New events every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
31 family events from Wednesday to Sunday, including the Kaiserman JCC fall festival, a Ghostbusters matinee and a fossil day at Ridley Creek.
Saturday has the most, with ten events on that day alone. A state park naturalist sets out fossils along the trail at Ridley Creek, Tyler Arboretum leads a family woodland walk, and Bryn Mawr Film Institute shows Ghostbusters at its family matinee. In the afternoon the Wayne Art Center runs a parent and child clay workshop. On Sunday the Kaiserman JCC in Wynnewood holds its fall festival, and the Main Line Art Center in Haverford has a Halloween benefit with a haunted studio. Radnor Memorial Library gives away donated Halloween costumes from Friday to Monday, and Easttown Library runs a costume swap from Friday to Sunday.
Media · Linvilla Orchards
Linvilla's fall Pumpkinland has ticketed hayrides, straw bale and corn mazes, pick-your-own, a train and weekend pony rides.
Free to enter; hayrides, mazes, pick-your-own and other activities are ticketed
Through October 30, open 8 AM to 8 PM, and until 9 PM on Friday and Saturday
Wayne · The Radnor Trail
A self-guided October walk on the Radnor Trail to find 10 hidden pumpkins; families who email photos with them enter a November 2 prize drawing.
Wayne · Radnor Memorial Library
Families can take donated baby, toddler and children's Halloween costumes for free from the Peter Rabbit Storytime Room.
Hours differ by day: Friday 9 AM to 6 PM, Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM, Sunday 1 to 5 PM, Monday 9 AM to 5 PM
Berwyn · Easttown Library
Families can shop donated, gently used Halloween costumes in the Youth Services storytime room while they last.
Hours differ by day: Friday 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Saturday 10 AM to 4:30 PM, Sunday 1:30 to 4:30 PM
Paoli · Paoli Library
Babies and toddlers play with different kinds of blocks and toys with Miss Sarah.
Strafford · Tredyffrin Public Library
Radnor Fire Company firefighters teach fire safety, show their gear and take children outside to see a fire engine.
Strafford · Tredyffrin Public Library
Teens learn to make a flourless chocolate cake.
Strafford · Tredyffrin Public Library
Children take turns reading aloud to Blue, a certified therapy dog.
Bryn Mawr · Ludington Library
Families work on a jigsaw puzzle together in the Junior Room, with the library's puzzles or their own.
Havertown · Brookline business district, at Plant Roots Local
Discover Haverford's last Love Local Night of the year brings shop specials, vendors, live music and a kids' craft at the Wonderspring booth.
Villanova · Stoneleigh: a natural garden
Heartwell Yoga leads a yoga class built around stories for young children and their caregivers in the garden.
Havertown · Haverford Township Free Library
Children work in teams on hands-on science and engineering challenges at this monthly program.
Strafford · Tredyffrin Public Library
Children follow step-by-step instructions to fold origami designs.
Paoli · Paoli Library
Children look at costumes and masks in famous paintings, then make their own masks with artist Svetlana Khmelnitsky.
Bala Cynwyd · Bala Cynwyd Library
Storyteller and actor Neill Hartley performs a spooky retelling of the classic legend.
Wayne · Radnor Memorial Library
Mr. Matt from Turtle Dance Music performs songs, stories and comedy in a show built to include children on the autism spectrum.
Havertown · Haverford Township Free Library
Teens learn paracord weaves and braid a keychain to take home.
Newtown Square · Ridley Creek State Park, Multi-Use Trail outdoor classroom
A state park naturalist sets up a hands-on fossil exhibit along the trail, including Pennsylvania's state fossil, the trilobite.
Havertown · Haverford Reserve
A themed nature hike at Haverford Reserve for children and an adult, with hands-on activities along the way.
Media · Tyler Arboretum
An arboretum educator leads families on a woodland walk with magnifying glasses.
Bryn Mawr · Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Bryn Mawr Film Institute shows the 1984 Ghostbusters, 1 hour 45 minutes, in its Saturday morning family series.
Bala Cynwyd · Bala Cynwyd Library
Players who already know Magic: The Gathering draft the Duskmourn set and keep the cards they pick.
Gladwyne · Gladwyne Library
Author Ali Terese talks about her middle grade novel Free Period, then young readers make art about causes they care about.
Wayne · Wayne Art Center
A parent and child build a coil-pot mummy lantern from clay and glaze it; the fired piece is ready about two weeks later.
Malvern · Malvern Public Library
Tweens and teens paint pumpkins and drink apple cider, with materials provided.
Paoli · Paoli Library
A game master runs a Dungeons & Dragons campaign open to new and experienced players.
Havertown · Haverford Township Free Library
Children read aloud to certified therapy dogs in 10-minute sessions in the children's library.
Wynnewood · Kaiserman JCC
The JCC's fall festival has bounce houses, a petting zoo, a pumpkin patch, face painting, touch-a-truck with the Penn Wynne Fire Department, music and food trucks.
Free to enter; many activities need tickets or a wristband
Rain or shine
Bala Cynwyd · Bala Cynwyd Library
A Kidzart teacher leads a seasonal drawing class.
Wayne · Radnor Memorial Library
New players create a character and play an introductory adventure, with snacks.
Haverford · Main Line Art Center
The art center's Halloween benefit has three make-and-take art activities, a haunted studio, a dance party and a pumpkin patch.
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