Children’s Day
This day has passed.
Programme subject to change.
Day of the Child and Vintage Vehicles.
Once again, it promises to be a wonderful, enjoyable day for young and old.
Attractive activities have been organised for everyone.
On the north side of the church on the Markt, old-fashioned children's games are organised, such as hoop rolling, stilt walking, spinning tops, etc.
Children can have their faces painted as a clown free of charge next to the information stand.
And of course Egon Adel will be there with his puppet show. You can see and hear him on the south side of the Markt.
Children can also ride the little merry-go-round free of charge, between the Oude Slot and the Posthoorn.
Today there is a large vintage vehicle show in the Nieuwstraat.
09:00 Harnessing and hitching the horses in the Muziektuin behind Museum Vreeburg.
09:00 – 15:00 Nieuwstraat, vintage vehicle show featuring, among other things, a motorcycle from 1920 and a running engine from a cargo ship.
10:00 The West Frisians gather at the corner of Nieuwe Laagzijde/Stationsweg (café Spoorzicht) for the parade.
10:00 – 15:00 Have yourself weighed on an old “witches' scales” for a small fee, on the Markt next to the information stand.
10:00 – 15:00 The tower on the Markt can be climbed for a small fee; inside the tower is the exhibition with many historical photographs of the Westfriese Folklore.
10:00 – 15:00 Wood turner in the smithy at the Vreeburg museum farm.
10:45 The parade sets off from the Nieuwe Laagzijde.
11:00 – 13:00 Organ recital by Hanneke Muntjewerf and Ronald van der Veen in the Dutch Reformed Church (N.H. Kerk) on the Markt.
11:45 Children's bread meal on the Markt.
11:25 Performance by the children's dance group on the church square on the Markt.
11:45 Performance by the West Frisian dance group on the church square on the Markt.
12:00 – 13:00 The farrier shoes horses in front of the Vreeburg museum farm on the Loet.
12:30 – 15:00 Rope making, where children can make a skipping rope for a small fee. There is also quill writing.
12:30 Children's games begin on the north side of the Markt in front of Pann, Havanna and Gevel.
Free face painting and balloon modelling near the information stand.
On the south side, next to the scales, Egon Adel performs with his old-fashioned puppet show.
13:15 – 15:00 Skroifgroep Langedoik (West Frisian writers' group) performs in the coffee room of the N.H. Kerk on the Markt. They sing and tell anecdotes in the wonderfully rich West Frisian dialect.
Don't forget to visit our beautiful Vreeburg museum farm and the Carriage Museum.
