This Week: Pumpkin Patches Near NYC, Early Halloween Fun, Brand-new Central Park Playground
I feel like summer just ended and school just started. Yet already it's fall and my daughter is complaining because we haven't figured out our family Halloween costumes. To help you avoid seasonal nagging in your home, we've started overhauling our NYC Kids Halloween Guide, including updating our roundups of pumpkin patches near NYC, on Long Island and in New Jersey, as well as posts about popular Halloween happenings that require advance tickets like the Great Jack o' Lantern Blaze in Historic Hudson Valley and the New York Botanical Garden's Haunted Pumpkin Garden.
Other posts of note: Our Westchester site wrote about the new Mount Kisco drop-in creative spot, Arts Garage, part of the popular go-kart track and bowling alley Grand Prix. Our bloggers in Los Angeles shared ideas for managing your child's food allergies in school and at parties. Meanwhile our Boston site has tips about being a good spectator at your kids' sporting events and 20 ways to ease the pain of flying internationally with a toddler. That info should come in handy if you're inspired to visit Bristol, UK after reading our post about all the fun things to do with kids there.
Feeling lucky this week? Use that mojo to enter to win our current giveaways: a children's art class at the Art Studio on the Upper West Side and a family four-pack to see The Wiggles in concert in Westbury, Long Island. Both giveaways end soon so enter right away.
Here's what else we covered on the NYC this week:
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We kicked off the week with a review of Disney's brand-new interactive release of The Little Mermaid, which requires you to bring your iPads and leave them on.
After 10 months of rebuilding from the ground up, the re-imagined East 110th Street Playground in northern Central Park has opened and it's a beauty.
We wrapped up our month-long spotlight on the East Village with a roundup of our favorite places to play and eat with kids in the neighborhood.
Move over apples—pumpkin picking season is nigh. In addition to a handful of pumpkin patches right here in NYC, we rounded up pumpkin picking places within an hour's drive of midtown Manhattan
Here's an offbeat skill for kids to learn: sword fighting and stage combat. Heck, they can enjoy light saber battles.
Our fall culture coverage continued with a list of the top 12 kindie concerts rocking city stages this season.
Tickets for Historic Hudson Valley's phenomenal Great Jack o' Lantern Blaze are already starting to sell out! Find out why it's a must-see then plan your Halloween season visit.
Best bets for the weekend include three FREE annual Mommy Poppins favorites: the super-interactive Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn's largest street fair Atlantic Antic and Fort Tryon Park's Medieval Festival.
