This year’s event will feature more than 20 hands-on interactive booths including: Montante Safe Sword Fighting Instruction, Duck Pond–Carnival Game, WWII and Vietnam Memorabilia, owl pellet dissection, decorate your own yoyo (donated by the Toy Shoppe of Warren), STEM and art centers, games, experiments, make-it/take-it activities, a magic show, basket raffles, food and more.

The state Department of Treasury will be available at the festival to sign up children for Keystone Scholars, which provides a $100 scholarship to all children born to Pennsylvania residents in 2019 and after. This scholarship can be used for post-high school training and education expenses.

Parents will be able to register their children if they bring the necessary paperwork: Child’s date of birth, ZIP code where the child was born and the child’s birth certificate number.

On this same day, “Comics Giveaway Day” (formerly known as “National Free Comic Day” will be celebrated with 1,000 comic books to be given away on a first come, first serve basis. This is in partnership with Comics and Paperback Plus of Palmyra, Pa.

Photos Submitted by Ruby Wiles A new activity for the Interactive Festival this year: Montante Sword Fighting Instruction.

Comic book titles available include the first ever non-fiction, historical comic book titled “The British are Coming?” It celebrates America’s 250th Anniversary. Other titles available are: Stitch,

Garfield, Star Wars, The Amazing Spider Man and others.

The 2026 Interactive Festival is presented by and a fundraiser for Free Books for Kids Town, a Warren nonprofit whose mission is children’s literacy and education. Free Books is raising funds to provide books for all kindergarten through eighth grade students in Warren County before the summer break. Learn more at FreeBooksKidsTown.com or visit Facebook.com/FreeBooksForKidsTown.

To volunteer, contact Free Books Founder/Director Ruby Wiles by email: KidsBooks4Free@gmail.com.

Bree Huntington, Free Books for Kids Town volunteer, shows off some of the comic books that will be available on Second Avenue in downtown Warren on Saturday.