From endless ice cream to living history, celebrate the start of summer with one (or all) of these family-friendly festivals in Wilmington-New Castle, DE! In the case of inclement weather, please check the organizer's website before you head out.
FAMILY-FRIENDLY WILMINGTON, DE FESTIVALS
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6-7:
🎭 Ruby Stanley One-Act Festival – Wilmington Drama League
22
Lunar New Year – Chinese American Community Center
6
🆓💙 Do More 24
14
🆓☘️ St. Patrick’s Day Parade – Downtown Wilmington
🆓🍁 Maple Sugar Festival – Ashland Nature Center
28
🆓🛍️ Spring Bazaar – St. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Wilmington)
11
🆓🎨🪶 3rd Annual Powwow of Arts & Culture – Delaware Art Museum
RenaisSCIENCE FAIR – Delaware Museum of Nature & Science
13
21st Annual City Restaurant Week
17
🌎 Earth & Arbor Day Event - Downtown Wilmington
16-18
Delaware Sensory Museum Heart of the Spectrum Weekend
18–19
The Delaware Marathon Running Festival
24–26
🆓🌼 Wildflower Celebration Weekend – Hockessin (24-26)
25
🆓🌱 Ag Day: From the Ground Up – University of Delaware, Newark
🆓🐏🪴🪻 Annual Shearing Day & Herb Sale – Greenbank Mills & Phillips Farm
Pretty in Pink - Ivory Studio - Dover
Arts Fest Art Fair - Middletown
2
⭐ May the Fourth Be With You – Delmns
🆓🦸 Free Comic Book Day – The Comic Book Shoppe
3
🆓🌿 White Clay Creek Fest – Newark
🆓🪺 Open House & Nest Fest – Tri-State Bird Rescue
🆓🛍️ The Market at CCArts – Yorklyn
🚂 Train Day – Auburn Heights
🆓 Brandywine River Shadfest - Brandywine Park
7–9
🆓🌸Southern Park Spring Festival – Middletown
🆓🌸 Wilmington Flower Market – Rockford Park
15
🆓🚴♂️ Wilmington Grand Prix
16
🆓🎨 Bellefonte Arts Festival
🎨 Brandywine Spring Festival of the Arts
🆓🏛️ A Day in Old New Castle - 100th Anniversary
🆓🌮 Wilmington Street Food Festival
🆓🚴♂️ Wilmington Grand Prix
17
🎨 Brandywine Spring Festival of the Arts
🆓🚴♂️ Wilmington Grand Prix
23
Captain Kidd's Pirate Day
30
🎶 Ladybug Musical Festival
31
Huxley & Hiro Presents: Delaware Author Fair
7
🎨The Market at CCArts
10
Summer Nights at Hagley
12
⚽ World Cup™ Watch Party - Bob Carpenter Center
Fireworks at Hagley
🆓🇺🇸 Separation Day – New Castle
13
🆓🇺🇸 Separation Day – New Castle
20
⚽ World Cup™ Watch Party at Hudson Fields
22
🆓🏳️🌈 Pride Day at the Brandywine Zoo
🆓🐉 Delaware Chinese Festival – CACC
🆓🎉 Summer Kickoff at the Riverfront
🆓🏳️🌈 Rockwood Pride – Rockwood Park
🆓🐞 Bug Days of Summer – Brandywine Creek State Park
27
🆓🍦 Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Festival – Rockwood Park & Museum
July
17
Artisan Market at Winterthur
September
13–14
🔬 RenaisSCIENCE Fair Weekend – DelMNS
13
🆓🎒 Open Streets Wilmington – Bowers Street & Kingswood Community Day
14
🆓🎪 Wilmington Hispanic Calle 4 Street Fest & Parade
18–20
🆓💃 UAE Dance Jubilee
20
🆓🚗 Red Clay Day
🆓🦋 Monarch Migration Celebration
21
🚗 Hagley Car Show
🆓🍂🎪 Newark Community Day
🆓🎪 Hispanic Heritage Festival
🆓🧚 Fairy Fest – Rockwood Park
🆓🎶 New Castle Block Party
27
🆓🎪🦋 Monarch Migration Celebration – Brandywine Zoo
🆓🌳 Mt. Cuba Tree Festival
🌮 Delaware Taco Festival – Riverfront
🆓🛍️🎨 Talleyville Ladies Auxiliary Flea Market
🆓🛍️🎨 Woodside Farm Creamery Art & Craft Show
🆓🛍️🎨 Art on the Green
October
4
🚂 The Delaware Train Show
🎃 HUMC Pumpkin Patch Opens – Hockessin
5
🆓🛍️🎨 The Market at CCArts
11
🆓🍂 Centreville Harvest Festival
🚴 Towns Ride & Festival
12
🆓🍂🚗🍬 M.O.T. Fall Fair – Middletown
18
🆓🍂🎪 Town of Elsmere Fall Festival
🆓🍂🎪 Bear Library’s Fall Festival
🆓🍂🎪 Iron Faith Fellowship Fall Festival
🆓🛍️ Bellefonte Lions Club Flea Market & Craft Show
18–19
🛍️🎨 Hagley Craft Fair
25
🆓🚗🍬 Bear–Glasgow Fall Family Festival & Trunk or Treat
30
🆓💀 Día de los Muertos: Walking Among the Ancestors
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