We love the Santa Fe Fiestas Children's Pet Parade
Carlos Gilbert Elementary won Best Message in 2025, first place for Best School Entry in 2024, we were in the paper in 2023! Go to 6:28 in the video to see Carlos Gilbert families and pets from 2022!

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📆When: Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 8:30am (goes until about 10:45 am)

📍Where: 227 East Alameda Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Meet in the parking lot, look for the Blackhawks.

🐝Theme: “BEE PAWSitive Blackhawks! Spreading kindness ADDS UP"

Join us in your Blackhawk black and gold/yellow as we spread parade cheer. We encourage bee costumes, stripes, flowers, and an emphasis on our school colors. Get playful with props like flowers, antennae, math symbols-- anything related to bees, black/gold, or math. During the parade we'll walk together, wave, and hand out flyers, candy, and used books to spread kindness & positivity. Let’s make it fun & memorable- BEE creative!  

🖤🧡Who: All Blackhawks and their families and pets!

🍭Bring: A wagon (highly recommended and needed), used children's books, candy, stickers to pass out to children along the parade route.

📚What to do between now and parade time: Please donate bags of candy and any used books you would like to give up. Clean out your bookshelf and bring them in. There is a big cardboard box in the lobby of the school for you to drop off items.