Chelsea Bossert/Daily Mining Gazette KC Bonkers employee, Jess Rich, makes the shop’s signature kids drink: a Bubbler — sold for one dollar Saturday, Kid’s Day in the City of Hancock. 

HANCOCK — Despite cold and windy conditions Saturday there was plenty of fun at downtown Hancock’s Kids Day. Activities up and down Quincy Street kept kids and parents busy leading up to a free showing of the movie “Inside Out 2” at the Orpheum Theatre. Down town Hancock businesses KC Bonkers, Magic Kiln Studio and North Wind Books offered discounted items, such as drinks, pottery and kids books.

Other businesses joined in with free pancakes from Griffin Family Cafe and Catering, origami at Keweenaw Co-op, letterpress printing at the Copper Country Community Arts Center and more throughout downtown.

KC Bonkers employee, Laura Bennett, said Kids Day in Hancock is also known at KC Bonkers as “Bubbler-mageddon.” “The first year we did this, there was a line out the door and down the block a little bit,” she said. “”Once it gets going, there’s a line out the door. So, we prepare, since like, yesterday for it.”

Bennett said she was not worried about the cold and wind deterring families from coming down to Quincy Street.

“I think the weather will encourage more people to get out,” she said. “If it’s bright and sunny, they’re not going to want to be inside.”

At the Copper Country Community Arts Center, Bonnie Loukus, said the center had a free activity kids could receive fun printed designs from.

“Our printer, Daniel Schneider, is doing an activity on both our presses back there,” she said. “He set up a carrot that he designed … and kids are printing two colors on that right now.”

Loukus said the arts have always been a key part of the Community Arts Center’s philosophy. “We’ve always fostered arts appreciation with kids,” she said. “Kids need to be able to express themselves, and also work with their hands and create things and have that tangible experience away from the digital world.”