I headed south to Paoli for their 2025 Fall Festival. They had many things happening over the weekend : fair rides, car show, food vendors, other vendors, pickle ball tournament, 5k, sidewalk art competition.
I set up near the sidewalk art competition. I had laser cut some Paoli Ram logos for a necklace trinket, and had the gnomes & fairies and beads for jewelry. I also had battery & bulb for a science lesson. Since they were doing sidewalk chalk art, we had a “make your own sidewalk chalk” station. It takes plaster of paris, water & paint to tint it. Kids squirted some paint into a small plastic cup, I added some water and they mixed that up with a craft stick. Then we added plaster of paris a little at a time until they got a thick pancake batter consistency. They poured/scraped it into a silicone mold. They had to let it set for at least an hour before they could take it home (wrapped in a paper towel and in a baggie)
There were hundreds of people at the Festival, but I only got 18 kids and a dozen parents to stop at the booth to do something.
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