Our plans for the Mity Nice Street Fair July 8 are heating up, and we want to tell you about some of them.

We have some great street performers and musicians coming – some from as far away as Toledo and Detroit – for this Second Sunday celebration, which we hold in partnership with The Sunday Artisan Market. (More about those fine entertainers in a future post.)

And we have some ways you, our customers and audience, can join in and play.

We are going to have a hula hoop making area. Cost of this will be $7 per hoop (because our cost of recycled materials) and we hope to have some hoopers around to teach you tricks and some fun.

We will offer free juggling lessons – bring your own juggling balls or borrow some of ours.

And at our Mity Nice Arts & Crafts table, we will be making sock puppets and other puppets.  (These are free, or make a donation to our July charity of the month.)

We’re making our first sock puppet this week, so watch for her to show up here in a photo in a day or three. On July 8, we’ll put on an improv puppet show at 3:15 p.m. at the Arts & Crafts table.

Plus we know that savoring a lemon or Michigan Cherry or pineapple Italian ice often incites joy and playfulness, so we expect some spontaneous fun to show up too.