# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Holiday Handmade Markets
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 04:30 pm – Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: ✨?️ GET READY TO JINGLE, MINGLE, AND SHOP LOCAL! ✨ 

West Des Moines Parks and Recreation invites you to experience four incredible Handmade Markets held during Valley Junction's Jingle in the Junction events. This is your chance to snag truly unique, one-of-a-kind gifts crafted by talented local adults and enterprising youth while supporting community artisans—and better yet, it’s completely free to shop! Feel good about finding a present that nobody else will have, knowing that you directly supported a local person working hard on their passion. We want our vendors to have a tremendously successful night, so please share this post widely to bring in a crowd! 

Join us at the Valley Junction Activity Center (217 5th Street, West Des Moines) on Thursdays from 4:30 PM to 8:00 PM on the following dates:

November 20: Adult Market
December 4: Youth Market
December 11: Adult Market
December 18: Youth Market
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/west-des-moines/holiday-handmade-markets/200029367217523
- **Event Categories**: holiday
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 56

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029367217523?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=west+des+moines-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: West Des Moines
- **state**: IA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Valley Junction
- **lat**: 41.57179
- **long**: -93.70848
- **full address**: Valley Junction, 217 5th St, West Des Moines, IA 50265-4719, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: West Des Moines Parks & Recreation / Aquatic Centers (https://allevents.in/org/west-des-moines-parks-and-recreation-aquatic-centers/25939961)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 04:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Valley Junction, 217 5th St, West Des Moines, IA 50265-4719, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** West Des Moines Parks & Recreation / Aquatic Centers
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** holiday
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Holiday Handmade Markets ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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