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Halloween Lights! Over 10K lights animated to different songs including a mix of traditional and contemporary music. If you go during the week, you’ll avoid the crowds on the weekend. Tune the radio to 93.3 FM to hear music synced to lights. 9 Barbarotto Lane. Making a Harvest Hayride Join DIY-U kids for an autumn adventure where mini builders will create their very own harvest hayride toy. This hands-on workshop is a perfect creative space for mini builders to design and assemble their personalized tractor toy. Not only will children learn about fall harvest traditions and seasonal decor, but they'll also develop important fine motor skills as they construct their miniature masterpiece. Fall into fun with DIY-U kids' Harvest Hayride workshop!
Fall Festival Join us for the annual Fall Festival at the Great Godfrey Maze! Lots of fun for the whole family! Face painting, balloon art, inflatables, food trucks, vendors and so much more!
Street Fest Everyone is invited to join in the fun during the Livingston Streetfest. Festivities will be located on Livingston Ave. and downtown Main Street.
Town of Salem Travel back in time to the Salem witch trials for an exciting game of social deduction based on the popular computer game, Town of Salem! Registration Required.
Haunted Night The National Great Rivers Museum is proud to host our first ever Halloween event in America's most haunted small town, Alton, Illinois - Haunted Night at the NGRM! □
We’ve lined up a night full of Halloween-style fun and educational activities, including: Haunted Dam Tours: Dare to explore MPLD after dark? Free Animal Presentations: Meet some of our frightful friends! Hocus Pocus Screening: Catch this Halloween classic in our movie theatre. Campfires: Cozy up by the fire and share some ghostly tales. Candy Galore: Trick-or-treat yourself through Halloween-themed activities. Fun games and crafts for all ages. Costume Contest: Dress up and show off your spookiest, silliest, or most creative costume!
Bring your family and friends for a FREE night of thrills and chills. Don’t forget to wear your best costume and prepare for an unforgettable Halloween kick-off! See you there… if you dare!
Howl-O-Ween Bring the kids and the pets. No Tricks, Just Treats. Trick or Treating Map, Crafts & Games, Balloon Artist, Face Painter, Music, Costumes Encouraged, Facility Tours. Eat , Drink & Be Scary, Hot dogs & chips, Popcorn, Vampire Donuts. Thanks to Sponsors Pet adoptions for event day will be reduced to $25.00. 100% of event proceeds to Partners for Pets
Fall Farm Day join us on Saturday, October 5 for Willoughby Heritage Farm and Conservation Reserve Fall Farm Day! We will have activities for everyone, food and drinks, craft vendors, and beautiful Fall scenery.
We are currently seeking craft vendors and activities for our event. Interested in being a vendor at the event? Fill out a form on our website https://www.collinsvilleil.org/.../event-vendor-information or give us a call at 618-977-0941. Fall Festival This free, family event will include hayrides, a bonfire, smores, Snowy Sweets ice-cream truck, and a lot of fun. Bring your lawn chairs and enjoy an evening with family and friends.
Fall Festival Good thing we have a waitlist for food truck vendors. We were able to add a few new trucks to our Food Truck Festival due to a few others having to drop out! Here is the updated flyer with the new trucks! Don’t forget, the big day is October 6th! Fall Festival
We love a parade, and downtown Edwardsville will be the site of three FANTASTIC parades this fall:
□ The Edwardsville Homecoming Parade is at 6 p.m. Wednesday, October 9. Watch for details on the Edwardsville School District #7 Facebook page.
□ The Edwardsville | Glen Carbon Chamber of Commerce Halloween Parade is at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 31. For more details, visit the Chamber's Facebook page or website: edglenchamber.com/
□ The Veterans Day Parade is at 3 p.m. Monday, November 11. The Metro East Community Rotary Club is a proud co-sponsor with the Edwardsville American Legion Post #199 and would welcome interested parade participants! Fall Festival
Join us October 11, for our annual YMCA Fall Festival and Trunk or Treat! This event is fun for the whole family! We will have Trunk or Treating, games, concessions, inflatables, and more. This is a FREE* community event.
*Concessions do have fees associated with purchases - Cash only.
