It's Back! Beat your end-of-summer boredom with the party your kids have been waiting for all summer. Join us for Ontario’s largest annual children’s festival, at the Aaniin Community Centre and Library, located in the heart of Southeast Markham.
The Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival offers a wide variety of safe, fun and educational free Play Zones and activities for kids.
Let their imagination run wild and learn something new with our great selection of fun activities and entertainment!
Check back for updates about the activities, games and entertainment planned for this year’s festival!
You won’t go hungry at the Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival!
Treat your taste buds:
• Fresh cut fries • Hot dogs and sausages • Ice cream, sundaes and popsicles • Tea, coffee, soft drinks and more!
This year’s festival food selection will be updated regularly. Check back often.
The Aaniin Café - located near the Main Stage indoors - also offers a variety of refreshments and snacks.
Don’t forget to bring a reusable water bottle and fill up at the Water on Wheels (WOW) truck!
Interested in being a food vendor at this year’s festival?
The Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival Committee is always looking for new and exciting food options to offer visitors at our event. Food vendors that are interested in selling at the Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival can download, complete and return the festival Vendor Package.
The Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival would not be possible without the generous support and help of its volunteers who serve as both helpers and ambassadors at the event. Volunteers are vital to the success of this festival!
The festival welcomes volunteers 14 years old and older and of all abilities to join us and support the event. 11 volunteer hours are given to high school volunteers that attend the full festival day, and participate in the one-hour mandatory volunteer training session the week before the festival.
Volunteer recruitment
Check back for updates to register to volunteer at this year’s event.
The Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival is always looking for delicious food trucks and food vendors to join the festival and keep the thousands of festival visitors fed!
Food vendors that are interested in selling at the Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival can download, complete and return the festival Vendor Package.
The Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival welcomes business and non-profit vendors to have a booth in the festival’s Vendor Village and engage with the thousands of kids and families at the event.
Becoming a Children’s Festival vendor is a great way of raising awareness for your organization, marketing a new product or offering a service to festival visitors.
Businesses and non-profit organizations that are interested in having a booth in the Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival Vendor Village can download, complete and return the festival Vendor Package.
The Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival offers a wide variety of safe, fun and educational free Play Zones and activities for kids. 
You won’t go hungry at the Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival!
