Fall Family Fun & Halloween Happenings: Brandon & Tampa 2016

Fox Squirrel Corn Maze Weekends 10/15 - 10/30

Corn Maze, Hayride, Duck races, Corn Box, Horseshoes, Cornhole, Dummy Steer Ropin', Cracker Country will be demonstrating the "old ways" of doing things

 

Hunsader Farms Pumpkin Festival Weekends 10/15 - 10/30

100+ Craft Booths, Live Music, Live Shows, Pumpkins, Pumpkin cannon & much more!

Hillsborough County Fair 10/20 - 10/23 & 10/27 - 10/30

With new attractions and events, you can be sure the whole family is in for a lot of fun! 

 

Creatures of the Night at Lowry Park Zoo Fridays & Saturdays, 10/7 - 10/29

Wander into scare zones or encounter animals at night. Party the night away at a ghoulish dance party. No horror or gore, just scares and startles for one & all.

Boo & Goo at Glazer Children's Museum 10/22 - 10/30

Halloween can be a little scary for young kids so the Museum debunks scary things that go boo and feel like goo! 

 

Hyde Park Fall Festival 10/8

Celebrating the autumn season with Fall Fest. Fall Fest marks the opening of the famous Hyde Park Village pumpkin patch.

 

Immanuel Lutheran School Oktoberfest 10/15

Delicious food, bounce houses, pony rides, bungee trampoline, games, prizes, contests and more

Hydro Harvest Farms Boofest 10/22

All children get a pie pumpkin and they can decorate their pumpkins and make many earth friendly crafts and play games.

Fall Festival & Concerts for a Cause -- Waterset 10/22

Be a part of our fall concert series and help make a difference as we support Feeding America Tampa Bay with Concerts for a Cause.

Pumpkin Patch Express 10/29 & 10/30

All Aboard! Enjoy a two hour excursion including a stop at our Pumpkin Patch!

Fall Fest Tampa Bay at Westfield Brandon 10/29

Collect special treats, play games, and have fun!

Fall Festival & Concerts for a Cause -- FishHawk 10/29

Be a part of our fall concert series and help make a difference as we support Feeding America Tampa Bay with Concerts for a Cause.

Halloween Comicfest 10/29

Celebrate the Halloween season with free comic books & fun

Wolfe's Produce Market 

St. Andrews UMC

Southern Heritage Farms Produce Market

Hyde Park 

 

A Night at the Museum: Family Trick or Treat 10/16

As the museum winds down, our exhibits come alive! Catch pirates, explorers, Florida pioneers, and even the Ghostbusters sneaking around the galleries

Trick or Treat Street 10/22

Get candy, play games, enjoy bounce houses, eat food and win prizes.Kids and dogs also have the opportunity to participate in costume contests!

Guppyween 10/29 &10/30

Be whoever or whatever you want and trick-or-treat at The Florida Aquarium's Guppyween! With a safe and family-friendly setting, live entertainment and more than 20,000 animals, there's plenty of fun to go around!

Halloween Horribles Parade 10/30

Who said the ghost and goblins only come out at night? Costumed Munchkins are invited to take part in the Halloween Parade and will enjoy lots of Treat Stations hosted by Civic Clubs & Businesses along the route.

Glazer Museum's Halloween Spree 10/31

This isn't your normal trick-or-treat event because it features more than just candy. Families play carnival-style games, win prizes, collect candy from stations, rock out to Halloween tunes and have fun with special guests.

TRUNK or TREAT at Bell Shoals Baptist Church 10/31

Classic Cars, Inflatables, Live Music, Face-Painting, and Cotton Candy, Games, Giveaways… and lots of CANDY!

 

Make It & Take It 10/13

Make something! Take it home! Explore art with a free, fun craft at the library. Seasonal crafts, holiday crafts, and crafts just for fun are all part of this creative program.

STEAM Program: Science Spooktacular 10/20

It's spooky and it's creepy! It's definitely freaky! Bubbling and glowing! Let's get the party going! In this scary science party!

Halloween Storytime 10/22

Beep! Beep! It's Halloween! Little Blue Truck is back and picking up his animal friends for a costume party. And in I Need My Monster, a unique under-the-bed story, Ethan checks under his bed for his monster Gabe and finds a note from him instead: "Gone fishing. Back in a week."
 

SCREAM-A-GEDDON Select nights 9/23 - 11/5

The new horror park features six haunted attractions with a Monster Midway spread over a sinister 60 acres of Old Florida forest.

 

Brick or Treat LEGOLAND Weekends in October 1-2, 8-9, 15-16, 22-23,  29-31

Friendly-not-frightening event features trick-or-treating along the Brick or Treat Trail, larger-than-life LEGO® models, LEGO build activities, the world's largest LEGO jack-o-lantern, a scavenger hunt with prizes, and an exclusive, Halloween-themed fireworks show in Pirates' Cove.

Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party Select Nights 9/2- 10/31

Don your favorite costume and get ready to trick-or-treat at this Halloween-themed event in Magic Kingdom park 

Sea World Halloween Spootakular Weekends 10/1 - 10/30

Dive in and explore SeaWorld’s Halloween Spooktacular, an underwater “fantasea” with silly spooky shows, fun crafts and trick-or-treating. 

Universal Halloween Horror Nights Select Nights 9/19 - 10/31

This fall, the streets of Universal Studios Florida™ come alive with hordes of horrifying mutants, monsters and maniacs. Explore nine all-new terrifying haunted houses, brave multiple creature-filled scare zones, enjoy outrageous live shows and experience many of the park’s most exciting rides and attractions.

Sweetfields Farm(Masaryktown) Opens 10/1 Fall Corn Maze and Activities

Cornfusion (Lakeland) OPends 10/1- 10/30 Come join us this fall at our Family Ranch for a fun filled day at CornFusion Crop Maze & Fall Festival. 

Look for even MORE ideas in next week's edition of Macaroni Kid Brandon!