The Great Pumpkin Smash

October 28, 2023
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October 28, 2023

🎃 1-3:30 PM - Join us for a smashing good time!

Enjoy live music, treats, hands on activities and of course smashing pumpkins at this FREE all ages Halloween event!

 

COSTUMES ENCOURAGED!  🧙👻👮🎭👑⛑

Head up to the terrace where you can smash your pumpkin onto the drop zone below. We're adding an extra pumpkin slide so you can spend more time doing and less time waiting. While you make your way to the front of the line, you will keep warm with complimentary hot chocolate and enjoy sweet treats, a view that can't be beat and the toasty vibes of our patio heat lamps.

 

When you’ve had your turn on the terrace –don’t head home just yet! There is lots to do:

🪓 Axe throwing with 616 Entertainment (Ages 10 +) 

🍪  Cookie decorating with demos by Baking with Candice at 1:30 and 2:30 

🍬 Trick-or-treat with Saamis Immigration youth group 

🎲 Play games with your friends from the Medicine Hat Public Library 

💀 Learn more about Día de Muertos through hands on art activities 

🎶 Enjoy live music with Monster & Cake

✨ Glitter tattoos 

💀 Appearance & Sally’s Song performance by Sally and Jack Skellington (performed by Glass Slipper Entertainment) 

🚌 Sensational Path Sensory Bus 

🍟 Pooty’s Poutine food truck 

☕ Complimentary hot chocolate and treats 

🎃 Free pumpkins for the smashing, while they last!!! 

Stay tuned to our social media channels, the pumpkins may still have a little growing to do and so too may our event.

 

🎃 This event is outside and as such is weather dependent.

🎃 The pumpkins at this event are locally sourced. Many would otherwise be unharvested for market or come from a failed crop, impacted by frost. None of the pumpkins smashed at this event will be painted, so they can be used for livestock feed.

🎃Pumpkin supply is limited (500). First come first serve. Participants are also invited to bring their own cut pumpkins from home. Pumpkins must not contain any additions (ex: paint, glitter, pins, or any glued on craft material, etc.). Only medium to small sized pumpkins brought from home may be dropped and must be released from the designated drop area, under supervision of program facilitators.

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