EASTER EGG HUNT
Held every year near Easter at Pevely Park #1. The Park is located on County Road, just south of the Pevely Elementary School.  We divide the children into age groups : 1-3 year olds, 4-5 year olds, 6-7 year olds, 8-10 year olds. Every year we have special cash prizes for the children in age group who are lucky enough to find the special prize eggs. The first place winner gets $25.00, second prize is $15.00 and third prize is $10.00. Also all children who participate are eligible to enter a special raffle drawing for Grand Prizes.  This year from 12:00 p.m. (noon) until 2:00 p.m. we will have a special visit from "The Easter Bunny" so parents please bring your cameras! We always have a lot of fun, so please come join us.

As always, there is no charge to enter.

HOMECOMING FESTIVAL
Every year on the 4th Friday and Saturday of August, we have our annual Homecoming  Festival. The festival is held in Park #1 on County Road. Our activities begin at 6:00 p.m. with a presentation by Troop 429  Boy Scouts of America and the Festus Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol. Our Friday night activities are family based, with lots of fun activities in the carnival midway and lots of food available from the many vendors on site. We also have a "Baby Crawling Contest" and a "Pie Baking Contest". The music act  for Friday night this year will be Chris Blair. Chris Blair and his band will play from  7:00 - 10:00 p.m. when we end activities. 

Then on Saturday morning at 11:00 a.m. things get fired up again with lots of food vendors, carnival rides, carnival midway and local acts performing on the stage. We have local acts playing every half hour until around 4:00 p.m. when the stage turners over to our professional acts.  This year the band Shiloh and Bentler will be playing from 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. followed by Butch Wax and the Hollywoods from 6:30 - 10:00 p.m.  The festival ends on Saturday night at 10:00 p.m. with a big fireworks display. During the day Saturday we have special games available with cash prizes for the winners. Games such as the "Hoola-Hoop Contest", "Pumpkin Seed Spitting Contest", "3 Legged Race" and "Sack Race".

Saturday we also have lots of local and out of area crafters available with lots of cool crafts for sale. Also all day Friday and Saturday we have a raffle available. Each ticket is $1.00 each or 6 tickets for $5.00. Prizes are drawn each hour, so the more tickets you purchase, the more you can win. All prizes have been donated by local businesses as a way to help our city parks. All money raised by the festival is added to the Parks budget to support the four city parks.

This year the Homecoming Festival will also feature a Classic Car Show starting at noon on Saturday.

CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES
Every year the City of Pevely has two great Christmas activities. The first is our annual Christmas Parade. The parade is always held the first Thursday following Thanksgiving. Every year the parade has a "theme". Last year the theme was "Visions of Sugar Plums". We use the theme to judge the float entries for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. These floats receive a cash prize between $200.00 and $100.00. All parade participants are encouraged to throw candy to the many children that line the parade route. 

The route for our parade begins on Weier Road, the service road on the west side of Interstate 55, we travel north on Weier Rd, then turn right on Highway Z. We continue East on Highway Z to County Road, turning Right on County Road past Park #1, then Left on Main Street, East on Main to Old State Road South a short way to Maple Drive. Left on Maple to Highway 61/67 where the parade ends.

Anyone or group may join the parade, all we require is that an application be filled out in advance so that we know who is participating and what type of entry they are bringing. The City of Pevely reserves the right to refuse entry to any float, organization, group or individual that we feel would be offensive to the residents of the City.

The next Christmas activity we have is "Pictures With Santa". This activity varies, but we always hold the event at the gym inside Pevely Elementary School. The Parks Board will be present to take pictures. The pictures come with a small frame, mailing sleeve. The parents are encouraged to also bring their own cameras. All money raised is added to the annual parks budget for the upkeep of the City Parks.