Cotton Tail Easter Market

FREE Community Event hosted by Kevin Riley Foundation of Hope with the help of many sponsors.
Join us for a fun day of memories, activities, entertainment, and one of a kind vendors.
Craft Vendors
Free Easter Bunny Photos (11am-4pm, bring your phone or camera)
Free Bunny Ears (for children while supplies last)
Chase & Marshall from Paw Patrol (12pm-2pm)
Barrel Train Rides
Free Face Painting
Free Balloon Animals
Free kids Easter Crafts
Free Plant-a-Seed for kids
Free Edible Dirt Dessert Station for kids
Games – Life Size Connect 4 , 4ft tall
Special Performance by Armstrong Irish Dance Academy (11:15am)
Moo Thru Ice Cream Truck

AND a special event for children:
Peter Cotton Tail Trail! Your children should bring their own Easter basket. Children will visit each participating vendor booth WITH Family for a piece of candy, sticker, filled egg or another small treat. This is a fun cross between a Trunk-or-Treat and an Egg Hunt! Children at no times should be unattended. We are so excited for this new event for the kids.

Event is indoors, in the GYM at Jim Barnett Park.

Community Easter Egg Hunt and Plant Sale

Stephens City United Methodist Church will host an egg hunt with 4,000 eggs from 1 PM – 4 PM on Saturday, April 9, 2022 at Newtown Commons on Main Street across from Clem’s Garage. There will be three age groups for hunters. There also will be a plant sale from 10 AM to 4 PM.

All participants are requested to stop by the registration table next to the inflatable Easter bunny to sign in to hunt for 4,000 plastic eggs filled with candy and toys discreetly hidden around the Commons. There will also be a number of Golden Eggs included in each age group. Parents are encouraged to bring their own bag or basket for collecting eggs.

Stephens City Mayor Mike Diaz will kick off each of the four egg hunts beginning at 1 PM. The egg hunts are divided into four different age groups with four different locations and times: ages 0–3 egg hunt starts at 1 pm; ages 4–6 starts at 1:30 pm; ages 7–9 starts at 2 pm and 10–12 starts at 2:30pm.
There will be a “take your own” Easter bunny photo opportunity for all children from 1 to 3 PM on the Newtown Commons outdoor stage.

Stephens City Volunteer Fire and Rescue will provide a Fire truck on site with tours of the customized equipment used during firefighting operations. Children will have the opportunity to meet the much beloved Sparky the Fire Dog.

The Face Painting site will be located in the picnic table area of the Commons. Sherando High School Leo Club and Art Club volunteers will support this activity and also the festival games at various sites to include Corn Hole Game, Three-legged Relay, Potato Sack Relay, Ring Toss and Egg/Spoon Relay.

UMW will sell a variety of market flower packs (African daisies, primrose, variegated vinca, small and large geraniums, pansies and alyssum) and hanging flower baskets. Proceeds from the flower sale will support mission projects.