Stockton PUMPKIN PATCH to be held next weekend, Oct. 1st & 2nd
The Stockton City Park located on west Highway 24 will once again materialize into the Stockton PUMPKIN PATCH on Saturday, October 1st from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and on Sunday, October 2nd from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m.
The price of admission will be $1.00 for each day and FREE for children three and under. The admission stamps are good for the games and train rides. There will be two entrances into the event. One will be at the bridge with parking by the playground and the Kincaid Baseball Field, and the other entrance will be by the turnaround with limited parking available at that location. Look for the white ticket booth tents! Some of the games at the event will be a Pumpkin Launcher, Laser Tag, Walk the Plank, Pumpkin Tic Tac Toe, Candy Corn Ring Toss, Football Toss, Yard Dice, Jenga, Hay Bale Slide, Pumpkin Bean Bag Toss, and FREE train rides courtesy of Nex-Tech (there will be a height limit for this ride).
Prices will be posted for pumpkins, concessions, snacks, apple cider, hot cocoa, tattoos, mums, Halloween/ Fall crafts, a pumpkin pond, along with much more, as well as s’mores that can be melted into a sweet treat over the Park’s stone fire pit. (The Stockton Fire Department will be selling the s’mores and overseeing the fire pit during the event.)
There will be a lunch stand with soups and all the fixins’ from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. each day. The Stockton KAY Club will be selling hot cider/hot cocoa and Halloween stickers and there will also be a Fall Bake-Off Contest, sponsored in part by Hobart FCE. Entries must be a baked item (with recipe) with pumpkin being one of the ingredients. Just bring your baked item between 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday with the judging to take place at 2:00 p.m. Baked goods can be anything from pies, cakes or cookies made with pumpkin!
A pumpkin decorating contest will take place on Sunday. So come and buy your pumpkin on Saturday and bring your decorated jack-o-lantern back on Sunday for a chance to win a prize!
And that’s not all! This year there will be a pumpkin pie-eating contest! (Check out the Chamber’s Facebook page for more information.)
The Stockton Area Chamber of Commerce, along with many volunteers and organizations worked to they hope to see you there both days!
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