If the kids are itching to wear their Halloween costumes before the big night, they can don them on Sunday and head to Imagine Children’s Museum in Everett for an afternoon of ookie-spookie fun.
“Halloween With the Lights On” runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is free with museum admission. General admission is $7.95. Tots age 1 and younger are admitted free. Regular museum hours on Sunday are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The event will feature story times at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., at which the museum’s website promises “The Thirteen Nights of Halloween” will come to life.
Imagine Children’s Museum is at 1502 Wall St., Everett. Call 425-258-1006 or go to the website, www.imaginecm.org for information about museum events.
Halloween happenings
Arlington Zombie Walk: 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot across from Julie’s Barber Shop, 413 North Olympic Ave., Arlington. Get in touch with your inner zombie and raise money for art supplies for middle and high school age students. For $5 per zombie, you get the chance to strut your zombie stuff down Olympic Avenue. The best zombie wins a custom Fogdog Gallery brain bauble crown.
Bethany Christian Assembly: 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at Bethany Christian Assembly, 2715 Everett Ave., Everett; 425-339-3303; www.bca-online.com. Wear your costume for a fun night including inflatables, cotton candy, carnival games, pony rides, popcorn and lots of candy. Predators of the Heart will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the main auditorium. Admission is $5 per child.
The Evergreen Scaregrounds: 6 to 10 p.m. through Oct. 31, Evergreen State Fairgrounds, 14405 179th Ave. SE, Monroe. Hotline is 360-805-6113. Admission is $15. Recommended for ages 10 and up. The fairgrounds has become “The Evergreen Scaregrounds” at this all-new, high-tech, theme-park-inspired haunted house for laser madness, special effects, illusions and mind-bending visuals.
“Frozen Fright Night”: 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at Comcast Community Ice Rink, 2000 Hewitt Ave., Everett; 425-322-2600; ComcastArenaEverett.com. Tickets are $10 for adults; $9 for kids 6 and up and $3.50 for children 5 and under. Ticket prices include skate rental and candy bag. A safe Halloween alternative where the cosmic skate will be radiant with black lights and festive Halloween music from a community DJ; pumpkin bowling or dress in a festive costume to be entered in a creative costume contest. Dollar discounts are available for everyone who dresses in costume or brings a canned food item for the Northwest Harvest Foundation. Goodie bags will be provided for all the goblins and guests alike along with raffle tickets for door prize drawings during the event.
“Halloween Dance Party”: 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday at the Snohomish Senior Center, 506 Fourth St., Snohomish; www.snohomishcenter.org/. Cost $10 each. A family fun event for those 15 years old and up. Music with D.J. Tom Lafferty; professional dance teacher Eleanor Leight will be there to run through some basic steps of swing, fox trot, the Macarena, electric slide and the waltz. Costumes optional. Hors d’oeuvres and apple cider; wine and beer available by donation.
Haunted Nightmare Haunted House: 7 to 11 p.m. through Oct. 31 at 22310 20th Ave. SE, Suite 200, Bothell. General admission tickets are $10. Recommended for ages 10 and up. Tickets can be purchased at the door or online at www.hauntednightmare.com. A 3-D haunted attraction, the Fantasmagorical Ultra-sensory Navigation Kontraptiona, aka F.U.N.K., comes alive with 3-D glasses providing a sensory overload.
“Halloween at Chumleighland”: 6:30 p.m. Friday at Chumleighland in the Woods, at the SW corner of East Camano Drive and Dallman Road, Stanwood; www.chumleigh.com. Admission is free but donations are accepted. The Haunted Railpup, a precarious ride through the dark woods on a hand cranked small rail platform, opens at 6:30 p.m. for ages 4 and up. Reel 16 mm films start at 7 p.m. with classic cartoons and “Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe,” followed by a brief costume dance contest with weird prizes. The second feature, the original silent film, “Phantom of the Opera” with Lon Chaney, is at 8:30 p.m.
Ivar’s Mukilteo Monster Mash: 5:30 to 9 p.m. Monday Ivar’s Mukilteo Landing, 710 Front St., Mukilteo; 425-742-6180; www.ivars.com. Ivar’s is hosting an interactive experience for the entire family, including a mind-bending roving magician and costume contests, with prizes awarded for best in show in three age groups: infant to 7, 8 to 16 and 17 and above. Also, with the purchase of a regular entree, little ghouls and goblins under 12 years old will receive a free kids meal for the evening.
Trunk or Treat: 5 to 8 p.m. Monday at Grace Lutheran Church, 8401 Holly Drive, Everett; 425-353-1852; www.grace-everett.com/index.html. Stop by for treats outside and indoor games and food. Enjoy this safe alternative to traditional trick or treats.
