Hundreds of pumpkins will cover the front yard of the Nature Discovery Center, 7112 Newcastle, on Oct. 9 and Oct. 10 for the 17th annual pumpkin patch fall festival.
The event will be help in Russ Pitman Park from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 9 and Sunday, Oct. 10.
The event will feature carnival games, activities, food and crafts. Event goers will be able to take a horse drawn wagon ride through the neighborhood, scale a rock climbing wall, take part in a 65-foot obstacle course or take part in tombstone painting.
Vendors will be selling books, toys, jewelry and art in the park and the Bellaire Garden Club will hold their annual fall plant sale under the Nature Center’s pavilions from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Inside the historic Henshaw House, which houses the Nature Discovery Center, visitors will find a Scholastic Bookfair downstairs and two Discovery rooms upstairs filled with interactive exhibits, live animals and specimens.
Admission to the festival is free, but tickets are required for food, games and activities. Pumpkins will be sold for cash or tickets.
Proceeds will go towards the science and nature based educational programming the center offers for children, families and schools throughout the year.
For more information visit www.naturediscoverycenter.org, call 713.667.6550 or e-mail mail@naturediscoverycenter.org.
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