Date(s): Friday, August 7, 2026
Time: 10:00am-11:00pm
Venue: Monument Park
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Dexter Daze is now the Dexter Summer Festival.
Be sure to stop by the Kid Bike Decorating Station on Friday from 10a-6p and then join the parade on Saturday morning
2025 Friday’s highlights of interest to kids included:
- 10a-8p – Vendor & Food Trucks Open
- 10a-6p – Action Zone Activities Open
- 10a-8p – Cornhole Open
- 11a – Social Tent Opens
- 11a – Action Zone Performance – Devin Devine
- 11a-5p – Bennett’s Balloons – Free Balloon Animals (Action Zone)
- 11a-6p – Turchin Jewelers – Free Friendship bracelet beading.
- noon-6p – Chalk Artist (alley by Dexter Bakery)
- 12:30p – Action Zone Performances – Boyer the Magic Guy
- 1-4p – Dunk Tank Open – Social District
- 2p – Action Zone Performances – Bubbles R Fun
- 4p – Action Zone Performance – Herps Alive! Interarctive Reptile & Amphibian Show
- 10p – Fireworks
Action Zone Activities at Mill Creek Park:
- Bounce House
- Kid Focused Vendors
- Kid-Friendly Encounters & Activities
- Food Trucks
- Shuttle Stop
- Kid Entrepeneur Section
There will be a free shuttle operating from additional parking at Creekside school with stops on Monument Park & Action Zone, American Legion, & Social District (Forest & Broad)
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- Date(s): Friday, August 7, 2026
- Time: 10:00am-11:00pm
- Cost: Free
- Event Website
- Organizer: Dexter Summer Festival
- Organizer Phone: Not Provided
- Organizer Email: Not Provided
Venue: Monument Park
Address: 8000-8558 Ann Arbor St, Dexter
- Age Range
- Arbor Annie's Highlights
- Babies
- Community Fair
- Elementary
- Free
- High Schoolers
- Middle Schoolers
- Music/Concerts
- Outdoor
- Parents
- Preschoolers
- Toddler
Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be cancelled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, or we can make mistakes.
