The Waterford Fair is a great place to bring kids for a day of unplugged fun.
Children 12 and under are FREE with an adult ticket purchase!
Get your Explorer’s Passport
Download the Waterford Explorer Passport and bring it to the Fair for a good old fashioned scavenger hunt. Find all six locations, stamp your passport and take it to the information booth to get your explorer’s badge. Parents, print the helpful hints here.
Here are some of the Children’s Activities this year… a full day’s play and more! Check out the interactive schedule here.
- Complete the “Waterford Passport”
- 18th century Illusionist
- Organ Grinder
- Old World Clowns
- Explore Early American tools
- Interview a Civil War Reenactor
- Play in the Jug Band
- Dance to the Music!
- Explore the Arts with Artisans
- Cool Stories from a Cemetery
- Dance Demonstrations
- Learn Silly Songs with a Troubadour
- Take a Nature Hike on the Phillips Farm
- Meet a Percheron
- Learn how to Carve a Decoy
- Play “King of the Mountain”
Visit with over 50 demonstrating artisans, who will share how they do what they do. Look for the “hand” image in the artisan listing in the Fair booklet.
- Friday
- Plunkett & Tremolo, Old World Clowns
- Slim Harrison, Children’s Jug Band
- Percheron Horses, Meet & GreetHarness Demonstration
- Terry Bender, Organ Grinder
- Dominion Four, Barber Shop Quartet
- Saturday
- 8th Virginia Infantry, Camp
- Slim Harrison, Children’s Jug Band
- John McLaughlin, 18 c. Illusionist
- (shows: 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm)
- Terry Bender, Organ Grinder
- Sunday
- 8th Virginia Infantry, Sunday Service (10:00 am)
- Wreath Laying (12 pm) live firing
- John McLaughlin, 18 c. Illusionist (1 – 3 pm)
- All Three Days
- Robert Mouland, Musick of Early America
- Donna Nomick, Hammered Dulcimer
- Jon Vrana, Living Historian, as “Thomas Phillips”
- John DuRant & John DuRant, Jr., Old World Troubadours
- Hessian Regiment Von Huyn
Living History and Exhibits
- Tools of the Trade Catoctin Creek House, Second St.
- 8th VA Encampment Old School Lawn
- Celebrating Phillips Farm Welcome Tent, Village Center
- Glenn McIntyre, Gunsmith Gun Shop, Village Center
- Jeff Ball, Earthly Host Cemetery, Behind Old School
- Eugene Scheel, Mapmaker Map Shop, Village Center
- Waterford’s Remarkable Quaker Women John Wesley Church Lower Level
- Loudoun County Historic Records Old School Porch
- Dean Howarth, The Naturalist Old School Lobby (Sat. only)
- WCS Instructor Demonstrations Waterford Craft School Tent
- Loudoun Hauntings, Loudoun Museum Old School Porch