Representatives of Britain, Lebanon, South Korea, Morocco and the United States attended the launch. The minister considered the occasion an excellent opportunity for the children to learn about each others' cultures.

Khoja and Vice Minister of Culture and Information for Cultural Affairs Abdullah Al-Jasser along with diplomats of participant countries and mediapersons visited the booths set up in the festival.

According to the deputy manager of the event, Muhammad Al-Shalhoob, the festival has attracted over 30 local participants including the Ministry of Information, the Ministry of Social Affairs, King Saud University, the Traffic Department, Saudi Aramco and the embassies of the participant countries.

“In collaboration with these participants we were able to line up a large variety of exciting activities to enrich this event and bring as much joy and pleasure to Saudi and expatriate children visiting the festival,” he said.

“The activities include entertainment shows, prize winning games, reading, photography, media training, invention workshops, drawing and toy car racing, visiting kids dental clinic and much more, “ he added.

Arab News visited some of the booths to see what contribution they made to the festival.

Ahmad Al-Minyawi, the media and public relations manager at the British Council in Saudi Arabia and the attendant of the UK booth, said the British Council-run booth brought specially for this event three female child experts to train visiting children on drama and handicrafts. Also, the booth was a venue to practice other activities like coloring, music and story reading in English.

Woong Chul Puc, the adviser to the Korean ambassador and the attendant of the Korean booth, said his country gave gifts to visiting children and got their names written in Korean. This was in addition to the Taekwondo performance at the main auditorium of the center by a group of Korean children.

Mofid Deek, the press attaché and spokesman of the US Embassy in Riyadh and the attendant of the US booth, said that his country’s booth offered chances for children to read, color books, participate in guessing games, watch movies, and learn music by an American musician brought specially from the United States.

It is estimated that this five-day event has attracted around 10,000 visitors, mostly children accompanied by their parents.