SANDPOINT — Creations for Sandpoint is this month’s featured nonprofit for Evans Brothers Coffee Roasters and, like last year, a Kids Carnival will offer family fun while helping to raise money for the organization.

“The Kids Carnival is a great partnership between Evans Bros and Creations,” Kate Mansur, board president for Creations, said in an email to the Daily Bee. “The idea is to share our (Creations and Evans Brothers) networks and clientele so that each will benefit by reaching a new audience and sharing what we do. It’s also an opportunity for Evans Brothers to donate to local nonprofits that are important in our community.”

The purpose of the nonprofit spotlight program, according to a statement by event organizers, is to “spread awareness about the many important local organizations working hard to make our community such a wonderful place to live and help raise funds.”

Saturday will mark the second year of the Kids Carnival and the partnership between Evans Brothers and, this year, a new partner is joining the fun — Journey Pediatric Therapy, which is providing a number of “excited volunteers” to help out.

“Journey Pediatric Therapy generously donates to support Creations’ Discovery Play Area and they love to pitch in and help,” Mansur said. “They feel that the Discovery Play Area and art studio at Creations are an important local resource.”

Mansur said Journey Pediatric learned about Creations from their clients, and “love” that their clients can go there to practice social skills, develop fine and gross motor skills and have fun all at the same time. With a suggested donation of $1 per person per visit and no one is turned away because of inability to pay, Mansur said the space is accessible to everybody, which the Journey Pediatric folks also appreciated.

Being the featured nonprofit, Creations will receive 15 percent of the sales at Evans Brothers on Saturday, the day of the carnival. There is a poster on display at Evans Brothers this month with information about Creations’ programs and the campaign to build an indoor treehouse, Mansur said. The funds raised during the Kids Carnival this year will, in fact, go toward the indoor treehouse for kids age 7 to 12 in the Discovery Play Area at Creations.

“The indoor treehouse is very exciting,” she said. “We have renovated our art studio space at Creations and freed up some more space for discovery play and we decided to focus the new space on 7-12 year olds with older games and activities.”

The idea of a treehouse fits with the wood post and beam construction of the Cedar Street Bridge and the south facing windows that “make you feel like you’re outside,” she said. With a small climbing wall entry and a slide, the treehouse will cater to the older Discovery Play Area users. The treehouse will also serve as an opportunity to include educational activities about Idaho’s local forests and the plants and animals that live in the forest. Children 6 and under will still enjoy playing in the restored wooden sailboat, while their older siblings will have an “exciting place to play, discover and have fun,” Mansur said.

Saturday’s event will feature a kids mini carnival with a variety of games for $.25, as well as art projects, raffle drawings and, of course, Creations’ famous face painting.

The carnival will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Evans Brothers, 524 Church St., Sandpoint.

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