Learn Everything You Need to Know About Creating a Local Craft Fair
Not Your Traditional Craft Fair
Traditional craft fairs generally require a lot: A location, parking, setup, assigning booths, cleanup, and the list goes on. But, there’s an easy alternative! Set up a craft fair on your street, in your neighborhood, or in your community. We’ll tell you all the steps to do it successfully. You will be surprised by how you can start small, and turn it into a yearly event that the whole neighborhood looks forward to.
What Is a Local Craft Fair Exactly?
You might be wondering, what does a local craft fair look like? Well, it’s just like a neighborhood garage sale, except the vendors sell crafts! And, that’s just what you’ll tell people when you ask them if they’d like to get involved: It’s like a neighborhood garage sale, but for crafts.
Making Money as the Craft Fair Organizer
There are many benefits to having a local craft fair on your street or neighborhood: You don’t have to worry about setting up booth spaces or selling spots, each house takes care of their own participation. You’re just the organizer. But, that doesn’t mean you can’t make money from participants. You can ask households to pitch in a small amount, such as $10 to help with the online and physical signage you will put up. And, here’s a bonus: there are vendors out there who would love to come to your location to sell their wares, and you can ask those vendors to pay $20. Then, you give the homeowner half the fee for use of their WiFi, and you keep half for organizing the fair.
How do you make money beyond your advertising and outside-vendor fees? Well, you sell crafts of course! We have lots of ideas to share with you about different crafts you can offer, and how to display them to draw the eye. If you have children, you can get kids involved too!
Earning and Enriching: Making Money by Hosting a Neighborhood Craft
When you organize a local craft fair, you can make money in a few ways. If you do the math
How do you draw traffic to your local craft fair?
It’s actually easier than you might think! Just like garage sales, signage is absolutely key. You’ll want a huge sign at any major entrances, and multiple small signs all along the route to your street or neighborhood. Make them look professional, so that people driving by know this isn’t just another sale.
And of course, you’ll want to advertise online. Leading up to the sale, you’ll want to post in multiple places online, to let people know your fair is coming up. We’ll give you tips on where to post, to get the most traffic for your site. After all, that’s what your vendors are paying you for: to help get the word out, and generate LOTS of traffic to your street or neighborhood. You’ll be surprised by the enthusiasm you receive, both by vendors, and buyers, when they see a well-organized local craft fair that they found online or just happened upon when driving by!
Advertising Your Fair
Are you ready to get started? We will give you all the details you need to help you organize your fair, from contacting your neighbors, to creating your crafts, to advertising, to the day-of. You will be amazed by how rewarding the experience will be. All you have to do is take the first step!
Getting Started: An Easy Week-By-Week Guide
We are going to walk you through everything you need to do to put on a neighborhood craft fair. First, we encourage you to read the step by step guide, which gives you a summary of everything you will need to do. Then, as the date gets closer, we’ll give you specifics on what to do to have a successful event. You are going to have so much fun!
