🏆 Macaroni KID Family Favorite Awards 2025
🎉 Nominations are NOW OPEN! 🎉
Our annual Family Favorite Awards celebrate the local businesses, programs, and organizations that make our community an amazing place for families to live, play, eat, and shop.
🌟 Nominations Round
🗓️ Open: October 17 – November 9, 2025
🗳️ Voting Opens: November 10, 2025
🏅 Winners Announced: November 29, 2025
You can nominate your favorite local businesses or even nominate your own!
What Are the Family Favorite Awards?
Each year, Macaroni KID readers recognize the family-friendly businesses, organizations, and places that make Central Florida such a wonderful place to raise kids. These awards highlight everything from favorite attractions and play spaces to restaurants, camps, classes, and local shops that families love most.
It's a great way to celebrate small businesses and show your support for the people who make our community special.
One Celebration Across Three Communities
Although we publish three Macaroni KID editions — Winter Park, Apopka–Mount Dora, and Seminole County — these awards bring all of our communities together into one combined celebration.
All businesses located within the areas covered by these three newsletters are eligible to be nominated. Winners will be selected from a single combined list, organized by category, so everyone in our local family network can shine together!
Who Can Nominate?
Anyone who lives in or loves our local community can submit nominations — parents, grandparents, teachers, and even business owners themselves! You may nominate in as many categories as you’d like.
To nominate: you must be a Macaroni KID subscriber. It’s FREE, and you’ll get weekly updates on family events, giveaways, and local news.
💬 How Winners Are Chosen
At Macaroni KID, we believe in keeping things simple — and fair. Winners are determined entirely by reader votes, not sponsorships, ads, or paid placements. Every nomination and vote comes directly from our local families, and we actively monitor the process to ensure it remains fair and authentic. 🏆
That means the businesses who earn the title of Family Favorite are truly chosen by the community — the families who live, learn, and play right here in Central Florida.
📍 Areas We Cover
To keep things fair for all Macaroni KID publishers, nominations are limited to businesses located within our coverage areas. If a business falls outside our region, we’ll happily connect them with the Macaroni KID publisher for their community.
- 🍊 Winter Park Newsletter — Winter Park, Maitland, Northern Downtown Orlando
ZIP Codes: 32733, 32790, 32793, 32802, 32853, 32857, 32886, 32891, 32897, 32801, 32803, 32814, 32789, 32792, 32807, 32896, 32751 - 🌻 Apopka–Mount Dora Newsletter — Apopka, Mount Dora, Zellwood, Orlando/Lockhart
ZIP Codes: 32704, 32756, 32794, 32799, 32860, 32712, 32777, 32757, 32703, 32798, 32779, 32810 - 🌟 Seminole County Newsletter — All of beautiful Seminole County
ZIP Codes: 32709, 32746, 32765, 32771, 32762, 32752, 32730, 32701, 32714, 32707, 32708, 32750, 32766, 32816, 32773, 32817, 32820, 32826, 32715, 32716, 32718, 32719, 32745, 32747, 32772, 32795, 32867, 32732, 32791
🎁 What Winning Businesses Receive
- Digital Winner Graphic Pack — social graphics and a website badge to proudly display.
- Yearlong Business Directory Listing — keep your biz in front of local families all year ($99 value).
- $75 Advertising Credit — use toward any Macaroni KID promotion package (valid for 6 months).
- Recognition in our Winner Article & Social Posts — featured in the announcement and tagged across our channels.
- Bonus Drawing: all winners are entered to win a $300 Premium Advertising Package.
For Our Readers
One subscriber from the nominations and voting rounds will win a $25 gift card to the local business of their choice (based on availability).
💌 Ready to Nominate?
Tell us which local spots deserve some love! You can nominate any family-friendly business, program, or organization that operates within our combined territories.
Submit NominationsMacaroni KID Winter Park, Apopka-Mount Dora, and Seminole County are free weekly newsletters and websites focused on fun, family events in Winter Park, Orlando, Maitland, Apopka, Mount Dora, Seminole County & UCF areas. Let us find your family fun!
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