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Family Fun Fall/Halloween Events

Read on to find out about the tons of activities for kids to do this weekend in Hartford

Weekend Highlights for Friday, October 31 - Sunday, November 2 for the Hartford area:

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Friday highlights ( click here for more on Friday, October 31)

Trick-or-Treat at Mystic Seaport. Calling all kids: get dressed up in your favorite costume and come trick or treating at Mystic Seaport before darkness falls! This is a perfect and safe Halloween activity for children under the age of 10.

Celebrate Halloween at the Simsbury Library! Come join the fun at the Simsbury Library! Hear a Halloween story, decorate a trick-or-treat bag, and trick-or-treat in the library. Be sure to wear your costume for the annual parade!

Trick or Trunk in Woodbury! Bring your car and your kids to Hollow Park on Halloween night. Park your car, open your DECORATED trunk, sit out on your lawn chairs and watch your child trick or treat from car to car while you hand out candy to all of the trick or treaters!

IRVING BERLIN’S HOLIDAY INN at Goodspeed Opera House. World Premiere!Happy holidays! Check into the tuneful world-premiere musical about a Connecticut farmhouse transformed into a jubilant nightspot but only on holidays.

Halloween Party at the Lutz Children’s Museum. Put on your favorite costume for a Halloween party just for toddlers and preschoolers. Crafts, activities, games, stories, and much more will fill the morning! All little boys and ghouls must be preregistered and accompanied by a caregiver.



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Saturday highlights ( click here for more on Saturday, November 1):

Craft Saturday at the Bristol Library! Please visit the childrens department of the Bristol Library on the first Saturday of each month for Craft Saturday. Well have something special for you to create!

Fright Farm at 4 H Education Center at Auerfarm. Experience the Scary side of Auerfarm!

Art Start for Preschoolers at the New Britain Museum of American Art. Art Start For Preschoolers at the New Britain Museum of American Art helps caregivers and kids discover art together in the Museum galleries. Listen to a story and then explore line, shape, color, and other elements of art with Museum educators.

Free Admission at the New England Air Museum For Veterans and Active Duty Personnel! NEAM is offering FREE ADMISSION to Veterans and Active Duty Personnel throughout the entire month of November!!



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Sunday highlights ( click here to see what else is on our calendar for Sunday, November 2):

Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body at the Connecticut Science Center! Ew! Explore the good, the bad, and the downright ugly behind the ways your body keeps you healthy in Grossology. Slide through a huge intestine, climb an oozy skin wall, tour an enormous nose, smell icky bodily smells and more.

Corn Maze at Castle Hill Farm. Come get lost in our seven acre corn maze!

Animal Demonstrations at The Children’s Museum in West Hartford. Bring your kids to the Wildlife Sanctuary and the Main Exhibit Hall at the Children’s Museum in West Hartford for live animal demonstrations!

Explore the Corn Maze at Lyman Orchards! With more than two miles of twisting and winding pathways carved within four acres of towering cornstalks, a hundred decision points, and just one way out, getting lost in our Annual Corn Maze will be a lot of fun!

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