![]() ![]() Check out a list of things to do with your kids at the Strawberry Festival here. ![]() Attendees will also be able to get up close and personal with their favorite farm animals from Crown Haven Center.įor more information on this year’s Strawberry Festival, visit. Helmets and training wheels will be provided for this activity. Members of ABATE will help guide children through the course promoting the importance of motorcycle safety. The first 1,000 people to sign up receive a free autographed copy of the award-winning children’s book “Starfish,” by local author Lisa Fipps.ĪBATE of Howard County will be returning to this year's festival with kid-sized motorcycles. The Kokomo-Howard County Public Library will kick off its summer reading program during Strawberry Festival. Returning this year is live music from local artists on the Rhum Academy Stage, food trucks, vendors, a petting zoo, and so much more. Those who succeed get bragging rights, and all donations benefit the public art efforts of the Greater Kokomo Economic Development Alliance.ĭespite all the expansions, you’ll still find your Strawberry Festival favorites at this year's event. For $1, you can try your chance at this challenge. You may have seen the viral challenge online, where people squirt a dollop of whipped cream on their wrist, with the intention of hitting it up in the air and catching it in their mouth. The visual art, the music, the festivals, all of those things make it nice to live in the community and that's important,” Steel said.Īnother new activity you’ll find is the Whipped Cream Challenge. “We want to build a kind of robust, interesting, fulfilling, kind of life for people in Kokomo. I kind of joked, ‘why don’t we macrame a car? To kind of try to tie the automotive history of Kokomo in with this crafty idea of making macrame,’ and it stuck,” Steel said. “We were talking about the Strawberry Festival and the art fair component, and we were talking about how we can draw people's interest down to that area. Steel, a member of Kokomo Public Arts Action Coalition, said the idea came from a brainstorming meeting. Members of the community are invited to join local artist Sheila Haworth for an instructional macrame lesson, to add their own touch to this engaging artwork. Gregory Steel, an Indiana University Kokomo professor of New Media, Art, and Technology, worked with senior sculpture student Cybil Johnson to design and weld an art car made out of 200 feet of metal rebar. Artsapalooza will feature local art available for purchase, engaging art activities, and demonstrations of various art techniques. “We invited many of those same vendors back to participate in Strawberry Festival,” Alexander said. Artsapalooza was initially started last September as a stand-alone event but was rained out. ![]() Joining this year’s festival, she said, is the Artsapalooza Art Market. We love being able to put all these organizations and businesses front and center.” “It gives businesses of all types an opportunity to sell directly to a community that comes out and supports the festival. “The strawberry shortcake dessert is a reason to get here, but then take advantage of everything else – all the food trucks, and learn about all the different vendors, said Alexander. This annual event attracts thousands of people to downtown Kokomo, said Susan Alexander, the manager of Downtown Initiatives and Creative Placemaking for the Greater Kokomo Economic Development Alliance. “It’s important to us to be part of the community and to work to make these things happen.” “It’s just fun to be behind-the-scenes part of the festival, something that means a lot to a lot of the people in Kokomo, something that does bring a lot of traffic to downtown for that day, and to be kind of an instrumental part of making that all work well,” Akers-Partlow said. ![]()
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