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Holiday Craft Fairs 2026: Arts & Crafts Shows by Date

Written by the USA Fest Bot team with AI help. · Published · Updated

A knitted penguin in a plaid scarf and a glowing snowman sit among handmade holiday crafts with price tags on a craft fair table
Handmade holiday crafts on a craft fair table, 2012 (not one of the fairs below). Photo: Lance Cpl. Jackeline Perez Rivera, U.S. Marine Corps, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, cropped.

This guide lists 60 holiday craft fairs, arts and crafts shows, maker markets and bazaars in 38 states for 2026, grouped by date from November 5 to December 20, with links to each listing and the organizer’s website. The first weekends of November and December are the busiest.

German-style Christmas markets and weeks-long holiday villages have their own guide, Christmas Markets 2026. To see every upcoming craft fair by state or ZIP, not just the 60 here, browse craft fairs and markets near you. USA Fest Bot doesn’t sell tickets.

Dates can change, so check the event’s website before you go.

Early November: November 5–8

The season opens big. The Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival in Ocean Springs is billed as the largest arts festival in Mississippi and the Gulf Coast, with more than 400 booths under the live oaks, and it honors the original potter of Shearwater Pottery. Philadelphia’s Contemporary Craft Show brings 195 artists, who keep all of their sales. Recycle Santa Fe sells art made from at least 75% recycled materials, and in Bel Air, Maryland, authors sign books beside the makers’ tables.

Mid-November: November 12–15

Casper hosts what is billed as Wyoming’s largest craft fair, and Christmas in Clawson has run since 1984. Covington’s Three Rivers Art Festival lines Columbia Street with 200 juried artists and typically draws more than 60,000 people. At the Franklin Makers Market, families in Santa hats, dogs included, paddle out on the lake for the Santa Paddle, and Columbia’s Craftsmen’s Christmas Classic is in its 51st year.

A wooden market stall with a blue counter cloth holds rows of handmade cream and brown pottery, with plates and pots hanging above
A handmade pottery stall at a Christmas fair in Budapest, 2014 (not a fair in this guide). Photo: Globetrotter19, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Weekend before Thanksgiving: November 18–22

Thomasville’s Wildlife Arts Festival opens Georgia’s quail season with more than 70 sporting and wildlife artists at an arts center in the 1915 East Side School. In Rochester, the RMSC Holiday Bazaar spreads more than 150 artists over five floors of a science museum, where shoppers enter through a cave and browse beside a life-sized mastodon. Richmond’s Craft + Design, held since 1964, fills the train shed at Main Street Station, Custer’s reaches 50 years in Spokane, and Placitas spreads its market across six sites near Highway 165.

Thanksgiving weekend: November 27–29

Black Friday weekend has craft traditions of its own. Honolulu’s Islandwide Crafts & Food Expo began in 1987, when 14,000 shoppers came to the first show. Tucson’s fair has filled Reid Park on this weekend for more than four decades, and every item must be unique and handmade. The Kenai Art Center fair dates to 1978, and Cincinnati’s Crafty Supermarket, which started in 2009 at the Northside Tavern with about 20 sellers, now fills the Music Hall Ballroom with more than 100 makers.

Hand-painted wooden sled and stocking ornaments in red and yellow lined up on a green tablecloth at a craft fair
Hand-painted wooden ornaments at a holiday craft fair, 2012 (not a fair in this guide). Photo: Lance Cpl. Jackeline Perez Rivera, U.S. Marine Corps, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, cropped.

First weekend of December: December 2–6

This is the peak weekend for indie craft shows. Richmond’s Bizarre Bazaar dates to 1975 and fills four buildings with more than 475 exhibitors. Pittsburgh’s Handmade Arcade is the city’s largest juried craft market, the Detroit Urban Craft Fair takes over the historic Masonic Temple, and Tempe brings more than 350 artists to Mill Avenue. In Anchorage, the CIRI Holiday Craft Bazaar sells Alaska Native ornaments, carvings and kuspuks.

Mid-December: December 11–20

Portland’s Crafty Wonderland, started in 2006 by two artists, is billed as the largest handmade craft show in the Northwest. Honolulu’s Mele Kalikimaka Marketplace fills the Blaisdell Center with nearly 300 booths of Hawaiʻi-made goods, Boston’s Cultural Survival Bazaar sells Indigenous art from around the world, and Renegade Chicago closes the list December 18–20.

Fairs that give back

Many of these fairs raise money for a school or a cause. All proceeds from Christmas in Clawson go to Clawson’s public school students, teachers and families, and Franklin’s Centennial show supports the school’s PTSO. Holiday Show of Hands in Carmichael funds St. John the Evangelist School, and St. Michael in Cary funds preschool scholarships. Market Days, held since 1965, supports the Tallahassee Museum. For more, see charity events.

Before you go

Go early for first pick, since many pieces are one of a kind. Several big shows hold a preview night, including Seattle’s Urban Craft Uprising, Crafty Wonderland’s First Pick Party and Craft + Design’s patrons’ preview. Handmade Arcade posts its maker catalog online so you can plan a route. In Las Vegas, bring a new stuffed animal, 10 inches or larger, for the Hug-A-Bear Drive.

For more near you, browse all craft fairs and markets, filter Christmas events or this weekend’s events by state or ZIP, or see Christmas markets and Thanksgiving events. Missing a fair? Submit a listing.

Quick answers

When do holiday craft fairs start?

In this guide, the first is Thursday, November 5, in Ralston, Nebraska, and most run on weekends through mid-December.

What is the busiest weekend for craft fairs?

The first weekends of November and December, with 12 fairs each in this guide.

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