KidZone Activities
The KidZone at the Hangtown Music Festival is a safe and magical place where kids and parents alike can participate in fun and creative activities that enhances their festival experience and connects them to other families at the festival. The KidZone is conveniently located in the main music meadow, so parents won’t miss a beat of the music. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Hours of Operation: Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 10am to 6pm
- Face Painting
- Glitter Tattoos
- 3D Rainbows
- Picasso Frankenstein
- Monster Art
- Crayon Mandalas
- Puffy Ghosts
- Spider Web Wood Crafts
- Egg Carton Masks
- Do It Yourself Photo Booth
Open Heart Nature Connection Workshops
Herbal Medicine Bundles – Friday 10/27 at 2:00pm
Come play with consciously gathered herbs, crystals, flowers, feathers and other sacred objects to create a medicine bundle blessed with our memories from Hangtown. With the sense of smell being most connected with memory, the scent of the medicine bundle will reconnect us with our memories from the festival after our long journey home and continue to spread the magic we created at Hangtown.
Nature Mandalas and Collages – Saturday 10/28 at 11:00am
A mandala is a concentric shape that represents balance and harmony. In this open-ended art project, we will use natural materials like faerie flower petals, leaves and other treasures from nature to create mandalas or collages. We will explore where our creative energy takes us and drop into a more grounded state of mind.
Fairy & Wizard Wand Making – Sunday 10/29 at 11:00am
Decorate a wand for manifesting magic at Hangtown and beyond! Choose the wooden wand that speaks to you and decorate it to channel your creative energy into art. Whether you feel called to attach crystals, dried herbs, feathers, flowers, yarn, leaves, or beads, we have a diversity of natural materials to manifest your magical dreams and turn wild fantasies into reality!
Open Heart Nature Connection by Maya & Sean. Maya is a heart-centered preschool teacher. She earned a degree in Early Childhood Education with a specialization in Anti-Bias Curriculum, and a Bachelor’s degree in Community Studies. Sean is an Earth Scientist working to protect native plants, pollinators, and clean water in Santa Cruz. Together, Sean and Maya facilitate art projects using natural materials to deepen children’s connection to nature and sense of self. http://openheartnatureconnection.weebly.com/
Big Fun Circus in the KidZone
Big Fun Circus is big fun for everyone! “Meghan the Kat” O’Brien is a proud “Avatar of JOY” who embodies Love and Light through conscious movement, education, music/sound healing, and the obvious- circus arts. Big Fun Circus performers not only put on amazing shows, they also offer a “conscious playground” consisting of face painting, disco hummingbird dance circus arts/ hula hoop dance floor, puppetry, sing -a- longs, gnome home/nature alter building, parachute games, and an entire crafty inspiration station geared towards the wee lil ones.
✨Stations:
- Face painting
- Balloon twisting
- BIG FUN Giant bubbles
✨Guest appearances throughout the day:
- Jugglers
- Stilt walkers
- Dancers
✨Meghan the Kat “power hours”
💃Dance party:
- Birthday March
- Limbo
- Hokey pokey
- Tunnel of love
- Hot potato
- Freeze dance
- Chicken Dance
GAMES:
🌈Giant rainbow parachute games w. Balls
⭕️Hula hoop hop scotch + obstacle course, hoop dancing and games
🖍Crafts
💕Friendship bracelet making
🖍Coloring books and crayons
✨STILT PARADE: Saturday night sunset stilt parade 6:00-8:00
SUNday FUNday includes all of the above
With the highlight being the family/ kids parade 4:00-6:00 PM into giant parachute, stilt limbo and PINATA finale!