Pumpkin patches, corn mazes, harvest festivals
Bailey Vegetables’ pumpkin patch: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through Oct. 31; pumpkin barn open weekends from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., 12711 Springhetti Road, Snohomish; 360-568-8826; www.baileyveg.com.
Baylor Farm: 28511 Ben Howard Road, Monroe; 360-793-0822. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, through Oct. 31. Wagon rides, fall decorations; U-pick pumpkins, 15 cents per pound.
Black Crow Pumpkin Patch: 2431 Highway 530, Arlington; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Picnic in the old covered wagon; kids can enjoy a hay bale maze, slide and skeleton graveyard. Trolley rides to U-Pick pumpkins, U-dig carrots, decorative gourds, corn stalks, local honey, fresh apple cider, honey crisp apples and kettle corn on weekends; 360-435-5616.
Bob’s Corn: 10917 Elliott Road, Snohomish; 360-668-2506; www.bobscorn.net. Pumpkin patch open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday through Oct. 31; the daytime corn maze is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily until Oct. 31; the nightime maze is open from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. See website for corn maze and hay ride details. Farm is part of the Snohomish Festival of Pumpkins.
Carleton Farm: 630 Sunnyside Blvd. SE, Everett; 425-334-2297; www.carleton farm.com. Farm open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. or dusk daily; regular corn maze 10 a.m. to one hour before dusk daily, through Oct. 31; haunted corn maze dusk to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. U-pick pumpkins priced by size. Corn mazes, weekend hay rides and two pumpkin cannons. Farm is part of the Snohomish Festival of Pumpkins.
Craven Farm: 13817 Short School Road, Snohomish; 360-568-2601; www.craven farm.com. Pumpkin patch, 9:30 a.m. until dark daily through Oct. 31. Tractor-drawn hay rides, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; corn maze; weekday farm tours by appointment. Farm is part of the Snohomish Festival of Pumpkins.
Fairbank Hands-On Pumpkin &Animal Farm: 15308 52nd Ave. W., Edmonds; 425-743-3694; www.fairbank farm.com. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, through Oct. 31. Farm includes vegetable garden, Hidden Bear Trail, tiny tot corn maze and hay tunnel, farm animals to pet. $2.50 admission, $1 and up per pumpkin, 50 cents and up per gourd.
The Farm at Swan’s Trail: 7301 Rivershore Road, Snohomish; 425-334-4124; www.thefarm1.com. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through Oct. 31. Weekday field trips by reservation. Barn maze, Washington State Corn Maze, wagon rides. U-pick pumpkins priced by size. Farm is part of the Snohomish Festival of Pumpkins.
Foster’s Produce and Corn Maze: 5818 Highway 530 NE, Arlington; 360-435-6516; www.fosterscornmaze.com. Corn maze and giant pumpkin patch, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through Oct. 31.
Kurt’s Produce: 17819 Highway 203, Monroe; 360-794-5940. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, through Oct. 31. U-pick pumpkins, approximately 25 cents per pound.
Pioneer Pumpkin Patch: I-5 exit 212, Highway 532 west, next to the Camano Island bridge; 360-629-3580; 11 a.m. to dusk Wednesdays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to dusk Saturdays and Sundays, closed Mondays and Tuesdays through Oct. 31; Facebook: Pioneer Pumpkin Patch; family’s pumpkin patch in a scenic farm setting. Pick many varieties of pumpkins from the vine; also squash, straw bales, decorative items, corn maze, weekend hayrides.
Pumpkins for Literacy: The Plant Farm at Smokey Point, 15022 Twin Lakes Ave., Marysville; 360-652-3351; www.theplantfarm.com; Pumpkin patch, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through Oct. 30. Field trips scheduled through Whidbey Island Bank, 360-657-3100. U-pick pumpkins priced by size. Hosted by the Marysville Rotary Club.
Stocker Farms: 360-568-7391; www.stockerfarms.com. U-pick pumpkin patch, 10622 Airport Way, Snohomish, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through Oct. 31. Corn maze Thursdays through Sundays through Oct. 31. Pumpkin Festival Field, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 31, at 8705 Marsh Road, Snohomish. See website for more corn maze, Pumpkin Festival Field and Haunted Field of Screams details.
Strotz’s Country Feed: 21713 27th Ave. NE, Arlington; 360-652-6064; www.strotzscountryfeed.com. U-pick pumpkins, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays, through Oct. 31.
Theater
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Spooky Halloween Tales”: A chilling Halloween treat for the whole family is this traditional show that is back with an all new twist. This American classic story of Ichabod Crane and his mysterious disappearance is paired with other tales of suspense including “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. Suitable for children ages 8 and above or at parental discretion; shows at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday at Driftwood Players, Wade James Theatre, 950 Main St., Edmonds. All Tickets are $12. Call 425-774-9600 or go to www.driftwoodplayers.com.
Read more about what’s going on for Halloween on our Halloween page.
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