Wonderland! Festival of the Imagination 2025

Wonderland! is a children’s festival that attracts more than 1,000 visitors each year on two special days in August. Designed to encourage imagination and possibilities in children of all ages, young and old, Wonderland takes place on the third Friday and Saturday of August, during the week of Phillips’ Old Home Days.  Many magical events are open free of cost to all. Children are given faery wings, halos and wands; pirate hats and scarves; cowboy hats, etc. Fishing for prizes under the stars, sno-cones, popcorn, helium balloons and even more. Children get to sit with their families and make a faery house and decorate a magic box . . . taking a tour down faery alley brings you to the Faery Queen’s Bower, where you will be given a special faery name and magic dust. Around the corner in Pirates’ Cove, they dig for chocolate coins . . . Professional artists paint the children’s faces in wondrous ways. Wonderland opens the door of hopefulness for many children who will never have the opportunity to attend any other theme park event. It is entirely free, and we do not even put donation boxes out. The experience offers joy and wonder to many children who live under the poverty level in economic wealth, yet mine deeply for the richness of spirit.