Annual Padanaram Summer Festival set to return Saturday, July 25

The annual Padanaram Summer Festival is returning on Saturday, July 25 for a day packed with shopping and activities.

Organized by the Padanaram Business Association, the event will feature around 50 vendors, food trucks and activities from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For the first time, parking will be available at St. Mary’s Church to accommodate for parking, and a shuttle will bring people back and forth.

For the fourth year, the festival will also feature a kids corner where kids can sell anything that they want, such as 3D printed items and glitter.

Molly Armando, who helped start the kids corner, said that the sale is “very casual and very relaxed.”

She added that it’s “very inspiring” to see what the kids create and what they sell.

The kids corner, which will feature around 30 kids, will be set-up in the lawn across from Sail Loft.

“It all kind of comes together every year,” Armando said.

Throughout the day festival-goers can enjoy the following:

9 a.m. - 12 p.m.: face painting on the corner of Elm and Harbor Street

10 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.: Toe Jam Puppet Band at Gibson Sotheby’s

10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Balloon creations at EF Coast Recovery

10:30 a.m.: Motion Dance Studio

11 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Dog Show in Milbury Parking Lot

11 a.m. - 2 p.m.: Dockside Ice Cream free for kids 10 and under

1 p.m. - 4 p.m.: DJ Music by ANJ Kepinski at 338 Elm Street.