Operation Pumpkin, Hamilton- This Weekend

Operation Pumpkin was a program that Jim Grimm, a true visionary, developed for school aged children back in the 1950’s. Jim was recreational director for the city of Hamilton and established a city-wide parks program that was emulated nationwide as well as a visionary for physical fitness and health advocacy establishing a physical education program in the schools.

Operation Pumpkin began as a way for children to have safe and fun Halloween. Local businesses generously donated hundreds of toys from bicycles to televisions. The police and fire department volunteered to collect and distribute these prizes. The event lasted from the early 50’s into the early 70’s…

If you’re into fitness, run in the first annual Operation Pumpkin 5K. Stay tuned for schedule of events and more information on the 5K road race.

Operation Pumpkin in downtown Hamilton has a full weekend of activities planned from a street carnival to Farmers Market, pumpkin competitions, vendors, Beer Garden, 5k, etc...  A full schedule of events can be viewed by clicking here.

Falloween Festival at Coney Island

All your fall favorites plus some Halloween fun make for one great family event! Enjoy decorative displays, Trick or Treat Trail, Coney's Classic Rides, musical entertainment, farmyard friends and more! New this year is 'FallScapes' fall landscape designs!

Dates and Hours

October 6-7
October 13-14

Noon-6:00pm all days

Tickets

General Admission (Age 2 & up): $9.00
Children under age 2: FREE unless the child will participate in Trick or Treat Trail. All Trick or Treaters must pay admission.

Parking is $5.00 per vehicle. Season Passholders get FREE parking.

New! 'FallScapes'

Get inspired by amazing fall landscape designs in Moonlite Square!

Need some landscape help? Fall is the ideal planting season! Come see the newest exhibit at the Fall-O-Ween Festival... "Fall Scapes" landscape design, featuring creative visions for your backyard by local master gardeners and award winning designers. Get great ideas and speak with the experts!

Character Lunches

Join your favorite cartoon characters for a delicious lunch and photo ops, and then enjoy the day at the Fall-O-Ween Festival! Be sure to bring a camera!

Curious George & Cat in the Hat - September 29 & 30

Dora the Explorer & SpongeBob SquarePants - October 6 & 7

Tickets: $14.95 for all ages and include meal, photo op and admission to the Fall-O-Ween Festival.Available online only.

Marketplace

Moonlite Pavilion - Find unique crafts and gifts from a variety of vendors, and get fall mums for your yard!

Participating vendors will vary by day, but will include: Atlas Oils, Avon, Earh Momma Designs, Gold Canyon, Gourmet Candles, Inspire by David Oreck, L'Bri, Lilla Rose, Mary Kay, Miche, Oragami Owl, Pampered Chef, Premier Designs, Scentsy, Silpada, Sweet Shop bakery, Tastefully Simple, Thirty One, Usborne Books

Jungle Jim's Weekend of Fire- October 6-7

Saturday, October 6, 2012 from 11am – 8pm
Sunday, October 7, 2012 from 11am – 5pm

The Oscar Event Center at Jungle Jim’s International Market
5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, OH 45014, 513-674-6055

The Weekend of Fire is a wild weekend filled with fun, food and contests. Over 55 vendors and over 350 samples will be waiting for you in the Fiery Food Expo! There will be vendors coming from all over the country ready to sample their wares. They’ll have hot sauces that range from mild to wild, including some of the hottest hot sauces you have ever tried. Not only are the sauces wild, but wait until you see the people, costumes and booths! The hot sauce community is outrageous, bodacious and contagious!

Entertrainment Junction- Jack-O-Lantern Junction Continues

Spooktacular Special!
Halloween fun for the whole family thru October 31st.

First walk-thru our kid friendly maze to trick-or-treat and see kid friendly ghosts, skeletons, witches and more. Then stop and enjoy the area's only indoor Pumpkin Patch, where kids get a FREE mini-pumpkin. Kids can ride on our 2 outdoor kid's rides, have fun at our craft tables, or find their way through our straw maze. Do-It-All includes all this PLUS.

Everyone will love the World's Largest Indoor Train Display. Enjoy our kid's play area or wonder at the A-Maze-N Funhouse with its tilt room, vortex tunnel an the area’s largest indoor mirror maze.

Do It All for $15.95 or Buy Online Now
& Save $2!

Barn-n-Bunk Farm Market Fall Festival Weekends

     
September 29 & 30 (also every weekend in October)-

Sunday Scarecrow Contest

Activity Package: $8.00
     Hayrides
     Pillow Bounce
     Corn Maze
     Mini train Ride
     Straw Maze
     Scooters
     Pedal Tractors
     Batting Cage
     Mega Tiles

Other Activities:
Games, Face Painting, Wax Hands, Duck Races, Mining Company, Silhouette Art, Food, Pumpkins.

Sunday Brunch Buffet

Serving 10:30-3:00

$10.99 (adults)  *  $5.99 (Children 10 & under)

Free Parking   |   Free Admission   |   Free Entertainment

Barn -n- Bunk is located at Rt. 73  Wayne-Madison Rd. in Trenton.

Blooms & Berries "Fall on the Farm" (Loveland)

Kings Island "Howl-O-Palooza" Begins Today!

Little Ghouls and Goblins will absolutely love the all-new Howl-O-Palooza in Soak City. There are all sorts of Halloween-themed activities for kids to do that are fun-scary, not scary-scary. Howl-O-Palooza runs every Saturday and Sunday beginning September 23 (Note: Kings Island is closed to the public on Sunday, September 30th for a private event).  

