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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- African American Experience of Waterford
- Waterford’s Remarkable Quaker Women Exhibit
- Fairs of the Past
- Jeff Ball, Earthly Host
- 250 Exhibit: Loudoun & the American Revolution
- Rebecca Suerdick, Historian-Perfumer
- Donna Nomick, Hammered Dulcimer
- Forging Demonstrations
- John DuRant & John DuRant Jr., Old World Troubadours
- Waterford Then and Now Photographs
- Explore an 1880s Classroom
Living History and Exhibits
- Tools of the Trade Catoctin Creek House, Second St.
- 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
- The Map Shop Village Center
