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Children's Nook
Find face painting, coloring and more programming and activities specifically for our younger festival-goers, including the Children's Nook stage!
2026 Schedule
10:45-11:00
Children's Parade with Mr. Lilo
Celebrate the start of TPFF by playing noisemakers and shakers around the school. Meet in the front of the school following opening Festival remarks and parade through the grounds to end at the Children's Nook area.
Bilingual artist with fun yet thoughtful music sending a message that we can and should unite to build a better world for all.
A DMV-based band made up of four rising eighth graders who play covers of various classic rock and other late 1900s music.
Mindfulness Planting with Elise Stigliano
Learn how to plant a houseplant and be aware of the mindfulness that goes into each step.
Bilingual, family-friendly show, “Mi Familia Folclórica! My Folkloric Family!” Teatro de la Luna is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide the Washington capital area, both to its Spanish and English-speaking community, with a source of high quality theatre in Spanish with English supertitles, bilingual travelling theatre for children, musical performances and poetry marathons in Spanish.
Blair Robotics Demonstration
FRC Team 449, The Blair Robot Project is a student-led robotics team based at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring. Each year, they design, build, and program a full-scale industrial-style robot to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), an international program that challenges students to apply STEM skills in real-world engineering scenarios. For this demonstration, they will showcase one of their robots, explain the engineering principles behind its design, and demonstrate its Wiffle ball launching mechanism.
2:15-3:15
Ecosystem Service Providers: the creatures that keep our world running smoothly.
Village Edu will be showcasing some of the most incredible creatures in the world as they teach about evolution, adaptations, and the various functions that small critters around us play in decomposition, pollination, and population balancing.
A student-led music collective from Bethesda, Maryland, delivering a vibrant blend of brass music that bridges generations. Repertoire ranges from cinematic film favorites and swingin’ jazz standards to spirited marches and traditional folk tunes.
High-energy folk-rock for kids, with bubbles, props, costumes and sing-alongs. Down by the Bagel is a Silver Spring–based folk-rock band for kids, featuring longtime members of the local bluegrass and jazz scenes who came together to entertain the little humans in their lives.