If you are a local business looking to participate in the event or would like to have a trunk in our Trunk or Treat, please email [email protected].
We are collecting candy in our lobby to support our Trunk or Treat. Pumpkin Fest Meet us at the Pumpkin Patch! Corn Maze, Activities for the kiddos, Live Music, Small Businesses to shop, You Pick Pumpkins, Food Trucks/ Concessions, Adult Beverages Stand, Farm animals, & Much more!
Going Gold Kids Fest benefiting childhood cancer research through the American Cancer Society. Activities include pony rides, petting zoo, face painting, touch a truck, Chick-fil-A, and much more. Donations are suggested at $10/child ages 2 and up with ALL proceeds going to the American Cancer Society. Going *Ghostly Glow Parade
Join the Ghostly Glow Parade travelling down Madison Avenue and ending in downtown Civic Park. After the parade, stay for food and live music by Torchlight Parade!
*For more info or to be a part of the parade contact [email protected] Community Trunk or Treat
It feels like fall, so it's time to announce that this year's Community Trunk-Or-Treat will be held from 5-7pm on Thursday, October 17th at Glidden Park!
Trunk or Treat
It feels like fall, so it's time to announce that this year's Community Trunk-Or-Treat will be held from 5-7pm on Thursday, October 17th at Glidden Park!
Mad Science: Halloween Show Outside on the Patio
Trunk or Treat Children of all ages are welcome to come and join in the spooky season with us! Come all dressed up and have some fun. This is a great kid friendly event. This year we have 15 vehicles that will be lined up for the trunk or treat, 5-8 basket raffles will be available,You will receive 3 tickets just for attending our trunk or treat for a chance to win one of the free raffle baskets. They will be set up in the store, free halloween crafts and games, Face Painting, Vendors will be set up at this event and they will be handing out candy to the kids. Childrens Halloween Bash
Attention, wee Goblins, from far and near, Get ready for The Childrens Halloween Bash! Take your picture with Michael Myers, enjoy sweet treats, create crafts and enjoy some spooky music. But wait, there is more! To challenge your wits there will be a candy scatter hunt starting at 12pm for all of you kids. From 12pm to 2pm Tye-Dye Iguana will have a few critters to show off upstairs, Klein Hall Event Venue.
12pm to 2pm Michael Myers will be available for photos so be sure to bring a camera. Craft kits while supplies last
spooky music and more! $10 per Child must be accompanied with an adult. Fall Festival (O'Fallon)
It's never too early to make fall plans. Join us for our annual Fall Festival with live music, games, wagon rides, snacks, bonfires, and more! Trunk or TreatSave the date! Teen Glow Paint Pumpkins
Paint pumpkins in the dark using black lights and glow paint! *Boo-licious Bash
Join us for a Trunk or Treat, Bobby's Style!
This FREE event will be the highlight of your week: 20-30 trunks to visit, full of goodies. Enter to win a free sundae every week for a year! Awesome memories made for the special kiddos in your life. Proceeds from the entry fees paid by the trunks (local businesses) will be donated to Partners for Pets. Additional donations will be accepted at the event but are not mandatory. Come on out and enjoy this BOO-LICIOUS BASH!
*Treats on the Streets
Be prepared to go trick or treating from business to business. Reminder the roads will be shut down on the square and part of Washington so plan your parking ahead of time.
*Trunk or Treat
This free event will be in our parking lot at Zion Lutheran School Oct 25th 6-7:30pm - WEATHER PERMITTING. Trunk or Treat, games and fun! Starts at 6pm! Updates will be made on facebook event in case of changes due to weather. Planning a trunk? We need volunteers and trunks.
Trunk or Treat, games, and DJ.
Join us October 26th for tons of spooky fun! Snacks, Drinks, Games, Crafts, Selfie Stations, and a Costume Parade
Halloween Parade Join us for the Rotary Club of O'Fallon's yearly tradition! The parade begins at the corner of State & Vine Streets & ends at the corner of East First & Vine Streets.
Parade lineup starts at 12:00 Noon. Parade begins at 12:30 PM. Costume awards at 1:15 PM at O’Fallon Station.