Featuring:

• Petting Zoo
• Pony Rides
  
• Twisted Tails Maze
• Happy Trails Hay Bale Maze
• Charlie Brown's Spooktacular
• Parade & Costume Contest
• Safety Town
• Dance Party & Frankie's Waves
• Game Zone
• Tractor Town

  

Herbivores. Carnivores. Candyvores.

Trick-or-Treat from Dinosaur to Dinosaur in the world's largest animatronic dinosaur park, Dinosaurs Alive! at Kings Island. This is not your average trick-or-treat. There are candy stops, pumpkins, prizes and crafts along the path in the 12.5-acre dinosaur park. Plus, more than 60 life-sized, moving dinosaurs.

Families will remember this fun and unique experience for years to come!

Trick-or-Treat with the Dinosaurs is open every Saturday and Sunday beginning September 23. (Note: Kings Island is closed to the public on Sunday, September 30 for a private event).

Trick-or-Treat with the Dinosaurs is not included with park admission. A separate ticket is required for this experience- $5 with park admission.

Parky's Farm Fall Activities

Growing Up a Farm Kid

Preschoolers age two to five will get to learn about life on the homestead during Growing up a Farm Kid! These fun programs are offered at Parky’s Farm in Winton Woods from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. each day.

Spooky Farm

Tuesday, October 16 or Wednesday, October 17

Explore the “spooky” woods at Parky’s Farm while we ride the wagon, take a hike and meet some wild animals. Registration required by October 15.

Fall Colors

Tuesday, November 6 or Wednesday, November 7

Look at all the colors fall has brought to the farm and discover who on the farm is colored like the leaves. Registration required by November 5.

Cost is $10.00 per day/per child. One adult is complimentary. Registration is required at www.GreatParks.org. For details call (513) 521-3276 ext. 100.

Parky’s Farm is located at 10073 Daly Road, 45231. A valid Hamilton County Park District Motor Vehicle Permit ($10.00 annual; $3.00 daily) is required to enter the parks.

Keehner Park Pumpkin Fest

Free family-friendly fall event features a costume contest at 3 p.m., inflatable rides, horse-and-wagon rides, petting zoos and more.

Hueston Woods AppleButter Festival- October 6&7

The Hueston Woods AppleButter Festival provides a vignette of 19th century farm life and features continual making and canning of apple butter in the pioneer fashion throughout the event. In addition to apple butter sales, a wide variety of apples, cider, pumpkins and gourds can be purchased on the grounds. Tours are conducted through the Doty homestead and the barn, both of mid 1980's vintage and exhibiting a broad display of museum artifacts. Each year demonstrations of pioneer crafts are featured along with a theme program. Food service is available on site. Proceeds are directed to the historic preservation goals of the Association.  

Location: Hueston Woods State Park Pioneer Farm Museum

Venue: Hueston Woods State Park Pioneer Farm Museum

Address: 6924 Brown Rd., Oxford, OH 45056

Times: From: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

 

Hamilton "Operation Pumpkin"- October 5-7

Operation Pumpkin Inc. is excited to announce Operation Pumpkin, Hamilton’s first Pumpkin & Art Festival located in downtown Hamilton, October 5 - 7. Operation Pumpkin features three days of family fun and festivities, live music, artists, performing and visual arts, mouthwatering food and drinks, and pumpkins (including a giant pumpkin weigh-off, a giant pumpkin carving contest and a giant pumpkin regatta on the Great Miami River!

The event will stretch down High St. from Front St. to Martin Luther King Blvd. 

Proceeds raised from the event will help restoration efforts of the Historic Butler County Courthouse, H.U.G.S. (Hamilton Urban Garden Systems) and YMCA Camp Campbell Gard.

Location: City of Hamilton

Venue: City of Hamilton

Address: 345 High Street, Hamilton, OH 45011

Admission: Free

Niederman Family Farm's Fall Activities began September 14

Niederman Family Farm has been opening new pastures for Americans of all ages for many years. Fall is time for the Niederman Family Farm Fall Festival featuring a 17 acre corn maze and so much more.

Hours: Starting September 14, 2012, open on weekends; Fri 6-10, Sat 11am-10pm and Sunday 1-6. Beginning in October, Wednesday & Thursday from 6pm - 9pm; Friday from 6pm - 10pm; Saturday from 11am - 10pm; Sunday from 1pm - 6pm; Monday & Tuesday by reservation.

Admission is $9 per person (children age 2 and younger are free). Bonfire reservation fee required. Ask about our s'more or food packages for groups.

Jack-O-Lantern Juntion to Begin September 22 at EnterTrainment Junction

Cost: Best Value! Our Do-It-All! ticket. 

You won’t’ want to miss Jack O’Lantern Junction at EnterTRAINment Junction! Halloween fun for the whole family! First walk-thru our trick or treat maze and see kid friendly ghosts, skeletons and more. Stop and color, or see Halloweenville our miniature animated display. Plus come and enjoy the area’s only indoor Pumpkin Patch, where kids get a free mini pumpkin. Also open this year are our two outdoor kid’s train rides themed for the Halloween season. And as always you can experience the world’s largest indoor train display or enjoy hours of fun in our kid’s play area. Jack O’Lantern Junction is open September 22-October 31.

A Place to Publish Fall Activities for the Family to Enjoy!

Pumpkins, corn mazes, haunted trails, "trick-or-treat" are just some of the things that we want to post on this page of the Link2Liberty site. 

If you know of a Pumpkin Patch that you want to send out to everyone or have a Fall event you want posted, please send it to us at link2libertytwp@gmail.com and we'll get it posted for you!

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