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Spring Palooza

Downtown Market & Family Fun

Description
Join us for Spring Palooza in downtown Emmetsburg on Saturday, May 9th from 9:00am-1:00pm. 

Sponsored by Iowa Trust 

We're closing down 10th Street between Highway 18 (Broadway) and Union, north of Courthouse Square, for a community block party.


Kids and families will find fun around every corner:

  • Food trucks
  • Vendor market
  • Yard games
  • Slime making and ribbon twirlers with ISU Extension & Outreach and 4-H
  • Temporary tattoo station with the Emmetsburg Public Library
  • Bubble fun with Colorful Language
  • Kids’ craft activities including photo frames and paper bouquets
  • Special visit from Monica Gunn’s baby goats
  • Raffle prizes given away throughout the event
  • Photo scavenger hunt

🖼️ Sidewalk Chalk Competition (9am-12pm)

Participants of all ages are invited to enter and create their own sidewalk masterpiece for a chance to win prizes. Chalk will be provided by the Palo Alto Arts Council. Check in under the Chamber tent.

📸 Photo Scavenger Hunt
Pick up a set of clues at the Chamber tent, find participating businesses, and take a photo at each location. Each photo earns one entry for a chance to win Chamber Bucks. Once completed, participants can return to the Chamber tent to claim their entries.

🍔 Food Trucks

  • Big Dreams N Ice Creams
  • Citrus Crave Sips & Snacks
  • Hungry Boys Taqueria
  • Janey's Heart Attack Shack

🛍️ Street Market Vendors

  • 7one2hues
  • Back Yard Entertainment
  • By Deb
  • Cards by Heidi
  • Calico Pony Creations
  • Charles and Betty Hyde
  • Crave Bakery, LLC
  • Daylily Jamz
  • Dee Fenchek
  • Gunn's Goat Milk Soap
  • H & T Freeze Dried Snacks and Tucker’s Tasty Treats
  • Lanie K Pottery
  • Lopes Goodies
  • Mockingbird Hill Kettle Corn
  • Perfectly Posh
  • Rag Rugs by DennyD
  • ReCreations
  • Rigby Farms Company
  • Stockdale Lavender Farm
  • The Dip Chicks
  • Whimsical Designs
  • Work 'N' Walter Farms

10th Street Downtown Emmetsburg

Emmetsburg, IA
May 09, 2026
9:00 AM CDT to 1:00 PM CDT
Originally posted by Emmetsburg Chamber of Commerce via Locable

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Emmetsburg Chamber of Commerce

2108 Main Street
Emmetsburg, IA 50536
712-852-2283
www.emmetsburgchamber.com

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10:00am–2:00pm
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10:00am–2:00pm
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10:00am–2:00pm
Thu
10:00am–2:00pm
Fri
10:00am–2:00pm