Do you, your children or your grandchildren want to see Santa and take a ride in his sleigh? You can and they can!
Do you want to ride the Elf Wagon with them? You can!
Do you want to do some fun and relaxed Christmas shopping? You can!
You and they can enjoy all that and more in just one day at the Annual Bushton Proud Committee’s Santa’s Bazaar in Bushton on Saturday, December 7.
The day’s festivities will once again feature a virtual reality Santa’s sleigh ride and an appearance by Santa, an art and craft show with nearly 25 vendors, a soup contest, face painting, a raffle, a
children’s activity corner, a do-it-yourself Christmas photo booth, and concessions.
The event will take place at two locations – the Bushton Community Center and the Bushton Plaza (the former Central Plains Middle School).
The event’s activities will run at various times between 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Kicking off the day’s events will be the magical virtual reality ride in Santa’s sleigh, sure to get one and all in the Christmas spirit. Rides will be available, free of charge, from 9:00 a.m. through noon at the Bushton Plaza.
Arts and crafts vendors will include unique handmade items such as homemade baked goods, seasonal crafts, hot sauce, jewelry, candles, jelly, homemade vanilla and spices, custom t-shirts,
embroidery, quilted items and more. The arts and crafts booths will be open from 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at both locations.
The Christmas Kids Corner will run from 9:00 a.m. through noon at the Plaza and will feature cookie decorating, crafts, candy cane fishing, snowball toss, letters to Santa, an elf-face cut-out do-it-
yourself photo booth and more.
Transporting visitors between the Community Center and the Plaza, the Elf Wagon will run 9:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Santa Claus will be making his appearance and handing out goodie sacks from 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. at the Plaza.
The soup contest is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at the Community Center, with two categories – Chili and Soup. A soup tasting kit can be purchased for $10. Cash prizes will be awarded in
both categories — $50 for first place and $25 for second place.
The Bazaar’s raffle, with over 65 prizes, will be held at 1:00 p.m. at the Community Center.
Tickets will be available for purchase there.
Happy Trails Brew Co. will be at the Plaza from 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. offering specialty seasonal coffees and cocoas.
In addition, Proud will be selling t-shirts and the Little Oilers will be selling concessions throughout the day at the Community Center.
Sponsorship for the day’s events has been provided by ONEOK, Midwest Energy, Great Plains Agency, LLC, Hoelscher, Inc., Central Prairie Co-op, Quivira Federal Bank, Bushton Manufacturing,
Habiger Farms Harvesting, LLC, The T-Bird Center, Cloud 9, Ellco Insurance Services, Trinity Gymnastics, Double H Lodge, Central Kansas Trucking, Little J, Inc., Richard Thompson/Waddell & Reed, JMB Ltd., and A Touch of Handmade/Kimberly Stewart.
