Fun Halloween Activities!

By: Ella Fowler, Morgan Blechschmid, and Jaiden Basinger

October 27, 2020

As Halloween is quickly approaching, the month of October is the perfect time to start getting festive and having some Fall fun! 

Having fun this year can be a little difficult due to the safety precautions enforced to keep us safe from COVID-19, but who said that we cannot have some fun? 

Some activities to do this season can include at-home entertainment, going to Fall festivals, haunted houses, and so much more! 

Some Halloween activities for your family can include places such as Mapleside Farms, Red Wagon Farm, Forest of Screams, and Akron’s Haunted Schoolhouse and Laboratory.  

Mapleside Farms in Brunswick has various-themed weekends, and their location includes a pumpkin village, apple house, bakery, corn maze, hayride, sack slide, and much more. 

 

Mapleside Farms

The Pumpkin Village is a series of events with over 20 special attractions that allows you to have the finest, Fall-family experience. The Pumpkin Village is open every weekend.  

When visiting Mapleside Farms during their Pumpkin Village events, you can do various activities such as corn mazes, apple picking, a big slide, ice cream, jump park, etc.  

Another amazing, family-fun place is Red Wagon Farm in Columbia Station.  Their activities include a Pumpkin festival (with pumpkin picking), corn mazes, food stands, trick-or-treating, and an event called “Friday Funday”.  

Red Wagon Farm

You can also do activities such as strawberry picking and visiting their farmers market that has many offerings such as local vegetables, fruits, flowers, potted plants, bedding plants, poultry, maple syrup, eggs, honey, pork, baked goods, dairy products, grass-fed beef, and more.

For a little “thrill,” Forest of Screams Haunted Hayride and walking trail is in Medina, but anyone under 15 years of age will need to be accompanied by an adult. It opened on September 25 of this year, and it is a very event-filled place that has 58-acres of haunted, scary land. 

Akron’s Schoolhouse and Laboratory opened up about three weeks ago. They have a very good food truck with a wide variety of options.  Additionally, the props are frightening and the actors experienced. 

Schoolhouse and Laboratory

For those who want to stay at home during this Fall season, there are plenty of fun activities to do as well. 

Some of these activities include carving or decorating pumpkins, making Halloween treats, and binge watching scary movies such as American Horror Story, the original Halloween (featuring Michael Myers), and Disney movies like Nightmare Before Christmas, Halloweentown, and others.  You can find all of these movies on Netflix, Disney+, and Hulu. 

 

There are many fun things to do on Halloween night, but how could anyone forget about passing out candy? Passing out candy has been a tradition for roughly 90 years. It became more popular after the war (World War II) than soul cakes were, so kids began to receive those sweets instead. So, unless soul cakes make a comeback, you can expect candy for many more years!

Pick something to do, and have fun this weekend.

Happy Halloween!