📷 (Brooklyn Paper)Boo-klyn is back: Your guide to fall festivals and family-friendly Halloween events across the borough
Halloween is creeping up, and Brooklyn is bursting with ways to celebrate. From pumpkin patches and neighborhood block parties to trick-or-treating, spooky
Halloween is creeping up, and Brooklyn is bursting with ways to celebrate. From pumpkin patches and neighborhood block parties to trick-or-treating, spooky science and parades featuring everyone from pint-sized ghouls to four-legged fashionistas, there’s a little something for every ghost and goblin.
Whether you're looking for a free afternoon outing, a chance to show off the family's best costumes or a slightly spooky adventure, these borough-wide festivities offer plenty of ways to make the most of Halloween season.
Harvest Festival at Lakeside in Prospect Park
Thursdays and Fridays, 3-6 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. (through Nov. 1) LeFrak Center at Lakeside, 171 East Drive in Prospect Park
Prospect Park's first Harvest Festival is bringing a full slate of autumn activities to the LeFrak Center at Lakeside. Families can wander through a pumpkin patch, navigate a kid-friendly corn maze, play giant checkers and Connect 4, try cornhole and other yard games, and decorate pumpkins.
The festival also features seasonal food and drinks, select-weekend face painting and Craftopia workshops. Upcoming craft sessions include making a trick-or-treat tote on Oct. 31, following earlier workshops on keychains and junk journaling.
Admission to the pumpkin patch is free, though pumpkins cost $10. The corn maze and yard games cost $5 each, while an all-access festival pass is $20 and includes corn maze entry, games, a small pumpkin, pumpkin painting and access to the festival grounds.
Families looking for a less frightening Halloween outing can stick to the festival's daytime activities and leave the scares next door.
Fall Harvest Festival at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Saturday, Oct. 24, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 150 Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights
Brooklyn Botanic Garden's annual Fall Harvest Festival will fill the garden with live music, lawn games, pumpkin decorating, family activities and a costume parade.
Kids and adults can play giant Jenga, cornhole and Connect 4 on Cherry Esplanade, while musical chairs and freeze dance will offer chances to get moving throughout the afternoon. The costume parade, led by percussion ensemble Batalá New York, is scheduled for 3 p.m.
Music will range from blues, soul and funk to Zydeco and Cajun dance tunes. The festival will also feature a beer and cider garden with local producers and food offerings.
Admission is $38 for adults, $17 for visitors ages 12-17 and free for children under 12. Discounted tickets are available for garden members. A separate VIP ticket option is available for guests 21 and older.
Saturday, Oct. 24, noon-4 p.m. Fort Greene Park, entrances along Myrtle Avenue, between North Portland and St. Edwards streets in Fort Greene
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