Entertainment & free books at children’s BookFest at library in Plantation

Performances, activities and opportunities to receive a free book while supplies last are featured at a Broward Library BookFest for youngsters and their families.

The family BookFest event in 2025 is 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.  Saturday,  May 31,  and entry is free.

It's at West Regional Library, 8601 W. Broward Blvd., Plantation 33324

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The festival includes

• 11 a.m. watercolor workshop for teens and adults
• Paint the Plantation fire truck outdoors
• Young At Art Museum open studio: Hands-on art experiences inspired by Yayoi Kusama and her love of dots
• Musical Petting Zoo and a DIY instrument while supplies last
• Aunty Nadine and Friends present Donkey Seh: a Jamaican Folklore performance with puppets and props in song and dance
• USVI Mocko Jumbie Stilt Dancers 
• food trucks
• Fire and Ice science experiments
• Ms. Tracy Sings
• face painting
• Chinese Lion Dance Team presented by the Coral Springs Chinese Cultural Association
• Capo Capoeira features the Brazilian art of capoeira, which incorporates kicks, fluid movements, acrobatics and music
• other events

More free and cheap things to do with kids this week