August 16 & 17, 2025 // 10:00a - 5:00p // Fowler Park
August 16 & 17, 2025 // 10:00a - 5:00p // Fowler Park

Oconomowoc Festival of the Arts

Children's Area

Do your children love to create art? Do you dislike the prep work and clean-up that goes into it?
No problem, leave all that to us!

Come and visit the Children’s Art tent and let your kids create their own masterpiece! This year when you arrive at the gate, pick up your program and a SCAVENGER HUNT sheet for the kids. As you walk around the festival, help them find and check off the images on the sheet, and bring them back to the Children’s Art tent to claim their prize. Last year the kids loved painting rocks, so that will be available again this year along with: face painting, temporary tattoos, mural painting, multi-media art, crafts and more.

Thank you, in advance, for making art a priority for your children. 

PAST THEMES

2022: Be Our Guest 
Projects: Scavenger hunt, painting rocks, face painting and temporary tattoos 

2021: Land, Air, and Sea 
Projects: Rainbow fish and turtle projects, design your own planet, create a mask, create a popsicle stick airplane

2019: Sustainable Environments
Projects: Fish flag, tissue-paper flowers, sustainable water-bottle bracelet, painted rock critters, origami frogs and water color birch bark reliefs with tape-resist water

2018: Creativity
Projects: Art that begins with a simple line or shape that becomes a creative work when projected onto a larger background

2017: The City of Oconomowoc
Projects: The skyline splatter painting, the lakes lily pad, and the agriculture scarecrow puppet

2016: The Life Cycle and Survival of the Monarch Butterfly
Projects: Design symmetrical monarch wings and twisted 3D wire sculptures