See link for more details! *Trick or Treat Spectacular
Come join us for a Spooktacular celebration! Some of the planned activities for our SAFE, FUN, and FREE TO ALL event include:Candy and games at multiple cars and trunks, A costume contest for numerous age groups (with awesome prizes included!), Pumpkin Decorating Stations, a Bounce House, Live Music, the Serra Honda O’Fallon Race Car, AND SO MUCH MORE! Business Trick or Treat
Trick-or-Treating at numerous Downtown businesses after the parade & presentation or costume awards at O’Fallon Station.
See link for more details! Downtown Trick or Treat Trail Treats & Crafts, Open House, Raffles, Rain or Shine Halloween Festival 3rd annual Halloween Festival- Saturday, October 26th 4pm-8pm! More details to come Trunk or Treat
Join us for our 3rd Annual Trunk or Treat! If you haven't before, you can expect a lot of the same items as last year - LOT'S of trunks, hot dogs, hot chocolate station, and games! PLUS, we're adding more this year...stay tuned! *Trunk or Treat (Alton)
Join us at our 7th Annual Halloween Trunk or Treat inside Franklin Masonic Lodge, 1513 Washington Ave, Alton on Saturday October 28th, starting at 6PM til 8PM. Trunk or Treat
This will be a fun event for the whole family. We will have many cars decorated and ready for children to trick-or-treat at. We will also have hot chocolate, hot dogs and s'mores. There will be a sign up sheet in the church foyer to sign up to decorate your vehicle.
Trunk or Treat
Come join us for some family fun in the ChristLife Church gym. This will take place instead of TrailGuide & our Midweek Service for that night. We hope to see you there! Trunk or Treat It is that time again - save the date for Trunk or Treat 2024 - Family Fun Night! We are extending a open invitation to all that participated last year and would love to have more trunks giving out those treats! You can have a table inside or a trunk outside. Please contact Lisa Webb 618-407-2513 or email [email protected] if you would like to participate or have questions. Halloween Parade!! Each year on Halloween night, thousands of spectators line the downtown Edwardsville streets in anticipation of this annual tradition. The Edwardsville/Glen Carbon Chamber of Commerce has brought the Halloween parade to the community for more than 100 years. Marching bands, school groups, organizations, entertainers, and approximately 100 floats take to the streets.
Boonies Farm is a perfect way to spend the day with kids of all ages. Included in admission is feeding farm animals, hill slide, duck races, spider web, bounce pillow, trike track, barrel train, lookout tower, zipline, hay climbing pyramid, corn pit, tire park, photo opportunities, pumpkins, corn maze, sports basket shooting, pumpkin fields, and wagon rides. For an extra fee, guests can also use the pumpkin/ gourd cannon. They have fall treats and snacks as well as ice cream for sale. There is tons to do for the least and most adventurous in a family. Braeutigam Orchards has been in the family since 1831, but it wasn’t until 1935 that Rollin Braeutigam started raising fruit. Rollie enjoyed selling fruit to his friends so much that he raised more than he could sell! So he decided to take his beautiful ripe peaches to the St. Louis Market. Lester, his son, and Marie, his daughter-in-law, helped him load those peaches in a truck and drove to St. Louis. Unfortunately, they did not realize that the market wanted greener fruit and they did not receive a good price. But Rollin and Lester believed tree-ripened peaches had the best and most appeal. Marie said, “Don’t worry we will just sell the peaches right on the farm!” However, Rollin did not believe that people would leave the main road and drive 1 mile down a dirt road to purchase fruit, but he was wrong. He soon found out that people would go anywhere for great tasting, tree-ripened fruit. Lester continued in the family business of growing and selling fruit with help from his wife, Marie for many years.
