.

The festival offers many forms of quality play experiences for children ages 0-8. It provides children the chance to spend quality time with their parents and remain active and engaged while they all learn fun, educational activities that they can replicate at home.

Families attend for free. Upon arrival, each family is given a bag that includes parenting resources. At the 90+ booths, families engage in hands-on activities such as: developing fine motor skills; science and the human body; healthy eating and childhood obesity prevention; how to make homemade play dough; and fashioning crepe paper flowers. There are also booths that perform early childhood health screenings and give out new, age appropriate books. Onstage children’s entertainment is provided, including singers and dancers.

2020-2021 People Served by Area of Weld County

• Carbon Valley (Berthoud, Dacono, Erie, Firestone, Frederick, Longmont, Mead, Northglenn, Thornton): 2
• County Seat (Evans, Garden City, Greeley): 283
• Outback (Briggsdale, Grover, New Raymer): 0
• Poudre River Corridor (Severance, Windsor): 5
• South County (Brighton, Fort Lupton, Hudson, Keenesburg, Lochbuie): 5
• Thompson River Valley (Johnstown, Milliken): 6
• US-85 Corridor South (Platteville, Gilcrest, LaSalle, Kersey): 16
• US-85 Corridor North (Eaton, Ault, Pierce, Nunn): 25
• Outside Weld County: 8

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2020-2021

We had a few calls from different families that thanked us for still holding the festival despite the pandemic. They were very excited to do the hands-on activities, learned about more resources they can access, and were glad to have books at home! They were especially glad their children had an opportunity to do something other than watching TV.