New events every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
27 family events from Wednesday to Sunday, 3 of them free, including the Kaiserman JCC fall festival and a fossil day at Ridley Creek.
Saturday is the busiest day, with ten events, among them a fossil exhibit along the trail at Ridley Creek State Park and the Ghostbusters family matinee at Bryn Mawr Film Institute. On Sunday the Kaiserman JCC in Wynnewood holds its fall festival, and the Main Line Art Center in Haverford holds a Halloween fundraiser with a haunted studio. From Friday, Radnor Memorial Library and Easttown Library let families pick out donated Halloween costumes.
Wayne · Radnor Memorial Library
Families pick out donated baby, toddler and children's Halloween costumes in the Peter Rabbit Storytime Room.
Open Friday 9 AM to 6 PM, Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM, Sunday 1 to 5 PM and Monday 9 AM to 5 PM. Donors may preview Thursday, October 8, 5 to 9 PM.
Berwyn · Easttown Library
Families browse donated Halloween costumes in the Storytime Room in Youth Services, while supplies last.
Open Friday 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Saturday 10 AM to 4:30 PM and Sunday 1:30 to 4:30 PM. More rounds run through October 31.
Paoli · Paoli Library
Babies and toddlers play with different kinds of blocks and toys with Miss Sarah in the library meeting room.
Strafford · Tredyffrin Public Library
A young adult cooking session in the King Meeting Room where participants learn to make a flourless chocolate cake.
Bryn Mawr · Ludington Library
Families work on a jigsaw puzzle together in the Junior Room, using one of the library's puzzles or their own.
Villanova · Stoneleigh: a natural garden
Heartwell Yoga leads a class built around a children's book, mixing stories, music, breathing and playful yoga moves.
Bring a yoga mat, blanket or towel. Natural Lands may cancel for bad weather.
Havertown · Haverford Township Free Library
Children work together on hands-on science and engineering challenges at the library's monthly STEAM program.
Limited to 12 children.
Strafford · Tredyffrin Public Library
Children follow step-by-step instructions to fold a variety of paper designs.
Paoli · Paoli Library
Artist Svetlana Khmelnitsky shows famous paintings with costumes and masks, then children make their own masks and disguises.
Bala Cynwyd · Bala Cynwyd Library
Storyteller and actor Neill Hartley performs a spooky retelling of the classic legend.
Wayne · Radnor Memorial Library
Mr. Matt performs children's songs and stories with comedy, dancing and visual effects in the Winsor Room, in a show built to include children on the autism spectrum.
The show also streams on Zoom.
Havertown · Haverford Township Free Library
Teens learn a few paracord weaves in the Maker Space and braid a keychain to take home.
Newtown Square · Ridley Creek State Park, Multi-Use Trail Outdoor Classroom
A state park naturalist sets out fossils from around Pennsylvania along the trail and explains how they formed.
The exhibit is at the stone bridge below the mansion.
Media · Tyler Arboretum
A Tyler educator leads families along the woodland trails with magnifying glasses to look for plants, animals and seasonal changes.
Moves indoors in bad weather. Includes general admission.
Bryn Mawr · Bryn Mawr Film Institute
The family Saturday matinee shows the 1984 comedy about three scientists who start a ghost-catching business.
Rated PG. The theater notes the film is racier than a PG movie made today.
Bala Cynwyd · Bala Cynwyd Library
Middle and high school players who already know Magic: the Gathering draft cards from a Halloween-themed set and keep them.
Gladwyne · Gladwyne Library
Author Ali Terese talks about her middle grade novel Free Period and the history of craft as advocacy, then young readers make their own art.
The first 15 to register get a free copy of the book.
Wayne · Wayne Art Center
A parent and child build a coil-pot mummy lantern together and learn the basics of kiln-fired clay and glazes.
Pieces are fired and ready for pickup about two weeks later.
Wayne · Radnor Memorial Library
To close Banned Books Week, readers check in for snacks, a free audiobook and a pin-making table, then settle in around the library to read.
An informal discussion follows at 3:30 PM in the Winsor Room.
Malvern · Malvern Public Library
Tweens and teens paint pumpkins and drink apple cider, with all materials provided.
Paoli · Paoli Library
New and experienced players build characters and play a Dungeons and Dragons campaign led by the library's game master.
Havertown · Haverford Township Free Library
Children take turns reading aloud to certified therapy dogs in 10-minute sessions.
Check in at the Youth Services desk on the second floor.
Wynnewood · Kaiserman JCC
The JCC's fall festival has bounce houses, a petting zoo, a pumpkin patch, a touch-a-truck with the Penn Wynne Fire Department, live music, crafts and food trucks.
Free to enter; many activities need tickets or an unlimited wristband
Rain or shine; some activities move indoors in rain.
Bala Cynwyd · Bala Cynwyd Library
Miss Holly from Kidzart teaches a seasonal drawing class.
A caregiver must stay in the library during the class.
Wayne · Radnor Memorial Library
New players learn Dungeons and Dragons, create a character and play through an adventure, with snacks provided.
The description places it in the Conference Room on the library's lower level.
Strafford · Tredyffrin Public Library
Teens lead a session for other teens on earning, saving, budgeting and how banks work.
Haverford · Main Line Art Center
A Halloween party with three make-and-take art projects, a haunted studio, a dance party in the gallery and painted pumpkins for sale, raising money for the center's accessible art programs.
Costumes encouraged.
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