
Children's Business Fair 2025 Festival
Sunday, October 5, 2025
12:00PM - 4:00PM
Currently accepting applications 🏁
Apply to the fairWe are proud to include a wonderful learning experience for all registrants through our Learning Workshops leading up to the fair date. The Sebring Elks Lodge 1529 are proud sponsors of our children's fair and providing additional learning opportunities. The first series of Learning Workshops will be held Wednesday, July 16 - Friday, July 18th. Workshop updates will be announced on the event page of the Children's Museum facebook page.
Kelly Dressel
🗓️ Started hosting in 2022
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8 booths participating

Cardinal Creations

E & C Paper Co.
And 6 others.
Frequently asked questions
In that email you will receive details of the event as well and all the dates for our Learning Workshops. Our learning workshops are free to attend to anyone that registers. Learning Workshops will help children through the whole process including assistance in their business ideas/planning, materials for assistance in logos/signages and salesmanship & basic money practices lessons. Learning Workshops are held at the Children's Museum and will grant free admission to the museum for the workshop then an hour of play time included thanks to our Learning Workshop partners, Sebring Elks Lodge 1529.
Also, on the Children's Museum Facebook page is our event with details and Learning Workshop schedules. All participates will also receive an email with all information after you register online.
What is the cost to participate?
- What product or service do you plan to sell?
- What price will you charge for each product/service? How much will each product/service cost you?
- How will you pay for your startup costs? If someone is helping you with your startup costs, how will you pay that person back?
- How will you advertise/market your business before the fair?
- At the end of the fair, how will you determine if your business was a success?
I've registered, now what?
The morning of the event you will check in with Children's Museum staff, pay your registration fee ($10) and begin setup. Setup and check in will begin at 11am. The street will be closed to ALL vehicles so plan your setup with portable wagons or carts to bring in all materials. We ask for all booths to be ready by 12noon. All participates are asked to stay with their booths until 3pm; even if you sell out of product. Judges will come around and speak to all CBF tents from 12-2pm.
Participates will be judged in age categories for a small, fun prize at the end of the event. Awards ceremony will be announced shortly after 3pm.
Learning Workshops offer a free resource service over the next few weeks to assist you in dreaming up your business idea, help with product ideas, signage and teach best business practices. Each workshop will address a different business skill with all tools and materials included for each registered business to use. Workshops will help with basics of starting a business and are free to attend made possible by our community partner Sebring Elks Lodge 1529.
All food oriented businesses MUST follow Florida's Cottages Rules. Any child that decides to operate a food business must let us know their products, sign a waiver that they will follow Cottage Rules, and include ingredients on labels. A good rule of thumb is that if your product needs to stay hot or stay cold, it's NOT allowed. It must be shelf-stable.
If a parent is selling or promoting a child’s product or service without the child, their child’s business may be disqualified from the competition. The goal of our event is for the child to take ownership of their business and depending on age of child needs to be done by the child alone. Parents of younger children are asked to sit in the booth, but the children should be responsible for set up, customer interaction, and sales.