DeKALB – Children will be the guests of honor at a royal-themed fundraiser Friday night hosted by the DeKalb Youth Service Bureau.

The third annual Royal Children’s Ball is designed to make every child who enters feel like a prince or princess, said Jason Nicol, the bureau’s executive director. The event will feature dancing, food, a magician, a royal salon for children to receive fancy hair styles, an arts and crafts area and a royal gauntlet.

“It’s an obstacle course,” Nicol said of the gauntlet. “You go through the obstacles, defeat the dragon and save the princess.”