DeMange Pumpkin Patch is an amazing experience at any time of the fall. When we went for sunflowers, the fields held both multicolor sunflowers and acres of traditional yellow with black center blooms. The sunflower fields had paths cut into it for a corn maze like feel. The flowers were in various stages of bloom providing a good learning opportunity about different stages of growth. My kids searched for plants that matched their heights, sampled the scents, and observed insects including ladybugs, moths, grasshoppers, dragonflies, bees, and butterflies. We received scissors to cut sunflowers and take home. Donahue's Sunshine Farm Has a kids area. Check Facebook or call 618-345-0766 with questions. The Great Godfrey Maze
A “Family Game Night” themed maze with wagon rides and a cow train. The maze is next to Glazebrook Park which has playground equipment, a splash pad, a pond, and more! On Friday and Saturday nights, the maze will be open after dark. Each visitor is required to have a flashlight. 1401 Stamper Ln Godfrey, IL
Heritage Farm and Fruit Trees is a family owned business with a pick-your-own pumpkin patch, pick your own apple orchard, and a kids activity area. There are desserts including fantastic apple doughnuts. Heritage farms also have pumpkin and cider slushies for purchase. Prices for food were VERY reasonable and everything was incredibly fresh!
Liberty Apple Orchard, is a traditional family orchard owned and cared for by Lugene and Steve Miller. The orchard features 20 varieties of apples from August through November. The farm market will be stocked with an abundance of locally grown and made products, including apple baked goods through a new partnership with 222 Artisan Bakery. McNece Family Farm By appointment only in 2022. A farm with Blackberries and strawberries. 948 Pokey Rd, Pocahontas, IL 62275-3343, United States, Old Ripley, IL, United States, 62275-3343 Mills Apple Farm usually opens in late August for apple picking with tractor rides starting on Labor Day weekend. Mills has a family atmosphere with apples, peaches, baked goods, sweet cherries, pies, cookies, apple cider, honey, and pumpkins. There is a child friendly area with a three story maze, swings, animals to feed, and space to run. Parking, play area, animals, and the wagon rides are FREE. The children’s play area is open, including the 3-floor wire maze. The glider swings are back up as well. There are laying hens, donkeys, and turkeys to visit and space to run around. You can also admire their home-built half-scale Lunar Excursion Module (LEM). Relleke Pumpkin Patch You can pick pumpkins in the two “pick your own” pumpkin patches. Activities include the jungle maze, hay rides, farm animal feeding, pumpkin painting, pumpkin chucker, pyramid, Korny Korral, Sand art, Haunted maze course, camel rides. Detailed directions about how to get there are located on their website. Rinkel Pumpkin Farm A small family owned U-pick patch that has a variety of pumpkins, gourds, mums, corn stalks, and straw. Admission includes a corn and straw maze, petting zoo, and play area. They have a variety of pre-picked pumpkins that are different sizes and colors. Pumpkins range is price from $1 to $40 with the average pumpkin being $5 to $8. They have apple cider slushies as well as other snacks/drinks you can purchase on site. Columbia Bottom This year, workers staggered planting so sunflowers would be in bloom longer. The earliest blooms have started showing up in mid-July, and the last ones should stay in bloom until the middle of August. MDC asked visitors to not pick the sunflowers and park in designated parking lots or on the shoulder. Eckert's offers seasonally available pick-your-own fruit and vegetables plus something to do during every season. Grant's Halloween Drive-Thru Witness spectacular spooks and sights from the comfort of your vehicle, as you drive through. Each vehicle with children inside will receive a complimentary bag of assorted candy from the Storybook Sweets gift shop as well as a Scavenger Hunt sheet. Once you check in at the Grant’s Farm parking lot, you’ll be guided through the property to explore the transformed Tiergarten. Encounter spiders, witches, bats... and a few of the Farm’s cute animals: including goats, llamas, cattle and horses. From there, guests will drive through the Deer Park to see the mystical world that lies beyond the shrieking trees. Visitors will be steered through more than eight haunted themes. Families can purchase a Tricks n' Treats Package, Spooktacular Package, or Light-Up Toys.
Great Candy Exchange encourages children to turn in a portion of their unopened Halloween Candy in exchange for chances to win healthy, active prizes. All collected candy will be sent to our troops through the USO of Missouri. The event is free and features interactive performances, face painting, balloon art, prizes, free healthy snacks and more.
Weldon Spring Conservation Area MDC staff plant sunflowers along the road to the Missouri River boat ramp in the area. Those sunflowers should bloom around mid- to late-July, depending on growing conditions. The area is open every day from 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset. You can find it by taking the Riverview Drive exit from Interstate 270 and driving north for three miles. The address is 801 Strodtman Road. |
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