Face painting, giveaways, music, and snow cones: what do all four of these things have in common? They will all be activities featured at this year's Kid’s Day!

           Kid’s Day is back, and will be just as fun as ever. This year it will be taking place in the Wayne County Public Library parking lot, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 4th.

The parking lot will be hosting forty-eight vendors total. Each vendor will have some form of a small game or a craft, but sixteen businesses will be featuring an additional activity as well.

The Salvation army and Keller Williams will both be providing snacks in the form of making snow cones, and popping popcorn. Ballet Wooster and the Wayne Center for the Arts will be certain to bring out the inner dancer in kids of all ages (including kids at heart). For the flexible kids, Flex Yoga will also be hosting a kids yoga session, and for the musical kids, Imagine the Possibilities Music Therapy will be having a music making session.

There will also be a couple of different animals for kids to interact with. Complete Chiropractic will have a petting zoo of all kinds of animals, Caring Therapy Canines will have dogs to pet, and Sharon Guilliams State Farm will have horses.

However, there are also quite a few miscellaneous, but equally as fun events from our other vendors. Kiwanis will be hosting a book giveaway, and People to People will have some coloring activities. WaCPAC will be having an Aladdin cast meet and greet. The Wooster Police Department will have a photo booth set up, the Red Cross will have a “pack a first aid kit” event, and the Wooster Fire Department will have their trucks on display for kids to investigate.

Of course, the main focus on Kid’s Day is about the kids, which also makes it the perfect event to announce the winners of the All American Kid Award. The All American Kid Award exists to honor the children who show exceptional attributes in specific categories. The kids are nominated by our local teachers, and twenty of them receive the award. Mayor Breneman will present each All American Kid with a certificate, a pin, and a $25 gift card! These kids are all very deserving of the recognition.

To add to the celebration, Main Street Wooster is providing free attractions including face painting, a DJ, and even Samurai Balloon Guy as a balloon animal artist!

Whether or not a kid has been picked for an award, Kid’s Day is meant to be a day of fun in the sun for the younger ones. It is a day that our community of businesses, and parents all come together to create at least one day of excitement for the future adults of the community, and that alone is something that is worth celebrating.