The Fox High School Parents’ Club is set to hold its annual Spring Craft Fair this weekend.
For the first time, the fair will be held not just in Fox High’s main gym, but also in its small gym, nearly doubling the number of vendors selling items at the event.
Organizer Tracy Paul said about 200 vendors are expected to sell items during this year’s spring fair. Previously, about 125 vendors were at the fair when it was held only in the school’s main gym.
This year’s fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 8, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, March 9, at the school, 751 Jeffco Blvd., in Arnold.
No admission fee will be charged. Concessions will be sold at the event.
“We are super ecstatic about opening the small gym,” said Paul, a Parents’ Club member. “We don’t have to turn away vendors. There may be more vendors selling similar items, but there will be more variety.”
She said the fair will feature plenty of familiar vendors, like Jim Bills, who is known as “The Honey Guy,” and Marva Colvin, who operates The Pickle Bar.
Paul said shoppers also may expect vendors to sell a wide variety of Easter and spring items, as well as natural soaps and body products, clothing items, plants and home decor.
“There will be something for everybody. If you don’t find something to buy, you are not looking hard enough,” she joked.
Paul said some of the money from the fair will fund scholarships for Fox High seniors to continue their education, and some will be used to fund school club activities.
She also said the Parents’ Club will ask Fox High teachers to request funds to classroom items, and the club will use some of the funds form the fair to pay for those items.
“This way teachers will not have to pay for things themselves,” she said. “I think it could help the kids in the classroom if the teachers can provide the supplies they need.”
The Parents’ Club typically holds a spring craft fair in March and a fall craft fair in November.
About 1,000 shoppers attended last year’s spring fair, and the fall craft fair had about 3,000 shoppers. The fairs raised a combined $20,000 or so for the club, Paul said.
“I am excited,” she said of the spring fair. “We get a lot of people in the spring, and I am hoping when I advertise there will be more vendors and we will have more people (shop at the fair).”
For more information, call 385-367-6334 or email foxhighcraftshows@gmail.com.