Celebrate circus arts, music and comedy for family audiences with street theater in Burlington at the Annual Festival of Fools. The fun kicks off at dusk with a Charlie Chaplin film in Waterfront Park on August 5 and ends with “2010 Best of the Fest” at 6pm on August 8. There will be continuous performances [...]

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Roughly 1000 Vermont children learned through play with the Green Mountain Children’s Museum in its third appearance at Burlington’s 25th Kids Day on May 15. Kids of all ages took apart old toasters, phones and vacuums, made craft flowers, built towers, houses, bridges and experimented with sound and speed at the Singing Trees. These are [...]

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This summer, Shelburne Museum is celebrating the circus in its new exhibit Circus Day in America. It’s a look at the art and experience of the circus during its heyday from 1870-1950 using art, artifacts, photographs and film, and it evokes the sights and sounds of the circus coming to town. There are performers’ costumes, [...]

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Vermont duo Matthew Witten and John Hadden, aka the Swing Peepers have just released their third CD, Wiggle Room. They’ve been performing at libraries, parks and festivals around Vermont for about 15 years. The music is all original – and a few tracks on the new CD involve local kids (from Ferrisburg, Wallingford and Huntington). [...]

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There’s nothing young children like more than music. Except maybe hearing their own name. Name Your Tune has combined these two favorites in a personalized CD that mentions your child’s name more than 80 times in 14 songs. And it’s digital! You simply order the CD from their website. A CD costs $20 and there’s [...]

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The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) introduced a new cast of characters to help kids learn valuable safety lessons in a fun and lively web environment. The Uh-Ohs™ – brightly colored block-shaped critters – are exceptionally cute, but the poor little things just can’t seem to grasp the importance of safety, which leads them and [...]

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In this all-important election season, Kids VT is taking a trip. We’re going to check out Washington, D.C. We’ll report back on attractions of interest and offer tips on navigating around our nation’s capital as a family. Kids VT Managing Editor, Susan Holson, has arranged for two junior correspondents to blog daily during their April [...]

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