Top Picks for This Weekend
Philly’s Chestnut Hill neighborhood transforms into Hogsmeade Sat. for a packed schedule of FREE fun during the Harry Potter Festival, where activities include a Quidditch match, scavenger hunts, a Sorting Hat demo, character appearances and movie screenings.
Revel in the season with a FREE Philly festival that spans four locations in one area Sat. Frightless fun at Halloween in Manayunk includes costume parades, a kids' carnival, trick-or-trea, a farmers’ market, face painting, photo ops, games, a corn maze and treats.
Let the family dog show off his costume alongside a slew of adorable pets during three pup-pup-centered parades, where fun activities like a talent contest and fundraising for animals in need go paw-in-hand. On Sat., pooches and their humans can head to Philly’s Navy Yard for the PAWS Mutt Strut, or march in the FREE Costume Pet Parade at Smithville, NJ’s Village Greene. The next day, those on two and four legs can join the Howl-O-Ween Pet Parade at Erdenheim, PA’s Cisco Park to fundraise for a great cause.
More Local Events the Kids Will Love
Goodies and Goblins at Dover, DE's Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village, Sat.
Pumpkin Patch & Spooky Mini Golf at Philly's Franklin Square, Sat.
Science Saturday: Pumpkin Catapults at Wilmington, DE's Hagley Museum, Sat.
FREE Spider's Tea Party at Doylestown, PA's Peace Valley Nature Center, Sat.
Hoots & Howls at Haddon Heights, NJ's Station & E. Atlantic Aves., Sat.
FREE Bones! A Spooky Creature Feature at Philly's Wagner Free Institute of Science, Sat.
Fall Into Family Fun Workshop at Wayne, PA's Wayne Art Center, Sat.
Wildwoods Boardwalk Pumpkin Run at Wildwood, NJ's Wildwoods Convention Center, Sat.
Philadelphia Shell Show at Philly's Academy of Natural Sciences, Sat. & Sun.
Medieval Festival at Bryn Athyn, PA's Glencairn Museum, Sun.
