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
Check back closer to the Fair. 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.
- Take in a Magic Show
- Enjoy the Organ Grinder’s Music
- Play with Old World Clowns
- Dance to the Music at the Main Stage
- Play “King of the: Hay Bale Mountain”
- March with the Hessians
- Learn about Lace Making
- Meet a Working Team of Horses
- Hear Cool Stories at the Cemetery
- Play in a Jug Band
- Explore Arts & Crafts with Artisans
- Take in a Dance Demonstration
- Learn how to Carve a Decoy
- Complete the Scavenger Hunt Passport
- Talk to a Painter
- Learn about a Revolutionary War Camp
- Sing Silly Songs with the Trouboudours
- Learn How Honey is Made
- Visit a One Room Schoolhouse
Schedule
- Friday
- Madame du Vent Chaut & her fool Tribou, Old World Clowns
- Slim Harrison, Children’s Jug Band
- Working Horses, Meet & Greet & Harness Demonstration
- Terry Bender, Organ Grinder
- Dominion Four, Barber Shop Quartet
- Saturday
- Liberty Rifles as the 45th Pennsylvania 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
- Chesapeake Region Lace Guild Demonstration
- Hessian Regiment Von Huyn
- Sunday
- Wreath Laying (12:30 pm)
- John McLaughlin, 18 c. Illusionist (1 – 3 pm)
- Chesapeake Region Lace Guild Demonstration
- Hessian Regiment Von Huyn
- All Three Days
- Robert Mouland, Musick of Early America
- Rebecca Suerdick, Historian-Perfumer
- Donna Nomick, Hammered Dulcimer
- John DuRant & John DuRant Jr., Old World Troubadours
Living History and Exhibits
- Celebrating Phillips Farm Welcome Tent, Village Center
- Explore an 1880s Classroom
- Glenn McIntyre, Gunsmith Gun Shop, Village Center
- Fairs of the Past
- 250 Exhibit: Loudoun & the American Revolution
- African American Experience of Waterford
- Forging Demonstrations
- Waterford’s Remarkable Quaker Women Exhibit
- Jeff Ball, Earthly Host Cemetery, Behind Old School
- Waterford Then and Now Photographs
- Eugene Scheel, Mapmaker Map Shop, Village Center
- Waterford’s Remarkable Quaker Women John Wesley Church Lower Level
- WCS Instructor Demonstrations Waterford Craft School Tent
