Craft Harvest Market

Craft Harvest gathers makers from around Auckland into the Jubilee Hall on Parnell Road on the fourth Saturday morning of each month, and everything on the tables is handmade by the person selling it. Stalls change from month to month, but there is usually pottery, jewellery, prints and cards, wooden toys, knitting and soap, with makers happy to explain how a thing was made, which is most of what children get out of it. Being indoors, it is one of the few markets that holds up in bad weather. It runs at the same time as the Parnell Farmers' Market in the car park outside, so the two work as one outing: produce and a coffee under the trees, then the hall for the making. The Auckland Domain is across the road if there is energy left afterwards.